title: The politics of suffering: implications for nursing science.
abstract: Drawing on newly emergent conceptualizations of suffering in the social sciences that emphasize political dimensions, this article uses a critical-feminist, self-reflective approach to propose a reconceptualization of suffering for nursing science. Discourse analysis of local narratives and metanarratives is undertaken as a basis for proposing alternative methods, including a critical humanities approach, for nurse scholars to use in creating a transformed, politicized epistemology of suffering.
authors.affiliation: Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92210, USA. jgeorges@sandiego.edu
authors.forename: Jane M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Georges
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D003209:Concentration Camps; D019513:Feminism; D006809:Humanities; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D019359:Knowledge; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D033262:Narration; D028683:National Socialism; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011287:Prejudice; D012586:Science; D012951:Socialization; D012962:Sociology, Medical; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States