de la tesis doctoralAutora: Clara Juárez RamírezTítulo: Ya no quisiera ni ser yo: La experiencia de la violencia doméstica en un grupo de mujeres y varones provenientes de zonas rurales y urbanas en México.Palabras clave: Violencia doméstica; género; subjetividad; redes de apoyo; suffering.Programa de Doctorado en Antropología de la Medicina 1998-2001Departamento de Antropología, Filosofía y Trabajo SocialEsta investigación tuvo como propósito general comprender, a través del discurso de mujeres y varones que habían vivido o vivían una experiencia de violencia conyugal, la subjetividad construida en torno a los significados del maltrato en la pareja; del apoyo social y de los malestares físicos y emocionales relacionados con esa experiencia.La investigación aventuró, como supuesto central, que la violencia familiar es un problema estructural en losl grupos humanos; por esa razón trasciende raza, género y condición socioeconómica. Es decir, se ejerce con el respaldo de un imaginario social basado en una cultura de dominación masculina, que controla, regula y norma la práctica social de ambos sexos, cuyo sustrato material se remonta a la división social y sexual del trabajo. Sin embargo, planteamos que la construcción de los géneros es un proceso sociocultural que dura toda la vida y, por lo tanto, las personas tienen la posibilidad en el transcurso de sus vidas de modificar las prácticas violentas aprehendidas socialmente. Tanto las víctimas de violencia como los (as) perpetradores pueden evitarla. Por estas razones, decidimos estudiar el fenómeno desde una perspectiva interpretativa-hermenéutica, que plantea estudiar los problemas sociales desde la acción y la práctica cotidiana de las personas implicadas, puesto que es en la práctica donde día a día la dinámica de abuso adquiere significados y se dota de sentido. Para dar respuesta a este planteamiento, la pregunta central que orientó la búsqueda empírica en esta investigación fue ¿cómo se construye, se da significado y se manifiesta en la vida cotidiana la experiencia de vivir en un ambiente de violencia? El diseño metodológico partió de un enfoque cualitativo, observando el problema de manera fenomenológica y realizando una aproximación etnográfica a los diferentes escenarios en donde se realizó el trabajo de campo. Se planearon tres etapas, combinando la observación en una zona rural y otra urbana en México. Con esta aproximación logramos documentar 42 casos de mujeres y varones provenientes de los escenarios antes mencionados. La información obtenida fue sometida a un análisis de discurso para el cual se utilizó el software Ethnograph. Para realizar esta técnica se construyeron seis categorías y veintiún subcategorías, cada una con una definición conceptual que respondía a los diferentes objetivos específicos planteados para esta investigación.Una de las aportaciones de la investigación es que si bien la experiencia de la violencia conyugal puede remitirse a prácticas socio-culturales que avalan la desigualdad genérica y que han sido reproducidas históricamente a través de las instituciones sociales, los resultados de esta investigación, acerca de la interacción de las parejas cuya relación conyugal estuvo atravesada por el abuso, permiten defender la tesis de que la violencia al interior de la familia es un reflejo de los múltiples malestares de la estructura social que expresan las contradicciones y paradojas del sistema.Doctoral Thesis / Author: Clara Juarez-RamirezTitle: "I wouldn't want even to be me anymore": Domestic violence experience within a group of women and men from rural and urban areas in Mexico.Key words: Domestic violence, gender, subjectivity, supporting nets, suffering.Doctorate Program in Anthropology of Medicine 1998 - 2001.Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work. The general purpose of this research was to understand, through the discourse of women and men who had lived or were living into a kind of conjugal violence experience, the subjectivity structured around the meanings of partner's maltreatment, social support as well as physical and emotional indispositions related to this experience.This research inferred, as a central point, that family violence is a structural problem within human groups, for this reason it surpasses races, gender and socio-economical conditions,this is, it is exerted with a social imaginary based on a culture of masculine dominance that controls, regulates and rules a social practice in both sexes which material substrate goes back up to the social and sexual division of work.However, we state that the construction of gender is a socio-cultural process that lasts a life time, therefore people have the possibility - during their lives - to modify the violent practices they have learned socially so that both victims of violence and their male or females perpetrators can avoid it. For these reasons, we decided to study the phenomenon from an interpretative-hermeneutic perspective that states to consider social problems from a daily action and practice of involved people, since it is in this practice where - day after day - the dynamic of abuse gets "meanings" and provides a "sense".In order to answer this statement, the central question that guided the empirical quest in this research was: how is it possible to build, to give a meaning and to show in an everyday life the experience of living in an environment of violence? The methodological design began from a qualitative approach, observing the problem as a phenomenological way and carried out an ethnographic approximation to different scenarios where the field work was done. Three stages were planned combining the observation in a rural area and an urban area.With this approximation we were able to document 42 cases of women and men originated in the scenarios mentioned above. The gotten information was subjected to an "analysis of discourse" for which the Ethnograph software was applied. To carry out this technique, six categories and twenty one subcategories were built, each one with a conceptual definition regarding different specific objectives stated in this research. One of the contributions is that even though the experience of conjugal violence can be referred to socio-cultural practices that support gender inequality and have been reproduced historically through social institutions, the results of the research and the interaction of couples who conjugal relationship was interfered by abuse, permit to defend the thesis that violence within the family is a reflex of multiple social structured indispositions that express the contradictions and paradoxes of the system.

Bakgrund: Lungcancer är en sjukdom som har en dålig prognos och där ett stort antal människor insjuknar årligen. Det är en sjukdom som leder till många och svåra symtom vilket skapar stort lidande. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av att leva med lungcancer i det dagliga livet. Metod: En litteraturbaserad studie genomfördes med en kvalitativ ansats. Tolv vetenskapliga artiklar granskades och analyserades enligt en modell för en litteraturbaserad studie. Resultat: Ur resultatet identifierades sex kategorier: leva med osäkerhet, stigma och skuld, upplevelser av sjukdomsrelaterade symtom, en förändrad självkänsla, att få stöd och bli bekräftad samt pendla mellan hopp och förtvivlan. Diskussion: Det fanns ett behov hos patienterna av att leva så självständig som möjligt, där det sociala stödet och stödet från vårdpersonal var avgörande för att de skulle klara av det. Stöd överhuvudtaget var viktigt för att patienterna skulle kunna hantera de flesta situationer. Genom att sjuksköterskan får kunskap om patienters upplevelser av lungcancer kan patienters lidande lindras med hjälp av stöd från sjuksköterskan. / Background: Lung cancer is a disease with poor prognosis, with many people that falls ill each year. It is a disease which leads to numerous and severe symptoms that create much suffering. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe patients' experiences of living with lung cancer in daily life. Methods: A literature study was conducted with a qualitative approach. Twelve scientific articles were reviewed and analyzed according to a model for a literature study. Results: Six categories were identified: live with uncertainty, stigma and guilt, experience of disease-related symptoms, a changed self-esteem, to get support and be confirmed and thrown between hope and despair. Discussion: There was a need for patients to live as independent as possible, social support and the support from health professionals was crucial for them to cope with it. Support overall was important for patients to be able to handle most situations. By acquiring knowledge about patients' with lung cancers experiences the nurse can be a better support for the patient in order to alleviate patients suffering.

In this thesis, I argue that clinical law teaching requires a theoretical analysis and pedagogical framework to address law students encounters with social suffering in clinical law contexts. A critical pedagogy of suffering, I argue, would take at its starting point an acknowledgement of the importance of the law student-client encounter as a deeply important pedagogical site - a place where certain views about lawyering, law, and justice are played out, and therefore a place that ought to be the subject of close attention by clinical law scholars and teachers. I argue that a critical pedagogy of suffering would focus specifically on the presence of human suffering in many of these encounters. Such a pedagogy would seek to distill the ways in which larger social and systemic forces produce and distribute social suffering, and how the dominant legal gaze and dominant legal practice are too often incapable of assessing or responding to these forces. It would also work to challenge notions that emotions and suffering are apolitical and unrelated to progressive legal practice, and to build a conception that engaged, critical witnessing of social suffering by lawyers and law students might lead to passionate and thoughtful lawyering for social justice in clinical law settings.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Concordia Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-132).

Thesis (M. Div.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-127).

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Dissonance exists in efforts to communicate about suffering and despair. Showcasing common societal flawed reactions to despair begs for discourse to create a more communicatively healthy response. Attempting to communicate the suffering of others and feeling like I was failing at that goal led to my own suffering. Using writing as a method of personal healing created an intersection of personal narratives of suffering and victim’s narratives (which can arguable only allow for the co-opting of the story and narcissism). Grappling with the limits of writing to heal provided a lens to see the victim’s narratives in such a way that created self-reflexivity. Rather than equating the suffering of the victim’s to my own, which I absolutely do not do, instead I found potential answers to despair in the post-Holocaust theologians. This dissertation is an experiment in trying to communicate suffering and meaning in a post-Holocaust world where my story and the survivors stories both have similarities of theological despair, an ethic of defiance, and most certainly a refusal to be changed by the world.

Although much national and international attention has been given to the disastrous effects of oil spills in indigenous, Amazonian communities, virtually nothing is known about the effects of oil refinement, storage and shipping that takes place in the urban, largely Afro-descendent communities of Esmeraldas. This work addresses the near disregard of environmental suffering and injustice experienced by people in Esmeraldas and provides an understanding of both their resistance and acquiescence to the burdens created by the oil economy. I look at how these perspectives feed (and do not feed) collective action to demand protections from the environmental harms of the refinery and other industrial facilities in the area. In addition to exploring questions of mobilization, my hope is that this work gives voice to the environmental suffering in the city of Esmeraldas and that it adds to a growing body of work that considers the urban environmental suffering in Latin America. / text

Interventions which ameliorate the late effects of cancer treatment, and promote adjustment for children coping with cancer are needed (Kazak, 2005). The Beads of Courage® (BOC) Program (Baruch, 2002), is an arts-in-health program developed to strengthen resilience and alleviate suffering in children receiving treatment for cancer. Through the BOC Program, children receive different colored beads that serve as visible symbols of the many procedures they experience during cancer treatment. Despite the wide use of the BOC Program by more than 70 children's hospitals, the BOC Program has never been formally evaluated.The purpose of this study was to evaluate the BOC Program using qualitative descriptive methods. The specific aims of the program evaluation were to: 1) Describe the BOC Program process; 2) Describe how the BOC Program is implemented; and 3) Describe the potential outcomes of the BOC Program.Data collection methods with four BOC Program stakeholders included: Semi-structured interviews with children (N=6); focus groups with clinicians (N=10) and parents (N=5); and open-ended surveys with clinicians (N=9), parents (N=8) and bead artists (N=6). Findings indicate that the BOC Program is operating according to design (process and implementation), and the overall satisfaction and perceived worth of the BOC Program is high. Emerging categories from the content analysis describe the BOC Program as a form of narrative medicine that provides a reflective tool, a symbol of accomplishment, and joy and encouragement for children receiving treatment for cancer. Preliminary data support the BOC Program theory, with resilience-based protective factors (positive coping, derived meaning, social support) supported, and risk factors (uncertainty in illness, defensive coping) decreased in children who received the BOC Program. Future studies should include quantitative measures of factors of resilience to determine change over time in children receiving the BOC Program during cancer treatment. Findings from this study support theory development to further strengthen the body of knowledge on psychosocial adjustment issues for children coping with cancer. The findings also provide evidence to support the role that arts-in-health programs have in alleviating the experience of suffering in children coping with cancer.

This thesis is an articulation of how the principles of socially-engaged Buddhism, a spiritual practice rooted in the teachings of the historical Buddha that integrates Buddhist practice and social activism, can enrich and enhance contemporary educational practice. It discusses Buddhist epistemology, metaphysics, ontology, psychology, ethics, and practice and relates these things to holistic education, critical pedagogy, SEL, and global education. On the basis of the theoretical understanding represented by that discussion, it articulates several theoretical principles that can be practically applied to the practice of teaching and learning to make it resonate with the theory and approach of sociallyengaged Buddhism. In integrating the implications of Buddhist teachings and practices with teaching and learning practice, it draws from bell hooks’ notion of “engaged pedagogy” in order to articulate a transformational, liberatory, and progressive approach to teaching called “socially-engaged pedagogy.” Socially-engaged pedagogy represents the notion that teaching and learning can be a practical site for progressive social action designed to address the real problem of suffering, both in the present and in the future, as it manifests in the world, exemplified by stress, illness, violence, war, discrimination, oppression, exploitation, poverty, marginalization, and ecological degradation.