Caring as Healing: Renewal Through HopeDelores A. Gaut, Anne Boykin This important book examines caring from a new age perspective, explor ing its metaphysical, holistic, and ceremonial implications. Selection s cover a variety of health and healing strategies, from Therapeutic T ouch to artistic therapies such as dance, storytelling, and sculpting. Caring as Healing challenges researchers, theorists, and nurse practi tioners to reappraise traditional assumptions about healing and human caring. |
Contents
Katie Eriksson | 3 |
Ever Ancient Ever | 23 |
Elements of Caring | 38 |
Living Nursings Values in Nursing Practice | 65 |
21 | 79 |
One Persons | 85 |
288 | 86 |
Art and Beauty as Healing Modalities | 102 |
The Healing Expression of Dance | 146 |
A Patients Perspective | 167 |
Telling My Story | 178 |
48 | 194 |
A Naturalistic Inquiry of PostOperative Pain | 199 |
The Path To Health | 214 |
Healing Rituals Experienced by Persons | 241 |
A Mosaic | 265 |
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