The Primacy of Caring: Stress and Coping in Health and Illness [Paperback]

Patricia Benner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 020112002X | ISBN-13: 978-0201120028 | Publication Date: January 11, 1989 | Edition: 1

First-person accounts from practicing nurses provide students with expert role models in this authoritative yet personal text that focuses on patients' responses to stress. The breadth and value of the nursing experience is reinforced as nurses share how their caring made a critical difference for patients and their families. This text, winner of two American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards in 1988, is an ideal supplement for courses in advanced medical/surgical nursing, community health nursing, and particularly for nursing trends and issues courses.

Product Details

• Paperback: 406 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (January 11, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 020112002X
• ISBN-13: 978-0201120028
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #326,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly regarded, December 13, 2003

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Neil Hinrichsen (Knysna South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Primacy of Caring: Stress and Coping in Health and Illness (Paperback)

I haven't read this book myself, but it comes highly recommended in "The Ethics of Authenticity", by the noted philosopher Charles Taylor, who says in a footnote that "I have drawn a lot on the penetrating discussion in Benner and Wrubel, The Primacy of Caring, which shows how much philosophy can contribute to a new enframing of instrumental reason of the kind I am discussing here."