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PHENOMENOLOGY AND CARE: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS, APPROACH, AND METHOD
| Resumo: | Phenomenology has established itself as a philosophical discipline of great strength within qualitative research in health and care. Its three-dimensional nature is recognized, as it functions simultaneously as a philosophy, an approach, and a method, which gives it essential value for addressing the phenomena of complex reality, understood as the essence of lived experience. The aim of this essay is to construct a reflection on a phenomenology of care. Addressing care in order to understand it as the essence of the human being requires precisely phenomenology in its three dimensions, since care is not only an action or technique in the discipline of nursing, but rather being itself, understood in its lived world in relation to health, interaction with others, its vital processes, and its transcendence. Nurses may turn to phenomenology to understand and interpret the lived world of the cared-for person; in its complexity, this interpretation can open possibilities of being. The discipline thus develops in its ontological, epistemological, ethical, and professional dimensions. The phenomenology of care understands the world as it is experienced and given meaning through being-there. In this sense, the phenomenology of care seeks to understand both the cared-for being and the caring being in such a close relationship that both become one, giving meaning to the lived world. |
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| Autores principais: | Guerrero Castañeda, Raúl Fernando |
| Assunto: | Philosophy; Qualitative Research Phenomenology Care Filosofía Investigación cualitativa Fenomenología Cuidado |
| Ano: | 2026 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | ludomedia |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| Origem: | New Trends in Qualitative Research |
| Resumo: | Phenomenology has established itself as a philosophical discipline of great strength within qualitative research in health and care. Its three-dimensional nature is recognized, as it functions simultaneously as a philosophy, an approach, and a method, which gives it essential value for addressing the phenomena of complex reality, understood as the essence of lived experience. The aim of this essay is to construct a reflection on a phenomenology of care. Addressing care in order to understand it as the essence of the human being requires precisely phenomenology in its three dimensions, since care is not only an action or technique in the discipline of nursing, but rather being itself, understood in its lived world in relation to health, interaction with others, its vital processes, and its transcendence. Nurses may turn to phenomenology to understand and interpret the lived world of the cared-for person; in its complexity, this interpretation can open possibilities of being. The discipline thus develops in its ontological, epistemological, ethical, and professional dimensions. The phenomenology of care understands the world as it is experienced and given meaning through being-there. In this sense, the phenomenology of care seeks to understand both the cared-for being and the caring being in such a close relationship that both become one, giving meaning to the lived world. |
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