Todres Les, Galvin Kathleen T, Dahlberg Karin
School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University, Dorset, United Kingdom;
Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2014 Jan 21;9:21421. doi: 10.3402/qhw.v9.21421. eCollection 2014.
Understanding the "insider" perspective has been a pivotal strength of qualitative research. Further than this, within the more applied fields in which the human activity of "caring" takes place, such understanding of "what it is like" for people from within their lifeworlds has also been acknowledged as the foundational starting point in order for "care" to be caring. But we believe that more attention needs to be paid to this foundational generic phenomenon: what it means to understand the "insiderness" of another, but more importantly, how to act on this in caring ways. We call this human phenomenon "caring for insiderness." Drawing on existing phenomenological studies of marginal caring situations at the limits of caring capability, and through a process of phenomenologically oriented reflection, we interrogated some existential themes implicit in these publications that could lead to deeper insights for both theoretical and applied purposes. The paper provides direction for practices of caring by highlighting some dangers as well as some remedies along this path.
理解“局内人”视角一直是定性研究的关键优势。除此之外，在“关怀”这一人的活动发生的更具应用性的领域中，这种对人们在其生活世界中的“感受如何”的理解，也被视为使“关怀”成为真正关怀的基础出发点。但我们认为，需要更多地关注这一基础性的普遍现象：理解他人的“局内性”意味着什么，更重要的是，如何以关怀的方式对此采取行动。我们将这种人类现象称为“关怀局内性”。借鉴现有的关于关怀能力极限边缘的边缘关怀情境的现象学研究，并通过现象学导向的反思过程，我们审视了这些出版物中隐含的一些存在主义主题，这些主题可为理论和应用目的带来更深入的见解。本文通过强调这条道路上的一些危险以及一些补救措施，为关怀实践提供了方向。
