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Time(lessness): Buddhist perspectives and end‐of‐life
Author(s) -
Bruce Anne
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
nursing philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.367
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1466-769X
pISSN - 1466-7681
DOI - 10.1111/j.1466-769x.2007.00310.x
Subject(s) - buddhism , embodied cognition , construct (python library) , end of life care , perception , epistemology , sociology , psychology , palliative care , aesthetics , philosophy , medicine , nursing , computer science , theology , programming language
Abstract The perception of time shifts as patients enter hospice care. As a complex, socially determined construct, time plays a significant role in end‐of‐life care. Drawing on Buddhist and Western perspectives, conceptualizations of linear and cyclical time are discussed alongside notions of time as interplay of embodied experience and concept. Buddhist understandings of self as patterns of relating and the theory of ‘dependent origination’ are introduced. Implications for understanding death, dying and end‐of‐life care within these differing perspectives are considered. These explorations contribute to the growing dialogue in nursing between Buddhist and Western traditions.