This study explores the lived experience of losing a leg as described by the patients themselves post-discharge. Studies have documented that regardless of aetiology patients are faced with severe physical as well as psychosocial challenges post-amputation. However, only few studies explore in-depth the patients' perspective on the various challenges following the loss of a leg. The study uses ...

Complex IS artifacts, such as the Internet and surrounding ontology, remain little understood within Information Systems. The usage of varying systems of thought, derived from competing understandings of reality, when applied on an artifact such as the Internet, leads to incommensurable perspective positions that cannot be easily reconciled. Consequently, attempts at constructing normative onto...

The phenomenon in focus for this study was the sexual identity preserved in premenopausal women due to breast cancer treatments. During the last decade the methods of breast cancer treatments have become more aggressive and many women have had to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, as well as three to five years of hormone therapy. All these forms of treatment can have negative side e...

A recent paper has made the case for a "fifth wave" of public health action. The paper articulated the first four waves as focusing on civil engineering, the germ theory of disease, welfare reforms and lifestyle issues. This article will focus on well-being and will expand on the authors' articulation of a current need to "discover a new image of what it is to be human" to begin to address the ...

Adult education scholarship has been racialized through the lens of Eurocentric theory and research. Theoretical paradigms such as Africentrism struggle to gain academic legitimacy as discourses of transformative learning, critical thinking and self-direction all grounded in the European Enlightenment tradition of the individual pursuit of rational self-knowledge hold sway. This article reviews...

Multigrade approach in education is implemented to support the goal of universal access quality education. The Department Education (DepEd) Philippines, along its thrust increasing elementary education, strengthening implementation Program Philippine (MPPE). main aim study describe lived experiences public-school teachers new normal. This qualitative study, specifically transcendental phenomeno...