Some Reflections on Whole Person Research
Some Reflections on Whole Person Research is a scholarly work, published in 2024 in ''International Journal of Whole Person Care''. The main subjects of the publication include medicine, Photovoice, Interactional expertise, medical physics, and computer science. Have been thinking lately about what it means to approach my research from a whole person perspective.To be honest, I don't really know.And, yet, I think I've been slowly and inadvertently cultivating this approach since I first started as a researcher, some 20 years ago.My sense is that it involves simultaneously comparing and honing two contrasting images.One is of the phenomenon itself.For me, this is people who are experiencing pain and suffering, but let's imagine for a moment this as the sun.It's hard to look at (and thus study) the sun directly, so a second, simplified image is needed.This is.