The Primacy of Caring: Stress and Coping in Health and Illness.

Patricia Benner & Judith Wrubel

Winner of two AJN Book of the Year Awards.

A ground breaking book that reorganizes the field of stress and coping in relation to the lived experience of illness and health promotion. Introduces the role of the body, the situation, and temporality in everyday existential dwelling within a lifeworld. Used as a basis for curricula in nursing schools and used as a text for Anthropology and Medicine. Often cited as a contrast to Talcott Parson's structural view of the sick role. Symptom expression and coping in relation to common chronic illnesses are described.

Published 1989