What is going on? An analysis of the discourses around medicinal cannabis and chronic pain
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Williams, Keren
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Degree
Master of Nursing
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Eastern Institute of Technology
Date
2014
Supervisors
Papps, Elaine
Floyd, Sue
Floyd, Sue
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Masters Thesis
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New Zealand
nurses
medicinal cannabis
chronic pain
pain management
debate
discourse analysis
nurses
medicinal cannabis
chronic pain
pain management
debate
discourse analysis
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Williams, K. (2014). What is going on? An analysis of the discourses around medicinal cannabis and chronic pain. (Unpublished document submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing). Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), New Zealand.
Abstract
There is no universal treatment that is effective for all people who experience chronic pain. Associated with the multitude of factors that influence the individual’s perception and occurrence of chronic pain, the management of such pain is extremely complicated. As the experience of chronic pain is individual and the reported rates of people experiencing chronic pain continues to rise, there has been an increasing amount of discussion internationally, with a diverse range of views on the use of medical cannabis in the management of chronic pain.
While cannabis remains illegal in New Zealand, and as the associated health risks and perceived benefits of cannabis remain uncertain, nurses and other health professionals face challenges when considering its use in supporting their clients’ management of chronic pain. Nurses are accountable under a number of legislations to the health consumer. Therefore nurses and other health professionals face difficult questions regarding the legal, political and ethical variables associated with their possible support for clients seeking to use cannabis in the New Zealand context.
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) offers the potential to explore the widespread perspective of language, and to discover how conceptions can be imperceptibly manipulated to persuade the reader about particular health issues. CDA has been used in this thesis to examine a number of contemporary pieces of New Zealand public and professional literature for the discourses that underpin the debates around the medicinal use of cannabis for the treatment of chronic pain. The implications of these discourses for the nursing profession are also considered in this thesis.
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