Narrate,Shape And Alleviate:the Research Of Pain About Cancer Patients In Terminal Phase-the Perspective Of Sociology Of Body

In recent years, cancer, as a high risk and multiple disease, threats and challenges human health greatly. Suffering from cancer affects and hits patients as well as its family seriously, because it is a negative life event. Cancer, especially terminal cancer, destroys and changes one’s life with its irreversible development characteristics. For the end-stage cancer patients, who experiences invalid active treatment and inner anguish, some of them choose hospice care in the hospice ward to alleviate the pain of body and mind. Pain and discomfort are the main physical symptoms of the majority of terminal cancer patients, which influence their dying life immeasurably and lead them to non-true existence state. Hospice services focus on alleviating the patient’s pain and are designed to create a comfortable and peaceful dying life for the patient. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of pain is an urgent task in the current hospice service.This paper applies qualitative research method and takes hospice word of L hospital as a research site. End-stage cancer patients(4), doctors and nurses(8), social workers and volunteers(6) are the objects of research. In order to present the true pain experience and painful life of end-stage cancer patients, semi-structured interviews, participatory observation, and literature analysis are used to collect research data.Meanwhile, this paper takes sociology of body as theoretical analysis tool to analyze the phenomenon of the authentic pain that body "embodied". The main purpose of this thesis is to describe the pain experience of end-stage cancer patients, to reveal the factors to shape the pain, to find the way to alleviate pain, and to illustrate the real pain experience and living conditions of them. In terms of pain narration, the paper mainly elaborates the patient’s physical and mental experience, and then, analyzes the influence of pain, which includes physiological function, psychology and emotion, the attitude of life and living space from the two aspects of physiological perception and psychological feeling. For the shaping of pain, this paper focuses on analyzing the factors of shaping pain, such as space, relationship and culture, and the difference of pain perception. The next part of this article is about alleviation of pain, because the difference of pain concerns of medical staff, social workers and patients and the intervention of pain still has many deficiencies. In order to relieve pain, this paper puts forward many suggestions from the perspective of protessional social work, including multi-agent teamwork, strengthening publicity and advocacy and introducing auxiliary treatment and so on. This paper calls on the relevant parties to strengthen the awareness and attention of pain, to promote the development of the hospice care and make efforts to create a comfortable dying life for end-stage cancer patients.