The Phenomenology of Moral Residue Reading Experiences Among Healthcare Professionals: Towards a Typology

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to offer a ‘rich description’ of moral residue reading experiences by articulating its nature and structure in two interview sessions with health care practitioners. Participants are pre-selected on the basis of having lived through moral residue situations at the workplace. Both interview sessions follow a phenomenological interview schedule designed to gain access to how readers describe their subjective experiences of reading experiences, adapted to the medical ethics context. In the first session, participants read (self-)selected text extracts from world literature narrating situations of moral residue. Their most memorable reading experiences are explored. In the second session, one participant-selected story is reread, with a focus on five evocative passages. Data analysis follows Lex-Nap methodology. As a result, an inventory of moral residue reading experiences will be offered, which will be the basis for the articulation of an empirical typology of moral residue reading experiences (WP1) and for the creation of a moral residue scale, with the suggestion of subscales and corresponding items that are based on how readers express their experiences of moral residue reading (WP2). Furthermore, we will comment on the extent to which preliminary findings seem to validate previous typologies of reading experiences. Ultimately, we will provide a fuller description of how literary reading might impact (and perhaps modify) readers’ moral self-constructs.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIGEL conference 2024 Booklet of Abstracts
Subtitle of host publicationRWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
PublisherAachen University
Pages38-39
Number of pages2
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventIGEL 2024 - Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Duration: 18 Jul 202420 Aug 2024
https://igelsociety.org/events/event-igel2024/

Conference

ConferenceIGEL 2024
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityAachen
Period18/07/2420/08/24
Internet address

Keywords

  • phenomenology
  • moral residue
  • reading experience
  • medical ethics
  • Mixed-method research
  • empirical aesthetics
  • literary studies
  • cognition and emotion

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