| First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare Contributor(s): Diekelmann, Nancy L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 029917784X ISBN-13: 9780299177843 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: "First, Do No Harm" shows how health care professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent, holistic health care, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. The essays investigate the need to rethink contemporary healthcare practices in ways that can bring the art and science of medicine back into sorely needed balance. These ground-breaking studies by noted scholars question commonly held assumptions in contemporary healthcare that underlie oppressive power dynamics and even violence for patients and their families. The contributors discuss such topics as women and violence, life-support technologies, and healthcare professionals' own experiences as patients. "First, Do No Harm" opens the discourse for reaching new understandings, from reassessing the meaning of "quality of life" to questioning the appropriateness of the very language used by healthcare professionals. It will be welcomed by healthcare workers and by scholars in nursing, medicine, and the allied health sciences. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Physician & Patient - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Medical | Ethics |
| Dewey: 610.696 |
| LCCN: 2001006771 |
| Series: Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.28" W x 8.96" (0.85 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These interpretative studies are a beginning - a questioning that gathers practitioners, students, teachers, scholars, and citizens into persistent thinking and conversation around complex contemporary issues. First, Do No Harm shows how health care professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent, holistic health care, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. These essays investigate the need to rethink contemporary healthcare practices in ways that can bring the art and science of medicine back into sorely needed balance. These ground-breaking studies by noted scholars question commonly held assumptions in contemporary healthcare that underlie oppressive power dynamics and even violence for patients and their families. The contributors discuss such topics as women and violence, life-support technologies, and healthcare professionals' own experiences as patients. First, Do No Harm opens the discourse for reaching new understandings, from reassessing the meaning of quality of life to questioning the appropriateness of the very language used by healthcare professionals. It will be welcomed by healthcare workers and by scholars in nursing, medi |