The arduous touch : voices of women in health care / edited by Amy Marie Haddad and Kate H. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haddad, Amy Marie.

Brown, Kate H., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical personnel, Writings of, American.

Medical personnel and patient--United States--Literary collections.

Medical personnel and patient.

United States.

Women in medicine--United States--Literary collections.

Women in medicine.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature.

American literature--20th century.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Physical Description:

vii, 133 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Ind. : NotaBell Books, [1999]

Summary:

Literature can be a rich source of guidance to help with contemporary ethical dilemmas facing health care professionals and patients. Poems and stories can help to identify moral problems, promote empathy, and tolerate ambiguity in health and illness. The depth and detail within stories and poems allow readers to experience the contradictory feelings, complex relationships, and situational messiness that characterize ethical quandaries in actual practice. These works by women in health care contribute to our understanding by introducing characters who struggle with illness and aging or who try to make sense of their own feelings in the face of pain and mortality. Who better to capture the essence of this complexity than people working directly within it?

ISBN:

1557531544

OCLC:

40631940