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First, do no harm : power, oppression, and violence in healthcare / Nancy Diekelmann, volume editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Interpretive studies in healthcare and the human sciences ; v. 1.
- Interpretive studies in healthcare and the human sciences ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical personnel and patient.
- Quality of life.
- Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Patients.
- Violence in hospitals.
- Oppression (Psychology).
- Professional-Patient Relations.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Power, Psychological.
- Quality of Life.
- Violence.
- Medical Subjects:
- Professional-Patient Relations.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Power, Psychological.
- Quality of Life.
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Power, oppression, and violence in healthcare
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Harming patients in the name of quality of life / James J. Fletcher, Mary Cipriano Silva, and Jeanne M. Sorrell
- "Neither here nor there": the story of a health professional's experience with getting care and needing caring / Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh
- Living a life-sustained-by-medical-technology: dialysis is killing me / Rebecca S. Sloan
- The violence of the everyday in healthcare / Elizabeth Smythe
- Telling stories of suffering and survival: women and violence / Claire Burke Draucker and Joanne M. Hessmiller.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299177807
- 029917784X
- OCLC:
- 48256979
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