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After harm : medical error and the ethics of forgiveness / Nancy Berlinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlinger, Nancy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical errors--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medical errors.
- Medical errors--Psychological aspects.
- Medical errors--Religious aspects.
- Physicians--Professional ethics.
- Physicians.
- Physician and patient.
- Medical ethics.
- Forgiveness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After Harm adds important human dimensions to an issue that has profound consequences for patients and health care providers.
- Contents:
- Narrative ethics
- Physicians' narratives
- Patients' and families' narratives
- Disclosure
- Apology
- Repentance
- Forgiveness
- Ethical action.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliography (p.[139]-150) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9584-7
- OCLC:
- 647867089
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