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Description for After Harm
Hardback. After Harm adds important human dimensions to an issue that has profound consequences for patients and health care providers. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBP; MBQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
Medical error is a leading problem of health care in the United States. Each year, more patients die as a result of medical mistakes than are killed by motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. While most government and regulatory efforts are directed toward reducing and preventing errors, the actions that should follow the injury or death of a patient are still hotly debated. According to Nancy Berlinger, conversations on patient safety are missing several important components: religious voices, traditions, and models. In After Harm, Berlinger draws on sources in theology, ethics, religion, and culture to create a practical and comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of patients, families, and clinicians affected by medical error. She emphasizes the importance of acknowledging fallibility, telling the truth, confronting feelings of guilt and shame, and providing just compensation. After Harm adds important human dimensions to an issue that has profound consequences for patients and health care providers.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801881671
SKU
V9780801881671
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-13
About Nancy Berlinger
Nancy Berlinger is the deputy director and associate for religious studies at the Hastings Center.
Reviews for After Harm
In an environment in which the aftermath of medical harm is characterized by adversarial relationships and self-protective maneuvering, Berlinger's proposals offer an alternative that ultimately better serves patients, families, clinicians, and health-care institutions. After Harm has much to offer students, educators, administrators, and policymakers.
Gregg VandeKieft Literature and Medicine 2006 Forgiveness on the part of an injured patient, or the family if the patient has died, comes as a result of both words and actions on the part of doctors and hospitals, says Nancy Berlinger in her thoughtful and well-researched book.
Gregory M. Lamb Christian Science Monitor This is an important book that deserves to be read widely. Berlinger has done a signal service by writing it.
Stephen E. Lammers Christian Century 2006 Certainly recommended reading.
Mark Welch, Ph.D. Metapsychology 2005 Provides a valuable counterbalance to innumerable calls for systemic reforms to reduce medical error.
Farr A. Curlin British Medical Journal 2005 Thoughtful and well-researched.
Gregory M. Lamb Chicago Sun-Times 2005 An accessible, thoughtful treatment of this sensitive topic, which carefully addresses the concerns of all parties affected by medical harm... This book should be read by anyone working within a healthcare institution.
Christine Vitrano Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2007 A refreshing effort to connect error and forgiveness in a way that encourages the sort of debate the issue deserves.
Curtis W. Hart Journal of Religion and Health 2006 Presents an opportune and refreshing perspective on medical error.
Summer Johnson Hastings Center Report 2007 The text in my view makes an important contribution to the understanding of the relationship between physician and patient in the face of medical error... The author states she hopes non-physician health care professionals will find her work of use, to that end she has succeeded.
Anne-Marie Brown Provincial Health Ethics Network 2009 I loved this book... It is a tight, tasty, spiritual and intellectual morsel.
Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA, FAAN Ethics and Medicine 2010
Gregg VandeKieft Literature and Medicine 2006 Forgiveness on the part of an injured patient, or the family if the patient has died, comes as a result of both words and actions on the part of doctors and hospitals, says Nancy Berlinger in her thoughtful and well-researched book.
Gregory M. Lamb Christian Science Monitor This is an important book that deserves to be read widely. Berlinger has done a signal service by writing it.
Stephen E. Lammers Christian Century 2006 Certainly recommended reading.
Mark Welch, Ph.D. Metapsychology 2005 Provides a valuable counterbalance to innumerable calls for systemic reforms to reduce medical error.
Farr A. Curlin British Medical Journal 2005 Thoughtful and well-researched.
Gregory M. Lamb Chicago Sun-Times 2005 An accessible, thoughtful treatment of this sensitive topic, which carefully addresses the concerns of all parties affected by medical harm... This book should be read by anyone working within a healthcare institution.
Christine Vitrano Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2007 A refreshing effort to connect error and forgiveness in a way that encourages the sort of debate the issue deserves.
Curtis W. Hart Journal of Religion and Health 2006 Presents an opportune and refreshing perspective on medical error.
Summer Johnson Hastings Center Report 2007 The text in my view makes an important contribution to the understanding of the relationship between physician and patient in the face of medical error... The author states she hopes non-physician health care professionals will find her work of use, to that end she has succeeded.
Anne-Marie Brown Provincial Health Ethics Network 2009 I loved this book... It is a tight, tasty, spiritual and intellectual morsel.
Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA, FAAN Ethics and Medicine 2010