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First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare
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Description for First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare
Paperback. This text shows how healthcare professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent holistic healthcare, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. It investigates the need to rethink healthcare practices to bring the art and science of medicine back into balance. Editor(s): Diekelmann, Nancy L. Series: Interpretive Studies in Healthcare & the Human Sciences. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: MBP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Interpretive Studies in Healthcare & the Human Sciences
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299177843
SKU
V9780299177843
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About
Nancy L. Diekelmann is the Helen Denne Schulte Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a past president of the Society for Research in Nursing Education. Her many books include Primary Health Care of the Well Adult and Transforming R.N. Education, both of which received Book of the Year awards from the American Journal ... Read more
Reviews for First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare
"An impressive step forward in the dialogue about improving health care in the global situation where many factors, such as biotechnology and profit, seem to have the upper hand in the value system." - Jody Glittenberg, University of Arizona