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First, Do No Harm|Nancy L. Diekelmann

First, Do No Harm : Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare

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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780299177843
  • ISBN-10: 029917784X
  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Publish Date: April 2018
  • Dimensions: 8.96 x 6.28 x 0.64 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
  • Page Count: 280

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