First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare
edited by Nancy L. Diekelmann
University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 eISBN: 978-0-299-17783-6 | Paper: 978-0-299-17784-3 | Cloth: 978-0-299-17780-5 Library of Congress Classification R727.3.F53 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 610.696
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY 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 of Nursing.
REVIEWS
"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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Harming Patients in the Name of Quality
of Life 3
James J. Fletcher, Mary Cipriano Silva, and
Jeanne M. Sorrell
2. Neither Here Nor There: The Story of a Health
Professional's Experience With Getting Care and
Needing Caring 49
Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh
3. Living a Life-Sustained-By-Medical-Technology:
Dialysis Is Killing Me 118
Rebecca S. Sloan
4. The Violence of the Everyday in Healthcare 164
Elizabeth Smythe
5. Telling Stories of Suffering and Survival: Women
and Violence 204
Claire Burke Draucker and Joanne M. Hessmiller
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First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare
edited by Nancy L. Diekelmann
University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 eISBN: 978-0-299-17783-6 Paper: 978-0-299-17784-3 Cloth: 978-0-299-17780-5
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY 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 of Nursing.
REVIEWS
"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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Harming Patients in the Name of Quality
of Life 3
James J. Fletcher, Mary Cipriano Silva, and
Jeanne M. Sorrell
2. Neither Here Nor There: The Story of a Health
Professional's Experience With Getting Care and
Needing Caring 49
Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh
3. Living a Life-Sustained-By-Medical-Technology:
Dialysis Is Killing Me 118
Rebecca S. Sloan
4. The Violence of the Everyday in Healthcare 164
Elizabeth Smythe
5. Telling Stories of Suffering and Survival: Women
and Violence 204
Claire Burke Draucker and Joanne M. Hessmiller
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with an electronic file for alternative access.
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