First Do No Harm: Empathy and the Writing of Medical Journal Articles (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)

Knatterud Mary E Knatterud Mary Ellen

ISBN 10: 0415933870 / ISBN 13: 9780415933872

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2002

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pp. xvi + 161.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Do No Harm: Empathy and the Writing of Medical Journal Articles (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415933870
• ISBN 13: 9780415933872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

First Do No Harm is an interdisciplinary study examining how various members of academic physicians have constructed certain images of patients on paper over time. The study pays special attention to the classical concept of pathos, or its modern equivalent, empathy.

About the Author

Mary E. Knatterud, Ph.D. is a research associate and assistant professor in the Department of Surgery of the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. Dr. Knatterud is a fellow of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), a member of the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and of the Council of Science Editors (CSE). She has published articles about medical communication in the AMWA Journal, Dialysis& Transplantation, and Minnesota Physician among others.