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

ISBN 10: 029917784X / ISBN 13: 9780299177843

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 029917784X
• ISBN 13: 9780299177843
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

    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.

About the Author

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.