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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Politics, Policy & Reform > First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression & Violence in Health Care First, Do No Harm: Power,
Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare Hardcover: 300 pages
Softcover: 280 pages
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 contributed essays in
this volume 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. Among the arguments advanced are assertions that quality of life standards are highly subjective and often serve to justify unequal and oppressive disparities of power, that disconnections between patients and caring non-patients in critical illness situations can lead to suffering, and that many everyday practices modern medicine can be considered a form of violence. "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." —JoAnn Glittenberg, University of Arizona 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. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Press was founded in 1936. The Press is a publisher of books and journals. We select the books we will publish using a careful process of review by Press staff, outside experts, and a board of University of Wisconsin faculty. If you are interested in policy or books about health care reform, please see our up-to-date collection here: Politics, Policy & Reform. (information from the publisher) You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go to / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore |
