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

by Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029917784X
• ISBN13: 9780299177843
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"