After Harm

Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness

Nancy Berlinger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2007
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8769-7 (ISBN)

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After Harm adds important human dimensions to an issue that has profound consequences for patients and health care providers.

States the author, "Each year up to 98,000 patients die as a result of [medical] mistakes, more than are killed by motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS." Her book looks at what should happen after the damage--the injury or death of a patient--has occurred. Berlinger brings to bear on the issues the perspectives of Christian (and some Jewish) social ethics. Her focus is on the physical, financial, psychological, and spiritual needs of patients and families affected by medical error, and she concludes with a theory of forgiveness after harm. This book will be read by professionals and some students in bioethics, health policy, and religion.

Nancy Berlinger is the deputy director and associate for religious studies at the Hastings Center.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Narrative Ethics
2. Physicians' Narratives
3. Patients' and Families' Narratives
4. Disclosure
5. Apology
6. Repentance
7. Forgiveness
8. Ethical Action
Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.12.2007
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-8018-8769-0 / 0801887690
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-8769-7 / 9780801887697
Zustand	Neuware