Green Culture - Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America (Hardcover)

These interpretative studies are a beginning - a questioning that gathers practitioners, students, teachers, scholars, and citizens into persistent thinking and conversation around complex contemporary issues. 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. These 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, medi

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Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2002
Editors:	Carl G. Herndl • Stuart C. Brown
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-14990-1
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-299-14990-0
Barcode:	9780299149901

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