In an environment in which the aftermath of medical harm is characterized by adversarial relationships and self-protective maneuvering, Berlinger's proposals offer an alternative that ultimately better serves patients, families, clinicians, and health-care institutions. After Harm has much to offer students, educators, administrators, and policymakers.
(Gregg VandeKieft
Literature and Medicine Spring 2006)
Forgiveness on the part of an injured patient, or the family if the patient has died, comes as a result of both words and actions on the part of doctors and hospitals, says Nancy Berlinger in her thoughtful and well-researched book.
(Gregory M. Lamb
Christian Science Monitor Sept. 5, 2006)
This is an important book that deserves to be read widely. Berlinger has done a signal service by writing it.
(Stephen E. Lammers
Christian Century Nov 2005)
Certainly recommended reading.
(Mark Welch, Ph.D.
Metapsychology December 2005)
Provides a valuable counterbalance to innumerable calls for systemic reforms to reduce medical error.
(Farr A. Curlin
British Medical Journal August 14, 2005)
Thoughtful and well-researched.
(Gregory M. Lamb
Chicago Sun-Times Summer 2007)
An accessible, thoughtful treatment of this sensitive topic, which carefully addresses the concerns of all parties affected by medical harm... This book should be read by anyone working within a healthcare institution.
(Christine Vitrano
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Fall 2006)
A refreshing effort to connect error and forgiveness in a way that encourages the sort of debate the issue deserves.
(Curtis W. Hart
Journal of Religion and Health March/April 2007)
Presents an opportune and refreshing perspective on medical error.
(Summer Johnson
Hastings Center Report May 2009)
The text in my view makes an important contribution to the understanding of the relationship between physician and patient in the face of medical error... The author states she hopes non-physician health care professionals will find her work of use, to that end she has succeeded.
(Anne-Marie Brown
Provincial Health Ethics Network Fall 2010)
Dr. Berlinger's thoughtful and graceful work offers reflection on aspects of heath care, ethics and faith in ways both necessary and new. Her work provides a critique of bioethics and a challenge for the sort of conversations we need to move forward.
(Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine )
I loved this book... It is a tight, tasty, spiritual and intellectual morsel.
(Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA, FAAN
Ethics and Medicine )
