It is estimated that up to thirteen percent of hospital admissions result from the adverse effects of diagnosis or treatment, and that anywhere from 44,000 to 98,000 hospital deaths annually are the result of errors. The obligation to "do no harm" has been central to medical conduct since ancient times, yet iatrogenic illness and medical error have now come to be recognized as significant risk factors in health care delivery. This book integrates history, philosophy, medical ethics and empirical data to examine the concept and phenomenon of medical harm. Issues covered include medical error, appropriateness of care, acceptable risk and practitioner accountability, and recommendations for limiting iatrogenic harm.
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"Sharpe and Faden...have provided a useful exploration of the historical and ethical basis of medical harm laying the groundwork for addressing this problem." The Lancet
"As medicine gains new knowledge, its power for both harm and good expands exponentially. It becomes daily more urgent, therefore, for all of us to comprehend the ethical and scientific dimensions of medical harm. This book cogently and provocatively examines a neglected sector of modern medical practice." Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center
"In addition to providing a comprehensive distillation of the philosophical and ethical bases of medical practice as they relate to patient harm, several of the concepts advanced in this book are especially noteworthy." Journal of the American Medical Association
"Sharpe and Faden have written a thought-provoking and original book. Highly readable and impressive in scope, the work should engage a broad range of people interested in the health-care system, including but not limited to medical and nursing educators, health services researchers, bioethicists, and health-care policy analysts." Medical Humanities Review
"...provides an important history of the concept of iatrogenic illness, explores ethical tensions in the doctor-patient relationship, which make the recognition of error difficult, and provides valuable tools to resolve these tensions." Chicago Medicine
"...this book is an important one for medical professionals...nicely written and makes for easy reading. Throughout, the authors use well-documented, specific cases to illustrate particular points." New England Journal of Medicine
"This is a very important, groundbreaking overview of an issue about which there exists much intellectual and emotional confusion and misunderstanding in our culture with its excessive optimism about the beneficence of science and its medical applications." Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal
"Virginia Sharpe and Alan Faden have written a book that will be of great use to those trying to understand and minimize medical harm...I would encourage the medical ethics and education communities to consider Sharpe and Faden's framework for thinking about medical harm carefully as they develop and revise guidelines for professional practice." Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
"As medicine gains new knowledge, its power for both harm and good expands exponentially. It becomes daily more urgent, therefore, for all of us to comprehend the ethical and scientific dimensions of medical harm. This book cogently and provocatively examines a neglected sector of modern medical practice." Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center
"In addition to providing a comprehensive distillation of the philosophical and ethical bases of medical practice as they relate to patient harm, several of the concepts advanced in this book are especially noteworthy." Journal of the American Medical Association
"Sharpe and Faden have written a thought-provoking and original book. Highly readable and impressive in scope, the work should engage a broad range of people interested in the health-care system, including but not limited to medical and nursing educators, health services researchers, bioethicists, and health-care policy analysts." Medical Humanities Review
"...provides an important history of the concept of iatrogenic illness, explores ethical tensions in the doctor-patient relationship, which make the recognition of error difficult, and provides valuable tools to resolve these tensions." Chicago Medicine
"...this book is an important one for medical professionals...nicely written and makes for easy reading. Throughout, the authors use well-documented, specific cases to illustrate particular points." New England Journal of Medicine
"This is a very important, groundbreaking overview of an issue about which there exists much intellectual and emotional confusion and misunderstanding in our culture with its excessive optimism about the beneficence of science and its medical applications." Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal
"Virginia Sharpe and Alan Faden have written a book that will be of great use to those trying to understand and minimize medical harm...I would encourage the medical ethics and education communities to consider Sharpe and Faden's framework for thinking about medical harm carefully as they develop and revise guidelines for professional practice." Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
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It is estimated that up to thirteen percent of hospital admissions result from the adverse effects of diagnosis or treatment, and that almost seventy percent of iatrogenic complications are preventable.This book integrates history, philosophy, medical ethics and empirical data to examine the concept and phenomenon of medical harm. Issues covered include appropriateness of care, acceptable risk and practitioner accountability. Essential reading for medical ethicists, physicians and those involved in health care policy and administration.
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For anyone involved in the healing arts, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) recent report on preventable errors could not have been a surprise. The book MEDICAL HARM...is an excellent and comprehensive look at the subject of iatrogenic illness and injury. It gives some valuable history that makes the IOM report more understandable. This book should be required reading for every health professional, medical and nursing student, hospital administrator and board member.
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This is a highly academic exacting discussion of how and why doctors damage some of their patients and the view of the profession of this type of injury. It is very accurate and well researched. It tends toward the end of the spectrum which blames the systems in place in medicine as opposed to the individual responsibility of the doctor. It is an important part of the debate about how to make medicine safer.
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I knew I was going to enjoy this book when I found on page three attribution of Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis. This book chronicles the history of iatrogenic illness, which continues and remains inevitable as medicine is practiced in the US.
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Recent scholarship in the history and sociology of American medicine provides a compelling account of how the professional authority of physicians was consolidated in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Ann Intern Med, Harvard University Press, Joint Commission, Basic Books, Med Care, American Medical Association, Minimum Standard, Oxford University Press, Hospital Infections, Infect Control, World War, American Hospital Association, Arch Intern Med, Bull Johns Hopkins Hosp, Clin Pharmacol, Ernest Codman, Georgetown University, Government Printing Office, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Accreditation of Hospitals, Bull Hist Med, Cambridge University Press, Collaborative Group New!
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- Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (2 Volume Set) by W. F. Bynum on 6 pages
- Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich on 6 pages
- The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry by Paul Starr on 5 pages
- Hospital Infections by John V. Bennett on 5 pages
- Human Error in Medicine (Human Error and Safety) by Marilyn Sue Bogner on 5 pages
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