After harm : medical error and the ethics of forgiveness

Publication Data

• Title After harm : medical error and the ethics of forgiveness
• Author Nancy Berlinger
• Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Baltimore, Md.
• Language English

Contents

Narrative ethics
Physicians' narratives
Patients' and families' narratives
Disclosure
Apology
Repentance
Forgiveness
Ethical action.

Topics

• Medical errors :: Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical errors :: Psychological aspects
• Medical errors :: Religious aspects
• Physicians :: Professional ethics
• Physician and patient
• Medical ethics
• 013226319

After harm : medical error and the ethics of forgiveness by Nancy Berlinger. ISBN 0801881676. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.