Main description:

This unique and innovative title offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection of ethics, violence, trauma, and trauma surgery. Underscoring that the causes of violence include a wide range of socioeconomic factors, including poverty and the lack of economic opportunity, and that violence often occurs in impoverished and underserved communities, various authors from a wide range of disciplines outline how intentional violence toward another person is multidimensional and complex. Many of the authors use Chicago as a framework for their chapter discussion, but there are similarities in many urban settings throughout the United States and abroad. Part I of the book, Ethical Issues Related to Violence, includes seven chapters that examine ethical issues related to violence. Each of these chapters discusses a different but intersecting aspect of how violence challenges ethical standards in medicine and health. Part II, Ethical Issues Related to Trauma and Trauma Surgery, offers eight chapters that address various aspects of ethical issues related to trauma and trauma surgery. Part III, Additional Concerns Relating to Violence and Trauma, describe a series of issues relating to violence and trauma, including surgical procedures, psychological distress, and geographic disparities in access to trauma care. Developed by nationally renowned thought leaders in the field, Violence, Trauma, and Trauma Surgery is a major and novel contribution to the clinical literature and will be of great interest to all physicians, clinicians, researchers, social scientists, students, policymakers, hospital administrators and community leaders concerned with understanding and improving outcomes relating to violence, trauma, and trauma surgery.

Contents:

Part I. Ethical Issues Related to Violence

Chapter 1. Hospital-based Interventions to Reduce Violence and Recidivism: WRAPAROUND Programs

Chapter 2. The Urban Resilience Network: "TURN" to Faith Leaders and the Faith Community to Address Violence and Trauma

Chapter 3. A Violent Thread: How Violence Cuts Across the Generations on Chicago's South Side

Chapter 4. Engaging People in Behavioral Crisis

Chapter 5. Violence Is a Contagious Disease: Theory and Practice in the U.S. and Abroad

Chapter 6. Workplace Violence in Trauma Care

Part II. Ethical Issues Related to Trauma and Trauma Surgery

Chapter 7. Geographic Information Systems in Trauma Research

Chapter 8. Palliative Care in Trauma: Violence and the Ethic of Care

Chapter 9. Geriatric Trauma Care

Chapter 10. Primum Non Nocere: When Is It Our Moral Duty to Do More for Our Trauma Patients in Need?

Chapter 11. Girls and Trauma: Performing Socio-Surgery through a Gender Responsive Lens

Chapter 12. An Internist's View of Trauma Units: From Ancient Warfare to Modern Assistive Technology

Chapter 13. Empowerment: The Ethical Dilemma

Chapter 14. The Future of Injury Control Is Precise: Ethical Issues in Violence, Trauma, and Trauma Surgery

Chapter 15. Ethical Issues in Neurotrauma

Part III. Additional Ethical Concerns Relating to Violence and Trauma

Chapter 16. The Evolution of Transfusion Therapy in Trauma

Chapter 17. Diagnosis and Management of Penetrating Thoracic Vascular Injury

Chapter 18. Healing Hurt People - Chicago: Supporting Trauma Recovery in Patients Injured by Violence

Chapter 19. Clinician Unconscious Bias and Its Impact on Trauma Patients

Chapter 20. The Creation and Evolution of Acute Care Surgery

Chapter 21. Trauma Care for Justice-Involved Persons