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Literature, Ethics and the Communication of Insight

Ann-Marie Begley

School of Nursing, Queen's University of Belfast, 13 Stranmillis Road, Belfast BT9 5AF, UK

The problems of exposing students to real life situations in which they can gain an insight into the dilemmas experienced by clients and staff are highlighted. The value of the Greek notion of catharsis (katharsis: a cleansing) is discussed and the use of literature is suggested as a means of providing students with vicarious experience of the real, but often inaccessible, situations in which nurses may have to make moral decisions.

Nursing Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 4, 287-294 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/096973309500200403
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