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Literature, Ethics and the Communication of Insight

1995; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 2; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/096973309500200403

1477-0989

Ann‐Marie Begley,

Education and Critical Thinking Development

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.