Assembling Health Care Organizations

Practice, Materiality and Institutions
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-33815-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

Assembling Health Care Organizations combines an institutional theory perspective with a materialist view of the technologies, devices, biological specimens, and other material resources mobilized and put to work in health care work.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindberg, K.

Styhre, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Preface PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction: Organizing Health Care Work in Late Modernity Organizing Health Care Work: Co-aligning Institutions and Materiality Organization Studies of Health Care Work: An Overview and Look at the Future PART II: HEALTH CARE PRACTICES Coordinating Care Paths: The Patient as a Boundary Object Standardizing: The Introduction of Evidence-based Methods into Drug Abuse Treatment Crossing and Constructing Boundaries: A Case of an Infusion Pump Engaging Material Resources: Nursing Work in Leukaemia Care PART III: BRIDGING INSTITUTIONAL AND MATERIALITY IN HEALTH CARE Assembling Health Care Work Appendix: Research Methods Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

KAJSA LINDBERG Associate Professor at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
ALEXANDER STYHRE Chair of Organization Theory and Management, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
LARS WALTER Senior Lecturer at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.