Assembling Health Care Organizations Practice, Materiality and Institutions [Hardcover]

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.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

Based on in-depth and timely empirical data the authors address critical issues in how we can better understand the organization and management of modern health care organizations and health care work. Different theoretical perspectives such as the sociology of organization and medicine, as well as science and technology studies, provide a truly interdisciplinary approach. The book should be of major interest not only to students and scholars in the social sciences, but to any reader that wishes to learn more about one of welfare society's most pressing challenges.' Professor Mikael Holmqvist, School of Business, Stockholm University JV

70AB0679-14C0-4FEC-BBD2-04D217621234 608500 Hardback 520876 9780230303508 0230303501 Assembling Health Care Organizations Practice, Materiality and Institutions Assembling Health Care Organ 06/07/2012 07/06/2012 612 Business Management Monos - Academic K. Lindberg; A. Styhre; L. Walter 32892 By (Author) Author Record 1 Assistant Professor University of Gothenburg 612 Business Management Monos lþ