For the Sake of the Children - The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1: Why We Need a Sociology of Responsibility 2: Life in Two Neonatal Intensive Care Units 3: What Do We Mean by Responsibility? 4: Responsibility as a Joint Enterprise: The Role of the State in the NICU and the Home 5: The Social Control of Parenting in the NICU 6: Novice Managers of Expert Labor: Parents as Agents of Social Control in the NICU 7: Beyond the NICU: Variations in the Acceptance of Long-Term Responsibility 8: Responsible Individuals in an Organizational World Appendix on Methods References Index of Interviews General Index

Summary

Examines the organization of social responsibility in the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff, the book investigates two neonatal intensive care units, showing the traumas of extreme medical measures.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Heimer, Carol A. Heimer, Heimer Carol A., Lisa Staffen, Lisa R. Staffen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.1998
• EAN: 9780226325057
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32505-7
• No. of pages: 436
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 652 g
• Series: Morality and Society (Paperbac; Morality and Society Series; Morality and Society Series (CHUP)
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, MEDICAL / Public Health, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, MEDICAL / Perinatology & Neonatology, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Organizational theory & behaviour, United States of America, USA, Public health & preventive medicine, Child welfare, Child welfare and youth services, Organizational theory and behaviour, Public health and preventive medicine, Neonatal Medicine