Beyond Caring - Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics

Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals.
Based on more than ten years' field research, "Beyond Caring" is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how patients, many weak and helpless, too often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health care system and how ethics decisions, once the dilemmas of troubled individuals, become the setting for political turf battles between occupational interest groups. The result is a compelling combination of realism and a powerful theoretical argument about moral life in large organizations.

Résumé

Documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, this work provides an analysis of the forces that influence moral decisions in hospitals.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Daniel F. Chambliss, Chambliss Daniel F.
• Edition: University Presses
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.06.1996
• EAN: 9780226101026
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10102-6
• Pages: 209
• Dimensions: 14 mm x 22 mm x 1 mm
• Poids: 284 g
• Thèmes: Morality and Society (Paperbac; Morality and Society Series; Morality and Society Series (CHUP)
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Médecine > Général; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; USA, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, United States of America, USA, Health systems & services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Nursing and ancillary services, Nursing & ancillary services, Health systems and services, MEDICAL / Nursing / Care Plans