Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics (Morality and Society Series) - Softcover

Chambliss, Daniel F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226101029 ISBN 13: 9780226101026

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1996

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Book by Chambliss Daniel F

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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.

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Documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, this work analyzes the forces that shape moral decisions in hospitals. Based on more than ten years of field research, "Beyond Caring" contains eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the unusual into the routine. It shows how patients - many weak and helpless - often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health-care system and how ethics decisions have become the setting for political turf battles between occupational interest groups. The result is a combination of realism and a theoretical argument about moral life in large organizations.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0226101029
• ISBN 13: 9780226101026
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214