Social Organization of Best Practice : An Institutional Ethnography of Physicians Work

Webster, Fiona

ISBN 10: 3030431649 / ISBN 13: 9783030431648

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Inhaltsangabe:

This book explores how best practice for acute stroke care was developed, translated and taken up in medical practice across various sites in the province of Ontario using institutional ethnographic research. Institutional ethnography, an approach developed by Dorothy E. Smith, builds on Smith’s understanding of the social organization of knowledge, allowing for an examination of the complex social relations organizing people’s experiences of their everyday working lives.

This work thereby makes visible some of the assumptions and hidden priorities underlying the emphasis given to translating scientific knowledge into medical practice. In this study, the discourses of both evidence-based medicine and knowledge translation, purportedly designed to improve patient care, come into view as managerial tools that directed healthcare resources toward academic hospitals rather than community sites where the majority of patients receive care. These models institutionalize inequities in access to care while claiming to resolve them.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Fiona Webster is Associate Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Webster obtained her PhD in sociology under the supervision of Dorothy E. Smith at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Titel: Social Organization of Best Practice : An ...
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New