Assembling health care organizations
Subtitle: practice, materiality and institutions
By: Kajsa Lindberg, Alexander Styhre, Lars Walter
Contributors: Styhre, Alexander; Walter, Lars
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230303508
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service Industries; Health services administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General; Health planning
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Figures; title: Preface; title: PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; title: Introduction: Organizing Health Care Work in Late Modernity; title: Organizing Health Care Work: Co-aligning Institutions and Materiality; title: Organization Studies of Health Care Work: An Overview and Look at the Future; title: PART II: HEALTH CARE PRACTICES; title: Coordinating Care Paths: The Patient as a Boundary Object; title: Standardizing: The Introduction of Evidence-based Methods into Drug Abuse Treatment; title: Crossing and Constructing Boundaries: A Case of an Infusion Pump; title: Engaging Material Resources: Nursing Work in Leukaemia Care; title: PART III: BRIDGING INSTITUTIONAL AND MATERIALITY IN HEALTH CARE; title: Assembling Health Care Work; title: Appendix: Research Methods; title: Bibliography; title: Index.