Beyond Caring

Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Patient Care, Health Care Delivery, Reference, Ethics, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Daniel F. Chambliss ISBN: 9780226150505
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: May 8, 1996
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Daniel F. Chambliss
ISBN: 9780226150505
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: May 8, 1996
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

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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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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