Assembling Health Care Organizations – Practices, Materialities and Institutions

Citation

(2012), "Assembling Health Care Organizations – Practices, Materialities and Institutions", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 25 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2012.06225eaa.015

Assembling Health Care Organizations – Practices, Materialities and Institutions

Assembling Health Care Organizations – Practices, Materialities and Institutions

Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 25, Issue 5

Kajsa Lindberg, Alexander Styhre and Lars Walter,Palgrave Macmillan,June 2012,ISBN: 978-0-23030-350-8

Keywords: Change management in healthcare, Healthcare organizational management, Healthcare practices

The health care sector is the largest sector of the economy in most developed countries. With ageing populations in Europe and North-America, the health sector is expected to undergo significant changes in the future as it needs to handle more patients within stable budgets. Given its weight and importance in economic and financial terms and its importance for citizens, the health care sector has been extensively studied in various disciplines, including management studies. In many cases, health care organizations are examined from a systems theory perspective or a field of professional expertise and jurisdictional struggles. Assembling Health Care Organizations: Practices, Materialities, and Institutions integrates an institutional theory perspective and a materialist view of the technologies, devices, biological specimens, and other material resources mobilized and put to work in health care work.

Contents include:

1. 1.

   Preface.

2. 2.

   Part I: theoretical perspectives:

3. 3.
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     Introduction: organizing health care work in late modernity.

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     Organizing health care work: co-aligning institutions and materiality.

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     Organization studies of health care work: an overview and look at the future.

4. 4.

   Part II: health care practices:

5. 5.
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     Coordinating care paths: the patient as a boundary object.

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     Standardizing: the introduction of evidence-based methods into drug abuse treatment.

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     Crossing and constructing boundaries: a case of an infusion pump.

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     Engaging material resources: nursing work in leukaemia care.

6. 6.

   Part III: bridging institutional and materiality in health care:

7. 7.
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     Assembling health care work.

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     Appendix: research methods.

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     Bibliography.

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     Index.