ISBN: 9780226100715

Subtitle Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics. Beyond Caring. Short Title BEYOND CARING. Series Morality and Society Series. In 1989, he received the ASA s Theory Priz… More...

Subtitle Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics. Beyond Caring. Short Title BEYOND CARING. Series Morality and Society Series. In 1989, he received the ASA s Theory Prize for work on or. The Nile on eBay   Beyond Caring by Daniel F. Chambliss 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. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Daniel F. Chambliss is the Christian A. Johnson "Excellence in Teaching" Professor of Sociology, and Chair of the Sociology Department, at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he has taught since 1981. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982; later that year, his thesis research received the American Sociological Association s Medical Sociology Dissertation Prize. In 1988, he published the book Champions: The Making of Olympic Swimmers, which received the Book of the Year Prize of the United States Olympic Committee. In 1989, he received the ASA s Theory Prize for work on or Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Nursing and Ethics in an Age of Organizations 1: The Routinization of Disaster 2: Protecting the Routine from Chaos 3: What It Means to Be a Nurse 4: How the Organization Creates Ethical Problems 5: The Patient as Object 6: Death as an Organizational Act Conclusion Appendix on Methods Index Prizes Winner of American Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Section: Elliot Freidson Publication Award 1998 Details ISBN0226100715 Author Daniel F. Chambliss Language English ISBN-10 0226100715 ISBN-13 9780226100715 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 174.2 Year 1996 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations Ill. Short Title BEYOND CARING Affiliation Hamilton College Pages 209 Edition 2nd DOI 10.1604/9780226100715 AU Release Date 1996-06-15 NZ Release Date 1996-06-15 US Release Date 1996-06-15 UK Release Date 1996-06-15 Subtitle Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics Publisher The University of Chicago Press Series Morality and Society Series Publication Date 1996-06-15 Audience Undergraduate We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137881154; , Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], ISBN-13: 9780226100715, Book Title: Beyond Caring, EAN: 9780226100715, Publication Year: 1996, Type: Textbook, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Publication Name: Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics, Item Height: 222mm, Item Width: 144mm, Subject: Medicine, Nursing, Healthcare System, Item Weight: 394g, Number of Pages: 209 Pages, The University of Chicago Press<

1996, ISBN: 0226100715

[EAN: 9780226100715], New book, [PU: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL], Hardcover. Documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical… More...

[EAN: 9780226100715], New book, [PU: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL], Hardcover. 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. 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability., Books<

1996, ISBN: 9780226100715

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ISBN: 9780226100715

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