A01=Daniel F. Chambliss
Author_Daniel F. Chambliss
capitalism
caring for others
Category=MBDC
Category=MBP
Category=MQ
contemporary hospital
death
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ethics
eyewitness accounts
field research
health care system
hospitals
illness
interest groups
job stress
large organizations
making hard choices
medicine
moral decisions
morality
nurses
patients
personal stories
politics
role conflict
sickness
Product details
- ISBN 9780226100715
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 1996
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
