Assembling Health Care Organizations Practice, Materiality and Institutions

by Lindberg, Kajsa; Styhre, Alexander; Walter, Lars

• ISBN13: 9780230303508
• ISBN10: 0230303501
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Kajsa Lindberg is Associate Professor at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Alexander Styhre is Chair of Organization Theory and Management, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Lars Walter is Senior Lecturer at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vi
Preface	p. vii
Theoretical Perspectives
Introduction: Organizing Health Care Work in Late Modernity	p. 3
Organizing Health Care Work: Co-Aligning Institutions and Materiality	p. 23
Organization Studies of Health Care Work: An Overview and Look at the Future	p. 51
Health Care Practices
Coordinating Care Paths: The Patient as a Boundary Object	p. 75
Standardizing: The Introduction of Evidence-Based Methods into Drug Abuse Treatment	p. 99
Crossing and Constructing Boundaries: A Case of an Infusion Pump	p. 119
Engaging Material Resources: Nursing Work in Leukaemia Care	p. 134
Bridging Institutions and Materiality in Health Care
Assembling Health Care Work	p. 153
Appendix: Research Methods	p. 169
Notes	p. 172
Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 190
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