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Are Workarounds Ethical?
Nancy Berlinger
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Description for Are Workarounds Ethical?
Paperback. This book draws on medical sociology, complexity science, and political philosophy to describe how complex health care systems contribute to common ethical challenges and create pressure on health care professionals and other staff to improvise remedies to compensate for flawed structures or policies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important. When health care professionals and other staff are pressured to improvise, fix structural problems, or comply with competing policies, the uncertainty and distress they experience have potential consequences for patients, families, colleagues, and the system itself. This book presents a new theory of health care ethics that is grounded in the nature of health care work and how it is shaped by the ever-changing conditions of complex systems, in particular, problems of safety and harm. By exploring workarounds and other improvised practices in complex health care systems that ... Read more
How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important. When health care professionals and other staff are pressured to improvise, fix structural problems, or comply with competing policies, the uncertainty and distress they experience have potential consequences for patients, families, colleagues, and the system itself. This book presents a new theory of health care ethics that is grounded in the nature of health care work and how it is shaped by the ever-changing conditions of complex systems, in particular, problems of safety and harm. By exploring workarounds and other improvised practices in complex health care systems that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190269296
SKU
V9780190269296
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-23
About Nancy Berlinger
Nancy Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center
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