| Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics Contributor(s): Chambliss, Daniel F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226100715 ISBN-13: 9780226100715 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $99.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Social Science |
| Dewey: 174.2 |
| LCCN: 95042835 |
| Series: Morality and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.74" W x 8.88" (0.88 lbs) 209 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |