Beschreibung:
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.
List of Figures Preface PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction: Organizing Health Care Work in Late Modernity Organizing Health Care Work: Co-aligning Institutions and Materiality Organization Studies of Health Care Work: An Overview and Look at the Future PART II: HEALTH CARE PRACTICES Coordinating Care Paths: The Patient as a Boundary Object Standardizing: The Introduction of Evidence-based Methods into Drug Abuse Treatment Crossing and Constructing Boundaries: A Case of an Infusion Pump Engaging Material Resources: Nursing Work in Leukaemia Care PART III: BRIDGING INSTITUTIONAL AND MATERIALITY IN HEALTH CARE Assembling Health Care Work Appendix: Research Methods Bibliography Index