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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461103903321

Autore

Zuiderent-Jerak Teun

Titolo

Situated intervention : sociological experiments in health care / / Teun Zuiderent-Jerak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32944-1

0-262-32943-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Inside technology

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Social medicine

Medical care

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Exploring Intervention in the Social Sciences; 1 The Stuff of Interventions; 2 Situated Standardization in Hematology and Oncology Care; 3 Situated Standardization and Patient-Centered Care; 4 The Qualities of Competition; 5 Sociological Reconfigurations of Patient Safety; Conclusion: Situated Intervention and the Ethics of Specificity; Notes; References; Index; Inside Technology Series List

Sommario/riassunto

This work considers the question of how the direct involvement of social scientists in the practices they study can lead to the production of interesting sociological knowledge. It draws together two activities that are often seen as belonging to different realms: intervening in practices and furthering sociological understanding of them.