Overview

Bringing together recent international research in the field of hospital communication and interaction, the contributors to this book contextualize clinical professional work by focussing on the rising intensity of information and communication practices in organizations generally, and in health care in particular.

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Author:   R. Iedema
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2007 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9781403998484

ISBN 10:   1403998485
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   07 February 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Notes on Contributors Tables and Figures Communicating Hospital Work; R.Iedema Institutional and Professional Orders of Ethics in the Discourse Practices of Research Recruitment in Oncology; E.Barton The Communicative Functions of the Hospital Medical Chart; P.Hobbs Governing the Operating Room List; R.Riley & E.Manias Dialogues for Negotiating Priorities in Unplanned Emergency Surgery Queues; M.Lum & A.Fitzgerald Personality Disorder in UK Mental Health Care: Language, Legitimation and the Psychodynamics of Organised Surveillance; B.J.Brown & P.Crawford Re-negotiating Disjunctions in Inter-organisationally Provided Care; H.Kerosuo Anaesthetic Talk in Surgical Encounters; C.Pope, M.Mort, D.Goodwin & A.Smith Corridor Conversations: Clinical Communication in Casual Spaces; D.Long, R.Iedema & B.B.Lee The Role of Signs and Representations in the Organisation of Medical Work: X-rays in Medical Problem Solving; P.Maseide Why Don't Doctors Engage with the System?; C.Jorm, J.Travaglia& R.Iedema Nursing Through Time and Space: Some Challenges to the Construct of Community of Practice; S.Candlin & C.N.Candlin

Reviews

'This thought-provoking book is a sophisticated compilation of research and provides excellent examples of ethnographic designs. It would be ideal as a text in academic programmes for professionals to develop the awareness of health care as a profoundly interdisciplinary activity.' - Lela M. Holden, Journal of Advanced Nursing

Author Information

RICK IEDEMA is Associate Professor, teaching in the Graduate Management Program at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also Deputy Director at the Centre for Clinical Governance Research, where he works with a team of researchers on discourse-analytical and visual-ethnographic investigations into emerging kinds of hospital organization and clinicians' enactments of clinical practices. His books include Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization (2003) and Identity Trouble (co-edited with Carmen Caldas Coultha

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