Organizing Patient Safety: Failsafe Fantasies And Pragmatic Practices (health, Technology And Society)
by Kirstine Zinck Pedersen /
2017 / English / EPUB
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This book examines the organizational consequences of the
recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety
in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe
system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the
patient safety programme introduces new problems and safety
threats in clinical practice by devaluing practical forms of
reasoning and the trained safety dispositions of
clinicians.
This book examines the organizational consequences of the
recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety
in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe
system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the
patient safety programme introduces new problems and safety
threats in clinical practice by devaluing practical forms of
reasoning and the trained safety dispositions of
clinicians.
Developing a pragmatic and more situated stance on patient
safety, Pedersen offers an alternative vocabulary that
refocuses attention towards the importance of conduct, habits
and experience-based learning in delivering safe care. This
innovative book will be of great interest to scholars and
practitioners of organization and risk studies, health, science
and technology studies and the wider social and medical
sciences.
Developing a pragmatic and more situated stance on patient
safety, Pedersen offers an alternative vocabulary that
refocuses attention towards the importance of conduct, habits
and experience-based learning in delivering safe care. This
innovative book will be of great interest to scholars and
practitioners of organization and risk studies, health, science
and technology studies and the wider social and medical
sciences.
