Making connections
Studies of the Social Organisation of Healthcare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2248683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lesley Griffiths (University of Wales, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 155-171 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.00345 |
| PMID | 14498935 |
| OpenAlex | W1577494070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 96 |
This paper explores the questions: What has work published in Sociology of Health and Illness contributed to our understanding of 'healthcare organisation'? What are the key research issues for the future? The paper reviews past articles with these questions in mind and uses the first issue of the Journal as a starting point for identifying themes and issues which have remained relevant throughout the first 25 years of its history. I argue that, though the disparate contributions in this area sometimes fail to build on earlier research, when read together they offer a valuable picture of a complex range of healthcare settings and their social organisation. The importance of insights gained from other areas of sociological work is emphasised and some significant examples are identified. The willingness to cross boundaries into other disciplines is also recognised as a strength and this is seen as an important issue for future research, as is increased attention to international comparative research. In similar vein the author argues that the multiplicity of methodological approaches allows the reader to weigh the value of different kinds of data and to look for common underlying patterns of action. It is suggested that future work could usefully revisit past studies, so that we consolidate and accumulate knowledge of the field and avoid a cycle where we continually retread old ground
Action (physics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Health care · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Health, psychology, and well-being · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mental Health and Psychiatry
Modern Symbolic Interaction Theory and Health
Análises ergológicas do agir profissional de equipes de atenção primária à saúde no SUS
Ending TB in Australia
Making the case for a sociology of dental education
Healthcare identities at the crossroads of service modernisation
The Cultural Politics of ‘Implementation Science’
Navigating without a map
Understanding the reproduction of health care
Creating possibilities for action in the presence of environmental barriers in the process of ‘ageing in place’
Chronicity rhetoric in health and welfare systems inhibits patient recovery
Using Institutional Ethnography to Understand the Production of Health Care Disparities
Connections and consequences in complex systems
Communities of clinical practice
Moral Economy and Moral Capital in the Community of Clinical Practice
From policy making to service use. Down's syndrome antenatal screening in England, France and the Netherlands
Let's dance
Some unintended effects of teamwork in healthcare
Communities of clinical practice in action
The Clinical Encounter and the Problem of Context
Have They Done what They Should? Moral Reasoning in the Context of Translating Older Persons' Everyday Problems into Eligible Needs for Home Modification Services
Balancing the good - a critical discourse analysis of home modification services
Getting a visit
Making connections
Organising work in neonatal transfer
Exploring the neglected and hidden dimensions of large-scale healthcare change
Professional autonomy and surveillance
Re-structuring the negotiated order of the hospital
Keeping out and getting in
Renegotiating inter-professional boundaries in maternity care
Sensemaking in Organizations
Studies in ethnomethodology
Philip M. Strong (1945–1995)
The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present
‘But if you look at the coronary anatomy …’
Decline vs. retention of medical power through restratification
Ethnomethodological Studies of Work
System induced setbacks in stroke recovery
Charisma, power and altruism
The Theory of Organisations
Professional Dynamics and the Changing Nature of Medical Work
Speaking of Life
On Penalties and the Patient's Charter
Paper and people
Health care rationing
Preserving the consultation
Medical norms and medical innovation
Women and private medicine
All change in the NHS? Implications of the NHS reforms for primary care prevention
The construction of medical disposals Medical sociology and medical problem solving in clinical practice
A multiple paradigm approach to the sociology of medicine, health and illness
Professional autonomy and the opthalmic optician
Paradoxical consequences of excess in structural complexity
Using private health insurance. A study of lay decisions to seek professional medical help
The relationship between qualified and unqualified workers in health care
Trajectories, biographies and the evolving medical technology scene
Socioeconomic class, classification of 'abnormal' behavior and perceptions of mental health care
Normal rubbish
Boundary encroachment
Fragmentation and integration in health care
Types of medical social control
Viewpoint
Private medicine
Managing social change
Practices of reading and writing
The interplay between doctors and nurses-a negotiated order perspective
Actor-network theory, technology and medical sociology
A literary approach to managerial discourse after the NHS reforms
NHS managers as rhetoricians
Accounts of the NHS reforms
The rise of surveillance medicine
Negotiation of self and setting to advantage
The genesis of chronic illness
Staff-inmate bargaining tactics in long-term treatment institutions
Doctor-patient communication
Nursing work, nurses' knowledge, and the subjectification of the patient
The social construction of noncompliance
The clinical subject
Categorization in accident departments
Controlling the 'bed state
Patient participation in decision-making and consent to treatment
Negotiation and the structure of discourse in medical consultation
Orchestrated Encounters
The Ambulance Journey as an Information Generating Process
Categorising children in the clinic
Medical errors and the 'sick role
Moral tales
The child as a social object
Accomplishing 'the case' in paediatrics and child health
Autonomy and bureaucratic accountability in primary care
The system of alignments challenging physician professional dominance
Subverting criteria
Categorising to exclude
Rationing health care to disabled people
Everyday experiences of implicit rationing
Categorisation and micro-rationing
Governmentality and risk
Rationing through risk assessment in clinical genetics
Introduction
Prescribing and the defence of clinical autonomy
Contemporary legends, rumours and collective behaviour
How 'we' are different from 'them
Guidelines, professionals and the production of objectivity
Doing business in the NHS
Rethinking professional prerogative
Delivering the 'new' Canadian midwifery
Negotiating the role of expert carers on an adult hospital ward
The gaze and visibility of the carer
Community participation and citizenship in British health care planning
Humour as Resistance to Professional Dominance in Community Mental Health Teams
Decline of the Hospital
Openness and Specialisation
The Baby and the Bath Water
Responding to Change
The Nursing-Medical Boundary
Giving Patients a Future
There are no rights and wrongs in these situations
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |