Renee R Anspach
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 280908 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Renee R Anspach |
| NOMBRES | Renee R |
| APELLIDO | Anspach |
| FIRMA | ANSPACH R R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8270-3433 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 270 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Paradoxes of professional autonomy
The professional autonomy of physicians often requires they take responsibility for life and death decisions, but they must also find ways to avoid bearing the full weight of such decisions. We conducted in‐person, semi‐structured interviews with neonatologists (n = 20) in four waves between 1978 and 2017 in a single Midwestern U.S. city. Using open coding analysis, we found over time that neonatologists described changes in their sense of profes…
Conscience reconsidered
What must I do to succeed
Postmortem
Repertoires of Trust
Sociologists and other social scientists have recently renewed their interest in the concept of trust. Multidisciplinary studies have identified social psychological, economic, and structural determinants of trust; traced its development in interpersonal relationships; and explored its transformation in response to modernization. Drawing on ethnographic research at a multinational corporation operating in a politically charged environment, we ree…
Reflections on Whole World on Fire
My remarks are divided into my personal and my sociological reflections on Whole World on Fire (Eden, 2004). As an aging baby boomer – to use that awful cliche – it is hard to read Whole World on Fire without at the same time thinking about my childhood experiences growing up ‘under the shadow of the mushroom cloud’. I was too young to understand McCarthyism, but my memories of the atom bomb zeitgeist are very vivid. Until I was 12 years old, we …
The field worker's fields
Sociologists who do field work in medical settings face an intractable tension between their disciplinary field, which takes a critical perspective toward medicine, and their ethnographic field, which often includes physicians. This paper explores the ethical problems that result from the collision of the two fields. While in the field, ethnographers are forced to choose between sociology and their obligations to host members, as they decide whet…
Deciding Who Lives. Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery
In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renee Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses, and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns--be they premature, terminally ill, or severely malform…
Unraveling the Process
Although all groups relied primarily on technological data (X rays, biomedical measures, monitor readouts), the nurses also relied heavily on interactive cues gleaned at the bedside. Nurses assign meaning to their patients' actions and interpret them based on social norms, while physicians, who spend less time with the patient, merely elicit physical findings and interpret data from monitors and laboratories. The hypothesis is that these differen…
Deciding Who Lives
In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renée Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses, and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns—be they premature, terminally ill, or severely malforme…
Is Bioethics Irrelevant
book reviews
The Study of Medical Institutions
During more than three decades of scholarship on American medicine, Eliot Freidson has both contributed to and advocated a distinctive variety of medical sociology: one that applies structural perspectives to medical institutions and remains detached from medicine's own viewpoints and assumptions. This article reviews Freidson's legacy to six substantive arenas in the study of medical institutions. It then examines the evolving status of the type…
Everyday Methods for Assessing Organizational Effectiveness
Consistent with a growing interest among organizational sociologists and evaluation researchers, this paper examines effectiveness as a socially constructed phenomenon in a study of how providers and consumers in social programs decide that their programs are working. Through analysis of data collected as part of an evaluation of a program to integrate former mental patients into their local communities, five everyday evaluation methods are ident…
Notes on the Sociology of Medical Discourse
This paper examines a segment of medical social life that has not been well studied: formal presentations of case histories by interns, residents, and fellows.Because they are presented by physicians in training to their status superiors who are evaluating them, case presentations are exercises in self presentation which serve as a vehicle for professional socialization.This analysis of the language of case presentation is based on case presentat…
Prognostic Conflict in Life-and-Death Decisions
This paper examines prognostic conflict in life-and-death decisions in intensive care units for newborn infants. The data were collected during 16 months of field research in two intensive care nurseries which differed with respect to their size, relative prestige, referral patterns, and the demographic composition of their clientele. This analysis approaches life-and-death decisions from the standpoint of the sociology of knowledge, which relate…
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
From stigma to identity politics
From stigma to identity politics
Notes on the Sociology of Medical Discourse
This paper examines a segment of medical social life that has not been well studied: formal presentations of case histories by interns, residents, and fellows.Because they are presented by physicians in training to their status superiors who are evaluating them, case presentations are exercises in self presentation which serve as a vehicle for professional socialization.This analysis of the language of case presentation is based on case presentat…
Prognostic Conflict in Life-and-Death Decisions
This paper examines prognostic conflict in life-and-death decisions in intensive care units for newborn infants. The data were collected during 16 months of field research in two intensive care nurseries which differed with respect to their size, relative prestige, referral patterns, and the demographic composition of their clientele. This analysis approaches life-and-death decisions from the standpoint of the sociology of knowledge, which relate…
Repertoires of Trust
Sociologists and other social scientists have recently renewed their interest in the concept of trust. Multidisciplinary studies have identified social psychological, economic, and structural determinants of trust; traced its development in interpersonal relationships; and explored its transformation in response to modernization. Drawing on ethnographic research at a multinational corporation operating in a politically charged environment, we ree…
What must I do to succeed
The field worker's fields
Sociologists who do field work in medical settings face an intractable tension between their disciplinary field, which takes a critical perspective toward medicine, and their ethnographic field, which often includes physicians. This paper explores the ethical problems that result from the collision of the two fields. While in the field, ethnographers are forced to choose between sociology and their obligations to host members, as they decide whet…
Everyday Methods for Assessing Organizational Effectiveness
Consistent with a growing interest among organizational sociologists and evaluation researchers, this paper examines effectiveness as a socially constructed phenomenon in a study of how providers and consumers in social programs decide that their programs are working. Through analysis of data collected as part of an evaluation of a program to integrate former mental patients into their local communities, five everyday evaluation methods are ident…
The Study of Medical Institutions
During more than three decades of scholarship on American medicine, Eliot Freidson has both contributed to and advocated a distinctive variety of medical sociology: one that applies structural perspectives to medical institutions and remains detached from medicine's own viewpoints and assumptions. This article reviews Freidson's legacy to six substantive arenas in the study of medical institutions. It then examines the evolving status of the type…
Conscience reconsidered
Is Bioethics Irrelevant
book reviews
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
From stigma to identity politics
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
Prognostic Conflict in Life-and-Death Decisions
This paper examines prognostic conflict in life-and-death decisions in intensive care units for newborn infants. The data were collected during 16 months of field research in two intensive care nurseries which differed with respect to their size, relative prestige, referral patterns, and the demographic composition of their clientele. This analysis approaches life-and-death decisions from the standpoint of the sociology of knowledge, which relate…
Notes on the Sociology of Medical Discourse
This paper examines a segment of medical social life that has not been well studied: formal presentations of case histories by interns, residents, and fellows.Because they are presented by physicians in training to their status superiors who are evaluating them, case presentations are exercises in self presentation which serve as a vehicle for professional socialization.This analysis of the language of case presentation is based on case presentat…
Everyday Methods for Assessing Organizational Effectiveness
Consistent with a growing interest among organizational sociologists and evaluation researchers, this paper examines effectiveness as a socially constructed phenomenon in a study of how providers and consumers in social programs decide that their programs are working. Through analysis of data collected as part of an evaluation of a program to integrate former mental patients into their local communities, five everyday evaluation methods are ident…
Unraveling the Process
Although all groups relied primarily on technological data (X rays, biomedical measures, monitor readouts), the nurses also relied heavily on interactive cues gleaned at the bedside. Nurses assign meaning to their patients' actions and interpret them based on social norms, while physicians, who spend less time with the patient, merely elicit physical findings and interpret data from monitors and laboratories. The hypothesis is that these differen…
Deciding Who Lives
In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renée Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses, and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns—be they premature, terminally ill, or severely malforme…
Is Bioethics Irrelevant
book reviews
The Study of Medical Institutions
During more than three decades of scholarship on American medicine, Eliot Freidson has both contributed to and advocated a distinctive variety of medical sociology: one that applies structural perspectives to medical institutions and remains detached from medicine's own viewpoints and assumptions. This article reviews Freidson's legacy to six substantive arenas in the study of medical institutions. It then examines the evolving status of the type…
Deciding Who Lives. Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery
In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renee Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses, and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns--be they premature, terminally ill, or severely malform…
Reflections on Whole World on Fire
My remarks are divided into my personal and my sociological reflections on Whole World on Fire (Eden, 2004). As an aging baby boomer – to use that awful cliche – it is hard to read Whole World on Fire without at the same time thinking about my childhood experiences growing up ‘under the shadow of the mushroom cloud’. I was too young to understand McCarthyism, but my memories of the atom bomb zeitgeist are very vivid. Until I was 12 years old, we …
The field worker's fields
Sociologists who do field work in medical settings face an intractable tension between their disciplinary field, which takes a critical perspective toward medicine, and their ethnographic field, which often includes physicians. This paper explores the ethical problems that result from the collision of the two fields. While in the field, ethnographers are forced to choose between sociology and their obligations to host members, as they decide whet…
Repertoires of Trust
Sociologists and other social scientists have recently renewed their interest in the concept of trust. Multidisciplinary studies have identified social psychological, economic, and structural determinants of trust; traced its development in interpersonal relationships; and explored its transformation in response to modernization. Drawing on ethnographic research at a multinational corporation operating in a politically charged environment, we ree…
Postmortem
What must I do to succeed
Conscience reconsidered
Paradoxes of professional autonomy
The professional autonomy of physicians often requires they take responsibility for life and death decisions, but they must also find ways to avoid bearing the full weight of such decisions. We conducted in‐person, semi‐structured interviews with neonatologists (n = 20) in four waves between 1978 and 2017 in a single Midwestern U.S. city. Using open coding analysis, we found over time that neonatologists described changes in their sense of profes…
Psychology (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Ethics in medical practice (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Business (3 obras)