Robert W Hetherington
Biographic Data
| ID | 804408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Hetherington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Hetherington |
| SIGNATURE | HETHERINGTON R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Front-End Challenge: Five Steps to Effective Evaluation of Community-Based Programs
Evaluation research requires ample front-end work. Preparatory work is essential to establish an environment conducive to assessment and is likely to contribute to its success. This article discusses the front-end challenge of developing an evaluation for a community-based program. Highlights are provided of an evaluation protocol from one community support agency to illustrate the significance of front-end work. Five front-end challenges are con…
Racial Minorities, Medicine and Health
Taking the Measure of Morale: Structure and Job Satisfaction in a Multihospital System
This study examines the impact of bureaucratic structure on morale among hospital staff. Hypotheses are drawn from Hage's axiomatic theory of organizations, including the predicted negative impact on morale of formalization, centralization and stratification, and the positive impact on morale of task complexity. Contingency hypotheses involving structure and task complexity are also examined. Results indicate morale is either positively affected …
Specialists without spirit: Limitations of the mechanistic biomedical model
Canadian Health Care and the State: A Century of Evolution
The contributors include prominent specialists in medical, military, and labour history, who provide valuable examinations of such issues as the ideological origins of the welfare state, the experience of the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War, and the development of neuropsychology during the Second World War. Several essays are particularly relevant to contemporary concerns. A history of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) …
The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture
Specialists without spirit: Crisis in the nursing profession
This paper examines the crisis in the nursing profession in Western industrial societies in the light of Max Weber's theory of rationalisation. The domination of instrumental rational action in modern industrial societies in evident in the field of modern medicine. The burgeoning mechanistic approach to the human body and health makes modern health care services increasingly devoid of human values. Although the nursing profession has been influen…
The impact of stratification on hospital performance
Cet article examine la relation entre différents aspects de la stratification et la performance des départements d'un système multi‐hospitalier. Précisément, l'impact de la stratification sur la coordination, le climat d'adaptation au changement, la qualité des soins et le morale sont discuté. Nos prédictions sont basées sur le modèle axiomatique de Hage, qui fût baséà l'origine sur la théorie de la bureaucratie de Max Weber. A l'encontre de cett…
Just Health Care
Response to innovation: The problem‐oriented system in a mental health setting
The use of prescription drugs in treatment of first-time psychiatric admissions to University Hospital, Saskatoon
Local and Cosmopolitan Physicians
La theorie du localisme‐cosmopolitanisme est appliquee a l'identification des types de medecin. L'analyse factorielle, le coefficient de concordance de Kendall ainsi que les gamma et chi‐carres sont utilises selon diverses combinaisons pour identifier des constellations de variables. On identifie deux types de medecins qui sont statistiquement bien differencies: le professionnel de la medecine (cosmopolitain) et le politicien de la medecine (loca…
The Control of Quality and Price of Medical Care Through Provision of a Preselected Panel of Private Practitioners
Hetherington, Robert W. Ph.D.; Epstein, Monroe M.D.; Gerstel, Bryan B.S. Author Information
Specialists without spirit: Limitations of the mechanistic biomedical model
Racial Minorities, Medicine and Health
Taking the Measure of Morale: Structure and Job Satisfaction in a Multihospital System
This study examines the impact of bureaucratic structure on morale among hospital staff. Hypotheses are drawn from Hage's axiomatic theory of organizations, including the predicted negative impact on morale of formalization, centralization and stratification, and the positive impact on morale of task complexity. Contingency hypotheses involving structure and task complexity are also examined. Results indicate morale is either positively affected …
Canadian Health Care and the State: A Century of Evolution
The contributors include prominent specialists in medical, military, and labour history, who provide valuable examinations of such issues as the ideological origins of the welfare state, the experience of the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War, and the development of neuropsychology during the Second World War. Several essays are particularly relevant to contemporary concerns. A history of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) …
The Control of Quality and Price of Medical Care Through Provision of a Preselected Panel of Private Practitioners
Hetherington, Robert W. Ph.D.; Epstein, Monroe M.D.; Gerstel, Bryan B.S. Author Information
Local and Cosmopolitan Physicians
La theorie du localisme‐cosmopolitanisme est appliquee a l'identification des types de medecin. L'analyse factorielle, le coefficient de concordance de Kendall ainsi que les gamma et chi‐carres sont utilises selon diverses combinaisons pour identifier des constellations de variables. On identifie deux types de medecins qui sont statistiquement bien differencies: le professionnel de la medecine (cosmopolitain) et le politicien de la medecine (loca…
The use of prescription drugs in treatment of first-time psychiatric admissions to University Hospital, Saskatoon
Response to innovation: The problem‐oriented system in a mental health setting
Just Health Care
Specialists without spirit: Crisis in the nursing profession
This paper examines the crisis in the nursing profession in Western industrial societies in the light of Max Weber's theory of rationalisation. The domination of instrumental rational action in modern industrial societies in evident in the field of modern medicine. The burgeoning mechanistic approach to the human body and health makes modern health care services increasingly devoid of human values. Although the nursing profession has been influen…
The impact of stratification on hospital performance
Cet article examine la relation entre différents aspects de la stratification et la performance des départements d'un système multi‐hospitalier. Précisément, l'impact de la stratification sur la coordination, le climat d'adaptation au changement, la qualité des soins et le morale sont discuté. Nos prédictions sont basées sur le modèle axiomatique de Hage, qui fût baséà l'origine sur la théorie de la bureaucratie de Max Weber. A l'encontre de cett…
The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture
Canadian Health Care and the State: A Century of Evolution
The contributors include prominent specialists in medical, military, and labour history, who provide valuable examinations of such issues as the ideological origins of the welfare state, the experience of the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War, and the development of neuropsychology during the Second World War. Several essays are particularly relevant to contemporary concerns. A history of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) …
Specialists without spirit: Limitations of the mechanistic biomedical model
The Front-End Challenge: Five Steps to Effective Evaluation of Community-Based Programs
Evaluation research requires ample front-end work. Preparatory work is essential to establish an environment conducive to assessment and is likely to contribute to its success. This article discusses the front-end challenge of developing an evaluation for a community-based program. Highlights are provided of an evaluation protocol from one community support agency to illustrate the significance of front-end work. Five front-end challenges are con…
Racial Minorities, Medicine and Health
Taking the Measure of Morale: Structure and Job Satisfaction in a Multihospital System
This study examines the impact of bureaucratic structure on morale among hospital staff. Hypotheses are drawn from Hage's axiomatic theory of organizations, including the predicted negative impact on morale of formalization, centralization and stratification, and the positive impact on morale of task complexity. Contingency hypotheses involving structure and task complexity are also examined. Results indicate morale is either positively affected …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)