Giving Patients a Future
The Constituting of Classes in an Acute Medical Unit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2248391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Latimer (0000-0001-7418-7515, Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 160-185 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| 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.ep10934396 |
| OpenAlex | W2047546061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 53 |
| References cited | 41 |
Drawing on an ethnography of conduct within an acute medical unit, the paper explores how nurses and doctors constitute classes of patient to help accomplish their ordering work. For example, patients such as older people and those who are chronically sick are figured as having only limited medical futures. The current analysis suggests that staff deploy patients’ (perceived) social identities to help (re)figure them in particular ways to organise disposal. However, disposalemerges not so much as an effect of staffs moves, but as a mode of ordering in a world of multiple domains
Business · Ethnography · Futures contract · Mathematics education · Medical emergency · Medical unit · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · Work (physics · Anthropology · Engineering · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Management and Organizational Studies · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
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Narratives and gatekeeping
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Ordering others and othering Orders
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Temporal typifications as an organizational resource
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Ideas of Difference
Socialising Disease
The Waiting of Mass
All-Consuming Passions
The Dark at the Bottom of the Stairs
In/Exclusion in the Clinic
Commanding Materials
Self, agency and the surgical collective
Inclusive intake screening
Transforming general practice
Afterword
The concept of chronicity in action
Keeping out and getting in
The dispositions of things
Making connections
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Interpreting qualitative data
Communication and Medical Practice
After nature
The Anthropology of Organisations
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Lectures on Conversation
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Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse
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Purity and Danger
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Works and lives
How institutions think
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Writing societies, writing persons
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2024 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 52 |