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Organizing patient safety : failsafe fantasies and pragmatic practices / Kirstine Zinck Pedersen.

9781137537867 (electronic book)
1137537868 (electronic book)
113753785X
9781137537850

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

English

1 online resource (293 pages).

10.1057/978-1-137-53786-7 doi

R729.8

610.28/9

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.

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