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      Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness
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      Observing Healthcare

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      Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness book

      Observing Healthcare
      Edited ByMorten Knudsen, Werner Vogd
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 31 October 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758916
      Pages 250
      eBook ISBN 9781315758916
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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      Knudsen, M., & Vogd, W. (Eds.). (2014). Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness: Observing Healthcare (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758916

      ABSTRACT

      Modern societies and organizations are characterized by multiple kinds of observations, systems, or rationalities, rather than singular identities and clear hierarchies. This holds true for healthcare where we find a range of different perspectives – from medicine to education, from science to law, from religion to politics – brought together in different types of arrangements. This innovative volume explores how this polycontexturality plays out in the healthcare arena.

      Drawing on systems theory, and Luhmann’s theory of social systems as communicative systems in particular, the contributors investigate how things – drugs, for example – and bodies are observed and constructed in different ways under polycontextural conditions. They explore how the different types of communication and observation are brought into workable arrangements – without becoming identical or reconciled – and discuss how health care organizations observe their own polycontexturality.

      Providing an analysis of healthcare structures that is up to speed with the complexity of healthcare today, this book shows how society and its organizations simultaneously manage contexts that do not fit together. It is an important work for those with an interest in health and illness, social theory, Niklas Luhmann, organizations and systems theory from a range of backgrounds including sociology, health studies, political science and management.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |22 pages

      Introduction: health care, systems theory and polycontexturality

      ByMORTEN KNUDSEN, WERNER VOGD

      part |2 pages

      Part I Polycontextural constructions

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Drugs in modern society: analysing polycontextural things under the condition of functional differentiation

      ByANNA HENKEL

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Polycontexturality and the body

      ByHOLGER H Ø JLUND AND ANDERS LA COUR

      part |2 pages

      Part II Societal arrangements

      chapter 3|18 pages

      Two ways of dealing with polycontexturality in priority-setting in Swedish health-care politics

      ByWERNER SCHIRMER, DIMITRIS MICHAILAKIS

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Heterophony and hyper-responsibility

      ByNIELS Å KERSTR Ø M ANDERSEN AND HANNE KNUDSEN

      part |2 pages

      Part III Organisational arrangements

      chapter 5|25 pages

      Arranging medical and economic logics: investigating the infl uence of economic controlling in an internal medicine department

      ByWERNER VOGD

      chapter 6|21 pages

      Hospital management: between medical professionalism and fi nancial pressure TILL JANSEN AND SARAH PORANZKE

      chapter 7|22 pages

      Sustainability in integrated-care partnerships: a systems and network theoretical approach for the analysis of cooperation networks DANIEL L Ü DECKE

      part |2 pages

      PART IV Refl ections

      chapter 8|22 pages

      The multiplication and realisation of speakers as polyphony

      ByARMIN NASSEHI, IRMHILD SAAKE, KATHARINA MAYR

      chapter 9|20 pages

      Polycontexturality in medical research ethics

      ByBARRY GIBSON, JENNIFER BURR

      chapter 10|20 pages

      Personal leadership in polyphonic organisations

      ByMORTEN KNUDSEN
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