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Conflicted Health Care: Professionalism And Caring In An Urban Hospital Project Muse Upcc Books by Apesoa-Varano, Ester Carolina, 1975- author; Varano, Charles S., 1957- author is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

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Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity. This book takes an intimate look at how health care practitioners struggle to live up to their professional and caring ideals through (or during?) twelve-hour shifts on the hospital floor. From 3,200 hours of participant-observation and 500 hours of follow-up interviews with twenty-one doctors, thirty registered nurses, twenty-one respiratory therapists, twenty medical social workers, and eighteen occupational, physical, and speech therapists, the authors create a complex picture of the workplace conflicts that different types of health care practitioners face. Though all these groups espouse caring ideals, professional interests and a curative orientation dominate in patient care and interoccupational relations. Because emotive caring is not supported by the organization of health care in the hospital, it becomes an individual virtue that overworked staff find hard to perform, and it takes on an ideological form that obscures the status hierar

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Author

Apesoa-Varano, Ester Carolina, 1975- author; Varano, Charles S., 1957- author

Publisher

Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826520081

Category

health

Subjects

Medical, Science, Medicine

Rating

4.5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14