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Titre(s) : Systems theory and the sociology of health and illness [Texte imprimé] : observing healthcare / edited by Morten Knudsen and Werner Vogd

Publication : London ; New York : Routledge, 2015

Description matérielle : ix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Collection : Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness

Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness  Voir toutes les notices liées

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Knudsen, Morten. Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Vogd, Werner (1963-....). Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Systèmes sociaux  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Sociologie de la santé  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Systèmes, Théorie des  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138794917 (hbk). - ISBN 1138794910 (hbk). - ISBN 9781315758916 (erroné) (ebk)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb442836999

Notice n° :  FRBNF44283699 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)