Organizing Patient Safety Failsafe Fantasies and Pragmatic Practices /

• Main Author: Pedersen, Kirstine Zinck (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Health, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Ethics.; Health administration.; Medical Sociology.; Health Care Management.; Health Administration.

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 thr...

Table of Contents:

• PART I
• 1. Studying patient safety: An introduction
• Chapter 2: The oral syringe case
• Chapter 3. Failsafe systems and practical reasoning
• PART II
• Chapter 4: Blame and responsibility in patient safety
• Chapter 5: The distributed risks of safety management
• Chapter 6. Learning in patient safety
• Chapter 7. Stability and change in patient safety
• PART III
• Chapter 8. A pragmatic stance on safety management
• Chapter 9. Patient safety as trained dispositions and moral education.