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...