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Nursing Power and Social Judgement: An Interpretive Ethnography of a Hospital Ward

Nursing Power and Social Judgement: An Interpretive Ethnography of a Hospital Ward

Johnson, Martin

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Series: Routledge Revivals

Medical ReferenceGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 1138330760
ISBN13: 9781138330764
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 221
Language: English

First published in 1997, this work makes a substantial reexamination of the social processes behind the labelling of patients in hospital care. Taking an interpretive perspective, the author analyzes the social construction of patient labels identifying strategies for and the consequences of giving and receipt of 'good' and 'bad' labels. He shows how the rich data of truly participant observation in the tradition of reflexive ethnography can powerfully illuminate the experiences and actions of both patients and their nurses. It is a critical analysis of key work in this field. Professor Johnson demonstrates the redundancy of trait theories of social judgment, offering a more complex and negotiated reality in which patient labels form a part of a rich web of unequal power relations between nurses and their clients.

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