For the sake of the children : the social organization of responsibility in the hospital and the home
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書誌事項
For the sake of the children : the social organization of responsibility in the hospital and the home
（Morality and society）
University of Chicago Press, 1998
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- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-400) and indexes
内容説明・目次
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: cloth ISBN 9780226325040
内容説明
This study examines the organization of social responsibility in the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff, the book investigates two neonatal intensive care units, showing the traumas of extreme medical measures, and the sufferings of infants. The accounts are by turns disturbing and heroic, as parents and staff attempt to take charge of the infants' care, redefining their roles as adults and parents, and coping with sometimes awful contingencies. Rather than treating responsibility as an ethical issue, the book focuses on how responsibility is socially produced and sustained. It questions how staff members encourage parents to take responsibility, but keep them from interfering in medical matters, and how parents encourage staff vigilance when they are novices attempting to supervise the experts. The authors conclude that it is not sufficient simply to be responsible individuals. Instead, people must learn to be responsible in an organizational world, and organizations must learn how to support responsible individuals.
目次
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1: Why We Need a Sociology of Responsibility 2: Life in Two Neonatal Intensive Care Units 3: What Do We Mean by Responsibility? 4: Responsibility as a Joint Enterprise: The Role of the State in the NICU and the Home 5: The Social Control of Parenting in the NICU 6: Novice Managers of Expert Labor: Parents as Agents of Social Control in the NICU 7: Beyond the NICU: Variations in the Acceptance of Long-Term Responsibility 8: Responsible Individuals in an Organizational World Appendix on Methods References Index of Interviews General Index
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: pbk. ISBN 9780226325057
内容説明
This study examines the organization of social responsibility in the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff, the book investigates two neonatal intensive care units, showing the traumas of extreme medical measures, and the sufferings of infants. The accounts are by turns disturbing and heroic, as parents and staff attempt to take charge of the infants' care, redefining their roles as adults and parents, and coping with sometimes awful contingencies. Rather than treating responsibility as an ethical issue, the book focuses on how responsibility is socially produced and sustained. It questions how staff members encourage parents to take responsibility, but keep them from interfering in medical matters, and how parents encourage staff vigilance when they are novices attempting to supervise the experts. The authors conclude that it is not sufficient simply to be responsible individuals. Instead, people must learn to be responsible in an organizational world, and organizations must learn how to support responsible individuals.
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