The Social Organisation of Healthcare Work

1. Making connections: healthcare as a case study in the social organisation of work: Davina Allen and Alison Pilnick.
<p>2. The promotion of private health insurance and its implications for the social organisation of healthcare: a case study of private sector obstetric practice in Chile: Susan F. Murray and Mary Ann Elston.</p>
<p>3. Understanding the social organisation of maternity care systems: midwifery as a touchstone: Cecilia Benoit, Sirpa Wrede, Ivy Bourgeault, Jane Sandall, Raymond de Vries and Edwin R. van Teijlingen.</p>
<p>4. Managerialism in the Australian public health sector: towards the hyper–rationalisation of professional bureaucracies: John Germov.</p>
<p>5. What s in a care pathway? Towards a cultural cartography of the new NHS: Ruth Pinder, Roland Petchey, Sara Shaw and Yvonne Carter.</p>
<p>6. Arguing about the evidence: readers, writers and inscription devices in coronary heart disease risk assessment: Catherine M. Will.</p>
<p>7. Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise: D Greatbatch, G Hanlon, J Goode, A O Caithain, T Strangleman and D Luff.</p>
<p>8. Finding dignity in dirty work: the constraints and rewards of low–wage home care labour: Clare L Stacey.</p>
<p>9. Access, boundaries and their effects: legitimate participation in anaesthesia: Dawn Goodwin, Catherine Pope, Magge Mort and Andrew Smith.</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors.</p>
<p>Index.</p>