Rationing

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Constructed Realities and Professional Practices

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Sociology of Health & Illness Monographs

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This volume examines health care rationing in action using recent case studies from the United Kingdom, Europe and North America. Drawing on data from a variety of hospital and community settings, the contributors show how prioritisation and access to care depend on organisational arrangements and professional practices, which are often invisible to the service user.Unusually for a book on this topic, many of the chapters provide detailed accounts of micro-level decision making at the point of service delivery. They seek to penetrate the 'black box' of the organisation - the emergency department, the intensive care unit, the cancer genetics clinic or the community mental health team - to shed light on processes by which access to care is denied, delayed, or otherwise limited. The book presents a picture of rationing processes that are 'implicit' rather than 'explicit', and closely woven into the fabric of professional cultures and modes of working.

Author Biography:

David Hughes is a Professor in the School of Health Science at the University of Wales Swansea and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Health Studies. His current research interests include the reformed NHS, health care rationing and the changing division of health labour. He has written on a range of topics in the fields of medical sociology, socio-legal studies and health policy. Donald W. Light is the Professor of comparative health care systems at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Trained as a sociologist at the University of Chicago and Brandeis, he is a Faculty Associate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. Professor Light has written about distributive justice in the BMJ and is co-author of Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform (1996).

Release date Australia

February 14th, 2002

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributors

Edited by David Hughes
Edited by Donald Light

Pages

216

Series

Sociology of Health & Illness Monographs

Dimensions

152x227x12

ISBN-13

9780631228578

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3081171

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