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For the Sake of the Children - The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home (Hardcover, New)
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For the Sake of the Children - The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home (Hardcover, New)
Series: Morality and Society Series
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"For the Sake of the Children" examines the social organization of
responsibility by asking who takes responsibility for critically
ill newborns. Drawing on medical records and interviews with
parents and medical staff, the authors take us into two neonatal
intensive care units, showing us the traumas of extreme medical
measures and the sufferings of infants. The accounts are by turns
heroic and disturbing as we see people trying to take charge of
these infants' care, thinking about long-term plans, redefining
their roles as adults and parents, and coping with sometimes awful
contingencies.
Rather than treating responsibility as an ethical issue, the
authors focus on how responsibility is socially produced and
sustained. The authors ask: How do staff members encourage parents
to take responsibility, but keep them from interfering in medical
matters, and how do 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, we must learn how to be
responsible in an organizational world, and organizations must
learn how to support responsible individuals.
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