Modern societies and organizations are characterized by multiple
kinds of observations, systems, or rationalities, rather than
singular identities and clear hierarchies. This holds true for
healthcare where we find a range of different perspectives from
medicine to education, from science to law, from religion to
politics brought together in different types of arrangements. This
innovative volume explores how this polycontexturality plays out in
the healthcare arena.
Drawing on systems theory, and Luhmann s theory of social
systems as communicative systems in particular, the contributors
investigate how things drugs, for example and bodies are observed
and constructed in different ways under polycontextural conditions.
They explore how the different types of communication and
observation are brought into workable arrangements without becoming
identical or reconciled and discuss how health care organizations
observe their own polycontexturality.
Providing an analysis of healthcare structures that is up to
speed with the complexity of healthcare today, this book shows how
society and its organizations simultaneously manage contexts that
do not fit together. It is an important work for those with an
interest in health and illness, social theory, Niklas Luhmann,
organizations and systems theory from a range of backgrounds
including sociology, health studies, political science and
management."
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