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Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness - Observing Healthcare (Paperback)
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Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness - Observing Healthcare (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
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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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