Today we face the painful reality of the prevalence of chronic,
rather than acute, diseases. The technologies developed to manager
long-term, incurable illnesses have radically and irrevocably
altered the organizational structure of health care, presenting us
with a frequently bewildering array of medical specialties. Social
Organization of Medical Work offers essential insight into this new
era of health care.Through richly documented, often gripping case
studies, Anselm Strauss and his co-authors show us exactly how
health workers are confronting the problems created by chronic
disease and coping with today's highly technologized hospitals.
They guide us through the various hospital work sites, describing
in detail the kinds of tasks performed by medical personnel, the
interactions of staff members with each other and with patients,
and the overall resulting patient treatment and response.Focusing
on the concept of illness trajectory, the authors vividly
illustrate the complex, contingent nature of modern medical work.
For example, open heart surgery keeps ill persons alive and may
even improve them symptomatically, but those who do survive must
face an uncertain future in terms of the physiological consequences
of the surgery and the drugs required. They also have to adjust t
altered lifestyles. In the new introduction, Anselm Strauss
discusses the continuing importance of this work to sociologists,
medical scholars, and medical professionals.
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