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    Dietro le quinte

    Lavoro invisibile e collaborazione professionale nelle pratiche di cura

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    Author(s)
    Lusardi, Roberto
    Language
    Italian
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    Abstract
    Medicine is a powerful symbol in human history and societies and it is difficult to distinguish its worldly properties, concerning daily functioning, actual capacities and contradictions, from the public image of expert knowledge to which we collectively delegate responsibility for our individual and collective well-being. The book stems from the desire and need to explore what is ""behind the scenes"" of medicine, in that gray area that is daily care practices. What the patient, or the external observer, often sees is the limelight of medicine: the moment in which the therapeutic or diagnostic act takes place, when the clinical intervention becomes defined and tangible. To arrive at that final moment, a vast network of preparation, coordination and maintenance activities took place away from the eyes of the ""public"", a hidden web of processes and practices that make effective care possible. The aim of the volume is to bring to light these processes (often neglected by the scientific literature and the collective representations), through an investigation that refers to the theoretical reflections of some classics of the sociological tradition, such as Erving Goffman and Anselm Strauss, integrating them with more recent developments in the field of organizational and social studies on science and technology. The volume presents and discusses two ethnographic studies carried out in opposite social and health contexts: the hospital Intensive care unit and the Health district grappling with the implementation of social and health integration services. The first case represents the technical nucleus of the medical-health apparatus, in which, through an intricate ensemble of technologies, drugs, clinical devices and organizational and professional choices, medicine shows the greatest effectiveness in domesticating the biological body and human variability. On the contrary, social and health integration services try to contain the uncertainty and instability that accompanies treatment trajectories outside hospital settings. The choice of cases stems from the intention to show how, despite the significant differences in context, the background remains as the space in which medicine is built on a daily basis.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94567
    Keywords
    Invisible work; Medical practice; Back-scene in healthcare; Ethnography; Science and technology studies
    ISBN
    9788835168652
    Publisher
    FrancoAngeli
    Publisher website
    https://www.francoangeli.it/Home.aspx
    Publication date and place
    Milan, 2024
    Series
    Benessere Tecnologia Società,
    Classification
    Sociology
    Medical sociology
    Medicine: general issues
    Pages
    153
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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