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Medical Alert

New Work Organizations in Health Care

by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong and Jacqueline Choiniere

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

158 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 × 10.00 mm

Paperback
9781551930084
Published: January 1997

£23.99

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Contents
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Private-sector approaches are being widely adopted in health care, but there is little evidence to demonstrate either that they offer a better way to organize work, or that they are applicable to the provision of quality health care. Patients and health care workers describe their experiences in Medical Alert: New Work Organizations in Health Care, and their responses challenge the assumptions of private-sector advocates, with implications reaching far beyond Canadian hospitals.

Foreword

1. Privatizing Care, Pat Armstrong

The Language of Reform; Legitimating Cut-backs
Privatization

2. The Promise and The Price: New Work Organizations in Ontario Hospitals, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Jacqueline Choiniere, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Jerry P. White

3. When Patients Don't Matter

The Revolving Door
Standardized Care
Rollbacks in Basic Care
Privatization of Health Services in Hospitals
At Home
Out of Patients' Pockets
Assembly-Line Surgery
Health Care for Elderly People
Women's Health
Children and Cancer
Conclusion

4. After Total Quality Management, What? Re-engineering Bedside Care, Jerry P. White

Glossary

Bibliography

Pat Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and professor emeritus of Social Work, Political Economy, and Sociology at Carleton University.

Jacqueline Choiniere is an associate professor with the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health at York University.