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| Negotiating the role of expert carers on an adult hospital ward | | Author(s) | Davina Allen |
| Journal title | Sociology of Health & Illness, vol 22, no 2, March 2000 |
| Pages | pp 149-171 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Nurses ; Hospital services ; Communication. |
| Annotation | Contemporary systems of welfare are increasingly underpinned by the assumption that families should care for their dependent adult relatives. Yet, the literature in this area has given little attention to the ways in which family caregivers fit into the service system. Drawing on interactionist theories of the divisions of labour, this paper employs ethnographic data, taken from a recent study, to explore the ways in which formal and informal carers negotiate 'care' on an adult medical ward. It is argued that established family carers constitute a special case in understanding the negotiation of care in the hospital context because of the challenge they pose to fundamental features of the social organisation of the work: nurses' control over caring processes, their claim to expertise and their licence to define standards of care. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000411235 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: QTE: LD: U |
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