Microstructures of the Social Organization of Health-Care Delivery in the Everyday Life of a Racially Segmented Society

2017 ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Wilbur H. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 360-377
Author(s):  
Elise Paradis ◽  
Warren Mark Liew ◽  
Myles Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Interprofessional Care ◽  
The Social

Drawing on an ethnographic study of teamwork in critical care units (CCUs), this chapter applies Henri Lefebvre’s ([1974] 1991) theoretical insights to an analysis of clinicians’ and patients’ embodied spatial practices. Lefebvre’s triadic framework of conceived, lived, and perceived spaces draws attention to the role of bodies in the production and negotiation of power relations among nurses, physicians, and patients within the CCU. Three ethnographic vignettes—“The Fight,” “The Parade,” and “The Plan”—explore how embodied spatial practices underlie the complexities of health care delivery, making visible the hidden narratives of conformity and resistance that characterize interprofessional care hierarchies. The social orderings of bodies in space are consequential: seeing them is the first step in redressing them.

scholarly journals Everyday life in nursing work under the Michel de Certeau's perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 341-345
Author(s):  
Hosana Ferreira Rates ◽  
Ricardo Bezerra Cavalcante ◽  
Regina Consolação dos Santos ◽  
Marilia Alves
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social System ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Invisible

ABSTRACT Objective: to reflect on the everyday life in nursing work based on Michel de Certeau's theorization. Results: everyday life in nursing work is permeated by tactics of subjects who practice the place. Their movements escape standards, protocols and rules, re-signifying the cultural system defined beforehand. There is a practice proper to professionals who (re)invent the care based on their intentions and pressures. Patients/users also move, create their own itinerary and, similarly to professionals, use strategies to achieve specific results in the therapeutic process. Conclusion: to think on the everyday life in nursing work as an object of research requires to consider the care (re)invention in every act in health care. We need to dive into the invisible dimension of the uncontrollable tactics of subjects that re-signify the social system.

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