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‘Practices, Identities and Bodies at Work: A Critical Exploration of Contemporary Health Care’
The BSA Medical Sociology Wales Group is hosting a free afternoon seminar which will take place on Tuesday 19th May in Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences (Room -1.64, Glamorgan Building). The event will run from 14.00 – 17.00 and we are very pleased to announce that we will be joined by the following speakers:
Dr Carol Wolkowitz
Corporeal Capitalism: The Body Work Economy of South Florida
This presentation seeks to document the body work landscape of contemporary capitalism through exploring the ubiquity, appearance and scale of body work enterprises and employment in two localities of south Florida. It focuses on health, social care and other services for the ageing population of retirees in south Florida, as well as on tattooing and other body work services for younger, fashionable residents and visitors. The paper draws on both interviews and still photographs of body work enterprises, using the latter to pinpoint issues that require further analytical exploration, in this case the place of body work as a component of economic development and patterns of employment.
Dr Fiona Moffatt
Productivity and Professional Identities in Health Care: Exploring Governance and the Governed
Improving healthcare productivity is identified by the state as essential to securing the long term future of the NHS. However, healthcare productivity remains a contentious issue, with some criticizing the level of professional engagement. Using analytical lenses from the sociology of the professions, identity formation and the Foucauldian concept of governmentality, this paper will explore how contemporary UK policy discourse constructs the rights and responsibilities of healthcare professionals in terms of productive healthcare, how this is made manifest in practice, and the implications for professional autonomy/identity.
Professor Davina Allen
‘Organising Work’: Nursing’s Black Hole
Nursing’s claim to expertise is predicated on a holistic model of patient care informed by a bio-psycho-social approach, with nursing theories and models underlining the importance of therapeutic relationships as the foundation for practice. Yet research demonstrates that nurses not only experience significant material constraints in realising these ideals their contribution to healthcare extends far beyond direct work with patients. Even a cursory glimpse inside healthcare organisations reveals that, for all their appearance of laminated rationality, it is nurses who, in numerous ways, support and sustain the delivery and organisation of health services and the demands and complexity of this work are increasing. In recent history, however, this ‘organising work’ has generally been regarded as at best an adjunct to the core nursing function, and at worse, responsible for taking nurses away from their ‘real work’ with patients. In the context of growing societal unease about fundamental care standards (Institute of Medicine 1999; The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry 2010) arguments about the negative effects of nurses’ non-clinical functions on their work with patients undoubtedly have credence. Yet although some have estimated that ‘organising work’ accounts for more than 70% of the work that nurses do (Furaker, 2009), it has never been studied as a practice in its own right. In the context of debates about the future of nursing and how to ensure the quality and safety of healthcare systems, there is a case to be made for better understanding this element of the nursing role and the circumstances that make it necessary. In this presentation I will draw on a recently completed study of the everyday practices of nurses to shine a light on this invisible aspect of the nursing function and consider the contribution of ‘organising work’ to the quality and safety of healthcare.
For further details or to express an interest in attending, please contact Eleanor ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Julie ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
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