For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home
For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home
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为了儿童：医院和家庭的社会责任组织
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1998
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L. R. Staffen
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作者：
Carol A. Heimer;L. R. Staffen
这项研究调查了美国的社会责任组织，特别是危重新生儿的组织。根据医疗记录以及对父母和医务人员的采访，这本书调查了两个新生儿重症监护病房，展示了极端医疗措施的创伤和婴儿的痛苦。这些描述时而令人不安，时而英勇，因为父母和工作人员试图负责婴儿的护理，重新定义他们作为成年人和父母的角色，并应对有时可怕的意外情况。这本书没有将责任视为一个道德问题，而是关注责任是如何在社会上产生和维持的。它质疑工作人员如何鼓励父母承担责任，但又不让他们干预医疗事务，以及当父母是试图监督专家的新手时，他们如何鼓励工作人员保持警惕。作者的结论是，仅仅成为负责任的个人是不够的。相反，人们必须学会在组织世界中负责任，组织必须学会如何支持负责任的个人。
This study examines the organization of social responsibility in the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff, the book investigates two neonatal intensive care units, showing the traumas of extreme medical measures, and the sufferings of infants. The accounts are by turns disturbing and heroic, as parents and staff attempt to take charge of the infants' care, redefining their roles as adults and parents, and coping with sometimes awful contingencies. Rather than treating responsibility as an ethical issue, the book focuses on how responsibility is socially produced and sustained. It questions how staff members encourage parents to take responsibility, but keep them from interfering in medical matters, and how parents encourage staff vigilance when they are novices attempting to supervise the experts. The authors conclude that it is not sufficient simply to be responsible individuals. Instead, people must learn to be responsible in an organizational world, and organizations must learn how to support responsible individuals.