Temporal dynamics in the daily lives of health practitioners
Temporal dynamics in the daily lives of health practitioners
复制标题
健康从业者日常生活中的时间动态
作者：
Cynthia S. Wang
健康从业者的工作时间漫长且忙碌。本文探讨了健康从业者，特别是医生和护士如何安排一天的时间的细节。通过对加州一家主要城市教学医院的主治医生、住院医师和护理人员的深入采访，我从卫生从业者的角度探讨了卫生从业者生活中的日常动态，并考虑了明显的权力结构，我通过时间和时间性的镜头来做到这一点。我的研究发现，虽然个人也许能够控制等级比自己低的其他人的时间，但殖民个人时间的制度义务和仪式化的文化习俗，甚至使某些时间节奏和期望正常化，往往胜过这些个人动力。虽然这项研究的具体地点集中在医疗保健领域，但社会和组织权力如何通过时间谈判体现的更广泛的主题与许多其他调查地点相关，特别是在将时间视为商品的单一时间社会中。
The working days of health practitioners are long and often hectic. This paper examines the minutiae of how health practitioners, particularly physicians and nurses, organize their time throughout the day. Through in-depth interviews of attending physicians, medical residents, and nursing staff at a major urban teaching hospital in California, I explore the daily dynamics of temporality within the lives of health practitioners, from the point of view of health practitioners, and consider the structures of power that are evident, and I do this through the lens of time and temporality. My studies have found that, whereas individuals may be able to control the time of other individuals who are lower on the hierarchy than themselves, institutional obligations and ritualized cultural practices that colonize individual time, and indeed, normalize certain temporal rhythms and expectations often trump these individual dynamics. While the specific site of this study was focused on the health care field, the broader themes of how social and organizational power manifests through the negotiation of time are relevant to many other sites of inquiry, particularly within monochronic societies which perceive time as a commodity.