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A Hospice in Change

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A Hospice in Change: Applied Social Realist Theory reports upon a study into aspects of the ways in which structural and organisational developments, professional cultures and ‘bedside’ or patient focused clinical practice interact within a single UK institution. While the findings of this study are time and context specific, the events and social processes being described may nonetheless resonate closely with the experience of healthcare practitioners at other hospices both within and without the UK. The work examines themes and ideas that hospice and palliative care practitioners, as well as those involved or interested more broadly in ‘end of life issues’, may find relevant. It is argued that differential morphogenesis can be identified between structures (social and cultural) and agents (individual and group) at an independent healthcare charity in southern England. A Hospice in Change connects theory and philosophy with concrete research practice to provide a worked example of Margaret Archer’s realist social theory.

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ISBN: 9781138233287
Publication date: 11th October 2016
Author: Martin (University of Worcester, UK) Lipscomb
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 198 pages
Series: Critical Realism: Interventions Routledge Critical Realism
Genres: Health & Fitness
Society and culture: general
Personal and public health / health education
Social theory