Nursing Power and Social Judgement: An Interpretive Ethnography of a Hospital Ward

by Martin Johnson

First published in 1997, this work makes a substantial reexamination of the social processes behind the labelling of patients in hospital care. Taking an interpretive perspective, the author analyzes the social construction of patient labels identifying strategies for and the consequences of giving and receipt of 'good' and 'bad' labels. He shows how the rich data of truly participant observation in the tradition of reflexive ethnography can powerfully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138330760
• ISBN13: 9781138330764
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 221 Pages