Nurses and doctors at work pdf

1. Nurses and Doctors at Work
Deidre Wicks

2. Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
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3. ISBN : 033520273X
Author : Deidre Wicks
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4. "The author is a sensitive observer who includes some very powerful and moving portrayals of the
everyday world of hospital nursing." - Professor Celia Davies, School of Health & Social Welfare, The
Open University. "I would recommend this book to undergraduate students on nursing programmes,
medical sociology, and the sociology of work." - Professor Anne Williams, Department of Nursing,
Midwifery and Health Care, University of Wales, Swansea. In "Nurses and Doctors at Work", Deidre
Wicks looks at nurses' work, and how they relate with doctors throughout their work. She views the
world of nursing through the eyes of nurses themselves. Drawing on extended observation and one-
to-one interviews, she explores many aspects of nursing work which are normally hidden and rarely
discussed in nursing texts. Her exploration includes incidents which reveal both co-operation and
contestation with doctors and their medical goals and priorities. Wicks constructs a complex and
nuanced picture of nurse-doctor relations which moves well beyond the usual Marxist-style analyses.
She uncovers the tension between structure and agency in nursing work, and explores the ways in
which nurses demonstrate their capacity as knowledgeable actors within the constraints of gendered,
institutional structures. She also shows how nurses' discourses of healing dating from pre-Nightingale
days have survived into the present, even when they are in opposition to conventional medical
practice. Wicks argues that nurses are constantly involved in both undermining and constructing the
sexual division of labour with doctors. "Nurses and Doctors at Work" is a major contribution to the
literature on the sociology of nursing and the sexual division of labour.
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