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- Fältholm, Ylva, et al.
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Telephone advisory services : nursing between organisational and occupational professionalism
- 2008
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 23:1-2, s. 17-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we explore how telephone advisory services (TAS) and the implementation of new technology affect nurses and the nursing profession. This study shows that TAS and applied technology embodies ideas of standardisation and efficiency, and promotes an organisational professionalism such that it challenges occupational professionalism. Torn between organisational and occupational professionalism, the nurses develop strategies to deal with their contradictory demands.
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- Jonvallen, Petra, et al.
(författare)
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The development of contract research organisations in Sweden : health care, privatisation and neo-liberalism
- 2011
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Ingår i: New technology, work and employment. - 0268-1072 .- 1468-005X. ; 26:3, s. 196-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the role of Contract Research Organisations (CROs) in Swedish health care and pharmaceutical development. Before the recent rise of CROs - which are centrally placed between pharmaceutical companies, public sector health care organisations and test participants in an industry noted for its high financial turnover - recruitment of participants and management of clinical trials were undertaken by academic researchers. Things have changed. In the US, this new state of affairs has been argued to be the outcome of decreasing revenue for physicians and decreasing access to treatment for patients (Fisher 2009). This paper seeks to extend our understanding of the purpose and operation of CROs by reviewing existing literature (cf Mirowski and Van Horn 2005; Fisher 2009), comparing this with data on CROs in Sweden, and placing the study within its neo-liberal context marked as it is by notions of individualism, the politics of choice, self-responsibilisation, and risk. This will enable us explore the changes that CROs have brought to the interrelated practices and processes of risk reduction, prevention and health care in Sweden.
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