International Journal of Nursing Studies
Volume 41, Issue 3 , Pages 293-298 , March 2004

Increased unintended patient harm in nursing practise as a consequence of the dominance of economic discourses

  • K. Heggen

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1153, Blinden, 0316 Oslo, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +47-22-858412; fax: +47-22-858411
    • ,
  • S. Wellard

      Affiliations

    • University of Ballarat, P.O. Box 663, Ballarat, Victoria 3353, Australia

Received 26 July 2003 ,Revised 1 October 2003 ,Accepted 15 October 2003.

References 

  1. Alford CF. What Evil Means to Us?. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 1997;
  2. Alpin G. Environmental rationalism and beyond (toward a more just sharing of power and influence). Australian Geographer. 2000;31(3):273–287
  3. Andersen R, Smedley B, Vågerö D. Cost containment, solidarity & cautious experimentation (Swedish dilemmas). Social Science and Medicine. 2001;52:1195–1204
  4. Angus J, Nay R. The paradox of the aged care act 1997 (the marginalisation of nursing discourse). Nursing Inquiry. 2003;10(2):130–138
  5. Arendt H. Eichmann in Jerusalem. New York: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Viking Press; 1964;
  6. Armour L. The logic of economic discourse (beyond Adam Smith and Karl Marx). International Journal of Social Economics. 1997;24(10):1056–1079
  7. Bauman Z. Modernity and the Holocaust. Cambridge: Polity Press; 1989;
  8. Cabiedes L, Guillén A. Adopting and adapting managed competition (health care reform in Southern Europe). Social Science and Medicine. 2001;52:1205–1217
  9. Cartier C. From home to hospital and back again (economic restructuring, end of life and the gendered problems of place switching health services). Social Science and Medicine. 2003;56(11):2289–2302
  10. Drewery W. Unemployment (what kind of problem is it?). Journal of Community and Applied Psychology. 1998;8:101–118
  11. Foucault M. The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books; 1972;
  12. Foucault M. Discipline and Punish (The Birth of the Prison). New York: Pantheon Books; 1975;
  13. Foucault M. The Birth of the Clinic (An Archaeology of Medical Perception). New York: Vintage Books; 1975;
  14. Goffman E. Asylums (Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates). Doubledays, New York: Anchor Books; 1961;
  15. Habermas J. Communication and the Evolution of Society. London: Heinemann; 1979;
  16. Heggen, K., 2002. Krenkende pleie og behandling.I: Saetersdal, B. og K. Heggen: I den beste hensikt?—“Ondskap” I behandlingssamfunnet. Akribe, Oslo.
  17. Hunter DJ. The changing roles of health care personnel in health and health care management. Social Science and Medicine. 1996;43(5):799–808
  18. Joyce P. Governmentality and risk (setting priorities in the new NHS). Sociology of health and illness. 2001;23(5):594–614
  19. Lawler J. Behind the Screens (Nursing, Somology, and the Problem of the Body). Melbourne: Churchill Livingstone; 1991;
  20. Lawler, J., 1997. Knowing the body and empowerment. Methodologies, discourses and nursing. In: Lawler, J. (Ed.) The Body in Nursing. Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne.
  21. Light DW. Comparative institutional response to economic policy managed competition and governmentality. Social Science and Medicine,. 2001;52:1151–1166
  22. Milgram S. Obedience to Authority. (An Experimental View). New York: Harper & Row; 1974;
  23. Møller, M., 2000. I fars vold. Kommuneforlaget, Oslo.
  24. Noddings N. A Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1986;
  25. Noddings N. Women and Evil. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1989;
  26. Olsvold, N., 1996. Etikk “light”—om etikk i medisinens tjeneste. Sosiologi i dag, nr. 3, 1996s. 3-27.
  27. Peet R. Ideology, discourse, and the geography of hegemony (from socialist to neoliberal development in postaparthied South Africa). Antipode. 2002;34(1):54–84
  28. Reinhart UE. Making economic evaluations respectable. Social Science and Medicine. 1997;45(4):555–562
  29. Sheil C. Water's Fall (Running the Risks with Economic Rationalism). Annadale, NSW: Pluto Press; 2000;
  30. Szacz TS. The Myth of Mental Illness. St. Albans: Paladin; 1972;
  31. Tranoy, K.E., 1998. Det apne sinn. Moral og etikk mot et nytt artusen. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo.
  32. Vetlesen, A.J., 2001. Det er ofrene som skammer seg. Et essay om ondskap og skam. I: Wyller, T. (red.): Skam. Perspektiver pa skam, are og skamloshet I det moderne. Fagbokforlaget, Bergen.
  33. Waerness, K., 1999. Kan travelhet skape grusomhet i den offentlige omsorgstjenesten? I: Thorsen, K. og K. Waerness (red.): Blir omsorgen borte? Eldreomsorgens hverdag I den senmoderne velferdsstaten. adNotam Gyldendal, Oslo.
  34. Weber M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Harper Collins; 1991;
  35. Wellard SJ. Mapping the management of pressure sores in SCI (an Australian case study). SCI Nursing. 2001;18(1):11–18
  36. Wellard, S., Rushton, C., 2000. Pressure ulcer management and spinal cord injury: consumer perspectives. Report to the Nurses Board of Victoria.
  37. Wellard SJ, Rushton C. Influences of spatial practices on pressure ulcer management in the context of spinal cord injury. International Journal of Nursing Practice,. 2002;8:221–227

PII: S0020-7489(03)00165-2

doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2003.10.002

International Journal of Nursing Studies
Volume 41, Issue 3 , Pages 293-298 , March 2004

Article Tools