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Katarina Jacobsson

Katarina Jacobsson

Head of Department | Professor | PhD | Reader in Sociology

Katarina Jacobsson

En förtjänt patient? Moraliska bedömningar i sjukvården

Author

  • Katarina Jacobsson

Summary, in English

Doctors are expected to serve the patient in an unbiased and medically accurate

manner. Yet, this does not prevent doctors and other medical staff from

having pronounced views on whether the patient deserves care. Based on

field notes from a cardiology clinic, this contradiction is discussed and analyzed.

In directing the spotlight on what circumstances are pointed out by the

staff when discussing patients, the analysis shows how patients are presented

as more or less deserving of care. Furthermore, it is argued that observational

studies of everyday situations should complement vignette studies. A situational

perspective shows that moral judgments are constructed in interaction with

others and that individual characteristics can not easily be linked with certain

types of judgments and decisions.

Department/s

  • School of Social Work

Publishing year

2013

Language

Swedish

Pages

179-188

Publication/Series

Socialmedicinsk tidskrift

Volume

90

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Stiftelsen Socialmedicinsk tidskrift

Topic

  • Social Work

Keywords

  • moralisk
  • sjukvård
  • bedömning
  • patient
  • förtjäna
  • läkare
  • sjuksköterskor

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0037-833X