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Author Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-

Title Nursing against the odds : how health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care / Suzanne Gordon.

Publication Info. Ithaca, NY : ILR ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 489 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The culture and politics of health care work
An ILR Press book
Culture and politics of health care work.
ILR press book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""Nursing Against the Odds ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: Nurses and Doctors at Work""; ""1. Manufacturing the Dominant Doctor""; ""2. Designing the Doctor-Nurse Game""; ""3. The Disruptive Medical System""; ""4. Fatal Synergy""; ""5. Making Matters Worse""; ""Part Two: The Media and Nursing""; ""6. Dropped from the Picture""; ""7. Missing from the News""; ""8. Unavailable for Comment""; ""Part Three: Hospitals and Nursing""; ""9. Mangling Care""; ""10. The New Nursing Universe""; ""11. Nurses on the Ropes""; ""12. No Nurse Left Behind""
""13. Management by Churn""""14. Failure to Rescue""; ""Conclusion: Changing the Odds""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
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Subject Nursing -- Social aspects -- United States.
Nursing -- Social aspects.
United States.
Nursing -- United States -- Public opinion.
Nursing.
Public opinion.
Nurses -- United States -- Public opinion.
Nurses.
Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Nurses in mass media.
Nurses in mass media.
Nurse and physician.
Nurse and physician.
Public opinion -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gordon, Suzanne Nursing Against the Odds : How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2005 9780801472923
ISBN 9780801465048 (electronic book)
0801465044 (electronic book)
080147292X
9780801472923