Article ID: CBB580768540

Cultures of caring: Healthcare ‘scandals’, inquiries, and the remaking of accountabilities (February 2018)

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In the UK, a series of high-profile healthcare ‘scandals’ and subsequent inquiries repeatedly point to the pivotal role culture plays in producing and sustaining healthcare failures. Inquiries are a sociotechnology of accountability that signal a shift in how personal accountabilities of healthcare professionals are being configured. In focusing on problematic organizational cultures, these inquiries acknowledge, make visible, and seek to distribute a collective responsibility for healthcare failures. In this article, I examine how the output of one particular inquiry – The Report of the Morecambe Bay Investigation – seeks to make culture visible and accountable. I question what it means to make culture accountable and show how the inquiry report enacts new and old forms of accountability: conventional forms that position actors as individuals, where actions or decisions have distinct boundaries that can be isolated from the ongoing flow of care, and transformative forms that bring into play a remote geographical location, the role of professional ideology, as well as a collective cultural responsibility.

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Authors & Contributors
Pickersgill, Martyn
Stephen Secules
Spackman, Christy C. W.
Gondwe, Mzamose
Kim, Myungsim
Charles Mather
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Regulation
Medicine
Culture
Ethics
Expertise
Time Periods
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
South Korea
Latin America
Japan
European Union
Institutions
UK Stem Cell Bank
United States. Food and Drug Administration
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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