Managing Complexity in Healthcare (Routledge Focus on Business and Management) - Hardcover

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Kuhn, Lesley; Le Plastrier, Kieran

 
9781032054124: Managing Complexity in Healthcare (Routledge Focus on Business and Management)
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ISBN 10: 1032054123 ISBN 13: 9781032054124
Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

Managing Complexity in Healthcare introduces the ComEntEth (Complex Entropic Ethical) model as an integrated bio-medical and philosophical approach to understanding how people get things done in healthcare. Drawing on the complexity sciences, studies of entropy in living organisms and the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, healthcare is theorised as energetic relational exchanges between people as entropic and ethical entities that unfold around a central attractor: Reduction in elevated entropy or suffering in patients.

Living entities are engaged in a continuous struggle against the tendency to produce entropy. From the cellular to the collective of human endeavours, the tendency of complex systems is to disorder and decay. Yet in the micro-activity of healthcare enterprise, people resist this tendency by expending energy to create order and sustain life. Making sense of how this miraculous work is made possible is the foundation of this book.

Through practical examples – from analysis of practitioner burnout, rural and remote healthcare, the functioning of emergency departments, to government, social and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic – this new integral philosophy provides practitioners, managers, policy designers, and scholars an effective way to understand the dynamics of daily processes and practices that link the micro of everyday interactions with the macro-trends of healthcare.

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About the Author

Dr. Lesley Kuhn is a retired academic, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Dr. Kieran Le Plastrier is a family physician and Director of Medical Services at Blackall Hospital, Australia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032054123
ISBN 13 
9781032054124
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
124

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