More than medicine : nurse practitioners and the problems they solve for patients, health care organizations, and the state

Summary: "Shows how a group of nurse practitioners expand the medical encounter to include a mix of health, social, and coordination problems--illustrating the ways in which these providers are not just filling-in for absent physicians, but are filling in for the absence of the state in attending to the problems of poverty and unequal access to health care"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781501748158
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 191 pages)
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Publisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	A word about methods -- Nursing's expertise -- From medical work to clinic work -- Organizational care work -- New boundaries, new relationships -- Gaining status, losing ground -- The contraction of social work -- The misrecognition of social problems.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2020).