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'Although there has been much endeavor to improve patient safety and reduce harm, it is clear that there is a view in the field that more of the same is not working. This edited collection brings together researchers working at the interface of social science and patient safety. They sit upon the shoulders of a body of seminal social science research that has critically examined iatrogensis in health care, along with the unintended consequences of healthcare practice and health work. Such a body of work has usually used ethnographic methods, and included the patient view and perspective. All key themes in this book. This book is essential reading for scholars and practitioners working in the field of patient safety and I hope that the fresh perspective provided through the lens of the critical friend provided by the authors in this book will stimulate new and different approaches to improve safety and the experiences of those who use and provide health care. JaneSandall, NIHR King's Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre, King's College London, UK

'Although there has been much endeavor to improve patient safety and reduce harm, it is clear that there is a view in the field that ""more of the same"" is not working. This edited collection brings together researchers working at the interface of social science and patient safety. They sit upon the shoulders of a body of seminal social science research that has critically examined iatrogensis in health care, along with the unintended consequences of healthcare practice and health work. Such a body of work has usually used ethnographic methods, and included the patient view and perspective. All key themes in this book. This book is essential reading for scholars and practitioners working in the field of patient safety and I hope that the fresh perspective provided through the lens of the ""critical friend"" provided by the authors in this book will stimulate new and different approaches to improve safety and the experiences of those who use and provide health care. JaneSandall, NIHR King's Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre, King's College London, UK

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Dr Emma Rowley is a senior research fellow at the University of Warwick UK. Emma's work combines theoretical arguments from medical sociology, science and technology studies and organizational studies in investigating the translation and utilization of innovative medical technologies in a number of health care contexts. She is particularly interested in how patient safety is negotiated when technologies and guidelines are introduced into practice. Professor Justin Waring is Professor of Health Systems and Policy at the Nottingham University Business School. His research seeks to develop theoretical and methodological synthesis across social science disciplines to better understand clinical risk and organizational learning. This includes a study on the implementation of incident reporting, an ethnographic study of the threats to patient safety in the operating theatre, a real-time study of accident investigation, an evaluation of electronic prescribing in primary care and a mixed-methods study of learning across organizational and occupational boundaries in new clinical settings.

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