Rick Iedema

Marie Manidis

Donella Piper

Written by prominent and internationally renowned scholars, Communicating Quality and Safety in Healthcare engages healthcare trainees from across medicine, nursing and allied health services in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that confront today's healthcare teams.

Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care

Mary Wyer

Jessica Mesman

Katherine Carroll

Aileen Collier

Su-Yin Hor

This innovative, practical guide introduces researchers to the use of the video reflexive ethnography in health and health services research. This methodology has enjoyed increasing popularity among researchers internationally and has been inspired by developments across a range of disciplines: ethnography, visual and applied anthropology, medical sociology, health services research, medical and nursing education, adult education, community development, and qualitative research ethics.

Theory and Application

Video-Reflexive Ethnography in Health Research and Healthcare Improvement

“In this book, Rick Iedema shows with profound analytical precision the existential strength of 'being moved' and being affected. Departing from a life being shattered, the books exposes with the help of Spinoza, Sloterdijk, and others, the many dimensions of 'becoming'. Written during the COVID-19 crisis and extreme bushfires a short distance away, the book is a plea for new 'structures of feeling' and for a new way of doing social science research. The book's argument is that today's complexity and pace of change are too intense to be adequately represented purely by distanced and objectifying analysis. His discussion at the end of the book about potentiation and anthropotechnics shows us the way towards personal and intellectual courage: one that allows uncertainty and nurtures emergent kinds of sense, knowledge and intelligence.” - Jessica Mesman, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands This book's main message is to advocate for a collaborative, affective, visualised and future-oriented research agenda. The book finds its inspiration in “the chasm [that separates] philosophising about being shattered and thinking that is shattered” (Heidegger 1946, Letter on Humanism). To explore this chasm, the book journeys through a range of psychological and posthuman perspectives on affect and becoming. The aim of this journey is to reconcile shattered thinking-feeling with Spinoza's ethics according to which 'our capacity to be affected determines our capacity to act'. The book elaborates this capacity to become in terms of our uniquely human propensity to experiment with counter-intuitive inversions: in this case, to call to account that which is affected, rather than that which affects. The book will appeal to students and academics working in the fields of alternative research methods, the social sciences, and organisation studies. Rick Iedema is Professor and Director of the Centre for Team-based Practice and Learning in Health Care at King's College London, UK. His main research interests include interprofessional collaboration and communication and service users' involvement in practice development. He has pioneered innovative organisational and healthcare communication research methodologies, including video-reflexive ethnography.

On Becoming Undone and Potentiation

Affected

Helen De Silva Joyce

Peter White

Susan Feez

"The original Write it Right monograph outlined the processes of producing the news in great detail. However in subsequent years news production processes have changed dramatically and much of this information has been omitted in this publication."--P. 2.

Media Literacy

Rick Iedema

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