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Modern healthcare operates within a complex landscape of multiple observations and rationalities. Rather than following a single hierarchy, healthcare involves a wide range of perspectives including medicine, science, law, education, religion, and politics. This volume provides an in-depth look at how these different arrangements function together within the healthcare arena. By applying systems theory, specifically Luhmann's theory of social systems as communicative systems, this book explores the concept of polycontexturality. It examines how various social systems interact and create different types of arrangements in modern organizations. This text is an essential resource for those studying the sociology of health and illness, offering a fresh way to understand the diverse systems that shape how healthcare is observed and managed in contemporary society.

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Explores the concept of polycontexturality within the healthcare arena to understand complex organizational structures.

Applies Luhmann's theory of social systems as communicative systems to analyze modern healthcare arrangements.

Examines the intersection of multiple perspectives including medicine, science, law, religion, and politics.

Provides a deep look into how modern societies and organizations function through various rationalities.

Part of the Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness series for academic study.

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28 October 2014
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