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Backstage in the theatre
Author(s) -
Tanner Judith,
Timmons Stephen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.t01-1-01564.x
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , everyday life , space (punctuation) , health professionals , nursing , psychology , health care , sociology , pedagogy , medicine , political science , computer science , surgery , law , operating system
Backstage in the theatre Observations undertaken in the operating theatre suggested that the social environment, and certain forms of staff behaviour could be explained using the space analysis developed by Erving Goffman (1969) in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life . In the study reported in this paper the theatre department was found to be a strongly ‘backstage’ area. However, it was also found that there were limits to this analysis, and these are explained within this article. Some practical suggestions as to how this analysis might be helpful in the management of health care institutions and the education of health care professionals are made.