Open AccessWork in the healthcare field: artisanal or industrial models?
Author(s) -
Hugo Spinelli
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
investigación y educación en enfermería/investigación y educación en enfermería
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.209
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2216-0280
pISSN - 0120-5307
DOI - 10.17533/udea.iee.v33n2a02
Subject(s) - health care , field (mathematics) , work (physics) , business , engineering , economics , mathematics , economic growth , mechanical engineering , pure mathematics
This text analyzes work within the health field and the differences and similarities with artisanal and industrial work models. In this framework, we consider the object of work, the worker, the work process, relational and organizational aspects, industrial logics, and ways of acquiring knowledge, influence of the general management theory, the role of language, symbolic aspects and enjoyment. The humanizing elements that care work maintains as a type of artisanal work are highlighted, and the costs, not just economic, of reducing care work to industrial logics, with a subsequent depersonalization of the process not just for the worker but also for the user, health teams, health institutions, and social groups are discussed.