Narrative and deliberative instauration: The use of narrative as process and artefact in the social construction of institutions

William James Fear () and Ricardo Azambuja ()
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William James Fear: Department of Organizational Psychology - Birkbeck College [University of London]
Ricardo Azambuja: MC - Management et Comportement - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management

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Abstract: Patient Safety is a global institution in the field largely assumed to have emerged following the publication of To Err Is Human by the Institute of Medicine in 1999. In this paper we demonstrate that Patient Safety has been constructed as an institution separately in the practice of anaesthesia since 1954 and in hospitalised care since 1964. The publication of To Err was, in fact, only one of a number of later field configuring events. We use Bruner's (1991) theory of narrative to frame the institution building process which we term deliberative instauration in recognition of the historic literature on the subject. We further link the process of institution building to Vygotsky's theory of social mediation and the use of artefacts in relation to the object of intended action. We conclude that a narrative can be understood as both an artefact and a process used in the social construction of institutions by professional psychological collectives (in this case physicians).

Keywords: Institution; Artefact; Narrative; Patient Safety; Healthcare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 2014, 3 (4), pp.286-295. ⟨10.1016/j.lcsi.2014.04.002⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.lcsi.2014.04.002

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