What is it about?
This study shows that where health care is delivered and studied influences study results. The unique setting of this ethnography captures an organization-wide effort to promote humor and leverage ritual and discusses the therapeutic benefits that arise from such institutionalization.
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Why is it important?
Most health research embraces an implicit generalizability about setting. The results of this study advance the notion that how physicians, staff and patients interact in a large cancer hospital is in no way indicative of how treatment is conducted in a smaller, private cancer care center.
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Most health research is conducted in public or academic health centers because that is where access is most easily granted. The world of health care is, however, infinitely larger and deserving of attention. This study does just that by focusing on a private, concierge care cancer radiation treatment facility.
Loyd Pettegrew
University of South Florida
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This page is a summary of: An ethnography of humor, ritual and defiance in a cancer care setting, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, October 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/joe-04-2017-0021.
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