Trusting on the edge

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Brown is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on trust, the governance of risk, and connections between these two processes. Michael Calnan is Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Kent. He has worked in health policy and health services research and training for over 20 years, with his current research interests including diffusion and innovation in health care and technology, trust and health care, dignity and the provision of health and social care for older people. Klappentext This book explores issues central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust, linking abstract concerns to empirical analysis with interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers. Zusammenfassung This book explores issues central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust! linking abstract concerns to empirical analysis with interviews with service-users! practitioners and managers.

Klappentext

This book explores issues central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust, linking abstract concerns to empirical analysis with interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers.

Inhalt

Introduction: Managing uncertainty and vulnerability; Investigating trust: some theoretical and methodological underpinnings; Constructing knowledge through social interactions; Bridging uncertainty by constructing trust; Vulnerability and the 'will to trust'; The difficulties of trust-work within a paradigm of risk; Conclusion: Trust as an organising principle for policy making - overcoming the gulf between risk and need in mental health service provision.