“Objectivity” as a bureaucratic virtue: Cultivating unemotionality in an Israeli medical committee

Across bureaucratic contexts, “objectivity” is a dominant conception of appropriate conduct. But what does it mean for bureaucrats to work “objectively”? For staffers of the Israeli government's Committee for Health Care Services, objectivity is understood as a key bureaucratic virtue, one that...

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Published in:American ethnologist 2021-02, Vol.48 (1), p.105-119
Main Author: ASSOR, YAEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Bureaucracy
Clinical decision making
Committees
Concept formation
Death attitudes
Decisions
Ethics
Health care
Health services
Local politics
Medical decision making
Medicine
Morality
Objectivity
Patients
Political attitudes
Politics
Resource allocation
Social welfare
State power
Virtue ethics
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