Understanding the interplay of time, gender and professionalism in hospital medicine in the UK

Regulation of time, management of gender equality and discourses of professionalism are often studied in isolation from one another in the context of hospital medicine. Drawing on qualitative analysis of 20 interviews with senior National Health Service (NHS) hospital doctors in Wales, UK, we demons...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2011-05, Vol.72 (10), p.1588-1594
Main Authors: Ozbilgin, Mustafa F., Tsouroufli, Maria, Smith, Merryn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Discourse analysis
Doctors
Female
Gender
Gender equity
Gender relations
Gender Time Professionalism Hospital medicine UK Physicians
Health Care Services
Health participants
Hospital medicine
Hospital staff
Hospitals
Human resource management
Human resources
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Male
Management
Medical sciences
Medical Staff, Hospital
Medicine
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Modernization
Physicians
Professional Practice - standards
Professionalism
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Regulation
Sex
Sexual Inequality
State Medicine
Time
United Kingdom
Wales
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Summary:Regulation of time, management of gender equality and discourses of professionalism are often studied in isolation from one another in the context of hospital medicine. Drawing on qualitative analysis of 20 interviews with senior National Health Service (NHS) hospital doctors in Wales, UK, we demonstrate the complex interplay between professionalism and regulation of time and gender in hospital medicine. We examine the connectivity of gender and time in norms about professional behaviour in hospital medicine and demonstrate how a certain discourse of professionalism is used in turn to retain and reproduce a temporally regulated gender order at work. Based on our findings, and congruent with the spirit of modernisation of management of human resources in healthcare, we offer new directions for gender equality, regulation of time and development of professionalism in hospital medicine.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.030