Interprofessional Care
Interprofessional care is a deep level of collaboration between healthcare
or social care providers to address comprehensively the needs of their
users. It involves not just working together and maintaining boundaries,
but a number of practices such as sharing and even exchanging roles.
9,10
Professional Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction is an area of work, often circumscribed formally by legal
rules, which a profession claims as its own. Formal deınitions can be
accompanied by symbols that highlight the profession’s dominion.
e boundaries between jurisdictions are constantly rethought, rede-
ıned and contested, especially through interaction with neighbouring
professions.
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Technology
ough often thought of as equipment, technology comprises arrange-
ments that are larger than the machines: ways of living, relationships,
organisation, techniques, routines, ideas, values and, notably, prop-
erty.
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In this book, technology and technologisation are used mostly in
the ‘hardware’ sense.
12
Gunderson, R. (2016). e sociology of technology before the turn to technology. Technology in
Society, 47, 40–48.
xii Useful Denitions
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Coyle, J., Higgs, J., McAllister, L., & Whiteford, G. (2011). What is an interprofessional health
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NY: Nova Science Publishers.
10
Reeves, S., Lewin, S., Espin, S., & Zwarenstein, M. (2010). Interprofessional teamwork for health
and social care: Partnership working in action. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
11
Abbott, A. (1986). Jurisdictional conicts: A new approach to the development of the legal pro-
fessions. American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 11(2), 187–224.