Patients, Practice, Practicality, and Politics

The Practicality of Practice Theory

We engage in a conversation about the relevance of practice theory for management. We argue that management educators can use practice theory to help current and future managers develop intuitions that are useful for managing dynamic and complex situations, and we provide management educators with three orientations designed to help make practice theory practical. First, we introduce a way of t...

Practice, politics, and possibilities.

Is general practice in trouble? The discipline of general practice has developed at a truly remarkable pace in the 56 years since the Foundation of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Humour me while I pretend that there is a single aggregated measure of the success of a discipline. And humour me even further while I plot this measure against time, starting in the early part of t...

ScienceHumanities: Theory, Politics, Practice

History, politics, and practice in knowledge construction

perceptions of Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory – from scarce knowledge of it, to seeing it as one among many accounts of social factors in child development, and eventually, to a wide acknowledgment that this theory provides a unique perspective on human development and implicates profound changes in many fields of psychology and education. As this approach is rapidly gaining in popularit...

Tracing contacts of TB patients in Malaysia: costs and practicality

Tuberculin skin testing (TST) and chest X-ray are the conventional methods used for tracing suspected tuberculosis (TB) patients. The purpose of the study was to calculate the cost incurred by Penang General Hospital on performing one contact tracing procedure using an activity based costing approach. Contact tracing records (including the demographic profile of contacts and outcome of the cont...