Following Dutch healthcare professionals’ experiences during COVID-19: Tensions in everyday practices and policies amid shifting uncertainties

While the limits of rational-calculative approaches for healthcare decision-making, alongside institutional forms of ritual, routines and hope employed to deal with these limits, were already described in the 1950s, healthcare professionals’ syncretism of rational and non-rational approaches in their everyday work remains a neglected topic in Northern Europe. Using COVID-19 as an urgent problem for healthcare policy and practice, and a natural ‘breaching experiment’ which disrupts everyday work in ways which help professionals to critically reflect, this article explores how a small, purposive... Mehr ...