The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality presents a series of research-informed readings on the sociological contributions of technologies, practices, experiences, and organizational quality and safety across a range of healthcare contexts. The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality presents a series of research-informed readings on the sociological contributions of technologies, practices, experiences, and organizational quality and safety across a range of healthcare contexts. Introduction: Towards a sociology of healthcare safety and quality (Davina Allen, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Jane Sandall and Justin Waring) 1. Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and research (Justin Waring, Davina Allen, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Jane Sandall) 2. What is the role of individual accountability in patient safety? A multi-site ethnographic study (Emma-Louise Aveling, Michael Parker and Mary Dixon-Woods) 3. Enacting corporate governance of healthcare safety and quality: a dramaturgy of hospital boards in England (Tim Freeman, Ross Millar, Russell Mannion and Huw Davies) 4. The social practice of rescue: the safety implications of acute illness trajectories and patient categorisation in medical and maternity settings (Nicola Mackintosh and Jane Sandall) 5. Sensemaking and the co-production of safety: a qualitative study of primary medical care patients (Penny Rhodes, Ruth McDonald, Stephen Campbell, Gavin Daker-White and Caroline Sanders) 6. Chains of (dis)trust: exploring the underpinnings of knowledge-sharing and quality care across mental health services (Patrick R. Brown and Michael W. Calnan) 7. Spatio-temporal elements of articulation work in the achievement of repeat prescribing safety in UK general practice (Suzanne Grant, Jessica Mesman and Bruce Guthrie) 8. Infections and interaction rituals in the organisation: clinician accounts of speaking up or remaining silent in the face of threats to patient safety (Julia E. Szymczak) Index