Trapped in a steel cage

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Trapped in a steel cage

Jim Vause 2015

Jim Vause

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Sociologist Max Weber introduced the concept of the steel cage to describe rationalisation

The rise of the health bureaucracy with its rules and regulations means individuals’ needs are sidelined, writes Jim Vause

Perhaps the computer algorithm did not factor in the functional capabilities of a person born in 1930, or perhaps it was designed to flush out any “pr