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Bandage, Sort, and Hustle : Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering /
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critically ill and injured. This is not an incorrect description, but it is incomplete. Drawing on field observations, medical records, and his own experience...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Bandaging bodies: inside the ambulance
- Introduction
- 1. People Work
- 2. Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers
- 3. Feeling the Ambulance
- Part II. Sorting Bodies: The ambulance between hospitals and squad cars
- Introduction
- 4. The Fix-Up Workers
- 5. The Cleanup Workers
- 6. Burden Shuffling
- Part III. Hustling Bodies: the ambulance underneath bureaucracy and capital
- Introduction
- 7. The Barn
- 8. Supervision
- 9. Payback
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Notes on Data and Methods
- Notes
- Reference List
- Index