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Bandage, Sort, and Hustle
Josh Seim
其他書名
Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2020-02-04
主題
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Human Services
ISBN
0520300238
9780520300231
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pXC1DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 as a novice emergency medical technician, sociologist Josh Seim reimagines paramedicine as a frontline institution for governing urban suffering.
Bandage, Sort, and Hustle
argues that the ambulance is part of a fragmented regime that is focused more on neutralizing hardships (which are disproportionately carried by poor people and people of color) than on eradicating the root causes of agony. Whether by compressing lifeless chests on the streets or by transporting the publicly intoxicated into the hospital, ambulance crews tend to handle suffering bodies near the bottom of the polarized metropolis.
Seim illustrates how this work puts crews in recurrent, and sometimes tense, contact with the emergency department nurses and police officers who share their clientele. These street-level relations, however, cannot be understood without considering the bureaucratic and capitalistic forces that control and coordinate ambulance labor from above. Beyond the ambulance, this book motivates a labor-centric model for understanding the frontline governance of down-and-out populations.