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"Stunning analysis of the Emergency Medical System (EMS), its frontline workers, and patients . . . . A great source for highlighting how well-intentioned labor processes within seemingly benevolent occupations can further marginalize people and reproduce social inequalities."

* British Medical Journal, Medical Humanities *
"An exemplar of a kind of ethnographic work that reinvigorates the sociological imagination, connecting the deeply felt personal troubles of patients and the daily joys and frustrations of ambulance crews with the stratification of suffering in urban America." * Symbolic Interaction *

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I BANDAGING BODIES: INSIDE THE AMBULANCE
1. People Work
2. Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers
3. Feeling the Ambulance

PART II SORTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE BETWEEN HOSPITALS AND SQUAD CARS
4. The Fix-Up Workers
5. The Cleanup Workers
6. Burden Shuffling

PART III HUSTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE UNDERNEATH BUREAUCRACY AND CAPITAL
7. The Barn
8. Supervision
9. Payback
Conclusion

Appendix: Notes on Data and Methods
Notes
Reference List
Index

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 4 February 2020
      ISBN-13 9780520300217
      978-0520300217
      ISBN-10 0520300211
      Also in:
      Social and cultural anthropology Social welfare, social policy and social services Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      "Stunning analysis of the Emergency Medical System (EMS), its frontline workers, and patients . . . . A great source for highlighting how well-intentioned labor processes within seemingly benevolent occupations can further marginalize people and reproduce social inequalities."

      * British Medical Journal, Medical Humanities *
      "An exemplar of a kind of ethnographic work that reinvigorates the sociological imagination, connecting the deeply felt personal troubles of patients and the daily joys and frustrations of ambulance crews with the stratification of suffering in urban America." * Symbolic Interaction *

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Preface
      Author’s Note
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      PART I BANDAGING BODIES: INSIDE THE AMBULANCE
      1. People Work
      2. Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers
      3. Feeling the Ambulance

      PART II SORTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE BETWEEN HOSPITALS AND SQUAD CARS
      4. The Fix-Up Workers
      5. The Cleanup Workers
      6. Burden Shuffling

      PART III HUSTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE UNDERNEATH BUREAUCRACY AND CAPITAL
      7. The Barn
      8. Supervision
      9. Payback
      Conclusion

      Appendix: Notes on Data and Methods
      Notes
      Reference List
      Index

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