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Author Seim, Joshua David, author.

Title Bandage, sort, and hustle : ambulance crews on the front lines of urban suffering / Josh Seim.

Publication Info. Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. People Work -- 2. Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers -- 3. Feeling the Ambulance -- Introduction -- 4. The Fix-Up Workers -- 5. The Cleanup Workers -- 6. Burden Shuffling -- Introduction -- 7. The Barn -- 8. Supervision -- 9. Payback -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Notes on Data and Methods -- Notes -- Reference List -- Index
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Language In English.
Subject Ambulance service -- United States.
Ambulance service.
United States.
Emergency medical technicians -- United States.
Emergency medical technicians.
Ambulances.
Ambulances.
Emergency medical services.
United States.
ambulances.
emergency medical centers.
Emergency medical services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Electronic books.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Seim, Josh. Bandage, sort, and hustle. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520300217 (OCoLC)1120094600
ISBN 9780520971707 electronic book
0520971701 electronic book
9780520300217
0520300211
9780520300231
0520300238
Standard No. 10.1525/9780520971707