TY - BOOK AU - Seim,Joshua David TI - Bandage, sort, and hustle: ambulance crews on the front lines of urban suffering SN - 9780520971707 AV - RA975.5.E5 U1 - 362.18 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Oakland, California PB - University of California Press KW - Ambulance service KW - United States KW - Emergency medical technicians KW - Ambulances KW - Emergency Medical Services KW - Emergency Medical Technicians KW - Urban Health Services KW - Services d'ambulance KW - États-Unis KW - Services des urgences médicales KW - ambulances KW - aat KW - emergency medical centers KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Sociology KW - Urban KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index; 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 N2 - "What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? Whether by compressing lifeless chests on the streets or by transporting the publicly intoxicated to the hospital, ambulance crews tend to handle suffering bodies near the bottom of a complex urban hierarchy. Drawing on field observations, medical records, and his own experiences as a novice emergency medical technician, Josh Seim shows how this work puts ambulance crews in recurrent, 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 forces that direct ambulance labor from above. Beyond the ambulance, Bandage, Sort, and Hustle advances a labor-centric framework for understanding how frontline institutions respond to a variety of hardships that torment down and out populations." -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2291033 ER -