- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 249 pages)
- Summary
- "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." --
- Uniform Title
- Bandage, sort, and hustle (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Bandage, sort, and hustle (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- LCCN
- 2021701948
- OCLC
- ssj0002500377
- Author
Seim, Joshua David.
- Title
Bandage, sort, and hustle [electronic resource] : ambulance crews on the front lines of urban suffering / Josh Seim.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Bandage, sort, and hustle Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520300217 (DLC) 2019950205