Bandage, Sort, and Hustle Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering

Name: Bandage, Sort, and Hustle Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering
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ISBN: 9780520300231

ISBN-10: 0520300238

ISBN-13: 9780520300231

Edition: 2020

Authors: Josh Seim

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What is the role of the 911 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 front-line 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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2020
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/4/2020
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English