Bandage, sort, and hustle : ambulance crews on the front lines of urban suffering /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- People Work
- Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers
- Feeling the Ambulance
- The Fix-Up Workers
- The Cleanup Workers
- Burden Shuffling
- The Barn
- Supervision
- Payback.