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Christopher Prener offers a razor-sharp analysis of social marginality through a case study of emergency medical services. Medicine at the Margins is an essential read not only for those interested in a growing sociology of the ambulance, but also those with broader interests in urban sociology, medical sociology, and the sociology of work.---Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering.,

Medicine at the Margins is a deep dive into the world of EMS work that not only makes sense of that work in the intersection between medicine and our social safety net gaps, but also as productive of the urban landscape. Christopher Prener shows that EMS work helps to recreate our mental maps of the city, the kinds of people that we think live in them, and the kinds of resources we think they deserve. An excellent contribution.---Armando Lara-Millan, assistant professor of sociology at UC Berkeley, and author of Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity Christopher Prener offers a razor-sharp analysis of social marginality through a case study of emergency medical services. Medicine at the Margins is an essential read not only for those interested in a growing sociology of the ambulance, but also those with broader interests in urban sociology, medical sociology, and the sociology of work.---Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering.

Medicine at the Margins is a deep dive into the world of EMS work that not only makes sense of that work in the intersection between medicine and our social safety net gaps, but also as productive of the urban landscape. Christopher Prener shows that EMS work helps to recreate our mental maps of the city, the kinds of people that we think live in them, and the kinds of resources we think they deserve. An excellent contribution.---Armando Lara-Millan, assistant professor of sociology at UC Berkeley, and author of Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity, Christopher Prener offers a razor-sharp analysis of social marginality through a case study of emergency medical services. Medicine at the Margins is an essential read not only for those interested in a growing sociology of the ambulance, but also those with broader interests in urban sociology, medical sociology, and the sociology of work.---Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering.,

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Christopher G. Prener was Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis University from 2015 until 2022. In addition to researching stigma, mental health, and neighborhood disorder in a variety of settings, his research explored the consequences of historical segregation for contemporary life in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also a former Emergency Medical Technician and EMS dispatcher. He is now working as a research scientist outside of academia.

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