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Overview"In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in the social production of health and disease in the communities where they are. Many low-resource countries have experienced increasing privatization and dysfunction of public sector institutions such as hospitals, and growing withdrawal of funding for non-profit organizations. Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary? This collection of ethnographies demonstrates how hospital administrators, clinicians, and other staff in hospitals around the world confront innumerable risks in their commitment to deliver health care, including civil unrest, widespread poverty, endemic and epidemic disease, and supply chain instability. Ultimately, The Work of Hospitals documents a vast gulf between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice. Hospitals thus become ""contested space"" between policy and practice." Full Product DetailsAuthor: William C. Olsen , Carolyn Sargent , William C. Olsen , Carolyn SargentPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.004kg ISBN: 9781978823037ISBN 10: 1978823037 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 18 March 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent Part I Global Medicines in Local Cultures 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital Anita Hannig 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital Cheryl Mattingly 4 “Dangerous Disease”: Epilepsy in Asante William C. Olsen 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared John M. Janzen Part II Care Giving and Hospital Labor 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson 7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala Anita Chary and Peter Rohloff 8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania Adrienne E. Strong 9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have”: Hospital Care in Mexico Vania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. Hurd Part III Hospitals and the Patient 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France Carolyn Sargent 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong Elisa J. Sobo 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals Eugenia Georges 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital Emma Varley Afterword Claire Wendland References Notes on Contributors IndexReviewsA landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age. --Paul Brodwin author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients' own sentiments and worldviews. --Elizabeth Hull author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital """Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews."" -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital * ""A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age."" -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry * ""Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews."" -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital * ""A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age."" -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *" """A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age."" --Paul Brodwin ""author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry"" ""Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients' own sentiments and worldviews.""--Elizabeth Hull ""author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital""" Author InformationWilliam C. Olsen is a lecturer in African anthropology in the African studies program at Georgetown University and a research librarian in the Georgetown University Library. He is the co-editor (with Walter van Beek) of Evil in Africa, and the co-editor (with Tom Csordas) for Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology. Carolyn Sargent is professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She is co-editor (with Caroline Brettell) of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, and co-editor (with Carole Browner) of Reproduction, Globalization, and the State. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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