The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients
An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1654-6 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1654-6 (ISBN)
The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers ration and rationalize the provision of care. Examining the social categorization of patients, this work documents the interactional production of exclusion at two emergency departments in Romania.
In The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania, Marius Wamsiedel examines the social categorization of patients and its consequences at two emergency departments in Romania. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this work argues that moral evaluation is an attempt on the part of triage nurses and clerks to keep the emergency service afloat in the context of high-care demand, insufficient resources, and uneven access to primary care. At the same time, Wamsiedel argues that moral evaluation is an effort to align the provision of emergency services with socially dominant values, norms, and representations. As such, the moral evaluation of patients becomes a Procrustean bed that reduces some inequities in access to health care while generating or amplifying others. By adopting an interactionist lens, Wamsiedel unravels the underlying social logic of moral evaluation, the criteria and assumptions that inform it, and attempts by triage workers and patient to negotiate access to emergency care. The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients offers new ways of understanding the work of street-level bureaucracies and informal barriers to care.
In The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania, Marius Wamsiedel examines the social categorization of patients and its consequences at two emergency departments in Romania. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this work argues that moral evaluation is an attempt on the part of triage nurses and clerks to keep the emergency service afloat in the context of high-care demand, insufficient resources, and uneven access to primary care. At the same time, Wamsiedel argues that moral evaluation is an effort to align the provision of emergency services with socially dominant values, norms, and representations. As such, the moral evaluation of patients becomes a Procrustean bed that reduces some inequities in access to health care while generating or amplifying others. By adopting an interactionist lens, Wamsiedel unravels the underlying social logic of moral evaluation, the criteria and assumptions that inform it, and attempts by triage workers and patient to negotiate access to emergency care. The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients offers new ways of understanding the work of street-level bureaucracies and informal barriers to care.
Marius Wamsiedel is assistant professor of global health at Duke Kunshan University.
Chapter 1 – The Need for Moral Evaluation
Chapter 2 – Moral Evaluation Criteria
Chapter 3 – Patient Types
Chapter 4 – Credibility Work and the Assessment of Legitimacy
Chapter 5 – Manufacturing Responsibility and Worth
Chapter 6 – Producing Exclusion, Reproducing Racism
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 472 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-1654-4 / 1666916544 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-1654-6 / 9781666916546 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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