William C. Olsen, Carolyn Sargent, Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, Thomas L. Leatherman, Thomas L. Leatherman

Gebundenes Buch

The Work of Hospitals

Global Medicine in Local Cultures

Herausgeber: Olsen, William C; Sargent, Carolyn

Beschreibung

The Work of Hospitals, a volume on hospitals as clinical and social institutions, foregrounds the tensions inherent in efforts to sustain functional health services in resource-poor states. Global ethnographic research shows how clinicians and patients struggle, without adequate supplies and personnel, in times of financial austerity.  The chapters document a vast gulf worldwide between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice.

Autor

WILLIAM 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.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781978823044
• ISBN-10: 1978823045
• Artikelnr.: 61477009