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Carolina Academic Press
Language
English
Pages
271

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Subjects
Anthropology, Cultural, Attitude of Health Personnel, Cultural Anthropology, Employees, Hospital Personnel, Hospitals, Medical anthropology, Men, Methods, Nurses' aides, Personnel, Hospital, Porters, Self Concept, Nurses' Aides, Hospitals, employees, Ethnology, great britain, Medical care, scotland, Self-perception
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Table of Contents

Job description : "hospital porter"
The themes and cast, and caste
The site : a walk around Constance Hospital
The fieldworker : letters of intent
Institutionalism : "Scotland" and "hospital"
Envoi
Medical others : a complex of portering attitudes and relations
A quality life? : working (-out) with Bob the Bodybuilder
Computers as foci of inattention : six scenarios
A fetish for classification : hospitalized identities
Teasing and solicitude : on the gentleness of porters
Well-being among the sick : on the move with the porters
Porter power? : the incident of "Dangerous Dan," for instance
Moments of being : discourses of compassion, deference, and communion
A "Scottish hospital?"

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Durham, N.C
Series
Ethnographic studies in medical anthropology, Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.1109411
Library of Congress
RT84 .R37 2008, RT84 .R37 2009, RT84.R37 2008

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Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
271

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OL19889682M
ISBN 13
9781594605321
LCCN
2008025950
OCLC/WorldCat
221130437
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3277770

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