More Than Medicine : : Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State / / LaTonya J. Trotter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Trotter, LaTonya J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

In More Than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for four hundred African-American older adults living with poor health and limited means. Trotter describes how these NPs practiced an inclusive form of care work that addressed medical, social, and organizational problems that often accompany poverty. In solving this expanded terrain of problems from inside the clinic, these NPs were not only solving a broader set of concerns for their patients; they became a professional solution for managing "difficult people" for both their employer and the state. Through More Than Medicine, we discover that the problems found in the NP's exam room are as much a product of our nation's disinvestment in social problems as of physician scarcity or rising costs.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Word about Methods -- Introduction -- Part I. AN EXPANDED TERRAIN FOR NURSING -- 1. Nursing’s Expertise -- 2. From Medical Work to Clinic Work -- 3. Organizational Care Work -- Part II. A CHANGED TERRAIN FOR MEDICINE -- 4. New Boundaries, New Relationships -- 5. Gaining Status, Losing Ground -- Part III. A SHRINKING TERRAIN FOR SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- 6. The Contraction of Social Work -- 7. The Misrecognition of Social Problems -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index