Medicine at the Margins : : EMS Workers in Urban America / / Christopher Prener.
Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts over urban space from the cab of an ambulance.While we imagine ambulances as a site for critical care, the reality is far more complicated. Social problems, like homelessness, substance abuse, and the health consequences of poverty, are encount...
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Prener, Christopher, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Medicine at the Margins : EMS Workers in Urban America / Christopher Prener. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (304 p.) : 25 b/w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Sociologist in the Ambulance -- A Note on Names and Places -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Shit Work on Urban America’s Front Lines -- The Scene -- PART I EMS as a Marginal Institution -- 1 Dial 9-1-1 for Emergencies -- 2 The Ambulance Drivers Are Here! -- Conclusion -- PART II EMS as Marginal Work -- 3 The Twenty-Four: The Rhythm of EMS Shifts -- 4 Hurry Up and Wait: Passing Time and Avoiding Conflict -- Conclusion -- 5 The Daily Grind of Grunt Work -- 6 Stigma and Space in Midtown -- Conclusion -- Marginality, Stigma, and the Future of Pre-Hospital Medicine -- Appendix: Notes on Data and Methods -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts over urban space from the cab of an ambulance.While we imagine ambulances as a site for critical care, the reality is far more complicated. Social problems, like homelessness, substance abuse, and the health consequences of poverty, are encountered every day by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers. Written from the lens of a sociologist who speaks with the fluency of a former Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Medicine at the Margins delves deeply into the world of EMTs and paramedics in American cities, an understudied element of our health care system.Like the public hospital, the EMS system is a key but misunderstood part of our system of last resort. Medicine at the Margins presents a unique prism through which urban social problems, the health care system, and the struggling social safety net refract and intersect in largely unseen ways. Author Christopher Prener examines the forms of marginality that capture the reality of urban EMS work and showcases the unique view EMS providers have of American urban life. The rise of neighborhood stigma and the consequences it holds for patients who are assumed by providers to be malingering is critical for understanding not just the phenomenon of non- or sub-acute patient calls but also why they matter for all patients. This sense of marginality is a defining feature of the experience of EMS work and is a statement about the patient population whom urban EMS providers care for daily. Prener argues that the pre-hospital health care system needs to embrace its role in the social safety net and how EMSs’ future is in community practice of paramedicine, a port of a broader mandate of pre-hospital health care. By leaning into this work, EMS providers are uniquely positioned to deliver on the promise of community medicine.At a time when we are considering how to rely less on policing, the EMS system is already tasked with treating many of the social problems we think would benefit from less involvement with law involvement. Medicine at the Margins underscores why the EMS system is so necessary and the ways in which it can be expanded. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Health & Medicine. Sociology. Urban Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. bisacsh Emergency medical services. first responders. health care. homelessness. marginality. neighborhoods. paramedicine. poverty. stigma. work. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2022 English 9783110994551 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2022 9783110994520 ZDB-23-DSL Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110751666 print 9781531501075 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531501105?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781531501105 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781531501105/original |
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