Full Description
The first of its kind to apply Bourdieusian field theory to emergency care, this book analyses hospital services in Germany to demonstrate how changing classificatory practices reshape professional boundaries, expectations of care and notions of legitimate urgency.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Classifying "the" Emergency: Moral Economies and Social Diagnoses of Change in Emergency Care
1. Beliefs in Unambiguous Categories and Institutional Arrangements
2. Providers' Social Diagnoses for the Patient Increases in Emergency Care
Part 2: The "Chain of Rescue": Medical Encounters between Low-Acute Patients and Emergency Care Providers
3. Hopes and Hierarchies: Patients' First Step in the Chain of Rescue
4. A Sense for Urgency: Providers Vetting of Low-Acute Patients in the EMS and ED
5. Admission or Discharge: "It's not bad enough for the hospital."
Part 3: Grappling with Classificatory Change and its Consequences for Patients, Providers and Planners
6. From Discretion at the Frontline to Institutional Accountability
7. Accountable to Patients or Coworkers at the Frontline? The Zero-Sum Dilemma of Planners
8. The Changing "Game" of Emergency Care: Hysteresis and Disillusio at the Frontlines
Conclusion
References
Appendix
