LEADER 04416nam 2200481 450 001 9910795677503321 005 20220211173837.0 010 $a1-9788-2307-X 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978823075 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6870797 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6870797 035 $a(CKB)20985868600041 035 $a(OCoLC)1294143882 035 $a(DE-B1597)619173 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978823075 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920985868600041 100 $a20220211d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe work of hospitals $eglobal medicine in local cultures /$fedited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent 210 1$aNew Brunswick :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (271 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Olsen, William C. The Work of Hospitals New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,c2022 9781978823044 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. Global Medicines in Local Cultures -- $tChapter 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic -- $tChapter 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital -- $tChapter 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital -- $tChapter 4 ?Dangerous Disease? Epilepsy in Asante -- $tChapter 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared -- $tPart Two. Care Giving and Hospital Labor -- $tChapter 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin -- $tChapter 7 Medical ?Errands? among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala -- $tChapter 8 Routinized Caring or a ?Call? to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania -- $tChapter 9 ?We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have? Hospital Care in Mexico -- $tPart Three. Hospitals and the Patient -- $tChapter 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France -- $tChapter 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent?s Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong -- $tChapter 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals -- $tChapter 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital -- $tAfterword -- $tReferences -- $tNotes on Contributors -- $tIndex 330 $aIn the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in the social production of health and disease in the communities where they are. Many low-resource countries have experienced increasing privatization and dysfunction of public sector institutions such as hospitals, and growing withdrawal of funding for non-profit organizations. Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary? This collection of ethnographies demonstrates how hospital administrators, clinicians, and other staff in hospitals around the world confront innumerable risks in their commitment to deliver health care, including civil unrest, widespread poverty, endemic and epidemic disease, and supply chain instability. Ultimately, The Work of Hospitals documents a vast gulf between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice. Hospitals thus become ?contested space? between policy and practice. 606 $aWorld health 610 $aPeru, Ethiopia, Congo, Ghana, Uganda, Benin, Guatemala, Tanzania, Mexico, France, The US, Greece, Pakistan, meidcine, hospitals. 615 0$aWorld health. 676 $a362.1 702 $aOlsen$b William C. 702 $aSargent$b Carolyn F.$f1947- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795677503321 996 $aThe work of hospitals$93863594 997 $aUNINA