Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering

by Josh Seim

Book Overview

What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critically ill and injured. This is not an incorrect description, but it is incomplete.

Drawing on field observations, medical records, and his own experience as a novice emergency medical technician, sociologist Josh Seim reimagines paramedicine as a frontline institution for governing urban suffering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520300238
• ISBN13: 9780520300231
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"