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Of orderlies and men : hospital porters achieving wellness at work / Nigel Rapport.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
- Series:
- Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series
- Carolina Academic Press medical anthropology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nurses' aides--Scotland.
- Nurses' aides.
- Porters--Scotland.
- Porters.
- Hospitals--Scotland--Employees.
- Hospitals.
- Medical anthropology--Scotland.
- Medical anthropology.
- Nursing Assistants.
- Personnel, Hospital.
- Attitude of Health Personnel.
- Self Concept.
- Anthropology, Cultural--methods.
- Men.
- Employees.
- Scotland.
- Hospitals--Employees.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nursing Assistants.
- Personnel, Hospital.
- Attitude of Health Personnel.
- Self Concept.
- Anthropology, Cultural--methods.
- Men.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Job description : 'hospital porter
- The themes and cast, and caste
- The site : a walk around Constance Hospital
- The fieldworker : letters of intent
- Institutionalism : 'Scotland' and 'hospital'
- Envoi
- Medical others : a complex of portering attitudes and relations
- A quality life? : working ( -out) with Bob the bodybuilder
- Computers as foci of inattention : six scenarios
- A fetish for classification : hospitalized identities
- Teasing and solicitude : on the gentleness of porters
- Well-being among the sick : on the move with the porters
- Porter power? : the incident of 'Dangerous Dan', for instance
- Moments of being : discourses of compassion, deference, and communion
- A 'Scottish hospital'?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rapport, Nigel, 1956- Of orderlies and men.
- ISBN:
- 9781594605321
- 1594605327
- OCLC:
- 221130437
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