William C. Olsen

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The Work of Hospitals

Global Medicine in Local Cultures

Rutgers University Press

The Work of Hospitals, a volume on hospitals as clinical and social institutions, foregrounds the tensions inherent in efforts to sustain functional health services in resource-poor states. Global ethnographic research shows how clinicians and patients struggle, without adequate supplies and personnel, in times of financial austerity.  The chapters document a vast gulf worldwide between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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