TY  - GEN
T1  - The work of hospitals : global medicine in local cultures
A2  - Olsen, William C.
A2  - Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1294143882
AB  - In 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
OP  - 271
CN  - RA963 .W67 2022
SN  - 9781978823051
SN  - 1978823053
SN  - 9781978823068
SN  - 1978823061
SN  - 9781978823075
SN  - 197882307X
SN  - 9781978823037
SN  - 1978823037
SN  - 9781978823044
SN  - 1978823045
KW  - Hospitals.
KW  - World health.
KW  - Global Health
KW  - Santé mondiale.
KW  - Hôpitaux.
KW  - hospitals (institutions, health facility)
KW  - MEDICAL : General.
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - World health
KW  - Peru, Ethiopia, Congo, Ghana, Uganda, Benin, Guatemala, Tanzania, Mexico, France, The US, Greece, Pakistan, meidcine, hospitals.
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -