An Involuntary Ethnography of a Stay in the Hospital: Being Sick in a Sick Place
The author describes the events which happened in a hospital after suffering a massive cerebellar stroke on a minor highway while alone in his car. It is concluded that the hospital was a "sick place" and that the hyper-bureaucratization of medical care has victimized all participants, pa...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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North Carolina Sociological Association
2009-10-01
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| Series: | Sociation Today |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v72/sick.htm |