The Negotiation of Urgency
Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 17 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781978836266
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages196 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 B-W images 700
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Short description:
The Negotiation of Urgency ethnographically explores the everyday life of an Italian ER, where aging, economic precarity, draconian migration policies, hospital overcrowding, life and death, intersect daily. The analysis of the different, shifting ways in which triage operates and attention circulates in the ER illuminates the practical effects of the changing nature of welfare state in Italy, as elsewhere.
MoreLong description:
Who is to be attended first? And how should such a decision be made? The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room ethnographically explores the everyday life of one of the thickest places in contemporary societies: the ER, where aging, economic precarity, draconian migration laws, hospital overcrowding, and life and death, intersect daily. The book describes the effect of those intersections for clinicians and their patients, as well as for policy makers and the health-care system more generally.
Mirko Pasquini shows that there is more than medical urgency at stake in the ER, where mistrust of medical authority is fueled and violence often sparks. He analyzes the making of urgency, that is triage, not as a neutral medical way of sorting, but as a practice that actively creates difference through economies of attention. The Negotiation of Urgency illustrates both the limits of triage, and how those limits can spark improvisation and creative reinvention.
"In The Negotiation of Urgency, the hospital emergency room selectively confronts Italian lifeworlds transformed by neoliberal health policies. With remarkable insight, Pasquini details medicine's fraught economies of attention and the work it takes to enable care."
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Lenore Manderson
1 Urgency at Stake
2 A Cathedral of Biomedicine
3 Triage and Economies of Attention
4 Changing Times
5 Triage at an Impasse: Making “Inappropriate Users”
6 Mistrust in the ER
7 Violence and Its Consequences
Conclusions: The Negotiation of Urgency
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
