{"product_id":"the-negotiation-of-urgency-economies-of-attention-in-an-italian-emergency-room-hardback-9781978836273","title":"The Negotiation of Urgency; Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room (Hardback) 9781978836273","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Negotiation of Urgency\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEconomies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMirko Pasquini (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978836273\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e196 pages, 2 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Negotiation of Urgency\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" - Harris Solomon (author of Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma) \"This book is a model hospital ethnography that highlights the importance of 'economies of attention' to experiences of hospital care everywhere.\" - Alice Street (professor of anthropology and health, University of Edinburgh)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWho is to be attended first? And how should such a decision be made? \u003ci\u003eThe Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room \u003c\/i\u003eethnographically 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Negotiation of Urgency\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates both the limits of triage, and how those limits can spark improvisation and creative reinvention.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Foreword by Lenore Manderson \u003cbr\u003e 1 Urgency at Stake \u003cbr\u003e 2 A Cathedral of Biomedicine\u003cbr\u003e 3 Triage and Economies of Attention\u003cbr\u003e 4 Changing Times\u003cbr\u003e 5 Triage at an Impasse: Making “Inappropriate Users”\u003cbr\u003e 6 Mistrust in the ER\u003cbr\u003e 7 Violence and Its Consequences\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions: The Negotiation of Urgency \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640482230552,"sku":"9781978836273","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-negotiation-of-urgency-economies-of-attention-in-an-italian-emergency-room-hardback-9781978836273","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}