This book illustrates the activities of a Scottish hospital from the point of view of the orderly (or porter), who typically is at the lowest rung on the specialized and hierarchical hospital ladder. Rapport (anthropological and philosophical studies, U. of St. Andrews), who himself had worked as an orderly, offers an ethnographic account of an orderly community whose members are resistant to their classification as unskilled and unimportant. The book is the result of the author's own experience and interviews with hospital medical personnel, technicians, and administrators. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Nigel Rapport is a professor in the department of social anthropology at the University of St. Andrews.
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