Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Expansion of Medicine in Large Urban Jail
Chapter 1: Summoning the Sick and Violent into Jail.
Chapter 2: The Medicalization of the Los Angeles County Jail
System
Part Two: The Restriction of Medicine in Large Public Hospitals
Chapter 3: Opioids, Observation, and Restricting Access in the
Public Emergency Room
Chapter 4: Building a Public Hospital Everyone Knows is Too
Small
Conclusion: Towards the Administrative Disappearing of Social
Suffering.
Appendix: Historically Embedded Ethnography.
References
Endnotes
Armando Lara-Millán is Assistant Professor of Sociology at
University of California, Berkeley. He is an ethnographer and
historical sociologist. He studies how powerful organizations
generate truths and rationalize problems, shaping the life fortunes
of large numbers of people. He has undertaken studies in a wide
range of contexts, including law, medicine, criminal justice,
economic pricing, and urban poverty governance. His work has
appeared in the American Sociological Review, Criminology, and in
the volume The Many Hands of the State. He is also the recipient of
awards from the National Science Foundation, Law and Society
Association, the Max Planck Institute
for the Study of Societies, the Ford Foundation, the Society for
the Study of Social Problems, and the American Sociological
Association.
... there is much to like about the book as written. It is an
intriguing read, theoretically ambitious, and seems likely to spur
additional creative research that pushes and tests its claims.
*Nicole P. Marwell, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy,
andPractice, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, Social
Forces*
There simply is not another book quite like this, making
Lara-Milla´&n's work groundbreaking.
*A.R.S. Lorenz, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8*
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