TY - JOUR
T1 - Ordering, enrolling, and dismissing
T2 - Moments of access across Hospital Spaces
AU - White, Paul
AU - Hillman, Alexandra
AU - Latimer, Joanna
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - Drawing on ethnographies of three areas of hospital life in the United Kingdom, this article explores the different logics played out through moments of access to hospital services. The authors make explicit the character of the hospital as heterotopia where different social actors are required to "fit" in with the organizational requirements of the hospital. What becomes clear is how the hospital as institution can accommodate particular logics at particular times that are incommensurate with the organization of the hospital and the "care" of patients. Such accommodation makes explicit the contestable characteristics of the hospital where alignments are made between multiple logics. Through processes of ordering, enrolling, or even dismissing potential patients (or even logics), the authors argue that divisions are labored across hospital life and are worked to accomplish particular social worlds. The issue of which social worlds are being labored and how they work for or against a logic of care is made explicit here. Through their ethnographic work, the authors show how through processes of ordering, enrolling, and dismissing persons, subject positions, and logics during moments of access, the hospital can be understood as a complex heterotopia that works politics through clinical and managerial practice.
AB - Drawing on ethnographies of three areas of hospital life in the United Kingdom, this article explores the different logics played out through moments of access to hospital services. The authors make explicit the character of the hospital as heterotopia where different social actors are required to "fit" in with the organizational requirements of the hospital. What becomes clear is how the hospital as institution can accommodate particular logics at particular times that are incommensurate with the organization of the hospital and the "care" of patients. Such accommodation makes explicit the contestable characteristics of the hospital where alignments are made between multiple logics. Through processes of ordering, enrolling, or even dismissing potential patients (or even logics), the authors argue that divisions are labored across hospital life and are worked to accomplish particular social worlds. The issue of which social worlds are being labored and how they work for or against a logic of care is made explicit here. Through their ethnographic work, the authors show how through processes of ordering, enrolling, and dismissing persons, subject positions, and logics during moments of access, the hospital can be understood as a complex heterotopia that works politics through clinical and managerial practice.
KW - heterotopia
KW - hospital ethnography
KW - hospital spaces
KW - labor of division
KW - moments of access
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858235425&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1206331211426063
DO - 10.1177/1206331211426063
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858235425
SN - 1206-3312
VL - 15
SP - 68
EP - 87
JO - Space and Culture
JF - Space and Culture
IS - 1
ER -