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Based on literally thousands of hours of field work supplemented by focused interviews, Conflicted Health Care is a significant contribution to a long and honorable tradition of hospital ethnographies. It is a book rich in personal stories from the everyday lives of hospital workers. --Robert Zussman, author of Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession

Through seven eminently readable chapters, chock-full of case examples and direct quotations, the authors deconstruct professionalism, caring, and inter-professional conflict in the shadows of hospital status, hierarchy, and power relationships...The book asks us to reexamine our values and assumptions about collaborative care and forces us to reconsider how conflict resolution may simply follow the law of the jungle where the most powerful roars the loudest. --Family Medicine Based on literally thousands of hours of field work supplemented by focused interviews, Conflicted Health Care is a significant contribution to a long and honorable tradition of hospital ethnographies. It is a book rich in personal stories from the everyday lives of hospital workers. --Robert Zussman, author of Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession

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Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano, a sociologist with research interests in nursing, health care, women's health, and geriatrics, is an assistant professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at University of California, Davis. Charles S. Varano, Associate Professor of Sociology, California State University, Sacramento, is the author of Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership.

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