On the Frontlines of Crisis: Intensive Care and the Challenge of COVID-19

Author:   Jason Rodriquez
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9781978842397


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 September 2025
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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On the Frontlines of Crisis: Intensive Care and the Challenge of COVID-19


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Author:   Jason Rodriquez
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781978842397


ISBN 10:   1978842392
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 September 2025
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction  Chapter 1 – Treating Patients Chapter 2 – Managing Risk Chapter 3 – Feeling Emotions Chapter 4 – Constructing Boundaries Chapter 5 – (Not) Doing Politics Conclusions Appendix – Methodological Notes Acknowledgements Notes Works Cited

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""Rodriquez subtly takes us inside two hospitals in suburban Massachusetts to explore the lives of health care professionals caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. He effectively illuminates how nurses, doctors, and hospital staff handled risks, treatments, and the emotional burdens of their work. Among the many virtues of the book is that it illuminates the terrible psychological toll that the pandemic took on health care professionals."" -- Robert W. Snyder * author of When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers * ""On the Frontlines of Crisis captures the affective and workday responses of clinicians as they experienced a crisis in which little was then known about what they were seeing in their patients, what they could do, and how to balance their commitment to their patients and the safety of themselves and their families in the face of a yet- unknown infectious disease. Rodriquez answers what it was really like."" -- Patricia D'Antonio * author of Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City *


""Rodriquez subtly takes us inside two hospitals in suburban Massachusetts to explore the lives of health care professionals caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. He effectively illuminates how nurses, doctors, and hospital staff handled risks, treatments, and the emotional burdens of their work. Among the many virtues of the book is that it illuminates the terrible psychological toll that the pandemic took on health care professionals."" - Robert W. Snyder (author of When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers) ""On the Frontlines of Crisis captures the affective and workday responses of clinicians as they experienced a crisis in which little was then known about what they were seeing in their patients, what they could do, and how to balance their commitment to their patients and the safety of themselves and their families in the face of a yet- unknown infectious disease. Rodriquez answers what it was really like."" - Patricia D'Antonio (author of Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City)


Author Information

Jason Rodriquez is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Senior Research Associate at the UMB Center for Social Development and Education. Rodriquez holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. He is the author of Labors of Love: Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work.

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