{"product_id":"the-negotiation-of-urgency-mirko-pasquini-9781978836266","title":"The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room","description":"Who is to be attended first? And how should such a decision be made? \u003ci\u003eThe Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room \u003c\/i\u003eethnographically explores the everyday life of one of the thickest places in contemporary societies: the ER, where aging, economic precarity, draconian migration laws, hospital overcrowding, and life and death, intersect daily. The book describes the effect of those intersections for clinicians and their patients, as well as for policy makers and the health-care system more generally. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mirko Pasquini shows that there is more than medical urgency at stake in the ER, where mistrust of medical authority is fueled and violence often sparks. He analyzes the making of urgency, that is triage, not as a neutral medical way of sorting, but as a practice that actively creates difference through economies of attention. \u003ci\u003eThe Negotiation of Urgency\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates both the limits of triage, and how those limits can spark improvisation and creative reinvention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mirko Pasquini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978836260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978836266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mirko Pasquini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46545909383423,"sku":"9781978836266","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aece2ab8-274f-4c6c-ac20-6aa3a83976a9.jpg?v=1738183669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-negotiation-of-urgency-mirko-pasquini-9781978836266","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}