Alvarez, W. (2022). Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor

Abstract

Indeed, the gendered and racialized aspects of status and authority in the medical profession (and healthcare work more broadly) receive little attention. In a similar vein, I was curious about the cardiologists’ refusal to attend bed management meetings. I wanted more analysis of how cardiologists’ need for interesting cases might demonstrate a tension between the profession’s self-interest and its duty to the public. Managing Medical Authority provokes important questions about the ongoing negotiation of professional authority among physicians in an everchanging landscape of corporatized healthcare. Given the recent resurgence of interest in the health professions within sociology, Managing Medical Authority is an exciting recent addition to this once-again burgeoning subfield.