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Conference Paper: Medical Violence: Assaults on Medical Workers in Urban Chinese Hospitals
| Title | Medical Violence: Assaults on Medical Workers in Urban Chinese Hospitals |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2018 |
| Citation | Centre for the Humanities and Medicine Lecture Series, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 11 October 2018 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | This talk investigates the cultural logics shaping acts of violent protest against mainland Chinese medical professionals. Called yinao (醫鬧), this form of workplace violence refers to dissatisfied patients, their family members, and even hired gangs in medical settings (醫) 'stirring up trouble' (鬧) by verbally abusing, physically assaulting, and even outright killing physicians, nurses, and other hospital workers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in critical care settings in Beijing, Shanghai, Henan, and Yunnan, I argue that acts of protest in urban Chinese hospitals operate as an embodied technology of care that materializes and moralizes social relationships in contexts of medical failure. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/270505 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Song, PP | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-29T08:32:30Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-29T08:32:30Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Centre for the Humanities and Medicine Lecture Series, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 11 October 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/270505 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | This talk investigates the cultural logics shaping acts of violent protest against mainland Chinese medical professionals. Called yinao (醫鬧), this form of workplace violence refers to dissatisfied patients, their family members, and even hired gangs in medical settings (醫) 'stirring up trouble' (鬧) by verbally abusing, physically assaulting, and even outright killing physicians, nurses, and other hospital workers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in critical care settings in Beijing, Shanghai, Henan, and Yunnan, I argue that acts of protest in urban Chinese hospitals operate as an embodied technology of care that materializes and moralizes social relationships in contexts of medical failure. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | University of Hong Kong, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine Lecture Series | - |
| dc.title | Medical Violence: Assaults on Medical Workers in Urban Chinese Hospitals | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Song, PP: songp@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Song, PP=rp02412 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 297855 | - |