Seth D Messinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth D Messinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth D |
| FAMILY NAME | Messinger |
| SIGNATURE | MESSINGER S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Vigilance and Attention among U.S. Service Members and Veterans After Combat
Dilemmas of Recovery
Labors of Love
In this paper, we explore the Non-Medical Attendant program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, which subsidizes the presence of war-injured soldiers' family members as they live for months or even years at Walter Reed during treatment and rehabilitation. We elaborate the ambiguities of the program and draw on ethnographic research to demonstrate how the program's vagaries combine with the context of an overburdened military med…
Introduction to the Special Focus Section
The three articles presented in this special section of Medical Anthropology Quarterly are devoted to the ways that military servicemembers' bodies are figured, deployed, symbolized, and represented. These articles illustrate two issues that confront the members of many contemporary militaries exemplified here by examples from the United States and Turkey (Ben Ari 2001; Bickford 2011; Pengelly and Irwin 2010; Weiss 1998). The first is that they a…
Cooperation and contention in psychiatric work
This article discusses the social organization of psychiatric work in the psychiatric emergency department of a public general hospital located in New York City, based on ethnographic research conducted from 1999 to 2001. Case studies of the care of two patients with ambiguous symptoms are discussed. The analysis applies the ''differences approach'' developed by Mol and colleagues which focuses on the way different professions provide divergent e…
Getting Past the Accident
I describe the refashioning of a sense of self and identity of a junior officer in the U.S. Army who was injured in Iraq. Ethnographic data for this article were collected between July 2006 and January 2008. The setting for this article is the U.S. Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Two models of rehabilitation are contrasted in the rehabilitation program. The first focuses on the refashioning of identit…
Rehabilitating Time
In this article I explore the different orientations to time experienced by clinicians and patients in the US Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. In structuring, describing, and working with patients, clinicians rely on a rehabilitative program that is embedded in a narrative notion of time. This approach seeks to embed the grievous wounds patients have sustained along a trajectory of inj…
Representations of the Patient
Representations are the socially and textually produced patients as presented in clinical discussion and the clinical chart. An understudied aspect of representations in medicine is the way in which they are used to highlight contests of expertise and authority between clinicians, which have consequences over control of critical hospital resources. The author uses ethnographic research in a public urban hospital psychiatry department in New York …
“That’s Not His Only Problem…” Clinical Teamwork in a Psychiatric Emergency Room
Of Two Minds
Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. T. M. Luhrmann. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.337 pp
Labors of Love
In this paper, we explore the Non-Medical Attendant program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, which subsidizes the presence of war-injured soldiers' family members as they live for months or even years at Walter Reed during treatment and rehabilitation. We elaborate the ambiguities of the program and draw on ethnographic research to demonstrate how the program's vagaries combine with the context of an overburdened military med…
Getting Past the Accident
I describe the refashioning of a sense of self and identity of a junior officer in the U.S. Army who was injured in Iraq. Ethnographic data for this article were collected between July 2006 and January 2008. The setting for this article is the U.S. Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Two models of rehabilitation are contrasted in the rehabilitation program. The first focuses on the refashioning of identit…
Of Two Minds
Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. T. M. Luhrmann. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.337 pp
Rehabilitating Time
In this article I explore the different orientations to time experienced by clinicians and patients in the US Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. In structuring, describing, and working with patients, clinicians rely on a rehabilitative program that is embedded in a narrative notion of time. This approach seeks to embed the grievous wounds patients have sustained along a trajectory of inj…
Vigilance and Attention among U.S. Service Members and Veterans After Combat
Representations of the Patient
Representations are the socially and textually produced patients as presented in clinical discussion and the clinical chart. An understudied aspect of representations in medicine is the way in which they are used to highlight contests of expertise and authority between clinicians, which have consequences over control of critical hospital resources. The author uses ethnographic research in a public urban hospital psychiatry department in New York …
Of Two Minds
Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. T. M. Luhrmann. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.337 pp
“That’s Not His Only Problem…” Clinical Teamwork in a Psychiatric Emergency Room
Representations of the Patient
Representations are the socially and textually produced patients as presented in clinical discussion and the clinical chart. An understudied aspect of representations in medicine is the way in which they are used to highlight contests of expertise and authority between clinicians, which have consequences over control of critical hospital resources. The author uses ethnographic research in a public urban hospital psychiatry department in New York …
Getting Past the Accident
I describe the refashioning of a sense of self and identity of a junior officer in the U.S. Army who was injured in Iraq. Ethnographic data for this article were collected between July 2006 and January 2008. The setting for this article is the U.S. Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Two models of rehabilitation are contrasted in the rehabilitation program. The first focuses on the refashioning of identit…
Rehabilitating Time
In this article I explore the different orientations to time experienced by clinicians and patients in the US Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. In structuring, describing, and working with patients, clinicians rely on a rehabilitative program that is embedded in a narrative notion of time. This approach seeks to embed the grievous wounds patients have sustained along a trajectory of inj…
Cooperation and contention in psychiatric work
This article discusses the social organization of psychiatric work in the psychiatric emergency department of a public general hospital located in New York City, based on ethnographic research conducted from 1999 to 2001. Case studies of the care of two patients with ambiguous symptoms are discussed. The analysis applies the ''differences approach'' developed by Mol and colleagues which focuses on the way different professions provide divergent e…
Dilemmas of Recovery
Labors of Love
In this paper, we explore the Non-Medical Attendant program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, which subsidizes the presence of war-injured soldiers' family members as they live for months or even years at Walter Reed during treatment and rehabilitation. We elaborate the ambiguities of the program and draw on ethnographic research to demonstrate how the program's vagaries combine with the context of an overburdened military med…
Introduction to the Special Focus Section
The three articles presented in this special section of Medical Anthropology Quarterly are devoted to the ways that military servicemembers' bodies are figured, deployed, symbolized, and represented. These articles illustrate two issues that confront the members of many contemporary militaries exemplified here by examples from the United States and Turkey (Ben Ari 2001; Bickford 2011; Pengelly and Irwin 2010; Weiss 1998). The first is that they a…
Vigilance and Attention among U.S. Service Members and Veterans After Combat
Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Law (3 works)