The Companion

A Hospital Autoethnography on the Relationship Between Informal and Formal Institutions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2365744
AutoresD A Yavuz (0000-0001-9716-9483, Lehman College of CUNY Division of Natural and Social Science, Bronx, NY, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume53
Fascículo4
Páginas488-515
Data de publicação2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/08912416241248459
OpenAlexW4395667253
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas30

The article is an analytical autoethnography that explores the author's experience of navigating the Turkish healthcare system while caring for his father who underwent emergency bypass surgery. Their atypical positions, at once members of a privileged group but lacking extensive familial connections, helped bring to light the diverse range of tactics that patients use to navigate the hospital, despite reforms that tried to establish greater universalism. By highlighting the relationship between formal institutions and informal practices in the healthcare system and how they survive to include/exclude different status groups, the author's micro-level observations and background in political sociology help reveal the complex impact that non-universalistic practices have on democratization and political change in Turkey and beyond

Autoethnography · Democracy · Democratization · Health care · Healthcare system · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Universalism · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society