Doing care work on the fly - exploring the unnoticed socio-emotional skills of male ambulance staff
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morten Kyed (0000-0002-4145-3896, Department of Sociology and Social Work Aalborg University Aalborg Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 433-448 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13014 |
| PMID | 31724767 |
| OpenAlex | W2984140085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 63 |
Prehospital ambulance work is a healthcare arena hitherto neglected by sociologists of health and illness. This is unfortunate because it is an interesting and dynamic area, and in contrast to most healthcare sectors, it is male dominated. Via ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the particular caring practices and socio-emotional skills that ambulance staff use in practising prehospital care work. The empirical analysis outlines six recurring prehospital practices: medicine work, machine work, scene management, becalming work, communication work and bodywork. Each practice represents a different element of prehospital care practice and is best understood as a repertoire, as many different assemblages of these care practices can work effectively in prehospital situations. The article concludes that despite institutionalised blue-collar masculinity, numeric dominance and scarce formal education in ambulance psychology, male ambulance staff are generally proud and reflexive care practitioners
Medical education · Medical emergency · Work (physics) · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Emotional Labor in Professions · Engineering · Humor Studies and Applications · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
Plans and Situated Actions
The Sociology of the Caring Professions
Still a Man’s World
Emotional Labour in Health Care
Sexuality, Masculinity, and Taint Management Among Firefighters and Correctional Officers
Introduction
The reflective practitioner
Balancing Mysterium and Onus
Paramedics On and Off the Streets
The Dynamics of Social Practice
Care in Practice
Emotion Management in the Workplace
“Sailing twixt Scylla and Charybdis”
Det sociale som performativitet – et praksisteoretisk perspektiv på analyse og metode
The Logic of Practice
Emotional Labor and Health Care
Practising Gender at Work
Emotions in a Rational Profession
Gendered Agency and Emotions in the Field of Care Work
Shaping social situations
Masculine dignity and the dirty body
Examining Men’s Status Shield and Status Bonus
Exposure to human tragedy, empathy, and trauma in ambulance paramedics
Caring moments and their men
That's not masculine
Knowing Body, Knowing other
The Space-Control Theory of Paramedic Scene-Management
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
Multiple Dimensions of Work Intensity
"Trauma Junkies" and Street Work
Sentimental work in the technologized hospital
Afterword
Conceptualising 'materialities of care
Culture, Class, and Connections
The art of touching
Paramedic Performances
Paramedics, protocols, and procedures
Theorizing emotional capital
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |