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Working Out Back

"The Veterinary Technician and "Dirty Work

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2365323
AutoresClinton R Sanders (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen39
Número3
Páginas243-272
Fecha de publicación2010-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241610366711
OpenAlexW2139195924
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas48
Referencias citadas51

Based on three years of ethnographic research in a large, mixed-practice veterinary hospital and semistructured interviews with twenty-two veterinary technicians, this discussion focuses on the work of veterinary technicians, which is, as described by Everett Hughes (1984, 343), "physically disgusting," "a symbol of degradation," and "wound(ing to) one's dignity." The article briefly describes the vet tech's career and work activities. The discussion then focuses on how technicians regard and deal with the least appealing of their physical and emotional tasks. Here I emphasize the compensatory role played by the relationships and encounters with nonhuman animals that are central to their work life. The article concludes with an examination of the concept of dirty work and the relationship between dirty work and identity

Aesthetics · Art · Dignity · Ethnography · Identity (music · Medical education · Political science · Sociology · Technician · Veterinary medicine · Work (physics · Anthropology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Engineering · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Veterinary Practice and Education Studies

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