Doing Ethnography In An Urban Hospital Emergency Department Setting: Understanding How Culture Was Related To Emergency Physician Habitus

<p>This hospital ethnography focused on the relationship between culture and emergency physician habitus. The habitus of these physicians was defined as those routine, patterned forms of behaviors and practices performed by the physicians while in the emergency department and while interacting with the patient during the physician-patient interaction. Pierre Bourdieu's practice theory was used to address how culture was related to the habitus of the emergency physician. The researcher found that culture was not only related to the habitus of these physicians, but it reproduced, and at times created, aspects of the habitus through the practices performed while in the emergency department and while interacting with patients.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Hightower, Renady

Contributors dc:contributor

• Andrea P. Sankar

• culture
• emergency department
• habitus
• hospital ethnography
• practice theory
• Other Anthropology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/167

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-1166