Lessons in Politics and Ethics from the Public Hospital

Lessons in Politics and Ethics from the Public Hospital takes us behind the scenes of one of America's last major public hospitals - San Francisco General.

Stephen William Foster (Ph.D. Anthropology, Princeton; MS Nursing, Yale) taught Anthropology at Smith College and the University of California, Berkeley, and was a clinical instructor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. He worked as nursing supervisor at San Francisco General Hospital for over two decades and is the author of The Past Is Another Country: Representation, Historical Consciousness and Resistance in the Blue Ridge (1988) and Cosmopolitan Desire: Transcultural Dialogues and Antiterrorism in Morocco, (2006), as well as essays, reviews and poetry.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: History; Chapter Two: Rounds; Chapter Three: Normalization; Chapter Four: Care; Chapter Five: Trauma; Chapter Six: Cost; Chapter Seven: Mind; Chapter Eight: Ethics; References Cited; Index.