Professor Josh Seim wins ASA Max Weber Distinguished Book Award of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Josh Seim, who has won the Max Weber Distinguished Book Award of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work section of the American Sociological Association, for his book Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering (University of California Press). Drawing on field observations, medical records, and his own experience as a novice emergency medical technician, Seim reimagines paramedicine as a frontline institution for governing urban suffering. Bandage, Sort, and Hustle argues that the ambulance is part of a fragmented regime that is focused more on neutralizing hardships (which are disproportionately carried by poor people and people of color) than on eradicating the root causes of agony. Whether by compressing lifeless chests on the streets or by transporting the publicly intoxicated into the hospital, ambulance crews tend to handle suffering bodies near the bottom of the polarized metropolis.