Of orderlies and men : hospital porters achieving wellness at work / Nigel Rapport.

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2009]

xxv, 271 pages : black and whire illustrations ; 23 cm.

Job description : 'hospital porter -- The themes and cast, and caste -- The site : a walk around Constance Hospital -- The fieldworker : letters of intent -- Institutionalism : 'Scotland' and 'hospital' -- Envoi -- Medical others : a complex of portering attitudes and relations -- A quality life? : working ( -out) with Bob the bodybuilder -- Computers as foci of inattention : six scenarios -- A fetish for classification : hospitalized identities -- Teasing and solicitude : on the gentleness of porters -- Well-being among the sick : on the move with the porters -- Porter power? : the incident of 'Dangerous Dan', for instance -- Moments of being : discourses of compassion, deference, and communion -- A 'Scottish hospital'?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.