The Social Organization of Emergency Medical Services in Calgary, Alberta

Simple item page
atmire.migration.oldid2378
dc.contributor.advisorMcCoy, Liza
dc.contributor.authorCorman, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-01T19:45:52Z
dc.date.available2014-11-17T08:00:40Z
dc.date.issued2014-08-01
dc.date.submitted2014en
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation uses institutional ethnography to explore the work processes of paramedics and other EMS personnel in Calgary, Alberta. I focus specifically on the work of paramedics and explicating how front-line emergency medical services work is organized and coordinated by different technologies of coordination and control. This research relied on over 200 hours of observations of paramedics, over 100 interviews with paramedics about their work processes, and numerous hours of observations and interviews with emergency medical personnel. The findings report on the complex work of paramedics as they orient to their ever-changing work-settings, patients, and technological devices they work with. Furthermore, I explore how information in emergency medical services is put together by different text-mediated knowledge processes. In doing so, this dissertation explores the complex work of paramedics in the 21st century and explicates how their work is organized and reorganized by reform and restructuring practices.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCorman, M. (2014). The Social Organization of Emergency Medical Services in Calgary, Alberta (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28379en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28379
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/1662
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subject.classificationParamedicen_US
dc.subject.classificationHealth Worken_US
dc.subject.classificationEmergency Medical Servicesen_US
dc.subject.classificationInstitutional Ethnographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationTechnologies of Knowledge and Governanceen_US
dc.subject.classificationHealth Care Reformen_US
dc.titleThe Social Organization of Emergency Medical Services in Calgary, Alberta
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineSociology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrue
Files
Collections
Open Theses and Dissertations