More than Medicine

Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

By: LaTonya J. Trotter

Narrated by: Kristin Aikin Salada

In More than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for 400 African American older adults living with poor health and limited means.

Trotter describes how these NPs practiced an inclusive form of care work that addressed medical, social, and organizational problems that often accompany poverty. In solving this expanded terrain of problems from inside the clinic, these NPs were not only solving a broader set of concerns for their patients, they became a professional solution for managing "difficult people" for both their employer and the state.

Through More than Medicine, we discover that the problems found in the NP's exam room are as much a product of our nation's disinvestment in social problems as of physician scarcity or rising costs.

The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"A must-read for anyone interested in how our changing health care system both maintains and challenges norms about gender, work, and the provision of care." (Adia Harvey Wingfield, professor of sociology, Washington University in St. Louis)

"A beautiful book, one that is engaging, empirically rich, and theoretically sophisticated." (Clare Stacey, medical sociologist, Kent State University)

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