Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to invite you all to the book launch of my new book
The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency
Room
by* Mirko Pasquini*, Rutgers Univerity Press 2025
The event will be chaired by Professor Lenore Manderson.
📅 Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2025
🕔 Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM. CET
📍 Location: Room 4-0-4, European Medical Anthropology Conference 2025,
Vienna
Book Abstract:
Who is to be attended first? And how should such a decision be made? The
Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency
Room ethnographically explores the everyday life of one of the thickest
places in contemporary societies: the ER, where aging, economic precarity,
draconian migration laws, hospital overcrowding, and life and death,
intersect daily. The book describes the effect of those intersections for
clinicians and their patients, as well as for policy makers and the
health-care system more generally.
Mirko Pasquini shows that there is more than medical urgency at stake in
the ER, where mistrust of medical authority is fueled and violence often
sparks. He analyzes the making of urgency, that is triage, not as a neutral
medical way of sorting, but as a practice that actively creates difference
through economies of attention. The Negotiation of Urgency illustrates
both the limits of triage, and how those limits can spark improvisation and
creative reinvention.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-negotiation-of-urgency/97819788362
66/
You are all warmly welcome to participate and I look forward to an engaging
discussion.
Best regards,
Mirko Pasquini
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Mirko Pasquini
Assistant Professor, School of Global Studies (SGS),
University of Gothenburg
Affiliated Researcher, Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH)
Uppsala University
The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency
Room (2025) Rutgers University Press
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Mistrustful Dependency: Mistrust as Risk Management in an Italian Emergency
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(2023) Medical Anthropology
Like ticking time bombs. Improvising structural competency to ‘Defuse’
the
exploding of violence against healthcare workers in Italy.
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