Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid‐19 Critical Care.
This ethnographic study introduces the term "distressed work" to describe the emergence of chronic frictions between moral imperatives for health care workers to keep working and the dramatic increase in distress during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Interviews and observant participation conducted in a hos...
| Published in: | Hastings Center Report Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 33 - 46 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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