Marius Wamsiedel is assistant professor of global health at Duke Kunshan University.

This ethnography of moral evaluation is as beautifully written as it is thought provoking. Taking emergency medical triage as a strategic case, Marius Wamsiedel peels back multiple layers to uncover the complex forces shaping how frontline emergency medical workers screen and sort their clients. The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients is a book that could only be written by a careful and theoretically-driven ethnographer like Wamsiedel.

• Chapter 1 – The Need for Moral EvaluationChapter 2 – Moral Evaluation CriteriaChapter 3 – Patient TypesChapter 4 – Credibility Work and the Assessment of LegitimacyChapter 5 – Manufacturing Responsibility and WorthChapter 6 – Producing Exclusion, Reproducing Racism

Marius Wamsiedel is assistant professor of global health at Duke Kunshan University.

This ethnography of moral evaluation is as beautifully written as it is thought provoking. Taking emergency medical triage as a strategic case, Marius Wamsiedel peels back multiple layers to uncover the complex forces shaping how frontline emergency medical workers screen and sort their clients. The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients is a book that could only be written by a careful and theoretically-driven ethnographer like Wamsiedel.

• Chapter 1 – The Need for Moral EvaluationChapter 2 – Moral Evaluation CriteriaChapter 3 – Patient TypesChapter 4 – Credibility Work and the Assessment of LegitimacyChapter 5 – Manufacturing Responsibility and WorthChapter 6 – Producing Exclusion, Reproducing Racism

Marius Wamsiedel is assistant professor of global health at Duke Kunshan University.

This ethnography of moral evaluation is as beautifully written as it is thought provoking. Taking emergency medical triage as a strategic case, Marius Wamsiedel peels back multiple layers to uncover the complex forces shaping how frontline emergency medical workers screen and sort their clients. The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients is a book that could only be written by a careful and theoretically-driven ethnographer like Wamsiedel.

• Chapter 1 – The Need for Moral EvaluationChapter 2 – Moral Evaluation CriteriaChapter 3 – Patient TypesChapter 4 – Credibility Work and the Assessment of LegitimacyChapter 5 – Manufacturing Responsibility and WorthChapter 6 – Producing Exclusion, Reproducing Racism