Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part One: The Expansion of Medicine in Large Urban Jail
Chapter 1: Summoning the Sick and Violent into Jail.
Chapter 2: The Medicalization of the Los Angeles County Jail System

Part Two: The Restriction of Medicine in Large Public Hospitals
Chapter 3: Opioids, Observation, and Restricting Access in the Public Emergency Room
Chapter 4: Building a Public Hospital Everyone Knows is Too Small

Conclusion: Towards the Administrative Disappearing of Social Suffering.

Appendix: Historically Embedded Ethnography.
References
Endnotes

About the Author

Armando Lara-Millán is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. He is an ethnographer and historical sociologist. He studies how powerful organizations generate truths and rationalize problems, shaping the life fortunes of large numbers of people. He has undertaken studies in a wide range of contexts, including law, medicine, criminal justice, economic pricing, and urban poverty governance. His work has
appeared in the American Sociological Review, Criminology, and in the volume The Many Hands of the State. He is also the recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation, Law and Society Association, the Max Planck Institute
for the Study of Societies, the Ford Foundation, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the American Sociological Association.

Reviews

... there is much to like about the book as written. It is an intriguing read, theoretically ambitious, and seems likely to spur additional creative research that pushes and tests its claims.
*Nicole P. Marwell, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, andPractice, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, Social Forces*

There simply is not another book quite like this, making Lara-Milla´&n's work groundbreaking.
*A.R.S. Lorenz, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8*