Author: Mirko Pasquini

Mirko Pasquini, Ph.D, is assistant professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg, and affiliated researcher in Medical Anthropology at the Centre for Medical Humanities at Uppsala University. His research interests combine health inequality and hospital ethnography in Italy and Sweden, with a focus on the social dynamics of attention, violence and mistrust in care interactions. Mirko’s book “The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room” is currently under contract by Rutgers University Press.

Mirko Pasquini

The sound of the absurd: Learning to listen in the Emergency Room

April, 2024 / By Mirko Pasquini

It was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I […]