Dirty Work

Shirley K Drew is Director of Academic Assessment and Associate Professor of Communication at Pittsburg State University.Melanie Mills is Health Communication Advisor and Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University.Bob M Gassaway is Adjunct Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico.

PART I: ETHNOGRAPHY OF TAINT 1 Doing Justice, Shirley K. Drew 2 Dirty Work and Discipline Behind Bars, Sarah J. Tracy & Clifton Scott 3 Riding Fire Trucks and Ambulances with America's Heroes, Clifton Scott & Sarah J. Tracy 4 Without Trucks, We'd Be Naked, Hungry & Homeless!, Melanie Mills 5 Bitching about Secretarial ""Dirty Work"", Patricia Sotirin 6 Nursing as Dirty Work, Melanie Mills & Amy Schejbal 7 Crack Pipes and TCells: Use of Taint Management by HIV/AIDS/Addiction Caregivers, Stephanie Poole Martinez PART II: CASE STUDIES 8 Good Cops, Dirty Crimes, Bob M. Gassaway 9 Cops, Crimes, and Community Policing, Shirley K. Drew & Mendy Hulvey 10 The Death Doctors, Bob M. Gassaway PART III : CONCLUSION 11 Ethnography as Dirty Work, Shirley K. Drew & Melanie Mills 12 Concluding Thoughts, Melanie Mills, Shirley K. Drew, & Bob M. Gassaway

For everyone who has ever wondered "how on earth" or "why in the world" people do the dirty work of prison guards, cops, community police, long-distance truck drivers, secretaries, nurses, HIV/AIDS/addiction caregivers, forensic pathologists and their technicians, or even cultural ethnographers in the academy, this book will be a tantalizing, provocative, enlightening, and entertaining read. --H.L. "Bud" Goodall, Jr., Director and Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University