Redistributing the Poor

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.

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