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When the Hospital Becomes Home

Visibility, Knowledge, and Power at Nila

NISSIM MIZRACHI

Tel Aviv University

This study explores the interrelations among visibility, knowledge, and power in a hybrid institution—a hospital that functions as a boarding school for handicapped children. It demonstrates how the incongruity between the institution's formal definition as a hospital and its day-to-day reality plays a role in shaping the power structure, prioritization of types of knowledge, and visibility of its agents. For through these groups' interactions with, reactions to, and acceptance of these structural determinants, the institution's own identity takes shape around the conflicting discourses of social control that it seeks to accommodate.

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 30, No. 2, 209-239 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/089124101030002003
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