Uniforms and status in hospitals - Cities under siege

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How important is the way we dress for work? Laurie speaks to Stephen Timmons who has studied the impact on a hospital of removing professional markers and having almost all staff dress the same. Also how cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world: Stephen Graham, author of Cities Under Siege, tells Laurie that from the slums of the global South to the financial districts of the developed world political violence is policed with increasingly military tactics. He claims that the all over the world the city shows more and more features of a war zone. They discuss what he calls the 'new military urbanism' with Melissa Butcher. Producer: Charlie Taylor.

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1:13.0	Hello, years ago when the world suddenly seemed to be full of hippies telling us to turn on, tune
1:20.8	in and drop out, I came across a paper written by a radical sociologist, which while celebrating
1:26.4	such liberatory sentiments added in a small reservation.
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1:36.8	I can't be the only person left who would prefer the pilot of my next airplane to be wearing a smart uniform, displaying relatively
1:45.1	short hair and not to have a spliff dangling from his lips as he climbs into the cockpit.
1:50.8	This rather neatly captures one of the paradoxes of uniform, while on the one hand it can suggest
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