In April 2023, Professor Marius Wamsiedel published a new monograph The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington Books, 2023). In this book, he examines the social categorization of patients and its consequences at two emergency departments in Romania.

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and by adopting an interactionist lens, Professor Wamsiedel unravels the underlying social logic of moral evaluation, the criteria and assumptions that inform it, and attempts by triage workers and patients to negotiate access to emergency care. The study offers new ways of understanding the work of street-level bureaucracies and informal barriers to care in the Romanian health system.

The book was also featured on the New Books Network, where Professor Wamsiedel was interviewed by Dr. Roland Clark from the University of Liverpool.