...Loyd S. Pettegrew Purpose Health care organizational research should pay greater attention to the specific settings where health is practiced. An ethnographic account of humor, ritual and defiance is presented from 29 months spent in a private, concierge-type radiation oncology center. A thick...

...S. Marlon Gayadeen; Scott W. Phillips Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine ritualistic humor or joking that exists in a small, rural police department in Western New York. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected through participatory observations and interviews...