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Emerging Socialities in 21st Century Healthcare /

The landscape of health care is changing rapidly, both on an organizational and a technological level. This book gathers medical anthropologists to examine the ways that both patients and health care workers are being affected by new policies, market, and technologies. Contributors cover a wide rang...

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Otros Autores: Fainzang, Sylvie (Contribuidor), Fortin, Sylvie (Contribuidor), Gall, Josiane Le (Contribuidor), Graf, Franz (Contribuidor), Gritsch, Monika (Contribuidor), Hadolt, Bernhard (Contribuidor, Editor ), Hardon, Anita (Contribuidor, Editor ), Haxaire, Claudie (Contribuidor), Kata, Prachatip (Contribuidor), Ludvigsen, Bodil (Contribuidor), Masana, Lina (Contribuidor), Quaranta, Ivo (Contribuidor), Raffaetà, Roberta (Contribuidor), Thiesbonenkamp-Maag, Julia (Contribuidor), Verwey, Martine (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Emerging Socialities in 21st Century Healthcare Introduction
  • Part I. REFLECTING THEORY-Revisiting concepts
  • 1. Biosociality extended. The case of parental groups campaigning against paediatric vaccinations in Italy
  • 2. Emerging animistic socialities? An example of transnational appropriation of curanderismo
  • Part II. TRANSFORMATIONS IN HEALTHCARE POLICY-Politics and ethics
  • 3. Selling global HPV. Pharmaceutical marketing and healthcare policymaking in the case of human papillomavirus vaccination in Austria and Japan
  • 4. The birth of disabled people as 'ambiguous citizens'. Biopolitics, the ethical regime of the impaired body, and the ironies of identity politics in Thailand
  • 5. Market thinking and home nursing. Perspectives on new socialities in healthcare in Denmark
  • 6. The production and transformation of subjectivity. Healthcare and migration in the province of Bologna (Italy)
  • Part III. NEW SOCIALITIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES IN CARE
  • 7. Muslim migrants in Montreal and perinatal care. Challenging moralities and local norms
  • 8. 'I am here not to repair but see the person as a whole'. Pastoral care work in German hospitals
  • 9 Palliative care at home in the case of ALS
  • 10. Configurations for action. How French general practitioners handle their patients' consumption of psychotropic drugs
  • Part IV. NEW SUBJECTIVITIES, SOCIALITIES, AND THE MEDIA
  • 11. New forms of sociality on the Internet. Users, advocates, and opponents of self-medication
  • 12. 'The Internet saved my life'. Overcoming isolation among the homebound chronically ill
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index