Cargando…

Transplanting Care : Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States /

Transplanting Care examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and their caregivers, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Drawing on scores of interviews with patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, Laura L. Heinemann follows a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Heinemann, Laura L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Early Navigations
  • Chapter 2. Troubled Relations and Former Lives
  • Chapter 3. Precarity and Policy
  • Chapter 4. When Patients Are Also Caregivers
  • Chapter 5. Conscripting Caregivers' Health (Or, When Caregivers Are Patients, Too)
  • Chapter 6. Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care
  • Chapter 7. Revealing and Reframing Kinship and Care
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • Available titles in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series.