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Chronic Failures : Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State /

Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the state of Jalisco, this book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kierans, Ciara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Studying regimes of renal care
  • Biopolitics and the analytics of a population on the move
  • Labor : producing sickness and the state
  • Brokering healthcare : paper-work, negotiation and the strategies of navigation
  • Exchange : bodies as sites for the production of (surplus) value
  • Transplant scandals, the state and the 'multiple problematics' of accountability
  • Political and corporate etiologies : producing disease emergence and disease response.