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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785688603321

Titolo

Rebirth of the clinic [[electronic resource] ] : places and agents in contemporary health care / / Cindy Patton, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8166-7526-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Quadrant Book

Altri autori (Persone)

PattonCindy <1956->

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Clinics

Medical anthropology

Social medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Quadrant Book."

"Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, provides support for interdisciplinary scholarship within a new collaborative model of research and publication."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Clinic or spa? Facial surgery in the context of AIDS-related facial wasting / John Liesch and Cindy Patton -- Implications of an epistemological vision : knowing what to do in home health care / Christine Ceci and Mary Ellen Purkis -- Where is community health? : Racism, the clinic, and the biopolitical state / Jenna Loyd -- Repetition and rupture : the gender of agency in methadone maintenance treatment / Suzanne Fraser -- Freedom or socks : market promises versus supportive care in diabetes treatment / Annemarie Mol -- Clinic without the clinic / Cindy Patton -- Practices of doctoring : enacting medical experience / Lisa Diedrich.

Sommario/riassunto

From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic . Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients. Combining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors



to this volume ground today's clinic in a larg