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Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 379-391, February 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Afterword: materialities, care, ‘ordinary affects’, power and politics
Abstract
In this paper I explore how the papers in this volume offer ways of thinking about materialities of care in terms of political ecologies, including hierarchies of value as well as assemblages, in which strategic agendas are made present in everyday practices, with profound and ordinary affects, as well as effects. I show how power can work through the association of multiple and heterogeneous materials and social processes to create ‘thresholds’, as spaces through which people must pass in order to be included as patients, and which circulate specific imaginaries over what counts as an appropriate need. I go o...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joanna Latimer Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Becoming at home in residential care for older people: a material culture perspective
This article uses ethnographic data and theories of practice and relationality to argue that rather than the meaning of home being inherent in objects, or felt subjectively by residents, meaning is generated through ongoing, everyday interactions between the two. I show that residents became at home by acquiring new things –as well as displaying existing possessions – and also through interacting with mundane objects in everyday social and relational practices such as cleaning and hosting. I conclude that being at home in older people's residential homes need not be so different from being at home at other stages of th...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Melanie Lovatt Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Family food practices: relationships, materiality and the everyday at the end of life
This article draws on data from a research project that combined participant observation with in‐depth interviews to explore family relationships and experiences of everyday life during life‐threatening illness. In it I suggest that death has often been theorised in ways that make its ‘mundane’ practices less discernible. As a means to foreground the everyday, and to demonstrate its importance to the study of dying, this article explores the (re)negotiation of food and eating in families facing the end of life. Three themes that emerged from the study's broader focus on family life are discussed: ‘food talk’ an...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Julie Ellis Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Dressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia
Abstract
This paper explores how the materiality of dress mediates and shapes practices of care in the context of dementia. Earlier research called for an approach to conceptualising care that recognised the role played by everyday artefacts. We extend this to a consideration of dress and dressing the body in relation to people with dementia that involves the direct manipulation of material objects, as well as the materiality of bodies. The paper draws on an ESRC funded study Dementia and Dress, which examined experiences of dress for people with dementia, families and care‐workers using ethnographic and qualitative meth...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Christina Buse, Julia Twigg Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Private finance initiative hospital architecture: towards a political economy of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital
This article argues for the importance of going beyond the hospital walls to include the politics that underwrite the design and construction of hospital buildings. The article assesses the case of the yet‐to‐be‐realised Liverpool Royal University Hospital, and the private finance initiative (PFI) funding that underpins the scheme, which is suggested as a salient ‘external’ context for understanding architecture's role in the provision of healthcare of many kinds for many years to come. PFI has major implications for democratic accountability and local economy, as well as for the architecture of the hospital as a...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paul Jones Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Placing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients
This article is part of a hospital ethnography that investigates healthcare architecture as an aspect of an increasingly large, complex, and urgent global health issue: caring for refugees and other immigrants. It argues that hospitals are nodes in transnational social networks of immigrant and refugee patients that form assemblages of human and non‐human objects. These assemblages co‐produce place‐specific hospital care in different hospital spaces. Place‐specific tensions and power dynamics arise when refugees and immigrants come into contact with these biomedical spaces. The argument is developed by analysing wa...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Susan E. Bell Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums
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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a major metropolitan art museum and botanic garden, this article considers the practical accomplishment of American museums’ ‘health turn’ by tracing how museum staff develop therapeutic programmes for visitors with disabilities. In doing so, it considers one of medical sociology's fundamental theoretical questions – how ideologies of health order social life – in an unconventional empirical setting. Acknowledging contemporary arguments for both the relative merits and unintended consequences of this policy trend, I focus instead on the particular insti...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gemma Mangione Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Thinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home blood pressure monitoring
Abstract
The growing consumer market in health monitoring devices means that technologies that were once the preserve of the clinic are moving into spaces such as homes and workplaces. We consider how one such device, blood pressure monitors, comes to be integrated into everyday life. We pursue the concept of ‘care infrastructure’, drawing on recent scholarship in STS and medical sociology, to illuminate the work and range of people, things and spaces involved in self‐monitoring. Drawing on a UK study involving observations and interviews with 31 people who have used a consumer blood pressure monitor, we apply the co...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kate Weiner, Catherine Will Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one's own
This article extends this concern with the mundane to care itself and explores how specific materialities, such as shared spaces and everyday objects, not only mediate mundane care but enable it to happen. Our focus is on mundane help in the context of ill health, between people who are not immediate family, such as neighbours, acquaintances and others with whom we interact in our daily lives. Drawing on recent empirical studies of low‐level support in two different parts of the UK, we show how the materialities of care can mediate the affective risks associated with receiving such help. Specifically, we investigate how ...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Julie Brownlie, Helen Spandler Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Conceptualising ‘materialities of care’: making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts
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‘Materialities of care’ is outlined as a heuristic device for making visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture within health and social care contexts, and exploring interrelations between materials and care in practice. Three analytic strands inherent to the concept are delineated: spatialities of care, temporalities of care and practices of care. These interconnecting themes span the articles in this special issue. The articles explore material practice across a range of clinical and non‐clinical spaces, including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces, and commu...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Christina Buse, Daryl Martin, Sarah Nettleton Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
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Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
The sociology of cancer: a decade of research
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 552-576, March 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 15, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Sociology of Health&Illness, Ahead of Print. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 15, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Analysing barriers to service improvement using a multi ‐level theory of innovation: the case of glaucoma outpatient clinics
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 654-669, May 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 13, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simon Turner
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Christos Vasilakis
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Martin Utley
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Paul Foster
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Aachal Kotecha
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Naomi J. Fulop Source Type: research
