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Rebirth of the clinic : places and agents in contemporary health care / Cindy Patton, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Quadrant Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinics.
- Medical anthropology.
- Social medicine.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Naissance de la clinique.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "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."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816675265
- 0816675260
- OCLC:
- 692336505
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