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Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine : Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hadolt, Bernhard.
- Series:
- Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In health and medicine, imagining the future is essential in giving meaning to the past and the present and for propelling people into action. This is true not only at the level of individuals as they envision and carry out everyday activities and long-term plans but also for institutional practices framed by and unfolding within various socio-political ecologies and transfigurations. Hope and uncertainty are critical affective and knowledge-related modalities of such imaginations and assume vital meanings in policing, managing, and experiencing health, illness, and well-being. This volume brings together contributions from medical anthropologists who address this theme across various medical spheres, including the pragmatics of hope and uncertainty, the techno-sphere, health management, and individual and socially distributed emotions.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Pragmatics of Hope and Uncertainty
- 1 Embracing Uncertainty
- 2 Hope, Trust, Medical Action, and Care
- Part II: The Techno-Sphere
- 3 Self-Tracking Practices of “Doing Health”
- 4 Precarious Lives, Uncertainty and the Politics of Hope
- 5 Between Uncertainty and Routinization
- 6 “Being a Little Bit Pregnant”
- Part III: Health Management
- 7 Solo Living and Cancer in Denmark
- 8 The Uncertain Future of Antibiotics
- 9 Transfigurations of Lived Iatrogenic Risks in Switzerland
- 10 “Skyped, Zoomed and WhatsApped”
- Part IV: Individual and Socially Distributed Emotions
- 11 Affective Processes and the Diagnosing of Chronic Fatigue
- 12 Fighting for Recovery
- 13 Figurations of Feasting on Fermented Food in Four Remote Regions of Switzerland
- Appendix
- Contributors
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783839467626
- 3839467624
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