Health Matters : Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada / Jacqueline Choiniere, Pat Armstrong, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Hugh Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armstrong, Hugh, Editor.

Armstrong, Pat, Editor.

Choiniere, Jacqueline, Editor.

Mykhalovskiy, Eric, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine--Canada.

Social medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contribute alternative perspectives about what counts as health care problems and how to best to address them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1 Introduction

2 The Dematerialization of Fundamental Nursing Care in an Era of Managerial Reform

3 From “Making a Decision” to “Decision Making”: A Critical Reflection on a Discursive Shift

4 Code Work: RAI-MDS, Measurement, Quality, and Work Organization in Long-Term Care Facilities in Ontario

5 Disputing Evidence: Canadian Health Professionals’ Responses to Evidence about Midwifery

6 “Tell Me Where It Hurts”: A Case Study of the Impacts of Structural Violence, Syndemic Suffering, and Intergenerational Trauma on Indigenous Peoples’ Health

7 Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Broadening the Discourse on Quality Improvement in the Home Care System

8 Cigarette-Packaging Legislation in Canada and the Smoking Subject

9 Public Good, or Goods for the Public: The Commercialization of Academic Health Research

10 Making Sense of Vaginal Mesh

11 Seeking Disability Politics in Disability and Health-Related Non-profit Organizations

12 Medical Laboratories: For-Profit Delivery and the Disintegration of Public Health Care

13 Nail Salons, Toxics, and Health: Organizing for a Better Work Environment

14 Conclusion – Health Matters: Research in Practice

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3697-6

1-4875-3696-8

OCLC:

1141198972