Chronic Failures
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9664-8 (ISBN)
Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the state of Jalisco, this book documents the routes uninsured Mexican patients take in order to access resource intensive biotechnical treatments, that is, different modes of dialysis and organ transplantation. It argues that these routes are normalized, bureaucratically, socially and epidemiologically, and turned into a locus for exploitation and profit. Without a coherent logic of healthcare access, negotiating regimes of renal care has catastrophic consequences for those with the least resources to expend in that effort. In carrying both the costs and the burden of care, the practices of patients without entitlement offer a critical vantage point on the interplay between the state, markets in healthcare and the sick body.
CIARA KIERANS is a reader in social anthropology in the Department of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. She is the coauthor of Social and Cultural Perspectives on Health, Technology and Medicine: Old Concepts, New Problems.
Foreword by Lenore Manderson
Prologue
Introduction
Encountering Regimes of Renal Care: The Crucible of Experience
Chapter One
Studying Regimes of Renal Care
Chapter Two
Biopolitics and the Analytics of a Population on the Move
Chapter Three
Labor: Producing Sickness and the State
Chapter Four
Brokering Healthcare: Paper-work, Negotiation and the Strategies of Navigation
Chapter Five
Exchange: Bodies as Sites for the Production of (Surplus) Value
Chapter Six
Transplant Scandals, the State and the ‘Multiple Problematics’ of Accountability
Chapter Seven
Political and Corporate Etiologies: Producing Disease Emergence and Disease Response
Epilogue
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.10.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Medical Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 b-w photographs |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 286 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Nephrologie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8135-9664-5 / 0813596645 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-9664-8 / 9780813596648 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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