ABSTRACT

The landscape of healthcare is changing rapidly, both on an organisational and a technological level. This book gathers medical anthropologists to examine the ways that both patients and health care workers are being affected by new policies, market, and technologies. Contributors cover a wide range of topics, including vaccination, disability, migration, and self-medication, making clear that not only are changing circumstances leading to the emergence of new socialities, but they are also driving new ethics and moralities.

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part I|32 pages

Reflecting Theory—Revisiting Concepts

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chapter 1|12 pages

Biosociality extended

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The case of parental groups campaigning against paediatric vaccinations in Italy
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chapter 2|18 pages

Emerging animistic socialities?

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An example of transnational appropriation of curanderismo 1
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part II|60 pages

TRANSFORMATIONS IN HEALTHCARE POLICY—Politics and ethics

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chapter 3|16 pages

Selling global HPV

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Pharmaceutical marketing and healthcare policymaking in the case of human papillomavirus vaccination in Austria and Japan
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chapter 4|14 pages

The birth of disabled people as ‘ambiguous citizens’

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Biopolitics, the ethical regime of the impaired body, and the ironies of identity politics in Thailand
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chapter 5|14 pages

Market thinking and home nursing

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Perspectives on new socialities in healthcare in Denmark
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chapter 6|14 pages

The production and transformation of subjectivity

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Healthcare and migration in the province of B ologna (Italy)
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part III|46 pages

New Socialities and Subjectivities in Care

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chapter 7|18 pages

Muslim migrants in Montreal and perinatal care

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Challenging moralities and local norms
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chapter 8|6 pages

‘I am here not to repair but see the person as a whole’

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Pastoral care work in German hospitals
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chapter 10|14 pages

Configurations for action

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How French general practitioners handle their patients' consumption of psychotropic drugs
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part IV|28 pages

New Subjectivities, Socialities, and The Media

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chapter 11|12 pages

New forms of sociality on the Internet

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Users, advocates, and opponents of self-medication
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chapter 12|14 pages

‘The Internet saved my life’

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Overcoming isolation among the homebound chronically ill
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