Exploring the concept of 'good care,' this thought-provoking book challenges the belief that increased patient choice enhances healthcare quality. It delves into the complexities of care delivery and argues that simply offering more options may not lead to the anticipated improvements in patient outcomes. Through critical analysis, the author provides insights into the nuances of healthcare decision-making and the implications for both patients and providers.
Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, this title looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. It focuses on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, and boundaries. schovat popis
In what way is »care« a matter of »tinkering«? Rather than presenting care as a (preferably »warm«) relation between human beings, the various contributions to the volume give the material world (usually cast as »cold«) a prominent place in their analysis. Thus, this book does not continue to oppose care and technology, but contributes to rethinking both in such a way that they can be analysed together. Technology is not cast as a functional tool, easy to control - it is shifting, changing, surprising and adaptable. In care practices all »things« are (and have to be) tinkered with persistently. Knowledge is fluid, too. Rather than a set of general rules, the knowledges (in the plural) relevant to care practices are as adaptable and in need of adaptation as the technologies, the bodies, the people, and the daily lives involved.
Annemarie Mol interferes with proud celebrations of the human ability to think and takes inspiration from eating in order to shift a wide range of intellectual reflexes. This tactic transforms the meaning of such crucial theory terms as being, knowing, doing and relating.