{"product_id":"chronic-failures-kidneys-regimes-of-care-and-the-mexican-state-hardback-9780813596655","title":"Chronic Failures; Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State (Hardback) 9780813596655","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChronic Failures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eKidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCiara Kierans (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813596655\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages, 8 b-w photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e“Chronic Failures\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds a chilling account of the pathological regimes of renal care in Jalisco, Mexico, written in taut prose that is at once theoretically incisive and full of telling ethnographic texture. Moving deftly across the specific and entangled relations of bodies, markets, and state, this book brilliantly weaves together clinical paper-work and polluted lake water, pharmaceutical tianguis and charitable billionaires, media scandals and a mysterious new form of chronic kidney failure into a compelling indictment of the mirage of biomedical salvation. Kierans lays bare how sickness itself is made into a form of consuming labor – one that more often produces hardship and harm rather than health.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Megan Crowley-Matoka (author of Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico) \u003cdiv\u003e“Kierans offers an extraordinary portrait of the challenges underlying efforts to survive kidney failure in Mexico. 'Regimes of care' extend far beyond clinical interventions, incorporating (and insisting upon) the ongoing labors of kin, including the transport challenges of ongoing dialysis treatments, the oppressive cost of immunosuppressant drugs post-transplant, the limits of universal insurance and its bureaucratic burdens, and even the necessity of having a microwave at home. This beautifully written, thought-provoking work stands out as an important contribution to social scientists’ writings on the sociomedical dimensions of organ failure, healthcare disparities, and on the entanglement of suffering and hope.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Lesley A. Sharp (author of The Transplant Imaginary) \u003cdiv\u003e\"the book is sensitive to multiple theoretical lenses that unpack the rich ethnographic details in the local complex settings. It is a must-read for those interested in medical anthropology, clinical nephrology, science and technology studies, global health, and biomedical ethics as it shows how organ transplantation, a 'miracle' medicine of the twentieth century, actually exploits the poor.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Medical Anthropology Quarterly)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eChronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eForeword by Lenore Manderson\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Encountering Regimes of Renal Care: The Crucible of Experience                                    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One               \u003cbr\u003e Studying Regimes of Renal Care\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two              \u003cbr\u003e Biopolitics and the Analytics of a Population on the Move                                                  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three            \u003cbr\u003e Labor: Producing Sickness and the State                                                                              \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four              \u003cbr\u003e Brokering Healthcare: Paper-work, Negotiation and the Strategies of Navigation              \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five              \u003cbr\u003e Exchange: Bodies as Sites for the Production of (Surplus) Value                                        \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six                \u003cbr\u003e Transplant Scandals, the State and the ‘\u003cbr\u003eMultiple Problematics’\u003cbr\u003e of Accountability              \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seven            \u003cbr\u003e Political and Corporate Etiologies: Producing Disease Emergence and Disease Response\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue                                                                                                                                 \u003cbr\u003e References\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563729383704,"sku":"9780813596655","price":119.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/chronic-failures-kidneys-regimes-of-care-and-the-mexican-state-hardback-9780813596655","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}