{"product_id":"rebirth-of-the-clinic-places-and-agents-in-contemporary-health-care-paperback-softback-9780816670192","title":"Rebirth of the Clinic; Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816670192","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRebirth of the Clinic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePlaces and Agents in Contemporary Health Care\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCindy Patton (Edited by), Christine Ceci (Contributions by), Lisa Diedrich (Contributions by), Suzanne Fraser (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816670192\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 November 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.26 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\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRebirth of the Clinic \u003c\/i\u003econtributes significantly and meaningfully to critical, interdisciplinary research on the clinic, on interactions between medical professionals and patients, and on the complex processes of translation through which policies are put into practice and vice versa.\" -Samantha King, Queens University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's \u003ci\u003eBirth of the Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e. Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, \u003ci\u003eRebirth of the Clinic\u003c\/i\u003e explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eCombining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground today's clinic in a larger scheme of power relations, identifying the cultural, political, and economic pressures that frame clinical relationships, including the instrumentalist definition of health, actuarial-based medical practices, and patient self-help movements, which simultaneously hem in and create the conditions under which agents creatively change ideas of illness and treatment.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eFrom threatened community health centers in poor African American locales to innovative nursing practices among the marginally housed citizens of Canada's poorest urban neighborhood, this volume addresses not just the who, what, where, and how of place-specific clinical practices, but also sets these local experiences against a theoretical backdrop that links them to the power of modern medicine in shaping fundamental life experiences.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eContributors: Christine Ceci, U of Alberta; Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook U; Suzanne Fraser, Monash U; John Liesch, Simon Fraser U; Jenna Loyd, CUNY; Annemarie Mol, U of Amsterdam; Mary Ellen Purkis, U of Victoria.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Foucault after Neoliberalsim, or, The Clinic Here and Now\u003cbr\u003e Cindy Patton\u003cbr\u003e 1. Clinic or Spa? Facial Surgery in the Context of AIDS-Related Facial Wasting\u003cbr\u003e John Liesch and Cindy Patton\u003cbr\u003e 2. Implications of an Epistemological Vision: Knowing What to Do in Home Health Care\u003cbr\u003e Christine Ceci and Mary Ellen Purkis\u003cbr\u003e 3. Where is Community Health?: Racism, the Clinic, and the Biopolitical State\u003cbr\u003e Jenna Loyd\u003cbr\u003e 4. Repetition and Rupture: The Gender of Agency in Methadone Maintenance Treatment\u003cbr\u003e Suzanne Fraser\u003cbr\u003e 5. Freedom or Socks: Market Promises vs. Supportive Care in Diabetes Treatment\u003cbr\u003e Annemarie Mol\u003cbr\u003e 6. Clinic Without the Clinic\u003cbr\u003e Cindy Patton\u003cbr\u003e 7. Practices of Doctoring: Enacting Medical Experience\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Diedrich\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742570967320,"sku":"9780816670192","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rebirth-of-the-clinic-places-and-agents-in-contemporary-health-care-paperback-softback-9780816670192","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}