{"product_id":"transplanting-care-shifting-commitments-in-health-and-care-in-the-united-states-hardback-9780813574431","title":"Transplanting Care; Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States (Hardback) 9780813574431","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransplanting Care\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eShifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaura L. Heinemann (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813574431\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 July 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\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\"Succinct, convincing, and organized, \u003ci\u003eTransplanting Care\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Lesley A. Sharp (Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College) \u003cdiv\u003e\"With its clear and compassionate prose, \u003ci\u003eTransplanting Care\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Somatosphere) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Succinct, convincing, and organized, \u003ci\u003eTransplanting Care\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Lesley A. Sharp (Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College) \u003cdiv\u003e\"With its clear and compassionate prose, \u003ci\u003eTransplanting Care\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Somatosphere)\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\u003cdiv\u003eThe sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation-the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In \u003ci\u003eTransplanting Care\u003c\/i\u003e, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHeinemann points out that as efforts to control healthcare costs gain urgency-and as new surgical techniques, drug therapies, and home medical equipment advance-most of the transplant process now takes place at home, among kin. Indeed, the transplant system effectively depends on unpaid care labor, typically provided by spouses, parents, siblings, and others. Drawing on scores of interviews with patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, Heinemann follows a variety of patients and loved ones as they undertake this uncertain and strenuous “transplant journey.” She also shows how these home-based caregiving efforts take place within the larger economic and political context of a paucity of resources for patients and caregivers, who ultimately must surmount numerous obstacles. The author concludes that the many snags encountered by transplant patients and loved ones make a clear case for more comprehensive health and social policy that treats care as a necessarily shared public responsibility.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAn illuminating look at the long transplant journey, \u003ci\u003eTransplanting Care\u003c\/i\u003e also offers broader insight into how we handle infirmity in America-and how we might do a better job of doing so. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePreface\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePrologue\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1        Early Navigations\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2        Troubled Relations and Former Lives\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3        Precarity and Policy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4        When Patients Are Also Caregivers\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5        Conscripting Caregivers’\u003cbr\u003e Health (Or, When Caregivers are Patients, Too)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6        Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7        Revealing and Reframing Kinship and Care\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eConclusion\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eReferences\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\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":52559355904280,"sku":"9780813574431","price":85.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transplanting-care-shifting-commitments-in-health-and-care-in-the-united-states-hardback-9780813574431","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}