| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 173 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Foucault after Neoliberalism; or. The Clinic Here and Now; 1 Clinic or Spa?: Facial Surgery in the Context of AIDS-Related Facial Wasting; 2 Implications of an Epistemological Vision: Knowing What to Do in Home Health Care; 3 Where Is Community Health?: Racism, the Clinic, and the Biopolitical State; 4 Repetition and Rupture: The Gender of Agency in Methodone Maintenance Treatment; 5 Freedom or Socks: Market Promises versus Supportive Care in Diabetes Treatment; 6 Clinic without the Clinic |
| Summary |
From 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 Birth of the Clinic . Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients. Combining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground today's clinic in a larg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Naissance de la clinique
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 |
| SUBJECT |
Naissance de la clinique (Foucault, Michel) fast |
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Clinics.
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Medical anthropology.
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Social medicine.
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Anthropology.
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Ambulatory Care Facilities -- history
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Ambulatory Care -- history
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Anthropology
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History, Modern 1601-
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Social Medicine -- history
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anthropology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Anthropology
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Clinics
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Medical anthropology
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Social medicine
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Patton, Cindy, 1956-
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University of Minnesota. Institute for Advanced Study.
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| ISBN |
9780816675265 |
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0816675260 |
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