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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Immobility and Medicine: An Introduction -- "Thinking with" Immobility -- Immobile Infrastructures and Enforced Waiting -- Embodied Stillness and Fixity -- Motility and (Im)Mobile Possibilities -- Conclusion: Moving the Field of Immobility and Medicine -- References -- Part I Immobile Infrastructures and Enforced Waiting -- 2 Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine -- Introduction: On Top of a Mountain -- Methods -- Transplant Medicine as a 'Hope-Generating Machine' -- Lists in Flux |
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Allocating Algorithms -- Waiting-in-Uncertainty, Mobile Phones and Immobilities -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 'Being Stuck': Refugees' Experiences of Enforced Waiting in Greece -- Introduction -- Political Context and European Border Closures -- Methodology -- Waiting in Refugee Camps-Passivity and Dependency -- Uncertainty and Suffering Linked to the Asylum System -- 'Existential Insecurity' and Open-Ended Waiting -- Engaging with and Appreciating the Present Moment -- Planning for an Anticipated Future -- Potentials for Mental Health and Psychosocial Interventions -- Conclusion -- References |
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4 'An (Im)Patient Population': Waiting Experiences of Transgender Patients at Healthcare Services in Buenos Aires -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The Gender Identity Act in Argentina's Healthcare System -- The Experiences of Waiting -- Waiting Scenes: Public Health Services -- The Transgender Population Seen Through the Biomedical Gaze -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5 Living in 'Limbo': Immobility and Uncertainty in Childhood Cancer Medical Care in Argentina -- Introduction -- About Illness Experience -- Immobility and Uncertainty: Fundamental Categories to Understand Cancer Care |
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Liminality in Cancer Care -- Disruption of Everyday Life -- Cancer and Migration: Disruptive Events -- Living in 'Limbo' -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II Embodied Stillness and Fixity -- 6 Embodying Immobility: Dysphoric Geographies of Labour Migration and Their Transformations in the Therapeutic Context of 'Venda' Ancestor Possession in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Introduction -- Immobility as Culturally Mediated Praxis -- Ancestor Spirit Possession in Tshikuani: Beyond 'Rebellion' -- Therapeutic Articulations of the 'Denying Body' Migrants in Tshikuani |
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Historical Context: Towards Ancestor Possession -- Contemporary Transformations: Immobility in the Rural 'Home' -- Venda-Tshikuani: Past and Present Dichotomies -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Liminality and the SCI Body: How Medicine Reproduces Stuckedness -- Introduction -- Liminal Passages Experienced by the SCI Body -- Medical Relationship to the Post Mobility Body -- The Reproduction of the Medical Model -- Spaces of Reproduction and Resistance -- References -- 8 Embodied Perceptions of Immobility After Stroke -- Introduction -- Motility and Exploring the Environment |
| Summary |
Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity. This focus on stillness, things that are stuck, incomplete or in a state of transition can point to new theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions in social studies of medicine. This edited volume brings the concept of immobility to the forefront of social studies of medicine to explore how immobility shapes processes of medical care and the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying immobility in medical contexts. The authors in this volume draw from a wide range of case studies across the globe to make contributions to our current understanding of health, illness and medicine, mobilities and immobilities. Chapter 2 "Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is a medical anthropologist working in the Department of Targeted Intervention, UCL. She is the lead editor of Healthcare in Motion: (Im)mobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access (2018). Bruno Vindrola-Padros is based in the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. He specialises in material culture studies and is currently exploring manifestations of (im)mobilities in the neolithic period. Kyle Lee-Crossett is based in the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. He specialises in heritage studies and currently investigates institutional (im)mobilities in the context of collecting contemporary bio- and cultural diversity in public archives and museums.-- Provided by publisher |
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Neurological Injury and Disrupted Motility |
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Includes index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 30, 2020) |
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Hospitals -- Waiting lists.
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Quietude.
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Waiting (Philosophy)
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Medical care -- Psychological aspects
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People with disabilities -- Orientation and mobility.
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Hospitals -- Waiting lists
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Medical care -- Psychological aspects
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People with disabilities -- Orientation and mobility
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Quietude
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Waiting (Philosophy)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Vindrola-Padros, Cecilia, 1983-
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Vindrola-Padros, Bruno
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Lee-Crossett, Kyle
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| ISBN |
9789811549762 |
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9811549761 |
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