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Chronic Failures - Ciara Kierans

Chronic Failures

Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State

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Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9665-5 (ISBN)
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Explores Chronic Kidney Disease and the 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.
Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State 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.

 

CIARA KIERANS is a reader in social anthropology in the Department of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. She is the coauthor of Social and Cultural Perspectives on Health, Technology and Medicine: Old Concepts, New Problems.  

Foreword by Lenore Manderson

Prologue

Introduction

Encountering Regimes of Renal Care: The Crucible of Experience                                    

Chapter One               

Studying Regimes of Renal Care

Chapter Two              

Biopolitics and the Analytics of a Population on the Move                                                  

Chapter Three            

Labor: Producing Sickness and the State                                                                              

Chapter Four              

Brokering Healthcare: Paper-work, Negotiation and the Strategies of Navigation              

Chapter Five              

Exchange: Bodies as Sites for the Production of (Surplus) Value                                        

Chapter Six                

Transplant Scandals, the State and the ‘Multiple Problematics’ of Accountability              

Chapter Seven            

Political and Corporate Etiologies: Producing Disease Emergence and Disease Response

Epilogue                                                                                                                                 

References

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 b-w photographs
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 426 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Medizinische Fachgebiete Innere Medizin Nephrologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8135-9665-3 / 0813596653
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-9665-5 / 9780813596655
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