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dc.contributor.editorMontesi, Laura
dc.contributor.editorCalestani, Melania
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-09T04:00:19Z
dc.date.available2021-12-09T04:00:19Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2021-12-08T12:16:05Z
dc.identifierONIX_20211208_9781800080287_34
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51802
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74726
dc.description.abstractBy portraying the circumstances of people living with chronic conditions in radically different contexts, from Alzheimer’s patients in the UK to homeless people with psychiatric disorders in India, Managing Chronicity in Unequal States offers glimpses of what dealing with medically complex conditions in stratified societies means. While in some places the state regulates and intrudes on the most intimate aspects of chronic living, in others it is utterly and criminally absent. Either way, it is a present/absent actor that deeply conditions people’s opportunities and strategies of care. This book explores how individuals, groups and communities navigate uncertain and unequal healthcare systems, in which inherent moral judgements on human worth have long-lasting effects on people’s wellbeing. This is key reading for anyone wishing to deconstruct the issues at stake when analysing how care and chronicity are entangled with multiple institutional, economic, and other circumstantial factors. How people access the available informal and formal resources as well as how they react to official diagnoses and decisions are important facets of the management of chronicity. In the arena of care, people with chronic conditions find themselves negotiating restrictions and handling issues of power and (inter)dependency in relationships of inequality and proximity. This is particularly relevant in current times, when care has given in to the lure of the market, and the possibility of living a long and fulfilling life has been drastically reduced, transformed into a ‘reward’ for the few who have been deemed worthy of it.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEmbodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSX Human biology::PSXM Medical anthropology
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::V Health & personal development::VF Family & health
dc.subject.otherhealthcare
dc.subject.otheranthropology
dc.subject.othermedical anthropology
dc.subject.otherinequality
dc.subject.otherchronic pain
dc.subject.othersociology
dc.titleManaging Chronicity in Unequal States
dc.title.alternativeEthnographic perspectives on caring
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/111.9781800080287
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc
oapen.relation.isbn9781800080287
oapen.relation.isbn9781800080294
oapen.relation.isbn9781800080300
oapen.relation.isbn9781800080317
oapen.relation.isbn9781800080324
oapen.imprintUCL Press
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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