Ciara Kierans

Chronic Failures

Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780813596648
• ISBN-10: 0813596645
• Artikelnr.: 56274615

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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