Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between

Author:   Cecilia Vindrola-Padros ,  Bruno Vindrola-Padros ,  Kyle Lee-Crossett
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9789811549755


Pages:   278
Publication Date:   03 October 2020
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Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between


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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.

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Author:   Cecilia Vindrola-Padros ,  Bruno Vindrola-Padros ,  Kyle Lee-Crossett
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.514kg
ISBN:  

9789811549755


ISBN 10:   9811549753
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   03 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Chapter 1: Immobility and Medicine: An Introduction.- Part 1 Immobile Infrastructures and Enforced Waiting.- Chapter 2: Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine.- Chapter 3: ‘Being stuck’: Refugees’ Experiences of Enforced Waiting in Greece.- Chapter 4: ‘An (Im)patient Population’: Waiting Experiences of Transgender Patients Accessing Healthcare Services in Buenos Aires.- Chapter 5: Living in “Limbo”: Immobility and Uncertainty in Childhood Cancer Medical Care in Argentina.- Part 2 Embodied Stillness and Fixity.- Chapter 6: Embodying Immobility: Dysphoric Geographies of Labour Migration and Their Transformations in the Therapeutic Context of ´Venda´ Ancestor Possession in Post-Apartheid South Africa.- Chapter 7: Liminality and the SCI Body: How Medicine Reproduces Stuckedness.- Chapter 8: Embodied Perceptions of Immobility after Stroke.- Chapter 9: “When You Do Nothing You Die a Little Bit”: On Stillness and Honing Responsive Existence among Community-Dwelling People with Dementia.- Chapter 10: Stories of (Im)mobility: People Affected by Dementia on an Acute Medical Unit.- Part 3 Motility and (Im)mobile Possibilities.- Chapter 11: Migratory Labour and the Politics of Prevention: Motility and HPV Vaccination among Florida Farmworkers.- Chapter 12: Living Suspended: Anticipation and Resistance in Brain Cancer.

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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.

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