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Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
Cindy Patton (Ed.)
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Description for Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
Paperback. Editor(s): Patton, Cindy. Series: Quadrant Book. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: JFSG; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic. Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients. Combining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground today's clinic in a larger scheme of power relations, identifying the cultural, political, and economic pressures ... Read more
From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic. Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients. Combining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground today's clinic in a larger scheme of power relations, identifying the cultural, political, and economic pressures ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Quadrant Book
Condition
New
Weight
248g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816670192
SKU
V9780816670192
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About Cindy Patton (Ed.)
Cindy Patton is a professor of women's studies and sociology at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film (Minnesota, 2007) and Globalizing AIDS (Minnesota, 2002).
Reviews for Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
Rebirth of the Clinic contributes significantly and meaningfully to critical, interdisciplinary research on the clinic, on interactions between medical professionals and patients, and on the complex processes of translation through which policies are put into practice and vice versa. -Samantha King, Queens University