Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic Perspectives on Caring

by Laura Montesi (Editor), Melania Calestani (Editor)

Overview

Managing Chronicity in Unequal States investigates how people live with chronic conditions in different contexts around the world, where judgements on human worth have long-lasting effects on people's wellbeing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800080294
Publisher:	U C L Press, Limited
Publication date:	01/05/2022
Series:	Embodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Laura Montesi is a lecturer at the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Oaxaca, Mexico. Melania Calestani is a senior lecturer at Kingston University and St George's, University of London.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors Foreword Emily Yates-Doerr Introduction Laura Montesi and Melania Calestani 1. A house of cards: chronicity, care packages and a ‘good life’ Lisa Ballesteros 2. (Un)deservingness and disregard: chronicity, hospice and possibilities for care on the American periphery Devin Flaherty 3. Publicly privatised: relative care support and the Neoliberal Reform in Finland Erika Takahashi 4. The ‘hassle’ of ‘good’ care in dementia: negotiating relatedness in the navigation of bureaucratic systems of support Lilian Kennedy 5. Assemblages of care around albinism: kin-based networks and (in)dependence in contemporary Tanzania Giorgio Brocco 6. Alcoholism and evangelical healing in indigenous Mexico: care at the margins of the state Chiara Bresciani 7. When ‘care’ leads to ‘chronicity’: exploring the changing contours of care of homeless people living on the streets in India Sudarshan Kottai and Shubha Ranganathan 8. ‘My body is my laboratory’: care experiments among persons who use drugs in Downtown Montreal Rossio Motta-Ochoa and Nelson Arruda 9. ‘These doctors don’t believe in PANS’: confronting uncertainty and a collapsing model of medical care Maria LaRusso and César Abadía-Barrero 10. Chronic living in Zombieland: care in between survival and death Marcos De Andrade Neves Afterword Ciara Kierans Index