Care in Practice : : On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms / / ed. by Jeannette Pols, Ingunn Moser, Annemarie Mol.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Callén, Blanca,; Domènech, Miquel,; Harbers, Hans,; Kraeftner, Bernd,; Kroell, Judith,; Langstrup, Henriette,; Law, John,; López, Daniel,; Mol, Annemarie,; Moreira, Tiago,; Moser, Ingunn,; Pols, Jeannette,; Singleton, Vicky,; Taylor, Janelle S.,; Tirado, Francisco,; Warner, Isabel,; Willems, Dick,; Winance, Myriam,; Winthereik, Brit Ross,
• HerausgeberIn: Mol, Annemarie,; Moser, Ingunn,; Pols, Jeannette,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

In what way is »care« a matter of »tinkering«? Rather than presenting care as a (preferably »warm«) relation between human beings, the various contributions to the volume give the material world (usually cast as »cold«) a prominent place in their analysis. Thus, this book does not continue to oppose care and technology, but contributes to rethinking both in such a way that they can be analysed together.Technology is not cast as a functional tool, easy to control - it is shifting, changing, surprising and adaptable. In care practices all »things« are (and have to be) tinkered with persistently. Knowledge is fluid, too. Rather than a set of general rules, the knowledges (in the plural) relevant to care practices are as adaptable and in need of adaptation as the technologies, the bodies, the people, and the daily lives involved.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Contents -- Care: putting practice into theory -- On recognition, caring, and dementia -- Care and killing Tensions in veterinary practice -- How to become a guardian angel Providing safety in a home telecare service -- Care and disability Practices of experimenting, tinkering with, and arranging people and technical aids -- Now or later? Individual disease and care collectives in the memory clinic -- Animal farm love stories About care and economy Telecare What patients care about -- When patients care (too much) for information -- Care and its values Good food in the nursing home -- Good farming Control or care? -- Varieties of goodness in high-tech home care -- Perhaps tears should not be counted but wiped away On quality and improvement in dementia care -- The syndrome we care for XPERIMENT! -- List of authors