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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]
©2010
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung ; 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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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