Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine : : Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential.
In health and medicine, imagining the future is essential in giving meaning to the past and the present and for propelling people into action. This is true not only at the level of individuals as they envision and carry out everyday activities and long-term plans but also for institutional practices...
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| Superior document: | Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Pragmatics of Hope and Uncertainty
- 1 Embracing Uncertainty
- 2 Hope, Trust, Medical Action, and Care
- Part II: The Techno-Sphere
- 3 Self-Tracking Practices of “Doing Health”
- 4 Precarious Lives, Uncertainty and the Politics of Hope
- 5 Between Uncertainty and Routinization
- 6 “Being a Little Bit Pregnant”
- Part III: Health Management
- 7 Solo Living and Cancer in Denmark
- 8 The Uncertain Future of Antibiotics
- 9 Transfigurations of Lived Iatrogenic Risks in Switzerland
- 10 “Skyped, Zoomed and WhatsApped”
- Part IV: Individual and Socially Distributed Emotions
- 11 Affective Processes and the Diagnosing of Chronic Fatigue
- 12 Fighting for Recovery
- 13 Figurations of Feasting on Fermented Food in Four Remote Regions of Switzerland
- Appendix
- Contributors