Materialities of Care
Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2018
168 pages
978-1-119-49971-8 (ISBN)
Description
Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture.
* Makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice
* Examines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells
* Addresses fleeting moments of care, as well as choreographed routines that order bodies and materials
* Focuses on practice and relations between materials and care as ongoing, emergent and processual
* International contributions from leading scholars draw attention to methodological approaches for capturing the material and sensory aspects of health and social care encounters
* Makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice
* Examines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells
* Addresses fleeting moments of care, as well as choreographed routines that order bodies and materials
* Focuses on practice and relations between materials and care as ongoing, emergent and processual
* International contributions from leading scholars draw attention to methodological approaches for capturing the material and sensory aspects of health and social care encounters
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Christina Buse | Daryl Martin | Sarah Nettleton
Materialities of Care
Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture
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Content
- Intro
- Materialities of Care
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Conceptualising 'materialities of care': making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts
- Introduction
- Defining 'materialities of care'
- Spatialities of care
- Temporalities of care
- Practices of care
- Methods for studying 'materialities of care'
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 2 Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one's own
- Mundane material
- Researching mundane materialities
- Sharing materialities
- Sharing spaces
- Shared routines
- Contingent spaces and materialities
- Storying places
- The things that pass between people
- Dogs, sheep and hidden helping
- Avoiding the big ask: cooking and shopping by the by
- Holding back
- Concluding thoughts: assembling mundane care
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- 3 Thinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home blood pressure monitoring
- Materialities of home health: attending to technology and place
- Care infrastructures, work and the home
- The case of home blood pressure monitoring
- Methods
- Findings
- Procuring and providing devices
- Emplacement and staging devices in and out of use
- Systems of objects and interlinking practices
- Taking a reading: a relational achievement
- Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- Note
- References
- 4 The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums
- Introduction
- On living well in museums
- Background on case selection and methods
- Conditions for therapeutic experience
- Materials for therapeutic practice
- Art therapists: better for the making
- Horticultural therapists and the creation of sensory asylums
- Concluding discussion
- Acknowledgments
- Note
- References
- 5 Exchanging implements: the micro-materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre
- Introduction
- Field work, video and its presentation
- Trajectories of exchange: tasks and interaction
- Handling the material
- Embodied instruction and the calibration of exchange
- Practice, interaction and agency
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 6 Placing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients
- Sociologies of place
- Specificities of place
- Methodology
- Waiting rooms
- Exam rooms
- Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 7 Private finance initiative hospital architecture: towards a political economy of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital
- Introduction
- Hospital architecture and material cultures of care
- Hospital architecture as PFI matter
- The Royal Liverpool University Hospital as an architectural controversy
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Note
- References
- 8 Dressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia
- Introduction
- Care, clothing and material culture
- Methodology
- Dressing the body in dementia care
- Choosing clothes, negotiating identities
- Dress and the aesthetics of care
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 9 Family food practices: relationships, materiality and the everyday at the end of life
- Relationships, materiality and the end of life
- Families, food and terminal illness
- The study
- Findings and discussion
- 'Food talk' and making sense of illness
- Food, family and identity
- Food 'fights': conflict and tension
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- 10 Becoming at home in residential care for older people: a material culture perspective
- Introduction
- Home, possessions and identity in later life
- Possessions in older people's residential homes
- Material culture and theories of social practice and relationality
- Methodology
- Findings and analysis
- The material temporalities of home
- Practising being at home
- Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- Note
- References
- 11 Afterword: materialities, care, 'ordinary affects', power and politics
- Introduction
- Practices and spatialities: making materials mean and the constituting of classes
- Assemblage and the politics of the threshold
- The reproduction of politico-economic ecologies and 'neglected things'
- Relational extension and motility as care
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
- EULA
