Care in Practice
On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2015
326 pages
978-3-8394-1447-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Reviewed in:Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy, 3 (2011), Elleke LandeweerMore details
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Annemarie Mol | Ingunn Moser | Jeannette Pols
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On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms
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Annemarie Mol is Socrates Professor for Social Theory, Humanism and Materialities in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam.
Ingunn Moser is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Department of Nursing of Diakonhjemmet University College in Oslo.
Jeannette Pols is Senior Researcher in the Medical Ethics section of the Department of General Practice of the University of Amsterdam.
Ingunn Moser is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Department of Nursing of Diakonhjemmet University College in Oslo.
Jeannette Pols is Senior Researcher in the Medical Ethics section of the Department of General Practice of the University of Amsterdam.
Content
- Cover Care in Practice
- 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
