From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both
patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the
contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since
Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic. Indebted to that work, but
recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and
what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical
practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between
medical systems, practitioners, and patients. Combining theory,
history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground
today's clinic in a larger scheme of power relations, identifying
the cultural, political, and economic pressures that frame clinical
relationships, including the instrumentalist definition of health,
actuarial-based medical practices, and patient self-help movements,
which simultaneously hem in and create the conditions under which
agents creatively change ideas of illness and treatment. From
threatened community health centers in poor African American
locales to innovative nursing practices among the marginally housed
citizens of Canada's poorest urban neighborhood, this volume
addresses not just the who, what, where, and how of place-specific
clinical practices, but also sets these local experiences against a
theoretical backdrop that links them to the power of modern
medicine in shaping fundamental life experiences. Contributors:
Christine Ceci, U of Alberta; Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook U; Suzanne
Fraser, Monash U; John Liesch, Simon Fraser U; Jenna Loyd, CUNY;
Annemarie Mol, U of Amsterdam; Mary Ellen Purkis, U of Victoria.
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