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Developments in health, science and technology have long provided
fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines. This book
focuses on the critical and enduring importance of core concepts in
anthropology and sociology for interrogating and keeping pace with
developments in the life sciences. The authors consider how
transformations in medical and scientific knowledge serve to
reanimate older controversies, giving new life to debates about
relations between society, culture, knowledge and individuals. They
reflect on the particular legacies and ongoing relevance of
concepts such as 'culture', 'society', 'magic', 'production',
'kinship', 'exchange' and 'the body'. The chapters draw on the work
of key historical and contemporary figures across the social
sciences and include a range of illustrative case studies to
explore topics such as transplant medicine, genetic counselling,
cancer therapy, reproductive health and addiction. Of particular
interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, and
science and technology studies, this volume will also be a valuable
resource for those working in the fields of health and medicine.
Developments in health, science and technology have long provided
fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines. This book
focuses on the critical and enduring importance of core concepts in
anthropology and sociology for interrogating and keeping pace with
developments in the life sciences. The authors consider how
transformations in medical and scientific knowledge serve to
reanimate older controversies, giving new life to debates about
relations between society, culture, knowledge and individuals. They
reflect on the particular legacies and ongoing relevance of
concepts such as 'culture', 'society', 'magic', 'production',
'kinship', 'exchange' and 'the body'. The chapters draw on the work
of key historical and contemporary figures across the social
sciences and include a range of illustrative case studies to
explore topics such as transplant medicine, genetic counselling,
cancer therapy, reproductive health and addiction. Of particular
interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, and
science and technology studies, this volume will also be a valuable
resource for those working in the fields of health and medicine.
Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is
about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for
renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and
uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research
conducted in the state of Jalisco, this book documents the routes
uninsured Mexican patients take in order to access resource
intensive biotechnical treatments, that is, different modes of
dialysis and organ transplantation. It argues that these routes are
normalized, bureaucratically, socially and epidemiologically, and
turned into a locus for exploitation and profit. Without a
coherent logic of healthcare access, negotiating regimes of renal
care has catastrophic consequences for those with the least
resources to expend in that effort. In carrying both the costs and
the burden of care, the practices of patients without entitlement
offer a critical vantage point on the interplay between the state,
markets in healthcare and the sick body.
Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is
about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for
renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and
uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research
conducted in the state of Jalisco, this book documents the routes
uninsured Mexican patients take in order to access resource
intensive biotechnical treatments, that is, different modes of
dialysis and organ transplantation. It argues that these routes are
normalized, bureaucratically, socially and epidemiologically, and
turned into a locus for exploitation and profit. Without a coherent
logic of healthcare access, negotiating regimes of renal care has
catastrophic consequences for those with the least resources to
expend in that effort. In carrying both the costs and the burden of
care, the practices of patients without entitlement offer a
critical vantage point on the interplay between the state, markets
in healthcare and the sick body.
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