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While the world's refugee population reaches record high numbers,
countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly
shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited
volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement.
Combining anthropology with a variety of professional perspectives
(education, health care, theology, administration, politics, and
social work) ethnography is used to demonstrate the efficacy of
programs and interventions that create and nurture social capital
in culturally specific and accessible ways. The contributors
present case studies of resettlement in the United States, England,
Australia, and Canada and contend that social networks have an
essential role-are the crux-in the reconfigurations of refugee
well-being, belonging, and place-making vis-a-vis the bureaucratic
limitations of state and institutional factors. This book includes
short contributions from refugees, representatives of resettlement
organizations, and government officials, including Jhuma N.
Acharya, Bimala Bastola, Khada Bhandari, Kiri Hata, Govin Magar,
Madhu Neupane, Natacha Nikokeza, Angela K. Plummer, Lance
Rasbridge, Chris Sunderlin, David Thatcher, and John Tluang.
The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes
operation - the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what
happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura
L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ
transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant
preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Heinemann
points out that as efforts to control healthcare costs gain urgency
- and as new surgical techniques, drug therapies, and home medical
equipment advance - most of the transplant process now takes place
at home, among kin. Indeed, the transplant system effectively
depends on unpaid care labor, typically provided by spouses,
parents, siblings, and others. Drawing on scores of interviews with
patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, Heinemann
follows a variety of patients and loved ones as they undertake this
uncertain and strenuous ""transplant journey."" She also shows how
these home-based caregiving efforts take place within the larger
economic and political context of a paucity of resources for
patients and caregivers, who ultimately must surmount numerous
obstacles. The author concludes that the many snags encountered by
transplant patients and loved ones make a clear case for more
comprehensive health and social policy that treats care as a
necessarily shared public responsibility. An illuminating look at
the long transplant journey, Transplanting Care also offers broader
insight into how we handle infirmity in America - and how we might
do a better job of doing so.
The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes
operation - the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what
happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura
L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ
transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant
preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Heinemann
points out that as efforts to control healthcare costs gain urgency
- and as new surgical techniques, drug therapies, and home medical
equipment advance - most of the transplant process now takes place
at home, among kin. Indeed, the transplant system effectively
depends on unpaid care labor, typically provided by spouses,
parents, siblings, and others. Drawing on scores of interviews with
patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, Heinemann
follows a variety of patients and loved ones as they undertake this
uncertain and strenuous ""transplant journey"". She also shows how
these home-based caregiving efforts take place within the larger
economic and political context of a paucity of resources for
patients and caregivers, who ultimately must surmount numerous
obstacles. The author concludes that the many snags encountered by
transplant patients and loved ones make a clear case for more
comprehensive health and social policy that treats care as a
necessarily shared public responsibility. An illuminating look at
the long transplant journey, Transplanting Care also offers broader
insight into how we handle infirmity in America - and how we might
do a better job of doing so.
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