Información General

• Autores: Ángel Martínez Hernáez (coord.), Lina Masana (coord.)
• Editores: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Año de publicación: 2022
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-1-5275-8341-2
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Resumen

• This book addresses through an international lens the experiences of illness, the challenges of care, the politics and biopolitics of health and the ethical dilemmas related to subjectivity and afflictions in current medical care. In an era of biomedical technology and life-prolonging treatments, taking into account the different subjective experiences of illness and suffering is imperative, as is analysing the extent to which different healthcare policies and services are sensitive to the voice and experience of those afflicted. This book is a unique international contribution on subjectivities and afflictions from a medical anthropology perspective. It is significant reading for health professionals and researchers working in medical anthropology, health sociology, cultural psychiatry, and social medicine, among other fields.

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Listado de artículos

• • Section One. Negotiating Knowledge and Subjectivities: Illness Narratives and the Biomedical and Social Construction of Disease

    • Healing and Wholeness: Cancer Survivors’ Embodied Experience of Illness as a Source of Expertise

      Susan M. Di Giacomo

      págs. 13-20

      

    • “We Are All Tired”: The Social Construction and Negotiation of Chronic Fatigue

      Lina Masana

      págs. 21-42

      

    • Navigating HIV Discursive Practices and Positive Subjectivities in Egypt

      Wesam Hassan

      págs. 43-64

      

  • Section Two. Hospital Ethnographies and Subjectivities: Encounters between Health Professionals, Patients, Families, Clowns, and Ethnographers

    • Re-Experiencing Medical Care Routines through the Work of Hospital Clowns

      Claire Bodelet

      págs. 65-80

      

    • Prolonging Life or Envisioning Death

      Sylvie Fortin, Josiane Le Gal

      págs. 81-100

      

    • “If I Understand Correctly, You're Waiting for One of Us to Die?”: An Ethnography of Disorientation in a Geriatric Environment

      Sabrina Lessard

      págs. 101-114

      

  • Section Three. Negotiating Subjectivities: Body, Substances, Biopolitics and Health Practices

    • Subjectivities and Semantic Variations around the Concept of Dependence on Medicines

      Sylvie Fainzang

      págs. 115-130

      

    • Pharmakon, Commodity and Dystopia: Three Approaches to the Pharmaceutical Self in Neo-Communitarian Mental Health

      Nicolás Morales Sáez

      págs. 131-152

      

    • Ecological Subjectivity: A Case of Chemical and Other More-ThanHuman Sensitivities

      Franz Graf

      págs. 153-176

      

  • Section Four. Mental Health Narratives, Embodiment, Healing Practices and Subjectivities

    • Uncharted Sensations: Autistic Subjectivities, Affective Language and Unexpected Senses

      Soula Marinoudi

      págs. 177-198

      

    • The Son of the Tiger Hunter Who Never Killed a Tiger: Myth, Violence and Masculinity in a Life Story

      Ángel Martínez Hernáez

      págs. 199-218

      

    • Narratives of Violence and Alterity of a Psychonautic Woman

      Patricia Cocchi, Ismael Eduardo Apud Peláez, Juan Scuro, Adriana Molas

      págs. 219-244

      

    • Illness Experience and its Translation: The Case of “Shamanic/Healer’s Illness” in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

      Danuta Penkala-Gawecka

      págs. 245-266

      

    • Possession and Psychopathology, Faith and Reason

      Thomas J. Csordas

      págs. 267-284