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Materialities of Care

Materialities of Care Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture - Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture.

  • Makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice
  • Examines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells
  • Addresses fleeting moments of care, as well as choreographed routines that order bodies and materials
  • Focuses on practice and relations between materials and care as ongoing, emergent and processual
  • International contributions from leading scholars draw attention to methodological approaches for capturing the material and sensory aspects of health and social care encounters

Book information

ISBN: 9781119499732
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: Wiley Blackwell
Pub date:
DEWEY: 610.28
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 168
Weight: 286g
Height: 154mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 9mm