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Chapter 17 The Racial Contours of Queer Reproduction
(2022)
In this chapter, we bring queer theory into dialogue with critical race studies. We ask “How does the literature in queer kinship engage with the issues of race and intersecting inequalities?’’ This chapter builds upon the ...
Medical histories of Belgium
(2021)
This edited volume offers the first comprehensive historical overview of the Belgian medical field in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its chapters develop narratives that go beyond traditional representations of ...
Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health
(2022)
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to ...
Intellectual Disability and Ireland, 1947–1996
(2023)
Intellectual Disability and Ireland, 1947–1996 explores the varied experiences of the intellectually disabled during the latter half of the mid-twentieth century in Ireland. Addressing the evolution of disability policies ...
Chapter 11 Watchful Waiting
(2021)
This paper opens up the relationship between vulnerability and the temporalities of care. It takes ‘care’ as not just
a material practice that supports, manages and sustains vulnerable bodies, but as a temporal practice, ...
Chapter The cost-effectiveness of what in health and care?
(2021)
Assessing the value for money offered by new health technologies is playing an
increasingly important role in aiding decision-making in health and care. Even
in a pre-COVID-19 world, international healthcare systems ...
Chapter 9 The interplay between policy and funding
(2021)
Whilst there are many common features in doctoral training across the world, there is considerable variation in how training is delivered, funded and supported. Approaches vary depending on the nature of the degree, on ...
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
(2021)
Offering an innovative perspective on debates concerning embodiment
in the early modern period, Alanna Skuse examines diverse
kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and
amputation to facial ...
Chapter 19 Max Ritvo’s Precision Poetry
(2020)
This essay reads Max Ritvo’s poetry through a chronology of precision biomedicine: imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Ritvo’s construction of a patient-consumer avatar in his poetry reflects his position at a biomedical ...
Chapter 8 Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self
(2021)
In this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express
the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In
particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate ...