Rebirth of the clinic : places and agents in contemporary health care /
From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic . Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between wha...
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Minneapolis :
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2010
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Foucault after Neoliberalism; or. The Clinic Here and Now; 1 Clinic or Spa?: Facial Surgery in the Context of AIDS-Related Facial Wasting; 2 Implications of an Epistemological Vision: Knowing What to Do in Home Health Care; 3 Where Is Community Health?: Racism, the Clinic, and the Biopolitical State; 4 Repetition and Rupture: The Gender of Agency in Methodone Maintenance Treatment; 5 Freedom or Socks: Market Promises versus Supportive Care in Diabetes Treatment; 6 Clinic without the Clinic.
