TY - BOOK AU - Buse,Christina AU - Martin,Daryl AU - Nettleton,Sarah TI - Materialities of Care: Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture T2 - Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs SN - 9781119499718 AV - R856 .M384 2018 U1 - 610.28 PY - 2018/// CY - Newark PB - John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated KW - Medical instruments and apparatus KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Materialities of Care -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Conceptualising 'materialities of care': making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts -- Introduction -- Defining 'materialities of care' -- Spatialities of care -- Temporalities of care -- Practices of care -- Methods for studying 'materialities of care' -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2 Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one's own -- Mundane material -- Researching mundane materialities -- Sharing materialities -- Sharing spaces -- Shared routines -- Contingent spaces and materialities -- Storying places -- The things that pass between people -- Dogs, sheep and hidden helping -- Avoiding the big ask: cooking and shopping by the by -- Holding back -- Concluding thoughts: assembling mundane care -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 3 Thinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home blood pressure monitoring -- Materialities of home health: attending to technology and place -- Care infrastructures, work and the home -- The case of home blood pressure monitoring -- Methods -- Findings -- Procuring and providing devices -- Emplacement and staging devices in and out of use -- Systems of objects and interlinking practices -- Taking a reading: a relational achievement -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 4 The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums -- Introduction -- On living well in museums -- Background on case selection and methods -- Conditions for therapeutic experience -- Materials for therapeutic practice -- Art therapists: better for the making -- Horticultural therapists and the creation of sensory asylums -- Concluding discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References; 5 Exchanging implements: the micro-materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre -- Introduction -- Field work, video and its presentation -- Trajectories of exchange: tasks and interaction -- Handling the material -- Embodied instruction and the calibration of exchange -- Practice, interaction and agency -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Placing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients -- Sociologies of place -- Specificities of place -- Methodology -- Waiting rooms -- Exam rooms -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7 Private finance initiative hospital architecture: towards a political economy of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital -- Introduction -- Hospital architecture and material cultures of care -- Hospital architecture as PFI matter -- The Royal Liverpool University Hospital as an architectural controversy -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 8 Dressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia -- Introduction -- Care, clothing and material culture -- Methodology -- Dressing the body in dementia care -- Choosing clothes, negotiating identities -- Dress and the aesthetics of care -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9 Family food practices: relationships, materiality and the everyday at the end of life -- Relationships, materiality and the end of life -- Families, food and terminal illness -- The study -- Findings and discussion -- 'Food talk' and making sense of illness -- Food, family and identity -- Food 'fights': conflict and tension -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 10 Becoming at home in residential care for older people: a material culture perspective -- Introduction -- Home, possessions and identity in later life; Possessions in older people's residential homes -- Material culture and theories of social practice and relationality -- Methodology -- Findings and analysis -- The material temporalities of home -- Practising being at home -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- 11 Afterword: materialities, care, 'ordinary affects', power and politics -- Introduction -- Practices and spatialities: making materials mean and the constituting of classes -- Assemblage and the politics of the threshold -- The reproduction of politico-economic ecologies and 'neglected things' -- Relational extension and motility as care -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index -- EULA UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5435379 ER -