Christina Buse is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of York, UK. Her research interests include embodiment, ageing, dementia, material culture and design. Recent research includes the Dementia and Dress project with Julia Twigg, and the Buildings in the Making project with Sarah Nettleton, Daryl Martin and colleagues. Daryl Martin is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. His research interests are primarily located in the intersections of architecture, embodiment and health. Recent research includes a project on the use of architecture in Maggie's Centres, an organisation which supports those with cancer, their families and friends. Sarah Nettleton is Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK. Her research interests include embodiment, health and sleep, the construction of medical knowledge and medical practice, and most recently the sociology of architecture in the context of health and social care.

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• Notes on contributors viiConceptualising ‘materialities of care’: making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts 1Christina Buse, Daryl Martin and Sarah NettletonMaterialities of mundane care and the art of holding one’s own 14Julie Brownlie and Helen SpandlerThinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home blood pressure monitoring 28Kate Weiner and Catherine WillThe art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums 41Gemma MangioneExchanging implements: the micro-materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre 54Christian Heath, Paul Luff, Marcus Sanchez-Svensson and Maxim NichollsPlacing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients 72Susan E. BellPrivate finance initiative hospital architecture: towards a political economy of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital 84Paul JonesDressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia 97Christina Buse and Julia TwiggFamily food practices: relationships, materiality and the everyday at the end of life 110Julie EllisBecoming at home in residential care for older people: a material culture perspective 123Melanie LovattAfterword: materialities, care, ‘ordinary affects’, power and politics 136Joanna LatimerIndex 149