Birth of the Patient

Multiple Entities of Newborns in Russian Neonatal Care

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This book explores the complex ways in which a newborn patient is constructed, perceived, and treated within the medical context. It examines how the patients’ social position is shaped by the institutional settings in which they are situated and how their identity is influenced by various factors, including biomedical, social, economic, political, and bureaucratic processes. By focusing on the newborn as a physical, social, symbolic, and even an abstract statistical unit, highlighting their role in shaping economic and symbolic performance indicators for medical institutions and drawing on prolonged fieldwork and diverse empirical data, this book gives voice to the newborn voiceless and acknowledges the difficult labor of neonatal medical professionals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:568 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666937404

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Anastasia Novkunskaya is associate professor in the Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Research at the European University at Saint-Petersburg.Artemiy Minakov is research fellow at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Health Research at the European University at Saint-Petersburg.Anna Klepikova is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the European University at St. Petersburg.

Recensioner i media

Michel Foucault's landmark book The Birth of the Clinic did not include consideration of infants. This book cleverly takes this idea and shows how humans are not only born, they are transformed into patients at the moment of birth through the discourses and apparatuses of healthcare systems. This book is highly recommended for all those interested in the social, cultural and political construction of patienthood in neonatal care.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: The Big Case of Micropediatrics: The Institutionalization of Neonatal CareChapter 2: In Searching for the Point of ViewChapter 3: Nothing PersonalChapter 4: Emotional Dimension of Neonatal CareChapter 5: Managerial, Economic, and Political Entities of a Newborn