Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine

Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential

AvBernhard Hadolt,Andrea Stockl

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

In health and medicine, imagining the future is essential in giving meaning to the past and the present and for propelling people into action. This is true not only at the level of individuals as they envision and carry out everyday activities and long-term plans but also for institutional practices framed by and unfolding within various socio-political ecologies and transfigurations. Hope and uncertainty are critical affective and knowledge-related modalities of such imaginations and assume vital meanings in policing, managing, and experiencing health, illness, and well-being. This volume brings together contributions from medical anthropologists who address this theme across various medical spheres, including the pragmatics of hope and uncertainty, the techno-sphere, health management, and individual and socially distributed emotions.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-21
Mått:15 x 23 x 2 mm
Vikt:425 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Health, Communication and Society
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Transcript Verlag
ISBN:9783837667622

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Bernhard Hadolt (PhD) is a social anthropologist with a specialisation__in medical anthropology. He is a senior lecturer and director of studies__at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University__of Vienna. Andrea Stöckl (PhD) is a medical anthropologist and practising__psychotherapist, working in Innsbruck, Austria. She has been a lecturer__at the School of Medicine, Health Policy, and Practices at the__University of East Anglia, UK, until 2021.