Description
Book SynopsisIn Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contribut
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Eric Mykhalovskiy, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, Pat Armstrong, and Hugh Armstrong SECTION 1—What Counts as Evidence?: Managerial Knowledge, Visibility and Experience 2. Dematerialization of Fundamental Nursing Care in an Era of Managerial Reforms Craig Dale 3. From “Making a Decision” to “Decision Making”: A Critical Reflection on a Discursive Shift Mary Ellen Macdonald and David K. Wright 4. Code Work: RAI-MDS, Measurement, Quality and Work Organization in Long-term Care Facilities in Ontario Tamara Daly, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, and Hugh Armstrong 5. Disputing Evidence: Canadian Health Professionals’ Responses to Evidence About Midwifery Vicki Van Wagner RM, PhD and Elizabeth Darling RM, PhD 6. “Tell Me Where It Hurts:” A Case Study of the Impacts of Structural Violence, Syndemic Suffering, and Intergenerational Trauma on Indigenous People’s Health Christianne V. Stephens 7. Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Broadening the Discourse on Quality Improvement in the Home Care System Alisa Grigorovich SECTION 2— Health Markets, Individualization and Commodification 8. Cigarette Packaging Legislation in Canada and the Smoking Subject Kirsten Bell 9. Public Good, or Goods for the Public: The Commercialization of Academic Health Research Kelly Holloway and Matthew Herder 10. Making Sense of Vaginal Mesh Ariel Ducey, with Barry Hoffmaster, Magali Robert, and Sue Ross 11. Seeking Disability Politics in Disability and Health-Related Non-Profit Organizations Christine Kelly 12. Medical Laboratories: For-Profit Delivery and the Disintegration of Public Health Care Ross Sutherland 13. Nail Salons, Toxics and Health: Organizing for a Better Work Environment Anne Rochon Ford 14. Conclusion. Health Matters: Research in Practice Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, Eric Mykhalovskiy About the Authors
