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Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture.

  • Makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice
  • Examines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells
  • Addresses fleeting moments of care, as well as choreographed routines that order bodies and materials
  • Focuses on practice and relations between materials and care as ongoing, emergent and processual
  • International contributions from leading scholars draw attention to methodological approaches for capturing the material and sensory aspects of health and social care encounters

Materialities of Care: Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 24/08/2018
    ISBN13: 9781119499732, 978-1119499732
    ISBN10: 1119499739

    Number of Pages: 168

    Non Fiction , Education

    Description

    Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture.

    • Makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice
    • Examines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells
    • Addresses fleeting moments of care, as well as choreographed routines that order bodies and materials
    • Focuses on practice and relations between materials and care as ongoing, emergent and processual
    • International contributions from leading scholars draw attention to methodological approaches for capturing the material and sensory aspects of health and social care encounters

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