Materialities of Care

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.

Notes on contributors vii

Conceptualising ‘materialities of care’: making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts 1
Christina Buse, Daryl Martin and Sarah Nettleton

Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one’s own 14
Julie Brownlie and Helen Spandler

Thinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home blood pressure monitoring 28
Kate Weiner and Catherine Will

The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums 41
Gemma Mangione

Exchanging implements: the micro-materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre 54
Christian Heath, Paul Luff, Marcus Sanchez-Svensson and Maxim Nicholls

Placing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients 72
Susan E. Bell

Private finance initiative hospital architecture: towards a political economy of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital 84
Paul Jones

Dressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia 97
Christina Buse and Julia Twigg

Family food practices: relationships, materiality and the everyday at the end of life 110
Julie Ellis

Becoming at home in residential care for older people: a material culture perspective 123
Melanie Lovatt

Afterword: materialities, care, ‘ordinary affects’, power and politics 136
Joanna Latimer

Index 149