Entanglements of Rare Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region - Malgorzata Rajtar, Katarzyna E. Król

Entanglements of Rare Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region

Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-4238-5 (ISBN)
95,95 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on ethnographic studies of the lived experiences of people with rare diseases, this volume critically examines rare, chronic diseases in the context of care, kinship, and technologies, providing in-depth analyses of local worlds that usually remain at the peripheries of medical anthropological inquiry.
Although rare diseases have captured public attention in recent decades, the lived experiences of people affected by these conditions remain on the periphery of medical anthropological inquiry. Focusing on Poland, Finland, and Sweden, and foregrounding notions of “rare” or “chronic” disease as an embedded category, this book critically analyzes entanglements between people and families with rare diseases and care practices that involve local healthcare policies, practitioners, and treatment modalities. Drawing on locally grounded case studies, Entanglements of Rare Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region constitutes a unique and important contribution to both global medicine and social science scholarship.

Małgorzata Rajtar is associate professor and head of the Rare Disease Social Research Center at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Katarzyna E. Król is a PhD student at the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Chapter 1: Matriarchal Management, Expert Caregiving, and Intensive Mothering Among Mothers of Children with Phenylketonuria

Chapter 2: Between Paternalism and Autonomy. Polish and Swedish Configurations of Caring for Children with Inherited Metabolic Disease

Chapter 3: Food as Medicine: Culinary Workshops for Patients with Rare Inborn Errors of Metabolism from Anthropological and Dietary Perspectives

Chapter 4: Between Standard and Experimental: Knowledge Production and Tube Feeding Practices in Finland and Poland

Chapter 5: Entangled and Layered Temporalities: Rare-disease Patients’ Expectations about Clinical Gene Editing

Chapter 6: Health Emigration in Rare Disease: A Case Study

Chapter 7: “Are You a Disabled Person?" Disability and Rare Metabolic Disorders in Poland

Conclusion: Rare Diseases and Cultures of Caring

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
Co-Autor Anna Chowaniec, Ewa Ehmke Vel Emczynska-Seliga, Jan Frydrych
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 238 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-6669-4238-3 / 1666942383
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-4238-5 / 9781666942385
Zustand Neuware
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