Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Pragmatics of hope and uncertainty -- The techno‐sphere -- Health management -- Individual and socially distributed emotions -- References -- Part I: Pragmatics of Hope and Uncertainty -- 1 Embracing Uncertainty -- Debates in philosophy -- Uncertainty in the search for certainty -- "Certainty" as a social strategy -- Embracing uncertainty -- Positioning embrace -- References -- 2 Hope, Trust, Medical Action, and Care -- The setting -- Realms of the young -- Clinicians' moral worlds -- A few blind spots -- Realms of the older adults: Are they so different? -- Ms Moretti's story -- The moral threshold of acceptability -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Part II: The Techno‐Sphere -- 3 Self‐Tracking Practices of "Doing Health" -- Introduction -- "Doing health" -- Methods, field sites and theoretical approach -- Self‐tracking in practice: Data discussion -- Introducing the phenomenon of self‐tracking -- Mobilizations of data at the human‐technology interface -- Self‐tracking practices of "doing health" and processes of responsibilization -- Emerging regimes of "doing health" in insurance policy -- Affectivities and uncertainties of self‐tracking practices -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Precarious Lives, Uncertainty and the Politics of Hope -- Introduction -- A note on methods and the field: Setting the scene -- Novel treatment: Controversy, efficacy and safety of thalidomide -- Seeking Jhanduwalla ilaj: Precarity of care, uncertainty and hope -- Reflections on other potential endings, limits of hope -- Therapeutic innovation, private market and the role of medical pioneers -- Concluding reflections -- References -- 5 Between Uncertainty and Routinization -- Introduction -- "A safe test that may relieve your concerns" -- "Reassuringly routinized" technologies of pregnancy care.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839467626
Series Statement:
Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31361144
Language:
English
Note:
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