One blue child : asthma, responsibility, and the politics of global health
Susanna Trnka
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
| Omfang | xiv, 262 sider: : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : taking responsibility for asthma : new kinds of people, new kinds of health -- Democratizing knowledge : patients caught between compliance and self-management -- Domestic experiments : when parents become "half a doctor" -- Patient agency, personal responsibility and the upholding of medical expertise -- Knowledge, discipline, and domesticity : the work of raising healthy children -- Body, breath, and mind : subjugated knowledge and alternative therapeutics -- The best holiday ever : the pleasures and pains of spa cures and summer camps -- Redistributing responsibility among states, companies, and citizens : struggles in the steel heart of the republic -- Conclusion : problematizing asthma.
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| ISBN | 9781503601130. - 9781503602458
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