Beschreibung:
Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for care within a context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Documenting the routes taken to access care, the practices of patients without entitlement offer critical perspectives on state-market-healthcare relations.
Foreword by Lenore MandersonPrologueIntroductionEncountering Regimes of Renal Care: The Crucible of ExperienceChapter OneStudying Regimes of Renal CareChapter TwoBiopolitics and the Analytics of a Population on the MoveChapter ThreeLabor: Producing Sickness and the StateChapter FourBrokering Healthcare: Paper-work, Negotiation and the Strategies of NavigationChapter FiveExchange: Bodies as Sites for the Production of (Surplus) ValueChapter SixTransplant Scandals, the State and the 'Multiple Problematics' of AccountabilityChapter SevenPolitical and Corporate Etiologies: Producing Disease Emergence and Disease ResponseEpilogueReferences