Materialities of Care

Contents

Notes on contributors

1 Conceptualising ‘materialities of care’: making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts

Introduction

Defining ‘materialities of care’

Spatialities of care

Temporalities of care

Practices of care

Methods for studying ‘materialities of care’

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

2 Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one’s own

Mundane material

Researching mundane materialities

Sharing materialities

Sharing spaces

Shared routines

Contingent spaces and materialities

Storying places

The things that pass between people

Dogs, sheep and hidden helping

Avoiding the big ask: cooking and shopping by the by

Holding back

Concluding thoughts: assembling mundane care

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

3 Thinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home blood pressure monitoring

Materialities of home health: attending to technology and place

Care infrastructures, work and the home

The case of home blood pressure monitoring

Methods

Findings

Procuring and providing devices

Emplacement and staging devices in and out of use

Systems of objects and interlinking practices

Taking a reading: a relational achievement

Discussion

Acknowledgements

Note

References

4 The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums

Introduction

On living well in museums

Background on case selection and methods

Conditions for therapeutic experience

Materials for therapeutic practice

Art therapists: better for the making

Horticultural therapists and the creation of sensory asylums

Concluding discussion

Acknowledgments

Note

References

5 Exchanging implements: the micro-materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre

Introduction

Field work, video and its presentation

Trajectories of exchange: tasks and interaction

Handling the material

Embodied instruction and the calibration of exchange

Practice, interaction and agency

Acknowledgements

References

6 Placing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients

Sociologies of place

Specificities of place

Methodology

Waiting rooms

Exam rooms

Discussion

Acknowledgements

References

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

Introduction

Hospital architecture and material cultures of care

Hospital architecture as PFI matter

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital as an architectural controversy

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Note

References

8 Dressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia

Introduction

Care, clothing and material culture

Methodology

Dressing the body in dementia care

Choosing clothes, negotiating identities

Dress and the aesthetics of care

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

9 Family food practices: relationships, materiality and the everyday at the end of life

Relationships, materiality and the end of life

Families, food and terminal illness

The study

Findings and discussion

‘Food talk’ and making sense of illness

Food, family and identity

Food ‘fights’: conflict and tension

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

10 Becoming at home in residential care for older people: a material culture perspective

Introduction

Home, possessions and identity in later life

Possessions in older people’s residential homes

Material culture and theories of social practice and relationality

Methodology

Findings and analysis

The material temporalities of home

Practising being at home

Discussion

Acknowledgments

Note

References

11 Afterword: materialities, care, ‘ordinary affects’, power and politics

Introduction

Practices and spatialities: making materials mean and the constituting of classes

Assemblage and the politics of the threshold

The reproduction of politico-economic ecologies and ‘neglected things’

Relational extension and motility as care

Concluding Remarks

References

Index

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