The relevance of Foucault and Bourdieu for medical anthropology: exploring new sites.
Helle Samuelsen,Vibeke Steffen +1 more
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The aims of this special issue of A&M are to explore the potentials and limitations of using theoretical perspectives of Foucault and Bourdieu for the analysis of everyday health care practices in both western and non-western societies.Abstract:
The works of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu have served as substantial sources of inspiration for researchers working in the field of medical anthropology, health policies and social technolog...read more
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Cultures of resistance? A Bourdieusian analysis of doctors' antibiotic prescribing
TL;DR: It is concluded that understanding the habitus of the hospital and the logics underpinning practice is a critical step toward developing governance practices that can respond to clinically 'sub-optimal' antibiotic use.
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Shifting the blame in higher education – social inclusion and deficit discourses
TL;DR: The authors examined perceptions of social inclusion and inclusive pedagogies held by academic staff at an Australian university and found that teaching staff with regard to diverse student populations, particularly students from low socio-economic (LSES) backgrounds, given the institution's reasonably high proportion of LSES student enrolment (14%).
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The habitus of hygiene: discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work.
TL;DR: A qualitative interview study of 22 matrons, infection control staff and operating theatre staff who were questioned about their working lives and the role they played in the control of healthcare acquired infections such as MRSA virus in the UK found the preoccupation with hygiene and its 'basic' processes can be seen as a way of managing uncertainty.
Hair Loss Induced by Chemotherapy: An Anthropological Study of Women, Cancer and Rehabilitation.
TL;DR: The analysis demonstrates how the women's embodied experiences are pervaded by culturally embedded signs, and how cancer rehabilitation is less concerned with total recovery in the sense of ‘being cured’ than with normalizing and integrating the individual in personal and social contexts.
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Hair Loss Induced by Chemotherapy: An Anthropological Study of Women, Cancer and Rehabilitation.
TL;DR: In this article, women equated hair loss with the loss of womanhood, sickness and death, and used wigs and make-up to minimize these effects, and the analysis demonstrates how women's embodied experiences are pervaded by culturally embedded signs, and how cancer rehabilitation is less concerned with total recovery in the sense of 'being cured' than with normalizing and integrating the individual in personal and social contexts.
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
TL;DR: In this article, a social critic of the judgement of taste is presented, and a "vulgar" critic of 'pure' criticiques is proposed to counter this critique.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.