Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between

✍ Scribed by Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Bruno Vindrola-Padros, Kyle Lee-Crossett

• Publisher: Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity. This focus on stillness, things that are stuck, incomplete or in a state of transition can point to new theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions in social studies of medicine. This edited volume brings the concept of immobility to the forefront of social studies of medicine to explore how immobility shapes processes of medical care and the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying immobility in medical contexts. The authors in this volume draw from a wide range of case studies across the globe to make contributions to our current understanding of health, illness and medicine, mobilities and immobilities.
Chapter 2 “Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Immobility and Medicine: An Introduction (Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Bruno Vindrola-Padros, Kyle Lee-Crossett)....Pages 1-12
Front Matter ....Pages 13-13
Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine (Julia Rehsmann)....Pages 15-37
‘Being Stuck’: Refugees’ Experiences of Enforced Waiting in Greece (Pia Juul Bjertrup, Jihane Ben Farhat, Malika Bouhenia, Michaël Neuman, Philippe Mayaud, Karl Blanchet)....Pages 39-59
‘An (Im)Patient Population’: Waiting Experiences of Transgender Patients at Healthcare Services in Buenos Aires (María Victoria Tiseyra, Santiago Morcillo, Julián Ortega, Mario Martín Pecheny, Marine Gálvez)....Pages 61-83
Living in ‘Limbo’: Immobility and Uncertainty in Childhood Cancer Medical Care in Argentina (Eugenia Brage)....Pages 85-109
Front Matter ....Pages 111-111
Embodying Immobility: Dysphoric Geographies of Labour Migration and Their Transformations in the Therapeutic Context of ‘Venda’ Ancestor Possession in Post-apartheid South Africa (Vendula Rezacova)....Pages 113-134
Liminality and the SCI Body: How Medicine Reproduces Stuckedness (Colleen McMillan)....Pages 135-153
Embodied Perceptions of Immobility After Stroke (Hannah Stott)....Pages 155-183
“When You Do Nothing You Die a Little Bit”: On Stillness and Honing Responsive Existence Among Community-Dwelling People with Dementia (Laura H. Vermeulen)....Pages 185-206
Stories of (Im)Mobility: People Affected by Dementia on an Acute Medical Unit (Pippa Collins)....Pages 207-227
Front Matter ....Pages 229-229
Migratory Labour and the Politics of Prevention: Motility and HPV Vaccination Among Florida Farmworkers (Nolan Kline, Cheryl Vamos, Coralia Vázquez-Otero, Elizabeth Lockhart, Sara K. Proctor, Kristen J. Wells et al.)....Pages 231-250
Living Suspended: Anticipation and Resistance in Brain Cancer (Henry Llewellyn, Paul Higgs)....Pages 251-271
Back Matter ....Pages 273-278

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Medical Anthropology; Medical Sociology; Human Geography; Science and Technology Studies