Care and Disregard

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46 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationA Companion to Moral Anthropology
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages242-263
Number of pages22
ISBN (Print)9780470656457
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 22 2012

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Social Sciences

Keywords

  • "pharmaceuticalization of health care"
  • Alternative conceptions of caregiving, moral experience, and life as taking shape
  • Care and disregard, and Catarina's case as one such instance
  • Commodities becoming interwoven, in the very fabric of symptoms/identities
  • Domestic encroachment of medical commodities, affecting care and family ties
  • Institutional care, outsourced to entrepreneurs and local communities
  • New therapeutic populations and forms of intimacy
  • Psychiatric drugs, becoming part of the economies of care
  • Psycho-pharmaceuticals, key role in altering Catarina's sense of being and value

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