| Description |
1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Summary |
There are many locations, relationships, & experiences through which we learn what it means to be a citizen. Contemporary healthcare - or 'the clinic' - is one of those sites. Being drawn into the complex 'medical-legal-policy-insurance nexus' as a patient entails all sorts of learning, including, it is argued here, political learning. When we are subjected as a patient, frequently through a discourse of 'choice & control,' or 'patient autonomy,' what do we learn? What happens when the promise of a certain kind of autonomy is accompanied by demands for a certain kind of humility? What do we learn about agency & self-determination, as well as trust, self-knowledge, dependence, & resistance under such conditions of acute vulnerability? This text explores these questions on a journey through medicalized encounters with giving birth, navigating death, & seeking treatment for life-altering mental illness |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 20, 2020) |
| Subject |
Vulnerability (Personality trait) -- Political aspects
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Humility -- Political aspects
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Autonomy (Psychology)
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Autonomy (Psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197516676 (ebook) |
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019751667X (ebook) |
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