The last two decades have seen a disturbing and growing disparity emerge in our publicly-administered healthcare. Generally, while our technical interventions for the curable get better, our other human engagements and understandings get worse. This is happening despite energetic political commitments, enormous funding and numerous specialist training and regulatory bodies. Why? This second volume of the Anthology documents this new era and proposes that the technical and managerial approaches that are so helpful in tackling curable diseases (the 'factory') are now serving us poorly elsewhere...
The last two decades have seen a disturbing and growing disparity emerge in our publicly-administered healthcare. Generally, while our technical inter...
Our patterns of illness, then the communications and activities we fabricate to address them, are often rich in unobvious human meaning, and thus opportunity. Yet overzealous pursuit of scientific approaches can here have paradoxical effects. This is because our diagnosis and therapeutics are systematised to short-circuit those very human vagaries that confer meaning. This first volume of the Anthology comprises earlier articles exploring the networks and meanings increasingly ignored by, then obscure to, medical practice. Many subtly coloured case examples help the reader navigate and...
Our patterns of illness, then the communications and activities we fabricate to address them, are often rich in unobvious human meaning, and thus oppo...
