Patient patients: middle-aged British Pakistani women and the intuition of limits to care
Anthropol Med. 2023 Sep 15:1-15. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2236875. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper examines the affective inequalities underpinning the extensive responsibilities of care that are shouldered by chronically ill -middle-aged British Pakistani women. In the context of ethnic health inequalities, chronic illness and premature ageing are ubiquitous. Further, mid-life generates gendered pinchpoints in the dynamics of care. The paper draws on extended conversations with women over seven/eight years and tracks their unsettled perspectives on sabar (patient endurance). Middle-aged women described how, ove...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - September 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kaveri Qureshi Source Type: research
When the clinic becomes home: on the limits of kinship care in an eating disorder treatment centre in Italy
Anthropol Med. 2023 Sep 12:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2239510. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDrawing on fieldwork in a public residential facility for eating disorders in central Italy, the paper examines the relational temporalities of therapeutics by looking at how time affects treatment at the intersection of professional and family care practices. In arguing that 'chronic cases' put into question the specific kind of kinship care that is at the basis of treatment, the paper contributes to the anthropological literature on eating disorders by bringing time under the analytical lens, and to the literature on 'chron...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - September 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Giulia Sciolli Source Type: research
'A factory of therapy': accountability and the monitoring of psychological therapy in IAPT
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jul 19:1-17. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2217773. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSince the introduction of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme in NHS England, psychological therapy has gained traction as 'evidence-based' and 'effective' in both clinical and economic terms. In the process, psychotherapeutic care has been reconstituted as highly manualised, standardised, and quantifiable. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork with mental health practitioners, this paper examines some common tensions that practitioners experience in their daily work where psychotherapy is sought w...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mikkel Kenni Bruun Source Type: research
