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Framing Age
Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology, psychology, to name but three – and a discipline of its own: gerontology. This book questions the framing of old age by focusing on the relationships between policy making and the production of knowledge. The first part explores how the meeting of scientific expertise and the politics of old age anchors...
Communities of Kinship
In Communities of Kinship: Retrieving Christian Practices of Solidarity with Lepers as a Paradigm for Overcoming Exclusion of Older People, Carlo Calleja describes kinship as a moral category, arguing that practicing kinship with others can cultivate virtues that shape the character of the agent. Contemporary Western society tends to focus on kinship as the sharing of blood ties or genetic material. On the other hand, the spiritual kinship that is proposed by religions tends to be exclusive and often nominal. For this reason, Calleja proposes practices and structures of solidaristic kinship, which involves sharing in the suffering of the other person. Finding parallels between the exclusion of lepers and the efforts of Christian communities to reforge kinship bonds with them in ancient and medieval times, he argues that communities of kinship with older persons can help cultivate the virtues needed for the flourishing of oneself and society.
Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality
Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care. There is even more serious neglect of the specific issues faced by different ethnic minorities. This book uses the rich narratives of the recovery journeys of Chinese mental health service users in the UK – a perceived ‘hard-to-reach group’ and largely invisible in mental health literature – to illustrate the myriad ways that social inequalities such as class, ethnicity and gender contribute to service users' distress and mental ill-health, as well as shape their subsequent recovery journeys. Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality contributes to the debate about the implementation of ‘recovery approach’ in mental health services and demonstrates the importance of tackling structural inequalities in facilitating meaningful recovery. This timely book would benefit practitioners and students in various fields, such as nurses, social workers and mental health postgraduate trainees.
Preventing Dementia?
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.
Medical histories of Belgium
Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by questioning classic themes of the history of medicine: physicians, institutions and the nation state. While retracing specific Belgian characteristics, it also engages with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical histories of Belgium will appeal to Historians of Belgium in various subfields, especially cultural history and political history and medical historians and medical practitioners seeking the historical context of their activities.
Transnationalising Reproduction
Third party conception is a growing phenomenon and provokes a burgeoning range of ethical, legal and social questions. What are the rights of donors, recipients and donor conceived children? How are these reproductive technologies regulated? How is kinship understood within these new family forms? Written by specialists from three different continents, Transnationalising Reproduction examines a broad range of issues concerning kinship and identity, citizenship and regulation, and global markets of reproductive labour; including gamete donation and gestational surrogacy. Indeed, this book seeks to highlight how reproductive technologies not only makes possible new forms of kinship and family ...
Les pairs à l'adolescence
La crise sanitaire liée à la COVID-19 a souligné avec force la place du groupe de pairs dans la sociabilité juvénile, la construction de soi et le bien-être des jeunes, durement touchés par cette limitation des sorties et des interactions.
Choisir et agir pour autrui ?
Les sociétés démocratiques reposent sur une présomption légale d'égale capacité de tous les citoyens à choisir et à agir pour eux-mêmes. Dans de nombreuses situations de vulnérabilité (avancée en âge, maladie, handicap, difficultés socioéconomiques), ce principe d'égale autonomie est remis en cause. Des proches ou des professionnels sont alors conduits à intervenir pour la personne, parfois à sa place, avec ou sans son consentement. Le souci de protection des personnes au nom de leur intérêt constitue le paradigme classique des régulations des pratiques de soin et d'accompagnement. Avec la Convention internationale relative aux droits des personnes handicapées, ce para...
Reproductive Racism
Population is a dangerous political category. It is not separable from the racist and class-based valorisation and devaluation of different lives. From global contraceptive implant programmes to right wing anti-immigration discourses, demographic interpretations of multiple current crises legitimise the states' grip on childbearing and mobility. The results are complex dimensions of reproductive racism and restrictive border regimes. Meanwhile, global social inequalities and racial capitalist extractivism stay out of the game. The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states’ grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix ...
Aides-soignants et autres funambules du soin
Aide-soignante, préposée aux bénéficiaires, auxiliaire polyvalente ou encore accompagnatrice à domicile sont autant de métiers, le plus souvent au féminin, mal connus, effacés, parfois oubliés, jouant pourtant un rôle essentiel dans le soutien des personnes atteintes de handicaps, âgées, malades ou mourantes. Leur contribution est essentielle au maintien de la dignité de ces personnes. Cet ouvrage a pour ambition de mieux comprendre ces métiers, en prêtant une attention aux collectifs de travail, à la nature des tâches, aux apprentissages et aux conditions de leur réalisation, aux multiples « arts de faire » dans l'accompagnement et les soins au sein d'univers très contraints. Au travers de ces métiers, sur lesquels il invite à jeter un regard différent, l'ouvrage cherche également à mieux saisir les transformations des dispositifs sociosanitaires, dans différents pays (Belgique, France, Suisse, Québec), les divers établissements de soins et secteurs (soins aux personnes âgées, soins palliatifs, soins à domicile) dans lesquels évoluent ces travailleuses et travailleurs.
