Hadolt / Stöckl Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine

Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8394-6762-6
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E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft

In health and medicine, imagining the future is essential in giving meaning to the past and the present and for propelling people into action. This is true not only at the level of individuals as they envision and carry out everyday activities and long-term plans but also for institutional practices framed by and unfolding within various socio-political ecologies and transfigurations. Hope and uncertainty are critical affective and knowledge-related modalities of such imaginations and assume vital meanings in policing, managing, and experiencing health, illness, and well-being. This volume brings together contributions from medical anthropologists who address this theme across various medical spheres, including the pragmatics of hope and uncertainty, the techno-sphere, health management, and individual and socially distributed emotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hadolt, Bernhard

Stöckl, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Stöckl, Andrea
Andrea Stöckl (PhD) is a medical anthropologist and practising__psychotherapist, working in Innsbruck, Austria. She has been a lecturer__at the School of Medicine, Health Policy, and Practices at the__University of East Anglia, UK, until 2021.

Hadolt, Bernhard
Bernhard Hadolt (PhD) is a social anthropologist with a specialisation__in medical anthropology. He is a senior lecturer and director of studies__at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University__of Vienna.

Bernhard Hadolt (PhD) is a social anthropologist with a specialisation
in medical anthropology. He is a senior lecturer and director of studies
at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University
of Vienna.
Andrea Stöckl (PhD) is a medical anthropologist and practising
psychotherapist, working in Innsbruck, Austria. She has been a lecturer
at the School of Medicine, Health Policy, and Practices at the
University of East Anglia, UK, until 2021.