Sakellariou, Dikaios 2015. Home modifications and ways of living well. Medical Anthropology 34 (5) , pp. 456-469. 10.1080/01459740.2015.1012614 |
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Abstract
People living with a disability or illness and health care professionals often have different perspectives on what needs to be done, and why, in order to create a life they can recognize as good. Focusing on home modifications, I explore the enactment of diverging perspectives on the desired good. I show how one couple living with the effects of motor neuron disease in Wales tried to create a way of living. Drawing from a narrative-based study, I explore what happens when there is an interaction of different perspectives of what is considered to be a desirable outcome. I argue that the construction of some expectations as needs, and others as desires, serves to subjugate people to certain technologies. These technologies are those deemed necessary, following a neo-liberal language of cost-effectiveness where desires can be seen as liabilities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Healthcare Sciences |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN: | 1545-5882 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2019 18:29 |
URI: | http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/71085 |
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