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Performing sociotechnical environments: intersections of bodies, knowledge, artefacts and politics
No full textAnziani, salute e società. Politiche di welfare, discorso pubblico e cura quotidiana
No full textIl volume mette in luce intrecci e dissonanze tra le rappresentazioni mediatiche dell’invecchiamento, le politiche di welfare finalizzate a regolare l’accesso ai servizi da parte degli anziani e le pratiche di cura volte a supportarli in caso di insorgenza di problemi di salute. Lo scopo è quello di fornire una visione complessiva dell’invecchiamento, al di fuori di ogni stereotipo, sottolineando come i significati dati a questo fenomeno e gli assetti di cura siano legati da relazioni di co-costituzione reciproca, cambiando e cambiandosi a vicenda nel corso del tempo. Un libro basato su indagini empiriche innovative, che si pone all’incrocio tra la sociologia della salute, gli studi sociali sulla scienza e la tecnologia e l’analisi delle politiche pubbliche
On care infrastructures and health practices: how people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life
Full text linkThis paper contributes to challenging common behavioural or cognitive explanations for health and wellbeing outcomes, focussing on social practices through which people, with the help of other subjects, try to improve their health conditions. To renew the debate about health promotion, my work is placed at the intersection between the sociology of health and illness and science and technology studies, adopting the concepts of care infrastructures and health practices that are introduced in the next section. With this goal, my paper draws on a qualitative study concerning a Workplace Health Promotion programme aimed at reducing the risks of Type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases among sedentary workers. The findings illustrate how a care infrastructure in the field of health promotion is designed, put to work, repaired and ‘put aside’ in relation to two health practices (‘doing physical activity’ and ‘following the Mediterranean diet’). Drawing on the presented case, I show how the change in daily habits in the fields of nutrition and physical activity is a collective effort involving different spheres of life, connecting human and non-human elements and bringing out affective intensities among them
Ageing and innovation.Exploring a collective matter of concern
Full text linkOver the last few years, Science and Technology Studies and socio-gerontology have moved beyond the interventionist logic, whereby users are perceived as «targets» of techno-scientific instruments aimed at solving their needs, contributing decisively to the emergence of an alternative perspective on ageing. This special issue aims to follow this direction. It offers a multifaceted mapping of the current debate about how ageing and techno-scientific innovation shape each other through the involvement of heterogeneous actors such as scientific communities, market and industrial systems, digital media, self-tracking technologies, healthcare professionals, and the elderly and their social networks. Presenting the rationale of the papers that compose the Special Issue, we suggest four themes arising when empirically and theoretically approaching these intricacies: i) ageing research and medicine; ii) ageing, social media, and public discourses; iii) ageing, ICTs, and daily life. Drawing on the discussion of the selected papers, we will argue that ageing emerges as a collective matter of concern marked by multiplicity
Le professioni in pratica tra tecnologie, competenze e organizzazione. Il caso della gestione Diabete tipo 1
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‘Homemade’: Building, mending, and coordinating a care network
Full text linkIn recent decades, longer life expectancy, the consequent greater number of patients with often concurrent diseases, and the need of healthcare institutions to reduce the costs of services, have engendered changes in all European healthcare systems. On one side, healthcare systems increasingly rely on the self-management skills of patients, who undertake a growing amount of ‘sickness work’ from which they are relieved only in the case of severe illness. On the other, the inability of public healthcare systems to satisfy the increased demand for care has led to the growth of private healthcare organizations as well as cooperatives of health professionals who offer their services privately. The care of citizens, therefore, is increasingly distributed across networks of actors with very different objectives, logics of action and professional backgrounds (public and private healthcare organizations, community medical services, voluntary organizations). Despite the attention devoted by social studies of medicine to the work done by citizens in supporting the work of clinicians and nurses, the work performed in connection to the management of care networks have been only marginally investigated. Drawing on a qualitative research carried out in the Province of Trento (Italy) and focused on the different ways in which elderly people with chronic conditions manage their conditions outside the healthcare and welfare institutions, in this paper we are interested in deepening the understanding of the invisible work citizens perform in connection to the management of care services and professionals. That is, the work needed in order to activate, mend and coordinate complex networks of care
Beyond (but not too much) the male breadwinner model. A qualitative study about child care and masculinities in contemporary Italy
Full text linkhttps://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2015.102572
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