... and cultural capital). Information and experience were used by interviewees to create self-treatment plans and maneuver within the healthcare system; this included advocating for what they wanted out of the treatment experience and in provider-client relationships. We live in a social context where information...

... reproductive travel reproductive exile reproductive medicine commercialization of vacation anonymous egg donation IVF using egg donor PGD surrogacy Czech clinic global market of healthcare kinship quest for parenthood “baby business ” Czech egg donors fertility holiday global care chain...

... of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed. Except maybe it hadn't. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organization that suggests that people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the first...

... that resembles them but also for a particular kind of healthcare. “baby business ” Google health as commodity Internet neoliberal healthcare biological citizenship individual responsibility patient as consumer patient empowerment biomedicalization biosocial community contradiction kinship work quest...

... discussing the notion that healthcare and K-12 education for undocumented immigrants and their families impose increased costs on state and local economies. It then considers efforts by state and local governments to implement immigration policy, such as the DREAM Act. The chapter concludes with a proposal...

... ability to make decisions for themselves and their fetuses encourage more evidence-based maternity care practices. Reproductive justice would also benefit from universal healthcare that covers all aspects of reproductive health. cesarean delivery C section infant mortality liability risk low birth...

...Since 2003, Iraqis with cancer have increasingly been forced to travel across borders for treatment unavailable at home. Two cases of Iraqi cancer patients traveling across borders to Beirut, Lebanon highlight how such travel for healthcare places enormous strains on kinship networks. While those...

...In “Save My Kid,” sociologist Amanda Gengler examines how families of critically ill children navigate the US healthcare system. Not all families are equipped with resources for critically ill kids, but the toolkits that are available to them shape their approach to seeking care...

...Iraq’s healthcare infrastructure has deteriorated after decades of war and sanctions. A small fraction of Iraqis injured as a result of war have accessed quality care at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUMC), some funded by the Iraqi government. This chapter, based on the author’s...

..., which involves working hard to influence the course of their child’s treatment, and care-entrusting, which involves deferring to the judgement of their child’s healthcare providers. Additionally, the chapter covers the topic of healthcare inequality and cultural health capital, emotions...

... such as healthcare; not until a considerable number of women had entered the professions of biology and medicine could biases from androcentrism be exposed. Indeed, the national focus on attracting and retaining women in science and the particular shortages in the science and technology workforce in the wake...

.... A global marketing chain has brilliantly packaged “fertility holidays”: a European vacation alongside a healthcare system where doctors really care and want you to have your beautiful white baby. Brokers promise couples that they will experience a more relaxing IVF cycle while also assuring them Czech...

... of governance in medical education today rely on the modification of affect, or embodied capacities to feel and form attachments. Feeling Medicine thus explores what it means to make good physicians in an era of corporatized healthcare. In the process, it considers the role of simulation...