Materialities of care: encountering health and illness through artefacts and architecture

Content: Notes on contributors vii Conceptualising `materialities of care': making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts 1Christina Buse, Daryl Martin and Sarah Nettleton Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one's own 14Julie Brownlie and Helen Spandler Thinking with care infrastructures: people, devices and the home in home blood pressure monitoring 28Kate Weiner and Catherine Will The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums 41Gemma Mangione Exchanging implements: the micro-materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre 54Christian Heath, Paul Luff, Marcus Sanchez-Svensson and Maxim Nicholls Placing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients 72Susan E. Bell Private finance initiative hospital architecture: towards a political economy of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital 84Paul Jones Dressing disrupted: negotiating care through the materiality of dress in the context of dementia 97Christina Buse and Julia Twigg Family food practices: relationships, materiality and the everyday at the end of life 110Julie Ellis Becoming at home in residential care for older people: a material culture perspective 123Melanie Lovatt Afterword: materialities, care, `ordinary affects', power and politics 136Joanna Latimer Index 149