Event Title
Everyday Care: The Fluctuating and Dynamic Nature of Care in Pediatric Oncology
Location
Diamond 323
Start Date
30-4-2015 9:00 AM
End Date
30-4-2015 11:25 AM
Project Type
Presentation- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
This project explores the fluctuating and dynamic nature of care in pediatric oncology. By analyzing the various ways in which care manifests through different landscapes of the everyday, gender, affect, and the body, I will show that care does not just have one definition but rather presents in myriad forms in different situations. Care also influences and is influenced by the built environment of the clinic and hospital setting as well as the economic flows of the administration. Lastly, I analyze the ways in which the bodily movements of the medical practitioners become embodied action that leads to concrete experiences of care. Ultimately, I argue that through the movement of bodies, ideas, and emotions, the ideal and abstract notion of care becomes a lived reality through which practitioners make a difference in the lives of their patients.
Faculty Sponsor
Catherine Besteman
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Anthropology Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1183
Everyday Care: The Fluctuating and Dynamic Nature of Care in Pediatric Oncology
Diamond 323
This project explores the fluctuating and dynamic nature of care in pediatric oncology. By analyzing the various ways in which care manifests through different landscapes of the everyday, gender, affect, and the body, I will show that care does not just have one definition but rather presents in myriad forms in different situations. Care also influences and is influenced by the built environment of the clinic and hospital setting as well as the economic flows of the administration. Lastly, I analyze the ways in which the bodily movements of the medical practitioners become embodied action that leads to concrete experiences of care. Ultimately, I argue that through the movement of bodies, ideas, and emotions, the ideal and abstract notion of care becomes a lived reality through which practitioners make a difference in the lives of their patients.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/415