Journal article
Placing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients
Sociology of health & illness, v 40(2), pp 314-326
01 Feb 2018
PMID: 29464770
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Abstract
This article is part of a hospital ethnography that investigates healthcare architecture as an aspect of an increasingly large, complex, and urgent global health issue: caring for refugees and other immigrants. It argues that hospitals are nodes in transnational social networks of immigrant and refugee patients that form assemblages of human and non-human objects. These assemblages co-produce place-specific hospital care in different hospital spaces. Place-specific tensions and power dynamics arise when refugees and immigrants come into contact with these biomedical spaces. The argument is developed by analysing waiting rooms and exam rooms in two outpatient clinics in one US hospital. The article draws its analysis from 9 months of fieldwork in 2012 that included following 69 adult immigrant and refugee patients and observing their encounters with interpreters and clinic staff. Its inclusion of a transnational dimension for understanding place-specific hospital care adds conceptual and empirical depth to the study of how place matters in 21st century hospitals.
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- Title
- Placing care: embodying architecture in hospital clinics for immigrant and refugee patients
- Creators
- Susan E. Bell - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Sociology of health & illness, v 40(2), pp 314-326
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) Bowdoin College Summer Fellowship at SAR
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000425646200006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85042291635
- Other Identifier
- 991019167468204721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
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