Section 3: Locus of Care

摘要: Medicine, health care and the wider social meaning management of are undergoing major changes. In part, this reflects changes in locus care. Genetics, informatics, imaging integrative technologies, stem cell therapies all contribute to redefining our understanding body, disease. At same time, is no longer simply domain conventional medicine, nor clinic. Locus refers ways primarily preserve With digitalisation, globalisation a growing emphasis on personal responsibility, more taking place non-medical settings. This section draws from three books which locale plays an important role: Petersen et al. (Stem tourism political economy hope. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) follow people one clinical location another pursuit treatments that available some parts world but not others. Wathen (Mediating information: The go-betweens changing socio-technical landscape. 2008) focus how digital technologies make it possible for find information sorts places, including libraries, rural Indigenous communities Canada Australia. Pasveer (Ways home making later life. 2020) bring us ‘home’, traditional site care, where many older wish remain.