Not Breathing Easy: "Disarticulated Homework" in Asthma Management.
Med Anthropol Q
; 35(2): 285-302, 2021 06.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33502761
ABSTRACT
Recent health policy in the United States encourages an outsourcing of labor from professional practice into domestic spaces, where in theory, medical professionals supply the training, technologies, and guidance needed to discharge responsibility for care to patients or caregivers. Mattingly et al. (2011) term this labor "chronic homework," describing the relationship between the assigning and undertaking of medical care at the borders of professional and domestic domains. This is a system predicated on relationships between professional and caregiver. However, in our research with families and providers in two U.S. sites, we observed a "disarticulation" of asthma care from professional medicine. Caregivers may undertake routine asthma management with little physician oversight, transforming chronic homework into what we term "disarticulated homework." We argue that expanding the concept of chronic homework to theorize disarticulation processes can help elucidate how health disparities are reproduced in the gap between medical systems and domestic life. [asthma, self-management, caregiving pharmaceuticalization, health disparities].
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Asthma
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Caregivers
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Health Personnel
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Continuity of Patient Care
Type of study:
Guideline
Limits:
Adult
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Med Anthropol Q
Year:
2021
Type:
Article