Alison Kenner

Breathtaking

Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing asthma care in the twenty-first centuryAsthma is not a new problem, but today the disease is being reshaped by changing ecologies, healthcare systems, medical sciences, and built environments. A global epidemic, asthma (and our efforts to control it) demands an analysis attentive to its complexity, its contextual nature, and the care

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 147mm x 222mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781517902865
• ISBN-10: 151790286X
• Artikelnr.: 52414033

Autorenporträt

Alison Kenner is assistant professor in the department of politics and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Drexel University. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Attuning to Asthma in Time and Place
2. Three Modes of Control as Asthma Care
3. Counting on Breath: Making Time with Respiratory Retraining
4. The Datafication of Care
5. Public Health Carescapes for Climate Change
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index