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Eliciting Care: Health and Power in Northern Thailand (New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies) by Bo Kyeong Seo; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In 2001, Thailand introduced universal health care reforms that have become some of the most celebrated in the world, providing almost its entire population with health protection coverage. However, this remarkable implementation of health policy is not without its weaknesses. Drawing on two years of fieldwork at a district hospital in northern Thailand, Bo Kyeong Seo examines how people in marginal and dependent social positions negotiate the process of obtaining care. Using the broader concept of elicitation, Seo analyzes the social encounters and forces that shape caregivers. These dynamics challenge dichotomies of subjugation and resistance, consent and coercion, and dependence and autonomy. The intimate and moving stories at the core of Eliciting Care from patients and providers draw attention to a broader, critically important phenomenon at the hospital level. Seo's poignant ethnography engages with feminist theory on the ethics of care, and in so doing, makes a significant contribution to emerging work in the field of health policy and politics.

Who reads Eliciting Care: Health and Power in Northern Thailand (New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Bo Kyeong Seo;
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9780299326937
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Anthropology, Medical, History

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