Materialities of Care

<p><i>Materialities of Care</i> addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture.<br /><br /></p> <ul> <li>Makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice</li> <li>Examines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells</li> <li>Addresses fleeting moments of care, as well as choreographed routines that order bodies and materials</li> <li>Focuses on practice and relations between materials and care as ongoing, emergent and processual</li> <li>International contributions from leading scholars draw attention to methodological approaches for capturing the material and sensory aspects of health and social care encounters</li> </ul>