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Minna Zechner
Lena Näre
Olli Karsio
Antero Olakivi
Liina Sointu
Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania
Tiina Vaittinen

Table of contents :
Front Cover
The Politics of Ailment: A New Approach to Care
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Contents
One Introduction: Humans as ailing beings
On different types of ailment
Political responses to ailment
Thinking with ailment in an ageing world
Two Tracing ailment in social and care policies
Sanctioning the ailing
Protecting the ailing workforce
Acknowledging ailment
Failing the ailing
Three Profit making and ailment: the marketisation and financialisation of care
Marketisation of care
Financialisation of care
Profiting from ailment
Four Ailment in caring encounters and divisions of care labour
Affective encounters and caregiver ailment
Ailment in intersectional and global divisions of labour
Five The politics of ailment
Thinking about social and care policies with ailment
Thinking about markets and financialisation with ailment
Thinking about care work and global inequalities with ailment
The future of homo aegrotus and the ailing earth
References
Index
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