Landscapes of care immigration and health in rural America / Thurka Sangaramoorthy.
| Author/creator | Sangaramoorthy, Thurka, 1975- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023] |
| Description | xix, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in social medicine Studies in social medicine. ^A422197 |
| Contents | Preface. Writing Immigration: Love, Loss, and Longing -- Introduction. The Land That Time Forgot -- Journeys through the Heartland: Rural America as "New" Receiving Destination -- Ordinary Living: Everyday Injury, Disability, and Instability -- Place, Personhood, and Precarity: Rural Dynamics of Health Care -- Band-Aid Care: Small Fixes and Gaping Wounds -- On Hope and Indeterminacy. |
| Abstract | "This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care delivery and immigration policies are deeply connected in rural America. Drawing from fieldwork that centers on Maryland's sparsely populated Eastern Shore, Sangaramoorthy shows how longstanding issues of precarity among rural health systems along with the exclusionary logics of immigration have mutually fashioned a 'landscape of care' in which shared conditions of physical suffering and emotional anxiety among immigrants and rural residents generate powerful forms of regional vitality and social inclusion"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-167) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022053982 |
| ISBN | 9781469674162 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781469674179 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |