Tag: Rehabilitation

Restoring the balance: Living well with pain

Post author Else Vogel
Post date April 16, 2019

Like dementia, persistent pain comes with irreparable losses: physical restrictions, strained relationships, financial problems, perished dreams and ambitions. Both conditions require ethnographers and care professionals to shift focus from cure to care, from treating illnesses to learning how to live with restrictions. The question thus emerges: how do we learn to live with such ‘diseases that do not go away’ …

Tags care, daily life, Dementia, Ethics, fieldwork, Pain, Rehabilitation, Subjectivity, the netherlands, values

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Medical Anthropology in a Military Treatment Facility

Post author Seth Messinger
Post date February 8, 2011
1 Comment on Medical Anthropology in a Military Treatment Facility

In March 2004, after being hired by UMBC, I attended a meeting at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with a colleague from my new department and several military and civilian clinicians. There we discussed the specific and the vague challenges that faced the increasing number of US military service-members who were coming into the …

Tags Disability, Military, Rehabilitation, Trauma, Violence