Rebirth of the clinic : places and agents in contemporary health care / Cindy Patton, editor.

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2010], ©2010.

xx, 173 pages ; 23 cm.

"Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, provides support for interdisciplinary scholarship within a new collaborative model of research and publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinic or spa? Facial surgery in the context of AIDS-related facial wasting / John Liesch and Cindy Patton -- Implications of an epistemological vision : knowing what to do in home health care / Christine Ceci and Mary Ellen Purkis -- Where is community health? : Racism, the clinic, and the biopolitical state / Jenna Loyd -- Repetition and rupture : the gender of agency in methadone maintenance treatment / Suzanne Fraser -- Freedom or socks : market promises versus supportive care in diabetes treatment / Annemarie Mol -- Clinic without the clinic / Cindy Patton -- Practices of doctoring : enacting medical experience / Lisa Diedrich.