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Immobility and Medicine

Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between

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Editors:
  1. Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

    1. University College London, London, UK

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  2. Bruno Vindrola-Padros

    1. University College London, London, UK

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  3. Kyle Lee-Crossett

    1. University College London, London, UK

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  • Engages with different aspect of mobility in varying social and geographical contexts

  • Explores new theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions in social studies of medicine

  • Highlights previously invisible processes concerning movement and inaction in health and medicine, particularly in relation to the ontological nature of immobility

  • Sheds new light on how immobility imaginaries enable or limit certain kinds of movement and action

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Immobility and Medicine: An Introduction

    • Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Bruno Vindrola-Padros, Kyle Lee-Crossett
    Pages 1-12

  3. Immobile Infrastructures and Enforced Waiting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine

      • Julia Rehsmann
      Pages 15-37Open Access

    3. ‘Being Stuck’: Refugees’ Experiences of Enforced Waiting in Greece

      • Pia Juul Bjertrup, Jihane Ben Farhat, Malika Bouhenia, Michaël Neuman, Philippe Mayaud, Karl Blanchet
      Pages 39-59

    4. ‘An (Im)Patient Population’: Waiting Experiences of Transgender Patients at Healthcare Services in Buenos Aires

      • María Victoria Tiseyra, Santiago Morcillo, Julián Ortega, Mario Martín Pecheny, Marine Gálvez
      Pages 61-83

    5. Living in ‘Limbo’: Immobility and Uncertainty in Childhood Cancer Medical Care in Argentina

      • Eugenia Brage
      Pages 85-109

  5. Motility and (Im)Mobile Possibilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Migratory Labour and the Politics of Prevention: Motility and HPV Vaccination Among Florida Farmworkers

      • Nolan Kline, Cheryl Vamos, Coralia Vázquez-Otero, Elizabeth Lockhart, Sara K. Proctor, Kristen J. Wells et al.
      Pages 231-250

    3. Living Suspended: Anticipation and Resistance in Brain Cancer

      • Henry Llewellyn, Paul Higgs
      Pages 251-271

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 273-278
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About this book

Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity. This focus on stillness, things that are stuck, incomplete or in a state of transition can point to new theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions in social studies of medicine. This edited volume brings the concept of immobility to the forefront of social studies of medicine to explore how immobility shapes processes of medical care and the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying immobility in medical contexts. The authors in this volume draw from a wide range of case studies across the globe to make contributions to our current understanding of health, illness and medicine, mobilities and immobilities.
Chapter 2 “Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University College London, London, UK

    Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Bruno Vindrola-Padros, Kyle Lee-Crossett

About the editors

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is a medical anthropologist working in the Department of Targeted Intervention, UCL. She is the lead editor of Healthcare in Motion: (Im)mobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access (2018). 


Bruno Vindrola-Padros is based in the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. He specialises in material culture studies and is currently exploring manifestations of (im)mobilities in the neolithic period. 


Kyle Lee-Crossett is based in the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. He specialises in heritage studies and currently investigates institutional (im)mobilities in the context of collecting contemporary bio- and cultural diversity in public archives and museums.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Immobility and Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between

  • Editors: Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Bruno Vindrola-Padros, Kyle Lee-Crossett

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4976-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4975-5Published: 03 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4978-6Published: 04 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4976-2Published: 02 October 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 278

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medical Anthropology, Medical Sociology, Human Geography, Science and Technology Studies

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