Day, Sophie E.. 2015. Waiting and the architecture of care. In: Veena Das and Clara Han, eds. Living and Dying in the Contemporary world: A Compendium. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 167-184. ISBN 9780520278417 [Book Section]

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I discuss waiting in NHS hospitals as a claim or a property right, and suggest that the property is common to those who meet and occupy hospital spaces. A politics of care animates social contacts among strangers, and attracts ambivalence. 'Our' NHS values and practices produce a hyphen between nation and state (Aretxaga 2003), citizen and subject, equality and equity.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Dates:	Date Event 2015 Published
Item ID:	16990
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2016 15:30
Last Modified:	10 Mar 2021 10:57
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/16990

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