Chapter 11 Watchful Waiting
This paper opens up the relationship between vulnerability and the temporalities of care. It takes ‘care’ as not just a material practice that supports, manages and sustains vulnerable bodies, but as a temporal practice, one that produces time in situations that are otherwise felt to be stuck or...
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| description | This paper opens up the relationship between vulnerability and the temporalities of care. It takes ‘care’ as not just
a material practice that supports, manages and sustains vulnerable bodies, but as a temporal practice, one that
produces time in situations that are otherwise felt to be stuck or ‘chronic’. It draws on some co-written anecdotes
about the use of ‘watchful waiting’ by medical practitioners working in general practice in the UK’s National
Health System (NHS) to think through the meanings of waiting in relation to chronic health and mental health
crises. The offer of ‘watchful waiting’ as a response to ‘chronic crisis’ becomes a test case for understanding a
more general condition of watchful waiting as a form of care, in a context in which waiting for healthcare has
become an agony for many, experienced as a form of abandonment or a key sign of health service failure. The
paper attempts to re-think ‘waiting times’ within a wider history of the temporalities of care, in order to elucidate
the ways an offer of waiting can itself be understood as a response to vulnerability through a practice of staying
with or alongside the chronic temporalities of others. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-818752025-01-18T13:19:09Z Chapter 11 Watchful Waiting Baraitser, Lisa Brook, William Temporality, waiting, care, crisis, mental health, general practice, NHS This paper opens up the relationship between vulnerability and the temporalities of care. It takes ‘care’ as not just a material practice that supports, manages and sustains vulnerable bodies, but as a temporal practice, one that produces time in situations that are otherwise felt to be stuck or ‘chronic’. It draws on some co-written anecdotes about the use of ‘watchful waiting’ by medical practitioners working in general practice in the UK’s National Health System (NHS) to think through the meanings of waiting in relation to chronic health and mental health crises. The offer of ‘watchful waiting’ as a response to ‘chronic crisis’ becomes a test case for understanding a more general condition of watchful waiting as a form of care, in a context in which waiting for healthcare has become an agony for many, experienced as a form of abandonment or a key sign of health service failure. The paper attempts to re-think ‘waiting times’ within a wider history of the temporalities of care, in order to elucidate the ways an offer of waiting can itself be understood as a response to vulnerability through a practice of staying with or alongside the chronic temporalities of others. 2022-05-26T04:02:15Z 2022-05-26T04:02:15Z 2022-05-25T13:00:00Z 2021 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54693 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81875 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54693/1/Bookshelf_NBK569815.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54693/1/Bookshelf_NBK569815.pdf Oxford University Press db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 Vulnerability and the Politics of Care Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 15 open access |
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