A politics of what: the enactment of peritoneal dialysis in indigenous Australians McCarthy, Alexandra and Martin-McDonald, Kristine 2007, A politics of what: the enactment of peritoneal dialysis in indigenous Australians, Sociology of health and illness, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 82-99, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00520.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title A politics of what: the enactment of peritoneal dialysis in indigenous Australians Author(s) McCarthy, Alexandra Martin-McDonald, Kristine Journal name Sociology of health and illness Volume number 29 Issue number 1 Start page 82 End page 99 Publisher Blackwell Publishing Limited Place of publication Oxford, England Publication date 2007-01 ISSN 0141-9889 1467-9566 Keyword(s) actor-network theory peritoneal dialysis rural Indigenous Australians Summary This paper explores, on the one hand, the requirements of the technologies and practices that have been developed for a particular type of renal patient and health network in Australia. On the other, we examine the cultural and practical specificities entailed in the performance of these technologies and practices in the Indigenous Australian context. The praxiographic orientation of the actor-network approach – which has been called 'the politics of what' (Mol 2002) – enabled us to understand the difficulties involved in translating renal healthcare networks across cultural contexts in Australia; to understand the dynamic and contested nature of these networks; and to suggest possible strategies that make use of the tensions between these two disparate networks in ways that might ensure better healthcare for Indigenous renal patients. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00520.x Field of Research 111002 Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative) HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2007, The Authors Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007107 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Nursing and Midwifery Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 02 Mar 2009, 10:48:46 EST Thu, 11 Jun 2009, 12:26:12 EST Thu, 05 Aug 2010, 15:57:30 EST Wed, 18 Aug 2010, 10:07:52 EST Wed, 17 Nov 2010, 08:41:43 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 11:21:21 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 08:24:05 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 3 times in TR Web of Science Cited 4 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 413 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 08:48:21 EST

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