TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient waiting
T2 - Care as a gift and debt in the Thai healthcare system
AU - Seo, Bo Kyeong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Royal Anthropological Institute.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - Drawing on fieldwork in Chiang Mai during 2010 and 2012, I examine poor Thais' and Shan migrants' experiences of receiving healthcare from a public hospital, and, in parallel, care from the state. While universal health coverage has become a way in which the state finds legitimacy in people's lives through giving care, being a recipient of state aid is implicated in the emotive domain of waiting. By focusing on how people feel and think of a gift and debt of care, I suggest that flows of affects that loom large in social interactions within the public hospital denote not only poor people's subordinate position but also their effort to achieve a sense of mutuality and moral autonomy. This study contributes to a broader understanding of experiences of paternalism, inequality, and dependence by illuminating people's agentive submission into relations of care.
AB - Drawing on fieldwork in Chiang Mai during 2010 and 2012, I examine poor Thais' and Shan migrants' experiences of receiving healthcare from a public hospital, and, in parallel, care from the state. While universal health coverage has become a way in which the state finds legitimacy in people's lives through giving care, being a recipient of state aid is implicated in the emotive domain of waiting. By focusing on how people feel and think of a gift and debt of care, I suggest that flows of affects that loom large in social interactions within the public hospital denote not only poor people's subordinate position but also their effort to achieve a sense of mutuality and moral autonomy. This study contributes to a broader understanding of experiences of paternalism, inequality, and dependence by illuminating people's agentive submission into relations of care.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9655.12381
DO - 10.1111/1467-9655.12381
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958190882
VL - 22
SP - 279
EP - 295
JO - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
JF - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
SN - 1359-0987
IS - 2
ER -