Not Breathing Easy: "Disarticulated Homework" in Asthma Management.

ABSTRACT: Recent health policy in the United States encourages an outsourcing of labor from professional practice into domestic spaces, where in theory, medical professionals supply the training, technologies, and guidance needed to discharge responsibility for care to patients or caregivers. Mattingly et al. (2011) term this labor "chronic homework," describing the relationship between the assigning and undertaking of medical care at the borders of professional and domestic domains. This is a system predicated on relationships between professional and caregiver. However, in our research with families and providers in two U.S. sites, we observed a "disarticulation" of asthma care from professional medicine. Caregivers may undertake routine asthma management with little physician oversight, transform

SUBMITTER: Spray J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8249308 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature