"A "Rich People's Disease

Migrant Workers and Structural Disability in China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4564455
AutoresXisai Song (0000-0002-6320-7856, The University of Texas at Austin, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas264-277
Fecha de publicación2023-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2023.2189111
PMID36976919
OpenAlexW4361221839
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas53

Drawing on fieldwork in southwest China, I examine how structural marginalization shapes therapeutic choices and healing experiences of chronic illness. I explore why Chinese rural migrant workers avoid chronic care in biomedicine to grapple with their chronic kidney disease. I show that migrant workers, who live precarious labor lives, experience chronic kidney disease as both a chronic, disabling experience and an acute crisis. I call for broader awareness of structural disability and argue that chronic disease care necessitates not only treating the disease but also the provision of equitable social security

Biomedicine · China · Chronic disease · Disease · Family medicine · Kidney disease · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Structural violence · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Medicine · Gerontology