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Tracing Power in Illness. About Morality, Power and Communication in Czech Healthcare Services

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2017

Abstract

The book chapter analyses a case of a birthing woman who left a maternity hospital with her healthy newborn on her own request but was forced to return to hospital a day later police who found her violating the presribed regimen of care. The text examines competing moral regimes or moral logics surrounding this case and providing an answer to a question who is to blame for such an outcome.