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Bourdieu and the Inequalities of Healthcare
Bourdieu and the Inequalities of Healthcare
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
It has become increasingly necessary in our globalized world to seek better understandings of the inequalities of health, and the role our healthcare systems play in mediating or re-producing these inequalities. This session offers an opportunity to engage with Pierre Bourdieu's concepts, including, but not limited to capital, habitus and field, and his unique methodology, and investigate the most significant issues facing healthcare analysts around the world today: Why do health inequalities, such as race, class and gender, persist, despite the growing levels of funding from governments and the private sector? Why is it so difficult to reform and improve healthcare services? Why do patients find the healthcare system so difficult to access and navigate? This session seeks both conceptual and empirical papers that address these questions about Bourdieu and the inequalities of health and healthcare.
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