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Meshworks, entanglements, and healthworlds

In: Handbook on Religion and Health

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  • Thandeka Cochrane

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This chapter explores the concepts of meshworks and entanglements as a particular lens through which to think about the worlds of medicine and health, including in relation to religion. The chapter puts forward these concepts as a heuristically fruitful and even powerful way to reflect on healthworlds. Building on the work of Tim Ingold and Ian Hodder, the chapter outlines how the concepts have been theorized. In unpacking these concepts, the chapter explores the many different pathways one might follow with meshwork and entanglement thinking, from thinking about the work of things to thinking with affective entanglements. The chapters uses ethnographic examples from a teaching hospital in western Tanzania to demonstrate how one could mobilize meshworks and entanglements in thinking about health. What is important to note, is that this chapter does not seek to present a totalizing perspective, rather it hopes to offer an invitation to different ways of thinking and seeing.

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  • Thandeka Cochrane, 2024. "Meshworks, entanglements, and healthworlds," Chapters, in: James R. Cochrane & Gary R. Gunderson & Teresa Cutts (ed.), Handbook on Religion and Health, chapter 23, pages 366-378, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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