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1Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Abstract:
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.
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