Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Immobility and Medicine: An Introduction
"Thinking with" Immobility
Immobile Infrastructures and Enforced Waiting
Embodied Stillness and Fixity
Motility and (Im)Mobile Possibilities
Conclusion: Moving the Field of Immobility and Medicine
References
Part I Immobile Infrastructures and Enforced Waiting
2 Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine
Introduction: On Top of a Mountain
Methods
Transplant Medicine as a 'Hope-Generating Machine'
Lists in Flux

Allocating Algorithms
Waiting-in-Uncertainty, Mobile Phones and Immobilities
Conclusion
References
3 'Being Stuck': Refugees' Experiences of Enforced Waiting in Greece
Introduction
Political Context and European Border Closures
Methodology
Waiting in Refugee Camps-Passivity and Dependency
Uncertainty and Suffering Linked to the Asylum System
'Existential Insecurity' and Open-Ended Waiting
Engaging with and Appreciating the Present Moment
Planning for an Anticipated Future
Potentials for Mental Health and Psychosocial Interventions
Conclusion
References

4 'An (Im)Patient Population': Waiting Experiences of Transgender Patients at Healthcare Services in Buenos Aires
Introduction
Methodology
The Gender Identity Act in Argentina's Healthcare System
The Experiences of Waiting
Waiting Scenes: Public Health Services
The Transgender Population Seen Through the Biomedical Gaze
Concluding Remarks
References
5 Living in 'Limbo': Immobility and Uncertainty in Childhood Cancer Medical Care in Argentina
Introduction
About Illness Experience
Immobility and Uncertainty: Fundamental Categories to Understand Cancer Care

Liminality in Cancer Care
Disruption of Everyday Life
Cancer and Migration: Disruptive Events
Living in 'Limbo'
Discussion
Conclusions
References
Part II Embodied Stillness and Fixity
6 Embodying Immobility: Dysphoric Geographies of Labour Migration and Their Transformations in the Therapeutic Context of 'Venda' Ancestor Possession in Post-apartheid South Africa
Introduction
Immobility as Culturally Mediated Praxis
Ancestor Spirit Possession in Tshikuani: Beyond 'Rebellion'
Therapeutic Articulations of the 'Denying Body' Migrants in Tshikuani

Historical Context: Towards Ancestor Possession
Contemporary Transformations: Immobility in the Rural 'Home'
Venda-Tshikuani: Past and Present Dichotomies
Conclusion
References
7 Liminality and the SCI Body: How Medicine Reproduces Stuckedness
Introduction
Liminal Passages Experienced by the SCI Body
Medical Relationship to the Post Mobility Body
The Reproduction of the Medical Model
Spaces of Reproduction and Resistance
References
8 Embodied Perceptions of Immobility After Stroke
Introduction
Motility and Exploring the Environment