{"product_id":"9789819220915","title":"Institutional Abandonment Health, Harm, and Civil-Society Responses","description":"\u003ch1\u003eInstitutional Abandonment\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eHealth, Harm, and Civil-Society Responses\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOliver Razum | Diego S. Silva | Iryna Hubeladze | Yudit Namer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eThis edited book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eexamines how\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e institutional abandonment—states’ knowing or deliberate neglect of moral or legal obligations—harms population health and undermines democratic accountability. In this international volume for sociologists of health and illness as well as scholars of public health and bioethics, migration studies, political sciences, citizenship studies, critical border studies and psychology, the chapters show how abandonment is intensified by Othering and produces patterned harms, including legal insecurity, chronic uncertainty, injury, untreated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eillness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e and psychological distress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eonceptual chapters develop institutional abandonment as a political determinant of health and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003etheorise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e the ethical critique and reform of concrete borders and boundary-making practices. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eU\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003esing interdisciplinary lenses,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e empirical case studies range from arbitrary expatriations under the Nazi dictatorship and ‘civic death’ in post-2016 Türkiye to wartime Ukraine, Gaza’s water and sanitation crisis, exclusionary psychosocial healthcare for refugees in Germany and the longer after-effects of Othering for Nigerian returnees. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eA final section\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e analyses how civil-society \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003eorganisations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW191469798 BCX0\"\u003e, grassroots initiatives and artistic practices expose abandonment, mitigate harm and press institutions to meet their obligations, while arguing for liberal-democratic repair rather than institutional dismantling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-GB\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eOliver Razum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-GB\"\u003e is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Epidemiology \u0026amp; International Public Health at the School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Germany. He served as Dean of the School for more than ten years. His research spans migration and refugee health, armed conflict and public health, social epidemiology, and equitable access to healthcare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205378715 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiego S. Silva \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor of Bioethics at Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney, Australia. His work focuses on public health ethics, political \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW205378715 BCX0\"\u003etheory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205378715 BCX0\"\u003e and ethical decision-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW205378715 BCX0\"\u003emaking in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW205378715 BCX0\"\u003e infectious disease control and health security.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW238084461 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIryna Hubeladze\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eis Acting Deputy Director for Research at the Institute for Social and Political Psychology, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv School of Economics. A social psychologist, she researches social identity, resilience, migration and the psychosocial consequences of war\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW238084461 BCX0\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264866587 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYudit Namer\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Health and Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Trained as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, she studies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW264866587 BCX0\"\u003emarginalisation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264866587 BCX0\"\u003e and mental health, refugee and migrant health, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264866587 BCX0\"\u003eequitable\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264866587 BCX0\"\u003e access to care, including the role of technology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e09 September 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819220915\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50185180512396,"sku":"9789819220915","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819220915.jpg?v=1780619784","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789819220915","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}