INTRODUCTION. Assemblages, transformations, and the politics of care.

This volume presents a selection of the contributions to the Medical Anthropology at Home (MAAH) conference, Assemblages, transformations, and the politics of care, that took place in Bertinoro, Italy, 2014. The authors investigate the moral, material and social assemblages, the mechanisms of transformations, the relationality and the shifting negotiations that define contexts and politics of care. Their shared aim is to problematize both curing and caring as embodied cultural processes, investigating how forms of biosociality, control and subjectification are configured in socially situated and culturally specific terms. Together, they show how care is both extremely fragile as an analytical concept as well as exceptionally productive in questioning the very processes involved in our being human.