\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaterialities of Care\u003c/i\u003e addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eMakes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice\u003c/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells\u003c/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses fleeting moments of care, as well as choreographed routines that order bodies and materials\u003c/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on practice and relations between materials and care as ongoing, emergent and processual\u003c/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInternational contributions from leading scholars draw attention to methodological approaches for capturing the material and sensory aspects of health and social care encounters\u003c/li\u003e \u003c/ul\u003e