The Vitality of Disease
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The Vitality of Disease. / Wahlberg, Ayo.
The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society. red. / Maurizio Meloni; John Cromby; Des Fitzgerald; Staphanie Lloyd. London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. s. 727-748.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Vitality of Disease
AU - Wahlberg, Ayo
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In recent decades, social scientists have carried out empirical studies in the laboratories, clinics and patient associations within and through which biological knowledge, biomedical practice, biosocialities and biological citizens are being co-produced. In this chapter, I sketch a novel analytics of what we might be conceptualised as the vitality of disease. Medical interventions are increasingly as much about improving (quality of) life as they are about saving and prolonging life. As a consequence, morbid living has come to be disciplined, for example, in patient schools aimed at teaching patients to learn how to live with their disease, through rating scales used to measure treatment effect on the ‘quality of life’ of patients in clinical trials and through disease-specific ‘Living with’ guides aimed at patients and carers.
AB - In recent decades, social scientists have carried out empirical studies in the laboratories, clinics and patient associations within and through which biological knowledge, biomedical practice, biosocialities and biological citizens are being co-produced. In this chapter, I sketch a novel analytics of what we might be conceptualised as the vitality of disease. Medical interventions are increasingly as much about improving (quality of) life as they are about saving and prolonging life. As a consequence, morbid living has come to be disciplined, for example, in patient schools aimed at teaching patients to learn how to live with their disease, through rating scales used to measure treatment effect on the ‘quality of life’ of patients in clinical trials and through disease-specific ‘Living with’ guides aimed at patients and carers.
U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_31
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_31
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-1-137-52878-0
SP - 727
EP - 748
BT - The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
A2 - Meloni, Maurizio
A2 - Cromby, John
A2 - Fitzgerald, Des
A2 - Lloyd, Staphanie
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -
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