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Eventful Bodies: The Cosmopolitics of Illness - Theory, Technology and Society Michael Schillmeier 1st edition
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Eventful Bodies: The Cosmopolitics of Illness - Theory, Technology and Society
Michael Schillmeier
Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted ?cosmos? of everyday life, the experiences of illness challenge the different ways in which social normalcy is remembered, maintained and expected. This book explores the manifold experiences of life threatening, infectious or non-curable illnesses that trouble the practices and relations of human and social life. Challenging a mere deficit-model of illness, it examines how the cosmopolitics of illness require and initiate an ethos that cares for difference and diversity. Eventful Bodies presents rich qualitative and ethnographic data alongside print and on-line media sources from Germany and North America, exploring case studies involving Alzheimer's disease, stroke and the global threat of infectious diseases such as SARS. The book engages with debates in cosmopolitics and exposes the agency of those overlooked by contemporary discourses of cosmopolitanism, thus developing a new theory of illness and delineating a novel empirical agenda and conceptual space for sociological and anthropological research. A rigorous examination of the changes wrought in the social world by illness and the implications of this for social and political theory, Eventful Bodies will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, social and political theorists, geographers and scholars of science and technology studies, with interests in medical sociology, health, illness and the body.
196 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 30, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138053755 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 196 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 400 g |
| Language | English |
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