The Vitality of Disease

Ayo Wahlberg

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_31

The Vitality of Disease

Ayo Wahlberg

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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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
Redaktører	Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, Staphanie Lloyd
Antal sider	21
Udgivelsessted	London
Forlag	Palgrave Macmillan
Publikationsdato	2017
Sider	727-748
Kapitel	31
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-137-52878-0
ISBN (Elektronisk)	978-1-137-52879-7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_31
Status	Udgivet - 2017

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