The Vitality of Disease

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
EditorsMaurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, Staphanie Lloyd
Number of pages21
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date2017
Pages727-748
Chapter31
ISBN (Print)978-1-137-52878-0
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-137-52879-7
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Publication statusPublished - 2017

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