22 Oct 2018 5:00pm - 7:00pm Seminar Room, SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road

Description

Reading group

The first reading group session is aimed at understanding different dimensions of ‘patient needs’. We will discuss this topic using the concepts such as medicalisation bottom-up, biological citizenship, social justice, and patient-citizen-consumers.
The discussion will also be framed by the political desire to build healthy nations, highlighting in particular the personalisation of medicine in a neoliberal context.

Readings:

Biehl, J. (2013). The judicialization of biopolitics: Claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courts. American Ethnologist, 40(3), 419-436.

Petryna, A. (2004). Biological citizenship: The science and politics of Chernobyl-exposed populations. Osiris, 19, 250-265.

Rose, N., & Novas, C. (2005). Biological citizenship. Global assemblages: Technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems, 439-463. (Also available on-line as a working paper)

All the readings are freely available on-line. You can also contact Yuliya Hilevych yh410@cam.ac.uk to receive the readings by email.

 

 

 

Open to all.  No registration required
Part of Health, Medicine and Agency Research Network Seminar series

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