VITAL’s weekly Wednesday meetings Fall 2016

Histories

14 September:
Canguilhem, G. (1989) The Normal and the Pathological. NY: Zone Books.

21 September:
Weisz, G. (2014) Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press

28 September: 
Armstrong, D. & Caldwell, D. (2004) “Origins of the concept of quality of life in health care: A rhetorical solution to a political problem,” Social Theory & Health, 2(4): 361–371.

Wahlberg, A. & Rose, N. (2015) “The governmentalization of living: Calculating global health,” Economy and Society, 44(1): 60-90.

Chronicities

5 October:
Mattingly, C. (2010) The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press.

12 October:
Bluebond-Langner, M (1996) In the Shadow of illness: Parents and siblings of the chronically ill child. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

19 October:
Manderson, L. and Smith-Morris, C. (eds) (2010) Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP.

Diseases and conditions

26 October:
Lochlain, S. J. (2016) Malignant. How cancer becomes us. Berkeley : University of California Press.

2 November:
Mol, A. (2002) The Body Multiple. Ontology in Medical Practice. Durham: Duke University Press.

9 November:
Lock, M. (2015) The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging. Princeton University Press.

Treatments

16 November:
Street, A. (2014) Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital. Durham: Duke University Press.

23 November:
Dumit, J. (2012) Drugs for life. How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health. Durham: Duke University Press.

30 November:
Kaufman, S. (2015) Ordinary Medicine. Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line. Durham: Duke University Press.

Patient knowledge

7 December:
Rabeharisoa, V., Moreira, T., Akrich, A. (2014) “Evidence-based activism: Patients’, users’ and activists’ groups in knowledge society,” BioSocieties, 9(2): 111–128.

Mattingly, C. et al. (2014) “Chronic Homework in Emerging Borderlands of Healthcare,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 35(3): 347-375.

Pols, J. (2014) “Knowing Patients. Turning Patient Knowledge into Science,” Science, Technology, & Human Values, 39(1), 73-97.

Pols, J. (2013) “The Patient 2.Many: About Diseases that Remain and the Different Forms of Knowledge to Live with Them,” Science and Technology Studies, 26(2): 80-97.

Orientations

14 December:
Good, B. and Del Vecchio Good, M.J. (1994) “In the Subjunctive Mode: Epilepsy Narratives in Turkey,” Social Science Medicine, 38(6): 835-42.

Whyte, S. (2002) “Subjectivity and Subjunctivity. Hoping for Health in Eastern Uganda,” in Richard Werbner (ed.) Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa, London: Zed Books, 171-190.