The Poisonous Ingenuity of Time

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5087975
AutoresTodd Meyers (New York University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen115
Número2
Páginas351-365
Fecha de publicación2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-3488453
OpenAlexW2337695727
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas20

Drawing on ethnographic work with one family in Baltimore that began over a decade ago, I consider how time, symptom, and forms of vulnerability and precarity come to shape polypathia (comorbidity). First, I attempt to demonstrate how life with concurrent and recurring illness has a character more dense than interwoven disease etiologies or a general pattern of symptomatology. Chronic illness in its plural form offers terms of life and living that are contingent, disruptive, and dissolving-not so much situated in time as out of step with its familiar cadence. Second, I consider time through the lenses of return, loss, and repair. Ethnography, like illness, has a rhythm, and it is this shared, distorted meter that the essay follows. Life-filling up and emptying out between past and present-is precisely the object here. Chronic illness acts as a temporal threshold through which life finds new ground or is set adrift

Ingenuity · Plural · Vulnerability · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices