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Living in Prognosis

Toward an Elegiac Politics

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ID3136019
AuthorsLochlann Jain (0000-0001-6911-6659, corresponding author), Sarah Lochlann Jain
Year2007
Volume98
Issue1
Pages77-92
Publication date2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRepresentations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/rep.2007.98.1.77
OpenAlexW2087226438
LanguageEN
Citations received107
References cited3

This essay examines how prognosis serves as a representational space for people living with and dying of cancer. It argues that as one of a series of means by which an elusive disease is made material, the prognosis also holds fantasies about the future, the past, and counterfactual futures and pasts

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Citation span2007 - 2026 (20)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedYes
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