Embodiment and Ontologies of Inequality in Medicine
Towards an Integrative Understanding of Disease and Health Disparities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3809147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Austin Argentieri (0000-0003-0242-853X, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 125-152 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x17746468 |
| OpenAlex | W2792388630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
In this article, I draw on my fieldwork creating protein models of hepatitis B at a biotech laboratory to think through how to approach the body and disease from ontological and phenomenological perspectives. I subsequently draw on Mariella Pandolfi's work on how bodies can be made to suffer history and Paul Farmer's work on global tuberculosis disparities to explore ways of analysing embodied activity as a means of identifying and clinically addressing enactments of social inequality and disease. I also introduce Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological concept of 'flesh' as a conceptual heuristic that allows us to understand the meaningful structuring of ontological worlds beyond our own. As I argue, bringing these perspectives together not only allows us to re-envision what an effective disease treatment should be in diverse medical contexts, but also how to better understand health disparities and the nature of disease itself
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Inequality · Ontology · Political science · Sociology · Structuring · Empathy and Medical Education · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Obesity and Health Practices · Philosophy
Models
Knowledge, Power, and Practice
Critique of Pure Reason
Immaterial Bodies
Phenomenology of Perception
Rendering Life Molecular
Anthropology in the Clinic
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
The Ontological Turn
Reassembling the Social
Disease and illness Distinctions between professional and popular ideas of sickness
Confronting a “Big Huge Gaping Wound”
Intersubjectivity and Intercorporeality
Molecular Embodiments and the Body-work of Modeling in Protein Crystallography
Ontological Choreography
Space and the Body Image in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy Of the Flesh
The wrong bin bag
Structural competency
Body-Subject/Body-Power
The Body Multiple
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Somatic Modes of Attention
Rethinking cultural competence
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |