A confusion of tenses
Health screening and time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4218445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Stronge (0000-0002-8971-6210, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 340-357 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363459312460700 |
| PMID | 23060358 |
| OpenAlex | W2093854299 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The article seeks to contribute to a re-evaluation of the role played by the contemporary health screen by exploring its relation to tense and time. Mobilizing data around operational aspects of screening for type 2 diabetes (T2D) alongside more general historical and conceptual perspectives, it challenges implicit assumptions that the screen represents either a momentary 'cut' in a longer process or a singular event with its own durational integrity. In contrast, the article argues, two distinct kinds of temporally related processes merge within any given screening episode. On one hand a rich heterogeneity of durations - physiological, technical, social, experiential - is involved. Yet this multiplicity is afforded unity and coherence insofar as the screen becomes a 'thick' site of intersection or fusion between the three major tenses. Drawing on aspects of the thought of Bergson and Deleuze as well as Mol's notion of 'ontological politics', the article reconceptualizes the screen as a 'leaky receptacle' for temporal complexity and teases out pragmatic implications of such a re-envisioning
Aesthetics · Confusion · Epistemology · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Structuring · Computer Science · Historical and Scientific Studies · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Neurology and Historical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
Key Writings
Creative evolution /
The Tyranny of Diagnosis
Representing and Intervening
Of Lungs and Lungers
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Time and Biography in Diabetic Experience
Ontological Choreography
The Ontological Politics of Staying True to Complexity
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
A thousand plateaus
Migrating techniques, multiplying diagnoses
Cancer, women, and public health
The Birth of the Clinic
Cinema I
The Body Multiple
Screening
Ontological Politics. A Word and Some Questions
Enacting the social
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |