Risky Business

Codifying Embodied Experience in the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows

Bibliographic Data

ID4301150
AuthorsNob Doran
Year1994
Volume7
Issue2
Pages131-154
Publication date1994-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00165.x
OpenAlexW2102166760
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited40

Foucault's theorising on power/ knowledge is combined with recent feminist work on the importance of analysing embodied experience in order to re-examine the conventional interpretation of nineteenth century 'friendly society' insurance history. In contrast to conventional accounts which interpret the eventual adoption of life insurance tables as the belated acceptance of sound, scientific principles, this article argues that such a transformation also represented the destruction of a prior cultural organization of health care via the imposition of the mundane 'disciplinary' technique of 'counting

Aesthetics · Discipline · Economics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Michel foucault · Order (exchange · Political science · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy

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