Disciplining death
Hypertension Management and the Production of Mortal Subjectivities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4968309 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Albert Banerjee (0000-0002-6917-3810, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-42 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/1363459307083696 |
| PMID | 18073245 |
| OpenAlex | W2149077508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
Medicine powerfully mediates the relationship between life and death. This article argues that in the name of health, modern medicine constitutes a pathological mortal subjectivity, encouraging individuals to experience death as disease, to understand mortality as morbidity, and to approach living instrumentally as a means to longevity. This article uses the example of hypertension management to illustrate how this vision of death is transformed into a form of life.Through the analysis of a number of disciplinary technologies - from technical definitions of health to blood pressure monitoring - it illustrates how individuals are incited to relate to death in an antagonistic, impersonal, and technical fashion. While contemporary forms of capital accumulation in the health field require an intensification of such relations, this article suggests that there much to be gained from exploring visions of health that are not at odds with death
Alternative medicine · Biopower · Epistemology · Health management system · Odds · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subjectivity · Vision · Anthropology · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |