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This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions. It explores a range of posthuman dilemmas across diverse health issues as contributors grapple with the ethical, ontological and epistemological relations of knowing and doing health.
List of contents
Introduction - Remaking the post 'human': a productive problem for health sociology
1. Becoming posthuman: hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject
2. Making publics in a pandemic: Posthuman relationalities, 'viral' intimacies and COVID-19
3. Domestic violence, coercive control and mental health in a pandemic: disenthralling the ecology of the domestic
4. Lost in translation? Beyond sex as a biological variable in animal research
5. A posthuman decentring of person-centred care
6. Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus
7. Afflexivity in post-qualitative inquiry: prioritising affect and reflexivity in the evaluation of a health information website
About the author
Kim McLeod is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Kim re-envisions health and education in her academic work towards equitable access, experiences, and outcomes.
Simone Fullagar is Professor and Chair of the Sport and Gender Equity research hub and Lead for the Inclusive Play theme in the Reimagining Disability research programme at Griffith University. Simone is an interdisciplinary sociologist who undertakes research to address gender inequality in sport, leisure, mental health and well-being as more than human issues.
Summary
This book shows the potential of posthuman thinking for rethinking health care, experiences, subjects and interventions. It explores a range of posthuman dilemmas across diverse health issues as contributors grapple with the ethical, ontological and epistemological relations of knowing and doing health.
