Abstract
Ethnographic observations at an early-detection centre for cancer serve as a basis for theorising the spatiality of preventive medicine. Based on insights from both the sociology of health and the sociology of space, the article outlines a re-spatialisation of health by articulating the concept of osmotic-spatiality: spatial-temporal arrangements which transform health into a personal task and an individual achievement, producing the subjectivity of ‘healthy patients’.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 492-510 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Current Sociology |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jul 2017 |
Keywords
- Early detection
- health and illness
- preventive medicine
- relational space
- spatiality
