Bühler, N and Graber, N and Boydell, V and Greco, C (Eds).
(2025)
The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking temporalities in health and biomedicine beyond the life course.
[Book].
EMBODYING INEQUALITIES: PERSPECTIVES FROM MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
The Chronopolitics of Life represents an important, timely and novel contribution in the fields of anthropology, social sciences of medicine, science and technology studies and cognate disciplines. By examining the concept of chronopolitics, this interdisciplinary collection explores the coproduction of temporalities, bodies and power relations in health contexts. The book offers an original perspective on how temporalities shape the embodiment of health-related inequalities, across the beginning and the end of life. It provides empirical examples, from different places in Europe and Africa, of how technoscientific and biomedical endeavours reconfigure the temporalities of life. It also describes how time becomes a resource that is unequally distributed. By investigating health practices and lived experiences in science, institutions and governance, the authors reveal how specific temporal regimes can lead to discrimination on the basis of age, race, gender, (dis)ability and sexual orientation. This differentially shapes the experiences of ill-health, biomedical practices, the governing of bodies, biographies and the life course.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking temporalities in health and biomedicine beyond the life course |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800089747 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800089747 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089747 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2025 Text © Contributors, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Bühler, N., Graber, N., Boydell V. and Greco, C. (eds). 2025. The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking temporalities in health and biomedicine beyond the life course. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089747 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Chronopolitics, Temporalities, Health, Biomedicine, Inequalities, Anthropology, Ethnography, Science and Technology Studies, Governmentality, Biopolitics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health > Womens Cancer |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216673 |
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