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Beyond Health

Postmodernism and Embodiment

By: Nick J. Fox

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Paperback | 1 January 1999

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This study applies poststructuralist and postmodern ideas to issues of health and health care to provide a radical re-think of how health is to be understood. It offers a perspective in which health is seen as an affirmation of potential rather than a narrow biopsychosocial construct. The author develops his notion of archehealth, providing an account of a wide range of post-structuralist and postmodern theoretical perspectives and their relevance to the field of health. The book is divided into three sections; the first section explores issues of power and control in health settings; the second loooks ta resistance to such power and control; the final section addresses ways in which post-sztructuralist and postmodern approaches may be used as research methodology. In each chapter the author explains and apllies a selection of theoretical perspectives. These include Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Deleuze, Guattari, Cixous, Haraway, Kristeva, Beck, Barthes, Tyler, Landow, Bauman, Cascardi, Baudrillard and Atkinson.

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction: The Promise of Postmodernism	p. 1
Three Promises
Two Icons: the Detective and the Nomad
Arche-health
The Gift and the Proper
Nomadology for Beginners
Structure of the Book
Force
Framing Health	p. 25
Texts, Frames and Differends
Framing the Text: Decisions over Discharge from Hospital
Frames, Health and Control
The Force of the Differend
Space, Time and Health	p. 43
Space: Health and the Built Environment
Space and Subjectivity
Time and Power
Chronicity and Health
Concluding Remarks
The Ethics and Politics of Caring	p. 77
The Vigil: Care as Discipline
Resisting the Vigil: Care-as-Gift
A New Ethics and Politics of Care
Gifts and the Vigil: the Experience of Care
Beyond Professionalism?
Resistance
Beyond Foucault's Docile Body	p. 105
The Foucauldian Ontology of Discourse
The Foucauldian Ontology of Body
The Foucauldian Ontology of Self
Beyond Foucault
Deleuze, Guattari and the Politics of Embodiment	p. 123
The Body-without-Organs
Territorialization
The Nomadic Subject and Nomadology
The Politics of (Dis)embodiment
Derrida, Meaning and the Frame
Cixous, Haraway and the Cyborg
Lines of Flight: Growing Older or Just Growing?
A Manifesto for Nomadism
Becoming	p. 153
Risks and Choices	p. 153
Three Models of the Risk/Hazard Opposition
Risk and Arche-health
Health Risks and Choices at Work
Risks, Choices and the Use of Ecstasy
Risks and Opportunities
Research and/as Nomadology	p. 174
The Truth is Not Out There
The Detective and the Nomad Revisited
Reflexivity, Intertextuality and Knowledge
Action Research: Towards an Ethically and Politically Engaged Research
Towards a Nomadology of Research
Making the Difference: from Research Evidence to Practice
A Final Reflection on Research and Practice
Lines of Flight	p. 200
The Beyond
In Search of Smoother Space
What Can a Body Do?
The Ethics and Politics of Nomadology
Questions for Health Professionals and People with Bodies
A Meditation on the Nomad
In Pursuit of the Nomad: the Personal and the Political
Glossary	p. 218
References	p. 221
Index	p. 233
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