The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking Temporalities in Health and Biomedicine Beyond the Life Course (Embodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology) - Softcover

9781800089730: The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking Temporalities in Health and Biomedicine Beyond the Life Course (Embodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology)

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Publisher: UCL Press, 2025

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An examination of the links between power, inequality, and time in health governance.

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of time in inequalities within biomedicine, technology, and healthcare. How is time wielded as a tool of power through its valuation, standardization, and allocation? How has time become an unequally distributed resource in health and biomedicine, and how has it contributed to medical discrimination for patients at different stages of life? To answer these questions, The Chronopolitics of Life draws on real-world examples from across the globe, spanning from reproductive health to chronic disease, and sensitive to both local variations in medicine and the wider forces shaping temporalities in health.

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About the Authors

Nolwenn B�hler is Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, STS Lab, University of Lausanne.

Nils Graber is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chair for the History of Science, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Victoria Boydell is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Women’s Health, University College London.

Cinzia Greco is Mid-Career Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at The University of Manchester.

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