| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10471876 | Social Science & Medicine | 2011 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
⺠This paper explores the link between diagnostic practices, patient awareness of the body and biopolitics, using a material semiotics methodology. ⺠Material semiotics prescribes an ultra-relativist empirical method, tracing how both humans and non-human entities produce intelligibility. ⺠Diagnosis can involve diagnostic practices that enact potentially conflicting accounts of the body, which reify, rather than eliminate, risk. ⺠In cardiology, such risk becomes the basis for self-surveillance and management of the body.
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Authors
John Gardner, Kevin Dew, Maria Stubbe, Tony Dowell, Lindsay Macdonald,