Timescapes of Health, Illness and Care

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This book brings together cutting-edge theoretical work across a range of disciplines in service of developing better understandings of the nature and experience of time in relation to health, illness and care. While the passage of time – smooth or otherwise – is a universal experience, it is often felt acutely in relation to compromised health and/or the need for care. These are key sites for understanding how time is managed and made meaningful in healthcare settings and in everyday life.Timescapes of Health, Illness and Care takes an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding how considerations of time – its ontological standing, normative value, and embodied and intersubjective experience – are vital to understanding experiences of health and illness, the governance of healthcare institutions, and the cultures that circulate around (and often obscure) informal care.

Katherine Kenny is Associate Professor of Sociology, ARC DECRA Fellow, and Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her work deploys social and cultural theory and qualitative methods to better understand how health, illness and care are understood, governed, ‘treated’ and made meaningful in clinical contexts and in everyday life.   

 Mia Harrison is a transdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) at UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Her work is informed by science and technology studies (STS), critical medical humanities, and sociology of health and illness. Mia's research explores the temporalities, places, materials, and affects of situated practices and complex social assemblages. Her work is characterised by critical and creative qualitative methodologies that extend across disciplinary conventions.

Anthony K J Smith is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia. His work draws on the sociology of health, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on HIV, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ communities. Anthony specialises in qualitative methodologies, and draws on sociological theory, data justice, critical bioethics, and science and technology studies to understand health workforces, community wellbeing, and how biomedical technologies shape social life.

Chapter 6 and Chapter 14 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This book brings together cutting-edge theoretical work across a range of disciplines in service of developing better understandings of the nature and experience of time in relation to health, illness and care. While the passage of time – smooth or otherwise – is a universal experience, it is often felt acutely in relation to compromised health and/or the need for care. These are key sites for understanding how time is managed and made meaningful in healthcare settings and in everyday life. Timescapes of Health, Illness and Care takes an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding how considerations of time – its ontological standing, normative value, and embodied and intersubjective experience – are vital to understanding experiences of health and illness, the governance of healthcare institutions, and the cultures that circulate around (and often obscure) informal care.

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“This is a wonderful collection. Contributors all bring a wealth of fresh and diverse insights on the chronologies of health, caring and the body. They bring cutting edge humanities and social science perspectives from semiotics, philosophy, sociology, health services research, literacy criticism and more to unsettle normative conceptions of linear clock time,  and to suggest a renewed chrono-politics of multiple timescapes. Drawing on rich empirical material spanning diverse everyday and clinical sites, from  epidemics to medical teaching, and doctors’ waiting rooms to ADHD – these chapters show how embodied and social time resists, complicates, stretches and haunts other chronologies.  Essential reading for scholars of health, medicine and care.” (Judith Green, Professor of Sociology, Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, UK)

“This important and exciting book demonstrates how much we can learn about illness, health and care (and indeed life itself) by adopting temporal perspectives. While the significance of time to experiences such as chronic illness is well-established, this collection is groundbreaking in its attentiveness to the diverse operations and considerations of time that shape our sense of everyday life, embodiment and duration. The chapters are wide-ranging in topic and location, from ADHD in Chilean schools to the burden of patient waiting in UK National Health Service. However they are unified by an exciting conceptual richness and a critical sensibility: themes such as chrononormativity, viral temporalities, deep time and temporal recursivity combine to challenge ideas of time as ‘incremental, unidirectional, linear and smooth’.” (Helen Keane, Professor of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia)

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