The Virtues of Vulnerability
Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity
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This book treats contemporary healthcare as a site of politics: a place of embodiment and vulnerability that we typically regard as private and personal, but is saturated with power, knowledge, questions of equality, identity, justice, and moments that solicit compliance and open up possibilities for resistance. What do we learn about what it means to be a citizen as we navigate the "clinic" during birth, illness, and death? This book looks at the ways in which we navigate birth, illness, and death in order to think about how vulnerability and humility can inform political will, and participat...
This book treats contemporary healthcare as a site of politics: a place of embodiment and vulnerability that we typically regard as private and personal, but is saturated with power, knowledge, questions of equality, identity, justice, and moments that solicit compliance and open up possibilities for resistance. What do we learn about what it means to be a citizen as we navigate the "clinic" during birth, illness, and death? This book looks at the ways in which we navigate birth, illness, and death in order to think about how vulnerability and humility can inform political will, and participation in pluralist public life more broadly.
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