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

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. 

Nolwenn Bühler is a senior researcher at the University Center for Primary Care and Public Health at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Nils Graber is a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair for the History of Science at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Victoria Boydell is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Women’s Health at the University College London.
 

Cinzia Greco is a mid-career Wellcome Trust research fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, at the University of Manchester.