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Valenzuela, HC; Mayrhofer, MT.
The sick as biological citizens ? How patient-user organizations reconfigure the field of health and illness
OSTERR Z POLITWISS. 2013; 42(3): 311-327.
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Co-authors Med Uni Graz: Mayrhofer Michaela
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Abstract:: Based on a qualitative two-case study of patient-user organizations, this article examines how politicised and radical patient-user organizations can effectively challenge biopolitical governmentality, its medical institutions, as well as its configuration of power/knowledge and forms of subjectivation by using what we consider to be affirmative biopolitical strategies. These strategies, the authors argue, empower the patient as biological citizen because patient-user organizations challenge dominant contemporary views on health and illness by making specific citizenship claims and rearticulate the patient as active agents.
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