The sick as biological citizens? How patient-user organizations reconfigure the field of health and illness/Der Kranke als biologischer Bürger? Wie Patientenorganisationen die Kategorisierung zwischen Gesundheit und Krankheit neu formen

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 subjectivat...

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Published in:Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 2013-07 (3), p.311
Main Authors: Valenzuela, Hernán Cuevas, Mayrhofer, Michaela Th
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Disease
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Patients
Personal health
Qualitative research
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Summary: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. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1615-5548
2313-5433