The ill-health assemblage: Beyond the body-with-organs

作者：Nick J. Fox · 发表于：Health Sociology Review · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.5172/hesr.2011.20.4.359 · 被引用次数：104 · 研究领域：Race, Genetics, and Society

The ill-health assemblage comprises the networks of biological, psychological and sociocultural relations that surround bodies during ill-health. The paper argues for health sociology to reject an organic body-with-organs as its unit of analysis of health and illness, and replace it with an approach to embodiment deriving from Deleuze and Guattari’s ontology. I set out the three key terms: the body-without-organs (BwO), assemblages, and territorialisation. These concepts will be applied to health and illness, to develop an understanding of an ill-health assemblage. I contrast this with the biomedicalised body-with-organs, and explore the shaping of the ill-health assemblage in a case study.