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Introduction: Patient organization movements and new metamorphoses in patienthood

Landzelius, Kyra·2006·Social Science & Medicine
DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.06.023
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In this introduction, we examine health activism as one expression of an emergent 'politics of vitality' or flurry of activity around health matters that includes: advances in technoscientific medicine, healthcare restructurings, and a re-thinking of science-society contracts. In querying politicized mobilizations around 'health matters and the mattering of health,' we provocatively entitle our discussion 'patient organization movements'. This marks an invitation to interrogate (in reverse order) each term along the way, pausing in our concluding discussion to turn our attentions to the patient. The figure of the patient is thematized as an historical inscription and a formidable dimension of personhood under modernity/late modernity. Moreover, we argue that conventional categorizations of the patient are undergoing accelerated processes of change at the present time. We characterize three transformational trends: moves to author and authorize patienthood, mutiny from patienthood, and mutations in the category of the patient. Such metamorphoses in patienthood represent both reflections and repercussions--at once consequences and catalysts--of the proposed politics of vitality. We explore the pluralization of the patient's persona via a closer look at the 11 empirical studies of health activism that comprise this collection.

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  1. Clarke, 2003, Biomedicalization: Theorizing technoscientific transformation of health, illness, and US biomedicine, American Sociological Review, 68, 161, 10.2307/1519765 · DOI · Paper page
  2. Klawiter, M. (2003). Transforming the field of mammographic screening: Community mobilization, cultural diversification, and domain expansion in an ‘interpenetrated’ social movement. Paper presented at the Patient Organization Movement Workshop. University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 12–16, Landzelius, K. (Organizer).

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Authors
Landzelius, K.
Affiliations
University of Gothenburg (SE)
Corresponding author
Landzelius, Kyra
Venue
Social Science & Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-02
Volume
62
Issue
3
Pages
529-537
ISSN
0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.06.023
OpenAlex
W2038330326
Cited by
108
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 12
FWCI
11.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation
  • Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
  • Vetenskapsrådet
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, Medicine and Society
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies
Keywords
patienthood, health activism, patient mobilization, health care reform, personhood
MeSH terms
Humans, Patient Advocacy, Patient Participation, Politics, Social Change, Sociology, Medical, Voluntary Health Agencies, Health Care Reform, Personal Autonomy, Empirical Research

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