The biopolitics of chronic illness: Biology, power and personhood

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This chapter starts from a simple yet for some perhaps provocative premise, namely, that the sociology of chronic illness would benefit not simply from a more avowedly political but a more explicitly biopolitical form of analysis and engagement.

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Williams, S. J. (2016). The biopolitics of chronic illness: Biology, power and personhood. In New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions: Assaults on the Lifeworld (pp. 205–224). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297432_11

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