Health States of Exception: unsafe non-care and the (inadvertent) production of ‘bare life’ in complex care transitions
(2019)
Journal Article
Waring, J., & Bishop, S. (2020). Health States of Exception: unsafe non-care and the (inadvertent) production of ‘bare life’ in complex care transitions. Sociology of Health and Illness, 42(1), 171-190. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12993
This paper draws on the work of Giorgio Agamben to understand how the social organisation of care transitions can reduce people to their 'bare' life thereby making harmful and degrading treatment seemingly legitimate. The findings of a two-year ethno... Read More about Health States of Exception: unsafe non-care and the (inadvertent) production of ‘bare life’ in complex care transitions.