This book brings together cutting-edge theoretical work across a range of disciplines in service of developing better understandings of the nature and experience of time in relation to health, illness and care.
While the passage of time smooth or otherwise is a universal experience, it is often felt acutely in relation to compromised health and/or the need for care. These are key sites for understanding how time is experienced, managed and made meaningful in healthcare settings and in everyday life.
This volume takes an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding how considerations of time its ontological standing, normative value, and embodied and intersubjective experience are vital to understanding experiences of health and illness, and the governance of healthcare institutions and the cultures that circulate around (and often obscure) informal care.
Chapters 6 and 14 are available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Chapter
1. Introduction to Timescapes of Health, Illness and Care -
Katherine Kenny, Mia Harrison, Anthony K J Smith.- Part
1. Duration and the
Governance of Time.
Chapter
2. The winged power of time in outbreak science
- Professor Marsha Rosengarten.
Chapter
3. An indescribable pause: Reading
pandemic time through Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway - Professor Amanda
Caleb.
Chapter
4. Time must be cared for: Sensitive trajectories of time
in healthcare - Francisco Tirado, Jorge Castillo-Sepślveda, Fernanda
Bywaters-Collado, Mariana Gįlvez-Ramķrez.- Part
2. Institutionalised
Temporalities.
Chapter
5. A rhythm of unpredictability: Conceptualizing
temporalities in the emergency department - Andreas Wagenknecht; Johannes
Deutschbein; Anna Schneider; Daniela Krüger; Martin Möckel; Professor Liane
Schenk.
Chapter
6. Finding yourself waiting: the spatio-temporal semiotics
of the GP waiting room - Michael Flexer.
Chapter
7. Boundary work and
whistle stop teaching in x-ray image interpretation with medical students -
Peter Winter.
Chapter
8. Mad time and peer support: The temporal
implications of peer support inclusion within mental health systems - Aimee
Sinclair.- Part
3. Challenging Chrononormativities.
Chapter
9. Resting,
waiting and other forms of resistance: The chronopolitics of chronic illness
- Mara Pieri.
Chapter
10. Redefining time, energy, and expectation with
spoon theory - Imogen Harper.
Chapter
11. My health sucked the future right
out of me: Time and temporality in life with intracranial hypertension -
Kelly Moes.- Part
4. Temporal Recursivity.
Chapter
12. Multiple
temporalities of lifestyle change - Martine Robson; Sarah Riley.
Chapter
13.
Haunting diagnosis: Identity, temporality, and futures in light of ADHD -
Sebastian Rojas Navarro; Samanta Alarcón-Arcos.
Chapter
14. Troubling time
in the face of life-limiting illness - Katherine Kenny, Jianni Tien, Roberta
Pala, Alex Broom.- Part
5. Afterword.
Chapter
15. Between deep time and
Indigenous wellbeing - Susie Anderson.
Katherine Kenny is Associate Professor of Sociology, ARC DECRA Fellow, and Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her work deploys social and cultural theory and qualitative methods to better understand how health, illness and care are understood, governed, treated and made meaningful in clinical contexts and in everyday life.
Mia Harrison is a transdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) at UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Her work is informed by science and technology studies (STS), critical medical humanities, and sociology of health and illness. Mia's research explores the temporalities, places, materials, and affects of situated practices and complex social assemblages. Her work is characterised by critical and creative qualitative methodologies that extend across disciplinary conventions.
Anthony K J Smith is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia. His work draws on the sociology of health, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on HIV, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ communities. Anthony specialises in qualitative methodologies, and draws on sociological theory, data justice, critical bioethics, and science and technology studies to understand health workforces, community wellbeing, and how biomedical technologies shape social life.
