Informed Impatients
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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i25.16702Keywords:
illness, impatience, community of patients, biological citizenshipAbstract
In this essay the author traces, through canonical and contemporary writings of disease, the historical emergence of a new political actor who intervenes both in the local and the global field: that of the ill who mistrusts conjectural diagnosis and doubtful, ineffectual, treatments; of the diseased who demands explanations and seeks second opinions; of those who study their own clinical cases and claim to be attended and taken care of individually but also at large, elevating their human right to healthcare as one conferred, both within and without the nation, by the status of “biological citizenship”. Through the use of this concept, formulated by scholars Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novak, and dismissing ideas recently proposed by Giorgio Agamben, Meruane values the current disobedient but informed activism of the impatient.
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