The Virtues of Vulnerability - Rushing, Sara
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This book treats contemporary healthcare as a site of politics: a place of embodiment and vulnerability that we typically regard as private and personal, but is saturated with power, knowledge, questions of equality, identity, justice, and moments that solicit compliance and open up possibilities for resistance. What do we learn about what it means to be a citizen as we navigate the "clinic" during birth, illness, and death? This book looks at the ways in which we navigate birth, illness, and death in order to think about how vulnerability and humility can inform political will, and participation in pluralist public life more broadly.…mehr

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This book treats contemporary healthcare as a site of politics: a place of embodiment and vulnerability that we typically regard as private and personal, but is saturated with power, knowledge, questions of equality, identity, justice, and moments that solicit compliance and open up possibilities for resistance. What do we learn about what it means to be a citizen as we navigate the "clinic" during birth, illness, and death? This book looks at the ways in which we navigate birth, illness, and death in order to think about how vulnerability and humility can inform political will, and participation in pluralist public life more broadly.
Autorenporträt
Sara Rushing is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Montana State University, Bozeman, and Co-President of the Association for Political Theory from 2020-2022.