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Williams, Simon J., Meadows, Robert and Coveney, Catherine M. (2021) Desynchronised times? Chronobiology, (bio)medicalisation and the rhythms of life itself. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43 (6). pp. 1501-1517. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13324 ISSN 0141-9889.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13324
Abstract
This paper takes a critical look at the role of chronobiology in society today, with particular reference to its entanglements with health and medicine and whether or not this amounts to the (bio)medicalisation of our bodily rhythms. What we have here, we show, is a complex unfolding storyline, within and beyond medicine. On the one hand, the promises and problems of these circadian, infradian and ultradian rhythms for our health and well-being are now increasingly emphasised. On the other hand, a variety of new rhythmic interventions and forms of governance are now emerging within and beyond medicine, from chronotherapies and chronopharmacology to biocompatible school and work schedules, and from chronodiets to the optimisation of all we do according to our ‘chronotypes’. Conceptualising these developments, we suggest challenges us to think within and beyond medicalisation to wider processes of biomedicalisation and the biopolitics of our body clocks: a vital new strand of chronopolitics today indeed which implicates us all in sickness and in health as the very embodiment of these rhythms of life itself. The paper concludes with a call for further research on these complex unfolding relations between chronobiology, health and society in these desynchronised times of ours.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy Q Science > QP Physiology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Chronobiology , Time , Biological rhythms, Medicalization | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology of Health & Illness | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0141-9889 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | 11 August 2021 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 43 | ||||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1501-1517 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.13324 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Williams, Simon J., Meadows, Robert and Coveney, Catherine M. (2021) Desynchronised times? Chronobiology, (bio)medicalisation and the rhythms of life itself. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43 (6). pp. 1501-1517. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13324, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13324. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 August 2022 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 August 2022 | ||||||||||
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