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British Sociological Association
*London Medical Sociology Group Meeting*
*Wednesday 9th May 6pm*
*Reframing the politics of a 'right to health'*
*Monica Greco
(Goldsmiths, University of London)*
*Venue*
King's College London
Franklin Wilkins Building
Room 1.16
Stamford Street
London SE1 8WA
nearest train/tube station: Waterloo
*Abstract*
Discussions of the terminological framework associated with^ the right
to health tend to treat the indeterminacy^ of 'health' as conceptual
noise that the construction of effective policy must not focus on,^ but
find ways of bracketing out. On this basis,^ the right to health is
broadly regarded as a social and economic, rather than a civil and
political right.^ This paper argues that a positive acknowledgement of^
the indeterminate character of health should^ transform, rather than
simply hinder, the quality of debate^ over what is to be understood and
expected in^ connection with a right to health. Unbracketing
indeterminacy allows for the perception and the formulation^ of
health-related demands that do not stem^ from the scarcity of material
resources or technical means, but from the misplaced authority of
particular^ voices in defining what possibilities are to^ be seriously
envisaged. The argument is critical of social research in so far as it
partakes in a rhetoric of future-speculation that redoubles the power of
such misplaced authority.
Everyone is welcome to attend the LMSG meeting. The group has no formal
membership.
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