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*British Sociological Association*


            *London Medical Sociology Group Meeting*


*Wednesday 9th May - **6pm*


*Deleuze's theory of desire and assemblages: what can it offer the 
sociology of health and illness?*

Professor Nick J Fox, University of Sheffield

Applying the approach to embodiment deriving from Gilles Deleuze and 
Felix Guattari's ontology, I will argue in this seminar that health 
sociology should step back from accepting as its unit of study and 
analysis the organic and individualised body defined by biomedical sciences.

Deleuze and Guattari's ontology of bodies, desire and social relations 
has been applied to a range of sociological topics including ageing, 
addiction, sexuality, health technologies, human development and mental 
health. I will look at the innovative components of this approach: an 
impersonal and undirected desire that interacts, engages and changes the 
world around it; agentic assemblages of relations between bodies, 
things, technologies, ideas and social institutions; and the 
micropolitics of embodiment that determines how bodies affect and are 
affected by their relations. The ill-health assemblage comprises the 
networks of biological, psychological and socio-cultural relations that 
surround bodies during ill-health and create distinctive health 
identities and health behaviours.

Adopting this ontology allows health sociology to distance itself once 
and for all from what Foucault called biomedical power/knowledge, by 
rejecting the individualised 'body-with-organs' of modern health 
care.The ill-health assemblage is conventionally conservative but is 
also fundamentally a means of resistance and transformation.Health 
sociology can, through research, advocacy and political engagement, 
shape a health assemblage distinct and subversive of biomedicine.

*Venue*

King's College London
Franklin Wilkins Building
Room 1.16
Stamford Street
London SE1 8WA

nearest train/tube station: Waterloo


*Everyone is welcome to attend the LMSG meeting. The group has no formal membership.
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