CHOICE AND / OR CARE?

Authors

  • Ozhiganova A.A. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS
  • KURLENKOVA A.S. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS
  • Shevchenko S.Yu. Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Zolotukhina M.V. A.N. Kosygin Russian State University
  • White A.G.
  • ANDREEV A.N. HSE Univercity

Keywords:

Аннмари Мол, логика выбора, логика заботы, диабет, пациентский выбор, хронические болезни, уход, разделенное врачевание, пациентизм

Abstract

The reader is invited for a discussion on a book by the famous Dutch philosopher and anthropologist Annemarie Mol, The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice (2008), about the care of diabetic patients. The discussion participants represent various areas of health and medicine studies. One of them is a member of the diabetic patients' community, which allowed us to touch upon practical, as well as theoretical aspects of care. In the course of the talk, multiple questions were raised in regards to A. Mol's academic approach, its conceptual basis in the first place - elicitation of the logic of care, as contrasted to the logic of choice, as well as the method of receiving pure or distilled care, which the author suggests seeing as a universal model of care. The participants also spoke about how applicable Mol's key discriminations are in the studies of other illnesses or medical branches.

Author Biographies

  • Ozhiganova A.A., Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS

    Academic degrees: 

    • Ph.D. in Anthropology

    Current employment, position: 

    • Researcher
  • KURLENKOVA A.S., Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS

    Academic degrees, membership in RAS and RAMS:

    • Ph.D. of historical sciences (2013)
  • Shevchenko S.Yu., Institute of Philosophy Russian Academy of Sciences

    Academic degrees, membership in the RAS:

    • PhD in Philosophy

    Place of main work, position:

    • Junior researcher
    • Lecturer, Department of Bioethics, Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov
  • Zolotukhina M.V., A.N. Kosygin Russian State University

    Place of main work, position:

    • Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Advertising Communications,
    • Associate Professor, Department of Theology, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
  • White A.G.
    • a graduate of Columbia University (New York, USA) majoring in Biology and Medicine, Literature and Society
  • ANDREEV A.N., HSE Univercity

    Place of main work, position:

    • sociologist,
    • Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Published

2021-04-19

Issue

2018 — No. 1 (15)

Section

SCIENCE / Discussions