1st Edition
Progressing Critical Posthuman Perspectives in Health Sociology
Introduction – Remaking the post ‘human’: a productive problem for health sociology
Kim McLeod and Simone Fullagar
1. Becoming posthuman: hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject
Kate Seear and Emily Lenton
2. Making publics in a pandemic: Posthuman relationalities, ‘viral' intimacies and COVID-19
Kiran Pienaar, Jacinthe Flore, Jennifer Power and Dean Murphy
3. Domestic violence, coercive control and mental health in a pandemic: disenthralling the ecology of the domestic
Toni McCallum and Judy Rose
4. Lost in translation? Beyond sex as a biological variable in animal research
Madeleine Pape
5. A posthuman decentring of person-centred care
Barbara E. Gibson, Joanna K. Fadyl, Gareth Terry, Kate Waterworth, Donya Mosleh and Nicola M. Kayes
6. Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus
Michela Cozza, Silvia Bruzzone and Lucia Crevani
7. Afflexivity in post-qualitative inquiry: prioritising affect and reflexivity in the evaluation of a health information website
Jenny Setchell, Rebecca Olson, Merrill Turpin, Nathalia Costa, Tim Barlott, Kate O’Halloran, Britta Wigginton and Paul Hodges
Biography
Kim McLeod is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Kim re-envisions health and education in her academic work towards equitable access, experiences, and outcomes.
Simone Fullagar is Professor and Chair of the Sport and Gender Equity research hub and Lead for the Inclusive Play theme in the Reimagining Disability research programme at Griffith University. Simone is an interdisciplinary sociologist who undertakes research to address gender inequality in sport, leisure, mental health and well-being as more than human issues.
