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The Time of Infection: Biomedicine and the Problem of Restlessness book cover

1st Edition

The Time of Infection Biomedicine and the Problem of Restlessness

By Marsha Rosengarten Copyright 2027
114 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book contributes to the exploration of the concept of time in the social sciences and philosophy, by reflecting on the ontological presuppositions of medical science and what this means for the response to communicable infection. By examining infection as a process that resists segmentation, prediction, and control, the author exposes the ontological limits of linear divisible time as it is... Read more

1. The Promise of Time 2. Racing the Clock and the Paradox of Time 3. Out of Sync: Infection, Insistence, and Repetition 4. Safeguarding the Timeline: 'Unpredictable Nature' 5. Memory, Immunity, and Value-Creating Bodies 6. Restlessness/Infections Possibles

Biography

Marsha Rosengarten is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London and Visiting Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. She is the author of the award-winning HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh, the co-author of Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV,  the co-editor of Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures, and co-editor of Narcofeminisms: Revisioning Drug Use.

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