Diagnostic Spaces: Workhouse, Hospital, and Home in Mid-Victorian London

Mooney, Gavin

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“…Illouz (2008) and Nolan (1998Nolan ( , 2002 cite in this regard the rise of a therapeutic ethos, which, Nolan argues, entered state bureaucracies to fill the void of meaning left by a rationalizing state. Modernizing institutions earlier had banned personal storytelling in favor of the techno-scientific discourse of expertise [see, for example, Mooney's (2009) account of how nineteenth-century medical www.annualreviews.org • The Sociology of Storytelling diagnostic techniques discredited patient narratives as the source of information, and see Benjamin's (1968Benjamin's ( [1955) famous account of the decline of the storyteller in modernity]. Later, personal storytelling was brought back to provide human connection and meaning in a rationalized world.…”

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The Sociology of Storytelling

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In contrast to the antistructuralist and antipositivist agenda that has animated the "narrative turn" in the social sciences since the 1980s, a more uniquely sociological approach has studied stories in the interactional, institutional, and political contexts of their telling. Scholars working in this vein have seen narrative as powerful, but as variably so, and they have focused on the ways in which narrative competence is socially organized and unevenly distributed. We show how this approach, or cluster of approaches, rooted variously in conversational analysis, symbolic interactionism, network analysis, and structuralist cultural sociologies, has both responded to problems associated with the narrative turn and shed light on enduring sociological questions such as the bases of institutional authority, how inequalities are maintained and reproduced, why political challengers are sometimes able to win support, and the cultural foundations of self-interest and instrumental rationality. 109 Annu. Rev. Sociol. 2011.37:109-130. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of California -Irvine on 03/12/13. For personal use only.

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On the Parapets of Privacy

Chase¹,

Levenson²

2014

A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

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Food As Medicine: Diet, Diabetes Management, and the Patient in Twentieth Century Britain

Moore

2018

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

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In classic accounts of the development of modern medicine in Europe and North America, the sick person is often portrayed as having a history of disappearance with the rise of the objectified body of the modern patient. To this account, sociologists and historians of medicine have added another for the period after 1950, in which the patient as subjective person “reappears” in medical discourse. However, despite histories of practice and identity revising narratives of disappearance, the patient’s reappearance has largely escaped further assessment. Using an analysis of dietary management in twentieth-century British diabetes care, this article challenges accounts of this reappearance in three ways. Firstly, it argues that discursive interest in the social and psychological aspects of care emerged earlier than suggested. Secondly, it grounds such interest in reconfigured institutional arrangements that were initially designed to rationalize care and improve efficiency. Finally, it argues that patients regularly exceeded the efforts of even an expanded management regime to normalize and regulate life. Food planning, preparation, and consumption continued to sit at the nexus of competing demands that mediated medical efforts to cultivate governable selves and bodies.

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Diagnostic Spaces: Workhouse, Hospital, and Home in Mid-Victorian London

Cited by 3 publications

References 78 publications

The Sociology of Storytelling

The Sociology of Storytelling

On the Parapets of Privacy

Food As Medicine: Diet, Diabetes Management, and the Patient in Twentieth Century Britain

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