Timescapes of Health, Illness and Care (eBook)

Katherine Kenny is Associate Professor of Sociology, ARC DECRA Fellow, and Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her work deploys social and cultural theory and qualitative methods to better understand how health, illness and care are understood, governed, 'treated' and made meaningful in clinical contexts and in everyday life. Mia Harrison is a transdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) at UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Her work is informed by science and technology studies (STS), critical medical humanities, and sociology of health and illness. Mia's research explores the temporalities, places, materials, and affects of situated practices and complex social assemblages. Her work is characterised by critical and creative qualitative methodologies that extend across disciplinary conventions. Anthony K J Smith is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia. His work draws on the sociology of health, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on HIV, sexual health, and LGBTQ+ communities. Anthony specialises in qualitative methodologies, and draws on sociological theory, data justice, critical bioethics, and science and technology studies to understand health workforces, community wellbeing, and how biomedical technologies shape social life.