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Illness and the Interactionist Vocation
Author(s) -
Frank Arthur W.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.2000.23.4.321
Subject(s) - disenchantment , contest , dilemma , context (archaeology) , capitalism , sociology , commodity , late capitalism , prisoner's dilemma , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , epistemology , psychology , law , philosophy , political science , economics , politics , history , market economy , archaeology
The disenchantment of our times is described as a contest between what are called the ride and the story. The ride represents an array of desires to treat the body as a project for perpetual enhancement and medicine as a venue of commodity capitalism. The story imagines illness as a moral project. The interactionist vocation is thus placed in the context of what Weber called our fate: how do we confront the moral dilemma of our present moment?