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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?

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