Illness and the Interactionist Vocation
- 1 February 2000
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Symbolic Interaction
- Vol. 23 (4) , 321-332
- https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2000.23.4.321
Abstract
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?This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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