RT Article
T1 People Made of Glass: The Collapsing Temporalities of Chronic Conditions
JF Anthropology of consciousness
VO 32
IS 1
SP 7
OP 32
A1 Madsen, Ida Vandsøe
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1752261631
AB An increasing number of people worldwide are living with chronic conditions that have an aspect of bodily fragility as part of the condition or as an effect of treatment. In this article, I explore the temporal experience of bodily fragility and the particularities of consciousness states among people with the chronic condition osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) in Denmark. My aim is threefold. First, my goal is to give an insight into life with OI, a rare and rarely studied condition. Second, I shed light on bodily fragility, a theme that lives in the shadows of other analytical foci in anthropology. Third, I will contribute to the anthropological understanding of the connection among body, physical environment, and consciousness. I argue that the lifeworlds of people with OI are haunted by mental and bodily memories and fearful future scenarios, which makes the past and the future collapse into the present.
K1 bodily fragility
K1 Chronic Conditions
K1 Haunting
K1 Osteogenesis imperfecta
K1 Temporality
DO 10.1111/anoc.12131