Assemblages of Health Deleuze's Empiricism and the Ethology of Life /

• Main Author: Duff, Cameron (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Public health.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Public Health.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

This book presents a review of Deleuze’s key methods and concepts in the course of exploring how these methods may be applied in contemporary studies of health and illness. Taken from a Deleuzian perspective, health and wellbeing will be characterized as a discontinuous process of affective and rela...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Assemblages of Health
• Chapter 2. The Concrete Richness of the Sensible
• Chapter 3. Health, Ethology, Life
• Chapter 4. The Assemblage in Recovery (Mental Health)
• Chapter 5. Assemblages of Drugs, Spaces and Bodies
• Chapter 6. The Ethics of an Assemblage of Health
• Chapter 7. Conclusion: A Line of Becoming Well.