Metrics of hope: Disciplining affect in oncology
Metrics of hope: Disciplining affect in oncology
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DOI：
10.1177/1363459314555239
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Brown, Nik
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作者：
Brown, Nik
本文探讨了在肿瘤学护理，实践和研究的背景下出现的“政权的希望”。更具体地说，我关注的是自20世纪70年代以来出现的希望量表和指数，用于衡量癌症患者的情绪状态。这些通常采取心理测量测试的形式，旨在使情感生活受到计算和理性的审查。本文将其定位于批判社会科学文献中情感“转向”的紧张局势中。例如，学术界一直急于不否认情感和情绪的具体现实。但同样重要的是，要认识到情绪在多大程度上是作为权力的对象和效果而被有序地安排和结构化的。这篇文章描绘了历史上希望尺度的出现，以及更广泛的历史力量在生命和健康的量化，更具体地说是情感。它将希望尺度定位于战后个人韧性和坚持不懈的企业氛围中，以及希望作为生物政治生活的自然活力属性的重要性。
This article explores the emergence of a 'regime of hope' in the context of oncology care, practice and research. More specifically, my focus is the emergence, since the 1970s or so, of hope scales and indexes used to metricise the emotional states of cancer patients. These usually take the form of psychometric tests designed and deployed in order to subject affective life to calculative and rational scrutiny. This article locates this within the tensions of a 'turn' towards the emotions in critical social science literature. Scholarship has, for instance, been anxious not to deny the embodied reality of affectivity and the emotions. But it has been equally important to recognise the extent to which emotions are discursively ordered and structured as objects and effects of power. This article charts the emergence of hope scales historically alongside wider historical forces in the metrification of life and health and more specifically the emotions. It locates hope scales in a post-war climate of individual resilience and perseverant enterprise and the significance of hope as a naturalised vitalistic attribute of biopolitical life.