Abstract
Risk and Vulnerable, Medicalized Bodies
Highlights
One important theme is the manner in which articulations of risk can change so dramatically from one era to the
Each of the risk-related topics addressed by the four presenters on the panel can be usefully illuminated through Judy Segal’s notion of kairology; that is, an individual or condition that is perceived as risky at one time and place in history might have been perceived as entirely safe at another time and place
For the topics addressed in the Bennett-Koerber and the Sastry-Arduser presentations, discussions of agency emerged from questions about the maternal-fetal dyad and actions that pregnant mothers are expected to take to protect the fetus
Summary
This panel addressed how some of the most vulnerable bodies—children, pregnant women, fetuses, people diagnosed with mental illness—are sometimes articulated as targets for risk intervention and sometimes as inherently risky. Lauren Kolodziejski discussed how visual elements articulate risk in the childhood vaccine controversy.
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