Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: This article is an edited version of an online discussion between the editors of this Special Issue, Jamie Smith, and Eva Willis. Jamie is a nurse and sociologist who presented a paper on critical posthumanism and ‘person-centered care’ in nursing at the ‘Medical (Post)Humanities?’ conference held in April 2022. His consideration of nursing practice through a posthuman lens dovetailed with our own interests in the intersection between critical posthumanism and the practices of medicine and this interview stems from the meeting of these concerns. As a sociologist and practicing nurse trained in Germany, Eva Willis offered another perspective on the intersection of posthuman theory and clinical practice, expanding the conversation beyond the British context. The editors met to interview Eva and Jamie online (via GoogleMeet) on August the 17th 2022 and spoke for just under 2 hours. The conversation covered questions about what ‘posthumanism’ means in a clinical space (and how it can be translated across settings), how it informs notions of ‘care’ and ‘death’, and whether it can challenge prevailing ‘evidence-based’ and ‘person-centred’ paradigms operating in medicine.
Authors: Rosalind Crocker, Mary Dawson, Jamie B Smith, Eva Surawy Stepney, Shauna Walker, Eva Willis
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411540927