Interrogating Speculative Futures: The Politics of Imagining Futures With(out) Chronic Illness.

IF 1.3 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-24 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2026.2688802

Natassia Brenman, Natashe Lemos Dekker

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Abstract

We introduce the empirical papers in this special issue, each of which presents a different mode of speculation in the context of living with, and caring for, chronic conditions: "educated guesswork" about covid reinfection, "ambivalent speculations" in learning to live "at risk" with Barrett's Esophagus and "retrospective speculation" in pressure ulcer prevention. We reflect on how they together contribute to current thinking on the politics of time in health and medicine, and wider conversations in medical anthropology and beyond, about chronic illness as both a lived everyday reality and part of an unfolding, unpredictable collective future.

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质疑投机的未来：想象有（没有）慢性疾病的未来的政治。

我们在本期特刊中介绍了实证论文，每篇论文都在慢性疾病的生活和护理背景下提出了不同的猜测模式：关于covid再感染的“有根据的猜测”，关于学习生活在“风险”中的巴雷特食道的“矛盾猜测”，以及关于预防压疮的“回顾性猜测”。我们反思它们如何共同促进当前对健康和医学中时间政治的思考，以及医学人类学和其他领域更广泛的对话，关于慢性疾病既是日常生活的现实，也是正在展开的不可预测的集体未来的一部分。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

自引率

4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.