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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brown, Nik

Titel

Shifting Tenses: Reconnecting Regimes of Truth and Hope

Ist Teil von

• Configurations (Baltimore, Md.), 2005-10, Vol.13 (3), p.331-355

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]the imagination has been central to brokering new and highly privatized consumption markets in the biosciences-most saliently in global efforts to store the present for the future through biobanking. [...]building on these themes of embodied hope and economy, I want to explore an area in which regimes of hope have become the calculable objects of truth regimes. There are, then, crucial differences in emphasis and strategy between public and private CB banks: while the commercial sector cites yet-unrealized future developments in tissue engineering as a primary reason for investing in CB banking, the public sector focuses almost exclusively on the presentday use of CB HSCs in treating very rare blood and immunological disorders, as well as in rare instances where a bone marrow transplantation is not possible. Infused with both popular and expert notions concerning the relationship between psyche and soma, "onco-hope" research implies a belief in the responsibility of the individual to marshal the necessary cognitive resources of volition in overcoming an extremely personalized pathology. [...]encouraging patients to exercise willful control over a disease also serves to translate a patient into an accountable subject.