Ch10. Our Bodies, Our Disciplines, Our Selves
Annemarie Jutel is Professor of Health at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and a sociologist of diagnosis. Her research interests focus on how diagnosis, as a category and as a process, influences how health, illness and disease are understood at an individual as well as a socio-cultural level. She is the author of Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and Diagnosis: Truths and Tales (University of Toronto Press, 2019).
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In this retrospective reflection, sociologist of diagnosis Annemarie Jutel reflects on the progression of her academic thought vis-à-vis Drew Leder’s theories about bodily disappearance, highlighting the embodied nature of academic scholarship. In the same way that the body of the transcendent subject is not perceived, for it disappears in favor of subjective intentions, so too, argues Jutel, should our scholarly points of departure—which frequently include the very intimate personal experiences of the scholar—vanish in favor of broader, theoretical concepts.
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