{"id":17003,"date":"2018-08-27T07:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=17003"},"modified":"2018-08-27T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:28:01","slug":"the-biopolitics-of-cfs-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-biopolitics-of-cfs-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The biopolitics of CFS\/ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1369848617300705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The biopolitics of CFS\/ME<\/a>, by Nikos Karfakis, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span> <em>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences<\/em> [Available online 8 June 2018]<\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17847 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/handglass-2-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/handglass-2.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/handglass-2.jpg?resize=100%2C150&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/handglass-2.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/>Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The diagnosis of CFS\/ME is not only a scientific issue nor only contested within the confines of the clinic, but a much broader, biopolitical problem.<\/li>\n<li>Attempts at making CFS\/ME a stable <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/epistemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">epistemic<\/a> object, have so far been only partially successful.<\/li>\n<li>CFS\/ME advocacy groups have been increasingly active internationally, making various demands on the scientific establishment and the governments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This paper argues that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS\/ME) constitutes a biopolitical problem, a scientific object which needs to be studied, classified and regulated.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblages of authorities, knowledges and techniques make CFS\/ME subjects and shape their everyday conduct in an attempt to increase their supposed autonomy, wellbeing and health. CFS and CFS\/ME identities are however made not only through government, scientific, and medical interventions but also by the patients themselves, a biosocial community who collaborates with scientists, educates itself about the intricacies of biomedicine, and contests psychiatric truth claims.<\/p>\n<p>CFS\/ME is an\u00a0illness trapped between medicine and psychology, an illness that is open<br \/>\nto debate and therefore difficult to manage and standardise. The paper delineates different interventions by medicine, science, the state and the patients themselves and concludes that CFS\/ME remains elusive, only partially standardised, in an on-going battle between all the different actors that want to define it for their own situated interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biopolitics of CFS\/ME, by Nikos Karfakis, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences [Available online 8 June 2018] Highlights: The diagnosis of CFS\/ME is not only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-biopolitics-of-cfs-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4490,4491],"class_list":["post-17003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-biopolitics","tag-nikos-karfakis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-4qf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17848,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions\/17848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}