The Chronopolitics of Life

An examination of the links between power, inequality, and time in health governance. This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of time in inequalities within biomedicine, technology, and healthcare. How is time wielded as a tool of power through its valuation, standardization, and allocation? How has time become an unequally distributed resource in health and biomedicine, and how has it contributed to medical discrimination for patients at different stages of life? To answer these questions, The Chronopolitics of Life draws on real-world examples from across the globe, spanning from reproductive health to chronic disease, and sensitive to both local variations in medicine and the wider forces shaping temporalities in health.