Frank Arthur W
University of Calgary, Canada.
Health (London). 2006 Oct;10(4):421-40. doi: 10.1177/1363459306067312.
Health circulates inside bodies, as a condition of cells, tissues and organs, and outside bodies as signs. Health stories offer people bits of a subjectivity of health: an awareness of what is interior, expressed in signs that are exterior. Three genres of health stories are described: technoluxe stories, unbearable health stories and strategic health stories. These stories call out to people, bidding to be subjectifiers of health. Stories connect people who may become patients, providers of health services, health products, images, fears and desires. Following Latour, health stories are understood as a form of plug-in: resources that provide people with an ability to recognize and connect what was disparate.
健康在身体内部作为细胞、组织和器官的一种状态而循环，在身体外部则作为体征而存在。健康故事为人们提供了健康主观性的片段：对内在之物的一种认知，通过外在体征得以表达。本文描述了三种健康故事类型：科技奢华故事、难以承受的健康故事和策略性健康故事。这些故事向人们发出召唤，力图成为健康的主体塑造者。故事将可能成为患者的人、健康服务提供者、健康产品、形象、恐惧和欲望联系起来。遵循拉图尔的观点，健康故事被理解为一种插入式形式：这些资源使人们有能力识别并将原本毫不相干的事物联系起来。
