Victoria University of Wellington, Anthropology, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand.
Soc Sci Med. 2011 Sep;73(6):882-8. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.034. Epub 2011 Jun 15.
This article examines recent claims for healthcare made by British veterans who participated in nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s. Specifically, it focuses on their claims for war disablement pensions, exploring how they seek and challenge medical diagnoses. Detailing three veteran case studies, the article offers an ethnographic analysis of illness narratives. It explores how sufferers attempt to recast and reject the evidential burdens that they face in pension appeals, and identifies three narratives strategies that they deploy aimed at linking somatic realities to political etiologies. I propose the notion of biopolitical endpoints to capture how test veterans narratively connect political and medical domains as they seek to enable state culpability and redress.
本文考察了最近英国参加 20 世纪 50 年代原子弹试验的退伍军人提出的一些医疗保健主张。具体来说，它关注的是他们对战争伤残抚恤金的主张，探讨了他们如何寻求和质疑医学诊断。本文通过三个退伍军人案例研究，对疾病叙事进行了民族志分析。它探讨了患者如何试图重塑和拒绝在养老金上诉中面临的证据负担，并确定了他们使用的三种叙事策略，旨在将躯体现实与政治病因学联系起来。我提出了生物政治终点的概念，以捕捉测试退伍军人在寻求使国家承担责任和赔偿时如何在叙述中连接政治和医疗领域。
