Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (HSR) 46 (2021), 1

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Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (HSR) 46 (2021), 1
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Conventions, Health and Society

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312 pages
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Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (HSR)
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GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Journal Historical Social Research Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 50667 Köln
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Janssen, Philip Jost

Special Issue
Conventions, Health and Society – Convention Theory as an Institutionalist Approach to the Political Economy of Health (ed. Philippe Batifoulier and Rainer Diaz-Bone)

The French institutional approach of economics of convention (“économie des conventions”) – in short EC – has been established as a transdisciplinary movement in the international landscape of the social sciences. Health issues are one of the most virulent research topics in contemporary social sciences and EC has aproached health topics for many years. Health research is linked to questions of social inequality, digitalization and categorization, demographic change, and health economics, but also to the pluralism of institutional designs, norms and values related to health politics and health economics, and possible orders of worth.

EC is part of the so called “new French social sciences,” which are critical towards pregiven categories and ontologies. EC focuses on the situational logics of coordination, interpretation, and evaluation, which EC calls “conventions.” One of the main objectives of EC is to regard values as endogenous to coordination and to take the ethical resources of individuals seriously. The health sector is precisely one of those domains in which deontological rules, social values, and the concept of ethics (medical, in this case) are omnipresent. Healthcare and social policy are strongly normative issues and economic analysis cannot ignore it. Because health policies are precisely one of those domains in which coordination, value judgments, and normative considerations cannot be separated, the concept of convention is well indicated to understand neoliberal health policy.

This HSR Special Issue presents contributions by an international field of scholars. This volume is interdisciplinary in character, offering an overview of EC’s contribution to the analysis of health as a social phenomenon. It presents contributions to conventionalist theorizing and methodology in this research field and offers insight into ongoing newer empirical research to cover a wide range of topics such as regulation of expenditures, inequalities, funding priorities, health insurance, hospital management, liberal medicine, digitization and quantification of health, and the place of health in the evolution of capitalism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Philippe Batifoulier/ Rainer Diaz-Bone
Perspectives on the Economics and Sociology of Health. Contributions from the Institutionalist Approach of Economics of Convention – An Introduction.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.7-34

Philippe Batifoulier, Jean-Paul Domin / Amandine Rauly
Erosion of Solidarity in France and Welfare Conventions: The New Role of Complementary Health Insurance.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.35-58

Philippe Batifoulier, Louise Braddock, Victor Duchesne, Ariane Ghirardello / John Latsis
Targeting “Lifestyle” Conditions. What Justifications for Treatment?
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.59-84

Nicolas Da Silva
The Industrialization of “Liberal Medicine” in France. A Labor Quality Conventions Approach.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.85-111

Peter Streckeisen
Medicine and Economic Knowledge: The Relevance of Career in the Study of Transformations in the Healthcare System.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.112-135

Tine Hanrieder / Eloisa Montt Maray
Digitalizing Community Health Work: A Struggle over the Values of Global Health Policy.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.136-159

Eva Nadai, Anna Gonon, Robin Hübscher / Anna John
The Social Organization of Work Incapacity. Incapacities in the Swiss Social Insurance System and in the Workplace.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.160-180

Anne Vatter / Walter Bartl
Justifying Physical Activity (Dis-)Engagements: Fitness Centers and the Latent Expectations of (Former) Members.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.181-205

Johannes Achatz, Stefan Selke / Nele Wulf
Adjusting Reality. The Contingency Dilemma in the Context of Popularised Practices of Digital Self-Tracking of Health Data.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.206-229

Valeska Cappel
The Plurality of Daily Digital Health. The Emergence of a New Form of Health Coordination.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.230-260

Eryk Noji, Karolin Kappler / Uwe Vormbusch
Situating Conventions of Health: Transformations, Inaccuracies, and the Limits of Measuring in the Field of Self-Tracking.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.261-284

Rainer Diaz-Bone
Economics of Convention Meets Canguilhem.
doi: 10.12759/hsr.46.2021.1.285-311

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