How is time composed and configured in health-related processes?
El tiempo en salud es el título del proyecto de investigación FONDECYT Regular N° 1241495, financiado por la Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID).
Su propósito fundamental consiste en comprender los modos en que se realiza y compone el tiempo en procesos implicados en la salud, considerando sus estratos políticos, clínicos y experienciales. Basándonos en propuestas de los Science and Technology Studies y aproximaciones semiótico-materiales, proponemos el abordaje de los agenciamientos, condiciones, procesos y relaciones que producen el tiempo en salud, considerando dos capas: una analítico-descriptiva, orientada por la noción de dispositivo; y una analítico-interpretativa, asociada a la idea de régimen temporal.
Thus, instead of conceiving time as a given and homogeneous dimension, and analytically assuming dichotomies that assign normativity to certain temporal structures, we propose an exhaustive empirical research on the patterns of temporality in practice, opening the possibility of understanding its configurations.
Our research team is composed of researchers trained in areas of the social sciences, including sociology, social psychology, sociology, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
We hope with this initiative to configure elements that involve health policies regarding the temporal implications of their configurations.
Project objectives and emphasis
Our objective is to analyze the composition of time in public and private health care facilities in the Metropolitan Region, interpreting temporal regimes and identifying their implications for the biopolitical management of time.
Composition of time in health care facilities
Describe normative-political, epistemic, technological and practical relationships that make up the temporal dimension in public and private health care facilities.
Processes of subjectivation of time
To describe and analyze the link between temporalization devices and the subjectivation of patients considering their disease trajectories, as well as management strategies and epistemic exchange around time developed by biosocial collectives.
Semiotic-material dynamics
To identify socio-material dynamics linked to the configuration of temporary health regimes.
Temporary regimes
To interpret the configuration of temporal regimes in health from the circulation of temporal processes in scenarios of political design, clinical practice and disease trajectories.
Relevant epistemic aspects
Identify socio-material and epistemic processes relevant to temporary health management.
Implications for the biopolitical management of time.
Describe practical implications of temporal devices and regimes for a biopolitics of time in health.
Research team
Our research team is organized around the field of Science and Technology Studies, and is composed of researchers trained in areas of the social sciences, including sociology, social psychology, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
Jorge Castillo Sepúlveda
Responsible Researcher, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
José Antonio Román
Co-investigator, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Maya Zilveti
Co-Investigator (United Nations Development Programme)
Felipe Torres
Co-Investigator, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pedro Güell
Co-Investigator, Universidad Austral de Chile
Marsha Rosengarten
Research Collaborator, Goldsmiths, University of London
Fernanda Bywaters Collado
Thesis
Mariana Gálvez Ramírez
Technical Staff
Ámbar Ángel Toledo
Technical Staff
Diego Gilabert
Technical Staff
Daniel Hernández
Assistant
Activities and Progress
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Opening the black box of time in health: new article published in Saúde e Sociedade
We share an article published by the project, in which some aspects associated with the approach to the elaboration or production of temporalities in health from a pragmatic perspective are raised. In the paper, we explore the social and material aspects involved in the organization of time in the elaboration of clinical policies and practices. From the analysis of
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Interview: time management in healthcare
We share the record of an interview about the project carried out in the space Palabra FAHU, of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Santiago de Chile. It can be reviewed at the following link.
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Keys to the socio-material study of temporalities in health care
We participated in the International Seminar on Social Systems, Networks and Complexity. In this seminar, we presented some elements related to the socio-material study of temporalities in health.
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Time care in healthcare settings: participation in EASST-4S 2024
Between July 16 and 29, 2024, we had the opportunity to participate and present elements of the project at the #easst4s2024 meeting, held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.