Ohio State nav bar

Living Well, Dying Well: Religion, Health, and Healing Series with Andrea Jain

Color image of torso, legs, and hand of a body in a seated position where the index finger and thumb are touching in a "ok" gesture, suggestive of meditative practice
April 7, 2021
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Online

Date Range
Add to Calendar 2021-04-07 16:00:00 2021-04-07 17:30:00 Living Well, Dying Well: Religion, Health, and Healing Series with Andrea Jain Thank you to our workshop presenters and audience members for a lively and exciting discussion. To watch the recording of this event, please click here or on the workshop title below. Modern Yoga and Technologies of Wellness "Pain, Stigma, and Yoga: The Politics of Self-Management Interventions in Healthcare Industries" Featuring Andrea Jain (Indiana University)     In this talk, Andrea Jain asks what we should make of healthcare industry discourses that describe self-care and self-management commodities and programs as “alternatives” to mainstream medical treatments, as more “holistic” and “patient-centered” insofar as they consider the interplay of biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors, and as “empowering” the patients by giving them the opportunity to take responsibility and play an active role in the healing process. She suggests we consider that, rather than a mode through which consumers ignore, escape, or are numbed to the social and structural problems of neoliberal capitalism, many forms of self-care and self-management, like yoga, represent an area of medicine through which protest against the reigning status quo is simultaneously expressed and contained. The self-care “alternative” programs themselves confront some of the greatest problems with the privatization of medicine—most notably, the neglect of the patient as embedded in larger cultures and structures that can disadvantage them—without impunity for those very problems. If you require an accommodation, such as live captioning, to participate in this event, please contact Sarah Dove at dove.76@osu.edu. Requests made at least one week in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.  This event is supported by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme.   Online Center for the Study of Religion religion@osu.edu America/New_York public

Thank you to our workshop presenters and audience members for a lively and exciting discussion. To watch the recording of this event, please click here or on the workshop title below.

Modern Yoga and Technologies of Wellness

Color Photograph (headshot) of Prof. Andrea Jain

"Pain, Stigma, and Yoga: The Politics of Self-Management Interventions in Healthcare Industries"

Featuring Andrea Jain (Indiana University)

 

 

In this talk, Andrea Jain asks what we should make of healthcare industry discourses that describe self-care and self-management commodities and programs as “alternatives” to mainstream medical treatments, as more “holistic” and “patient-centered” insofar as they consider the interplay of biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors, and as “empowering” the patients by giving them the opportunity to take responsibility and play an active role in the healing process. She suggests we consider that, rather than a mode through which consumers ignore, escape, or are numbed to the social and structural problems of neoliberal capitalism, many forms of self-care and self-management, like yoga, represent an area of medicine through which protest against the reigning status quo is simultaneously expressed and contained. The self-care “alternative” programs themselves confront some of the greatest problems with the privatization of medicine—most notably, the neglect of the patient as embedded in larger cultures and structures that can disadvantage them—without impunity for those very problems.


If you require an accommodation, such as live captioning, to participate in this event, please contact Sarah Dove at dove.76@osu.edu. Requests made at least one week in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. 

This event is supported by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme.