THE CIRCULATION OF AFFECTS AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND EMOTIONSThis article presents an epistemological and theoretical-methodological framework at the interface between Sociology of Health and Sociology of Emotions. I present an argument for the place of the affective dimension in health and illnesses processes and, concomitantly, a theoretical-methodological proposal for the study of affects and emotions in this particular area of social research. I argued that the study of affect is relevant to problems characteristic of health research, namely, the impact of social markers such as class, gender, race on the health and illness, the particularities of interactions between healthcare professionals, patients, and their loved ones, and the relationship between emotion and healthcare work. Finally, I conclude that Sociology of Health can be renewed and enriched in its theoretical-methodological frameworks by a continued dialogue with the social theories of affects and emotions.
KEYWORDS
Affects; Emotions; Social Theory; Health and Illness; Body