ABSTRACT

This article coins and deploys the term kinetic health as part of a broader attempt to historicize the mobilities paradigm from the standpoint of past community prophylactics. It uses the example of Galenic or humoral medicine, which for millennia organized individual and group health as a dynamic systems balance among several spheres of intersecting fixities and flows. The radical situatedness it fostered emerges clearly from tracing preventative health interventions among different communities in ‘preindustrial’ Europe, including urban dwellers, miners and armies, whose different motilities both bound people to and released them from their immediate environment. Beyond reframing past practices, kinetic health benefits mobilities studies scholars by interrogating stagist narratives of civilization and modernization in two ways. First, as an analytic, because although humoralism and other medical systems continue to inform present-day approaches to health and disease around the globe, they are often obscured by layers of colonialism and biomedicine. And secondly, as a perch for viewing the long-term ebb, flow and mingling of ideas about ill/health as an assemblage of (social) bodies and their natural and social environments.

摘要

本文创造并部署了动态健康一词，作为从过去社区预防措施的角度将流动性范式历史化的更广泛尝试的一部分。它使用了盖伦医学或体液医学的例子，几千年来，它们将个人和团体的健康组织成一个动态系统，平衡了几个相互交叉的固定和流动领域。它所培养的激进情境清楚地体现在追踪“前工业化”欧洲不同社区（包括城市居民、矿工和军队）之间的预防性健康干预措施，这些社区的不同活动既使人们与周围环境联系在一起，又使他们摆脱了直接环境。除了重新定义过去的实践，动态健康有益于流动性研究学者，通过以两种方式询问文明和现代化的 stagist 叙述。第一的，作为分析，尽管体液疗法和其他医疗系统继续为当今全球的健康和疾病治疗方法提供信息，但它们往往被殖民主义和生物医学的层层所掩盖。其次，作为一个栖息地，可以将关于疾病/健康的想法的长期消退、流动和混合视为（社会）身体及其自然和社会环境的组合。