This paper takes a critical look at the role of chronobiology in society today, with particular reference to its entanglements with health and medicine and whether or not this amounts to the (bio)medicalisation of our bodily rhythms. What we have here, we show, is a complex unfolding storyline, within and beyond medicine. On the one hand, the promises and problems of these circadian, infradian and ultradian rhythms for our health and well-being are now increasingly emphasised. On the other hand, a variety of new rhythmic interventions and forms of governance are now emerging within and beyond medicine, from chronotherapies and chronopharmacology to biocompatible school and work schedules, and from chronodiets to the optimisation of all we do according to our ‘chronotypes’. Conceptualising these developments, we suggest challenges us to think within and beyond medicalisation to wider processes of biomedicalisation and the biopolitics of our body clocks: a vital new strand of chronopolitics today indeed which implicates us all in sickness and in health as the very embodiment of these rhythms of life itself. The paper concludes with a call for further research on these complex unfolding relations between chronobiology, health and society in these desynchronised times of ours.

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时间不同步？时间生物学、（生物）医学化和生命本身的节奏

本文批判性地审视了时间生物学在当今社会中的作用，特别是它与健康和医学的纠葛，以及这是否相当于我们身体节律的（生物）医学化。我们在这里展示的是一个复杂的故事情节，在医学内外。一方面，这些昼夜节律、日夜节律和超日节律对我们的健康和福祉的承诺和问题现在越来越受到重视。另一方面，从时间疗法和时间药理学到生物相容的学校和工作时间表，从时间饮食到根据我们的“时间类型”优化我们所做的一切，各种新的有节奏的干预措施和治理形式现在正在医学内外出现. 将这些发展概念化，我们建议挑战我们思考内和超出医学方法来biomedicalization的更广泛的过程和我们的生物钟的生命政治：今天chronopolitics的一个重要的新链确实这牵连我们所有疾病或健康，因为这些的化身生命本身的节奏。论文最后呼吁进一步研究时间生物学、健康和社会在这些不同步的熊时代之间复杂的展开关系。