ABSTRACT
As a place to observe practices of medical surveillance and the micropolitics of medical power, the rehabilitation clinic is a context where meanings about risk are articulated and responded to on a daily basis. Moreover, the rehabilitation clinic is a site in which individuals confront expert systems. That is, a place where knowledge about cardiac risks is communicated by professionals and interpreted by people with heart disease. As such, the clinic is a local context in which reskilling is both endorsed and practiced. In this chapter and in Chapter 5, I show how rehabilitation program participants – both technicians and clients – make sense of risk, and the regimens and routines of the clinic.
