Anthropological perspectives on chronic illness

Explaining Pathways of Care Taken by Elderly People: An Analysis of Responses to Illness Symptoms

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Explaining Pathways of Care Taken by Elderly People: An Analysis of Responses to Illness Symptoms

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The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces

“…We are in dialog with, and build upon, an interdisciplinary body of scholarship crossing anthropology, disability and feminist studies, geography, and science and technology studies. Medical anthropologists and feminist theorists have been turning increased attention to chronic illness since at least the early 1990s (Estroff, 1993;Heurtin-Roberts & Becker, 1993;Wendell, 2001). Wendell (2001) notes that chronic illness disproportionately affects women and that chronic illness should be studied under the umbrella of "disability."…”

“…We are in dialog with, and build upon, an interdisciplinary body of scholarship crossing anthropology, disability and feminist studies, geography, and science and technology studies. Medical anthropologists and feminist theorists have been turning increased attention to chronic illness since at least the early 1990s (Estroff, 1993; Heurtin-Roberts & Becker, 1993; Wendell, 2001). Wendell (2001) notes that chronic illness disproportionately affects women and that chronic illness should be studied under the umbrella of “disability.” Recent scholarship, drawing on the notion of syndemics (Singer & Snipes, 1992), emphasizes that various kinds of chronic conditions often emerge in tandem in individuals and communities, making it increasingly difficult to separate “mental health” from physical health (Ecks, 2021).…”

'You Become Pretty Much a Healthcare Worker': The Parenting of a Child with Inherited Metabolic Disease and its Metaphors

“…During the last few decades, the experience of living with chronic diseases or disabilities has been a focus of sustained interest within medical anthropology and related disciplines (see, e.g., Heurtin-Roberts and Becker 1993;Manderson and Smith-Morris 2010;Ginsburg and Rapp 2020). This scholarship includes vital research on parenting and caring for disabled and chronically ill children (Sobo 2010;Landsman 2009;Mattingly, Grøn, and Meinert 2011;Rapp and Ginsburg 2011;Trnka 2017) which has produced a vast array of concepts to describe 5 I intended to interview also the affected children.…”

Explaining Pathways of Care Taken by Elderly People: An Analysis of Responses to Illness Symptoms

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The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces

“…We are in dialog with, and build upon, an interdisciplinary body of scholarship crossing anthropology, disability and feminist studies, geography, and science and technology studies. Medical anthropologists and feminist theorists have been turning increased attention to chronic illness since at least the early 1990s (Estroff, 1993;Heurtin-Roberts & Becker, 1993;Wendell, 2001). Wendell (2001) notes that chronic illness disproportionately affects women and that chronic illness should be studied under the umbrella of "disability."…”

“…We are in dialog with, and build upon, an interdisciplinary body of scholarship crossing anthropology, disability and feminist studies, geography, and science and technology studies. Medical anthropologists and feminist theorists have been turning increased attention to chronic illness since at least the early 1990s (Estroff, 1993; Heurtin-Roberts & Becker, 1993; Wendell, 2001). Wendell (2001) notes that chronic illness disproportionately affects women and that chronic illness should be studied under the umbrella of “disability.” Recent scholarship, drawing on the notion of syndemics (Singer & Snipes, 1992), emphasizes that various kinds of chronic conditions often emerge in tandem in individuals and communities, making it increasingly difficult to separate “mental health” from physical health (Ecks, 2021).…”

'You Become Pretty Much a Healthcare Worker': The Parenting of a Child with Inherited Metabolic Disease and its Metaphors

“…During the last few decades, the experience of living with chronic diseases or disabilities has been a focus of sustained interest within medical anthropology and related disciplines (see, e.g., Heurtin-Roberts and Becker 1993;Manderson and Smith-Morris 2010;Ginsburg and Rapp 2020). This scholarship includes vital research on parenting and caring for disabled and chronically ill children (Sobo 2010;Landsman 2009;Mattingly, Grøn, and Meinert 2011;Rapp and Ginsburg 2011;Trnka 2017) which has produced a vast array of concepts to describe 5 I intended to interview also the affected children.…”

Explaining Pathways of Care Taken by Elderly People: An Analysis of Responses to Illness Symptoms

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The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces

“…We are in dialog with, and build upon, an interdisciplinary body of scholarship crossing anthropology, disability and feminist studies, geography, and science and technology studies. Medical anthropologists and feminist theorists have been turning increased attention to chronic illness since at least the early 1990s (Estroff, 1993;Heurtin-Roberts & Becker, 1993;Wendell, 2001). Wendell (2001) notes that chronic illness disproportionately affects women and that chronic illness should be studied under the umbrella of "disability."…”

“…We are in dialog with, and build upon, an interdisciplinary body of scholarship crossing anthropology, disability and feminist studies, geography, and science and technology studies. Medical anthropologists and feminist theorists have been turning increased attention to chronic illness since at least the early 1990s (Estroff, 1993; Heurtin-Roberts & Becker, 1993; Wendell, 2001). Wendell (2001) notes that chronic illness disproportionately affects women and that chronic illness should be studied under the umbrella of “disability.” Recent scholarship, drawing on the notion of syndemics (Singer & Snipes, 1992), emphasizes that various kinds of chronic conditions often emerge in tandem in individuals and communities, making it increasingly difficult to separate “mental health” from physical health (Ecks, 2021).…”

'You Become Pretty Much a Healthcare Worker': The Parenting of a Child with Inherited Metabolic Disease and its Metaphors

“…During the last few decades, the experience of living with chronic diseases or disabilities has been a focus of sustained interest within medical anthropology and related disciplines (see, e.g., Heurtin-Roberts and Becker 1993;Manderson and Smith-Morris 2010;Ginsburg and Rapp 2020). This scholarship includes vital research on parenting and caring for disabled and chronically ill children (Sobo 2010;Landsman 2009;Mattingly, Grøn, and Meinert 2011;Rapp and Ginsburg 2011;Trnka 2017) which has produced a vast array of concepts to describe 5 I intended to interview also the affected children.…”