Feeling Well and Having Good Numbers

Kang, Helen H.; Stenfors, Terese

doi:10.1177/1049732315591484

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“…Concurrently, discourses on obesity and health are embroiled with societal norms and ideals of beauty and body image, which in dominant Western discourse is equivalent to thinness (Donaghue & Clemitshaw, 2012). Thinness in Western society is intertwined with continuing dialogues concerning what it means to take personal responsibility for one’s health, which is often quantified through biomedical measures such as the body mass index (BMI; Edgley & Brissett, 1990; Kang & Stenfors-Hayes, 2016).…”

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The Weight of Things: Understanding African American Women’s Perceptions of Health, Body Image, and Attractiveness

2018

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Negative attitudes toward being overweight or obese are widespread, and these notions perpetuate into conceptions about one's health. Clinically, being overweight is associated with health problems such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and many other illnesses. African American women, who are generally larger in body size, are a particular target for health interventions. However, these women have resisted the "obesity" label, arguing that dominant measures of health are White norms and oppressive. Through the use of in-depth interviews, this study investigates how African American women understand and experience healthfulness, body image, and barriers to each. Findings show that African American women are ambivalent in their acceptance of dominant markers of health and expressed an almost universal disdain for the thin ideal as a marker of "good" health and a positive body image. Moreover, participants articulated a suspicion of formal medical measurements of obesity.

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The Weight of Things: Understanding African American Women’s Perceptions of Health, Body Image, and Attractiveness

2018

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“…Given that medical professionals are involved in recipients’ connections to their own bodies, it follows that the latter experience relationships with these professionals as quite intimate. This is why the connection between recipients and their treatment teams is particularly important (Kang & Stenfors-Hayes, 2016).…”

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“…Furthermore, many researchers in these disciplines argue that psychosocial factors may influence transplant recipients' recovery (Amerena & Wallace, 2009;Decker et al, 2008;Ghetti, 2011;Hutchinson, 2005). Despite this, there exist relatively few qualitative studies on the topic (Kang & Stenfors-Hayes, 2016) and fewer still on the subjective experience of transplantation (Amerena & Wallace, 2009;Decker et al, 2008;Richards, 2008Richards, , 2012. The lack of research into patient experiences reflects a larger issue: The need to pay greater attention to the everyday reality of transplantation as defined by those who experience it.…”

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The Transliminal Self: The Ebb and Flow of the Kidney Transplant Experience

2017

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For people with kidney disease, transplantation is considered a better treatment option than dialysis. A kidney transplant does not, however, ensure an illness-free existence. Compared with the wealth of literature produced from a biomedical perspective, there is little qualitative research focused on the young adult transplant experience. This article presents the findings of a phenomenological study exploring young adults' kidney transplant experiences. Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, semidirected interviews were conducted with five people. Analysis of the transcribed interviews revealed that these individuals' kidney transplant experiences were paradoxical in nature: Participants described an existence between sickness and health, self and other, life and death. Consequently, liminality was identified as one of the experience's key elements and used together with the concept of rites of passage in its analysis. To incorporate these experiences, the term transliminal self is proposed.

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“…Indeed, it has been argued that once a patient accepts treatment, they have an obligation to adhere (Glannon & Ross, 2002;Resnik, 2005), else they can be considered "lazy," "crazy," "difficult," and "defiant" by doctors (Resnik, 2005). Accounting for medication adherence becomes a disciplining technique of the self, aligned with shifts toward healthism and responsibilization in neoliberal societies (Crawford, 1980;Kang & Stenfors-Hayes, 2015;Lupton, 1993;Rose, 1999).…”

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Adherence and the Moral Construction of the Self: A Narrative Analysis of Anticoagulant Medication

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In this article, we examine illness narratives to illuminate the discursive work that patients undertake to construct themselves as “good” and adherent. Biographical narrative interviews were undertaken with 17 patients receiving anticoagulation for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation, from five English hospitals (May 2016–June 2017). Through pluralistic narrative analysis, we highlight the discursive tensions narrators face when sharing accounts of their medicine-taking. They undertake challenging linguistic and performative work to reconcile apparently paradoxical positions. We show how the adherent patient is co-constructed through dialogue at the intersection of discourses including authority of doctors, personal responsibility for health, scarcity of resources, and deservingness. We conclude that the notion of medication adherence places a hidden moral and discursive burden of treatment on patients which they must negotiate when invited into conversations about their medications. This discursive work reveals, constitutes, and upholds medicine-taking as a profoundly moral practice.

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Feeling Well and Having Good Numbers

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

The Weight of Things: Understanding African American Women’s Perceptions of Health, Body Image, and Attractiveness

The Weight of Things: Understanding African American Women’s Perceptions of Health, Body Image, and Attractiveness

The Transliminal Self: The Ebb and Flow of the Kidney Transplant Experience

Adherence and the Moral Construction of the Self: A Narrative Analysis of Anticoagulant Medication

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