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- Antelius, Eleonor
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Whose body is it anyway? Verbalization, embodiment, and the creation of narratives
- 2009
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In: Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1363-4593 .- 1461-7196. ; 13:3, s. 361-379
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines the creation of narratives between people with severe disabilities and the personnel working with them. It shows that although a co-created narrative of what it means to be severely disabled (the story of dependence) seems to prevail, another narrative (the story of autonomy) is also told, where the story of dependence is rejected by the person with disabilities. However, this story of autonomy only becomes clear if we recognize three central claims: (1) there is a connection between where the physical body of the person with disabilities is positioned in space and what he or she is allowed or able to be and do; (2) since the body is a communicative tool, the moving of the body could be interpreted as a narrative, told through the embodiment of space; and (3) the embodied story can challenge existing social structures. The article highlights the inherent struggle for power within narrations and how the creation of alternative narratives can contest existing social structures.
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- Gunnarsson, Nina Veetnisha, et al.
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Organizing allergy and being a good parent : parents narratives about their childrens emerging problems
- 2009
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In: Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1363-4593 .- 1461-7196. ; 13:2, s. 157-174
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article focuses on the early and problem-solving phases of the childs illness trajectory and on how child allergies are constructed and organized by the parents in a moral everyday context. The parents narratives were reconstructed as narratives, describing the pathways parents take before they decide to seek professional medical aid as well as showing how they construct themselves as responsible parents. Before consulting health professionals the parents have often tried a range of different ways to define, control and manage their childrens various problems. Allergy problems were interpreted and responded to differently, depending on the way they emerged in everyday life. Acute reactions quickly led to an illness definition and a diagnosis. Gradual and diffuse problems were not so easily defined. They were at first interpreted and responded to as normal infant problems, but, through the parents readiness and various situational and temporal clues, they were organized as symptoms of illness. Parents seek medical aid when their own strategies fail or do not fully work, but their decisions are also formed within a pre-problem context of their moral accountability as parents.
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