Resisting "Reason": A Comparative Anthropological Study of Social Differences and Resistance toward Health Promotion and Illness Prevention in Denmark.

Social differences in health and illness are well documented in Denmark. However, little is known about how health practices are manifested in the everyday lives of different social classes. We propose acts of resistance and formation of health subjectivities as helpful concepts to develop our under...

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Publicado en:Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 218 - 237
Autores principales: Merrild, Camilla Hoffmann, Andersen, Rikke Sand, Risør, Mette Bech, Vedsted, Peter
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2017
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          Merrild, Camilla Hoffmann
          Andersen, Rikke Sand
          Risør, Mette Bech
          Vedsted, Peter
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          Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark
          Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
          Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
          Diagnostic Center, Silkeborg Hospital, Denmark
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        Denmark
        Health promotion
        Preventive medicine
        Social conflict
        Social classes
        Anthropology
        Health attitudes
        Health behavior
        Obesity
        Preventive health services
        Breast tumors
        Smoking cessation
        Narratives
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          Preventive medicine
          Social conflict
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      ab: Social differences in health and illness are well documented in Denmark. However, little is known about how health practices are manifested in the everyday lives of different social classes. We propose acts of resistance and formation of health subjectivities as helpful concepts to develop our understanding of how dominant health discourses are appropriated by different social classes and transformed into different practices promoting health and preventing illness. Based on fieldwork in two different social classes, we discuss how these practices both overtly and subtly challenge the normative power of the health promotion discourse. These diverse and ambiguous forms of everyday resistance illustrate how and when situated concerns move social actors to subjectively appropriate health promotion messages. Overall, the different forms of resistance elucidate how the standardized awareness and education campaigns may perpetuate the very inequalities they try to diminish.
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