WOMENS PERSPECTIVES ON CHRONIC ILLNESS - ETHNICITY, IDEOLOGY AND RESTRUCTURING OF LIFE

被引:58
作者
ANDERSON, JM
BLUE, C
LAU, A
机构
[1] School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5, TF-206
关键词
WOMEN; CHRONIC ILLNESS; ETHNICITY; IDEOLOGY;
D O I
10.1016/0277-9536(91)90171-8
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
This inquiry into the lives of women living with a chronic illness brings to attention the complex processes that frame the existential meanings of illness. Data from immigrant Chinese and Anglo-Canadian women with diabetes are used to show that illness is constructed in a complex social, political and economic nexus. When the circumstances of women's lives are examined, styles of managing illness that could be attributed to ethnicity, become recognizable as pragmatic ways of dealing with the harsh realities of material existence. It is argued that the trends toward individualizing social problems, and shifting the responsibility for caretaking from the state to the individual, obfuscate the social context of illness, and exclude the socially disadvantaged from adequate health care. © 1991.
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页码:101 / 113
页数:13
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