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Balancing exercises : subjectivised narratives of balance in cancer self-health
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MacArtney, John I. (2016) Balancing exercises : subjectivised narratives of balance in cancer self-health. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 20 (4). pp. 329-345. doi:10.1177/1363459315622039 ISSN 1363-4593.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459315622039
Abstract
Having a ‘balanced lifestyle’ is often promoted as one way to manage the competing demands of contemporary life. For people with cancer, those demands are often multiplied, particularly when they use self-health approaches that seek to bring together an array of biomedical and complementary and alternative medicine therapies and practices. Yet, how balance is used in this complex healthcare milieu and the affects it has on experiences of illness are less well understood. In order to follow the polyphonic narratives involved, two case studies of women with breast cancer who used cancer self-health approaches were analysed. By exploring different modes of subjectivation in the case studies, balance was found to affect experiences of health in contemporary society in multiple ways. In particular, it was one way through which participants saw themselves as being able to maintain a critical engagement not just with their healthcare, but with their self and life.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1363-4593 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 20 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 329-345 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1363459315622039 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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