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  “Stress Knocks Hard on Your Immune System”: Asthma and the Discourse on Stress
 
 
Title: “Stress Knocks Hard on Your Immune System”: Asthma and the Discourse on Stress
Author: Pohlman, Betsy
Becker, Gay
Appeared in: Medical anthropology
Paging: Volume 25 (2006) nr. 3 pages 265-295
Year: 2006-09-01
Contents: Stress has been described by anthropologists and other scholars as a problematic concept, a discourse, a modern metaphor, a collective representation, and a cultural resource. The vast array of academic work in the arena of stress research belies the historical reality of stress as an object of inquiry; rather, stress is presented as new, the story of its emergence intermingled with processes of industrialization, individualism, and perceptions of modern life. This article traces the uses to which the concept of stress is put in the illness narratives of persons with asthma. It argues that multiple invocations of stress not only make visible the workings of personal responsibility and individualism regarding chronic illness management in the contemporary United States but also gesture toward the social relations of sickness that lie beyond individual control.
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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