Caught up in Care: Crafting Moral Subjects of Chronic Fatigue
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Caught up in Care : Crafting Moral Subjects of Chronic Fatigue. / Risør, Mette Bech; Lillevoll, Kjersti.
In: Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, Vol. 40, No. 5, 2021, p. 432-445.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Caught up in Care
T2 - Crafting Moral Subjects of Chronic Fatigue
AU - Risør, Mette Bech
AU - Lillevoll, Kjersti
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Patients with chronic fatigue receive advice to improve symptom management and well-being. This advice is based on ideas of self-management and is conveyed during clinical assessment as “activity regulation.” Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a hospital clinic in Norway, we show how these patients attempt to demonstrate their competences and everyday concerns, and how the ideology of self-management frames the hope for recovery and crafts a subject with the ability to improve. Patients, however, linger between everyday social predicaments and ideals of healthy living, and are caught up in cultural models of care that deflect everyday concerns and agency.
AB - Patients with chronic fatigue receive advice to improve symptom management and well-being. This advice is based on ideas of self-management and is conveyed during clinical assessment as “activity regulation.” Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a hospital clinic in Norway, we show how these patients attempt to demonstrate their competences and everyday concerns, and how the ideology of self-management frames the hope for recovery and crafts a subject with the ability to improve. Patients, however, linger between everyday social predicaments and ideals of healthy living, and are caught up in cultural models of care that deflect everyday concerns and agency.
KW - activity regulation
KW - agency
KW - chronic fatigue
KW - moral codes
KW - Norway
KW - self-management
U2 - 10.1080/01459740.2021.1883011
DO - 10.1080/01459740.2021.1883011
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33596127
AN - SCOPUS:85101020783
VL - 40
SP - 432
EP - 445
JO - Medical Anthropology
JF - Medical Anthropology
SN - 0145-9740
IS - 5
ER -
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