Self-Care as Social Crafting: Transnational Narratives During COVID-19.
Med Anthropol
; : 1-13, 2023 Apr 19.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2293112
ABSTRACT
Contrary to public health framings of self-care as individualized bodily regulation, people's transnational COVID-19 narratives revealed self-care to be a means of crafting social relatedness. In their self-care practices, interviewees drew on their richly structured field of relations, exercised dexterity and discernment in attending to them, and forged new webs of relatedness. Moreover, some recounted moments of radical care when they disregarded bodily boundaries in co-isolating with and caring for infected friends or relatives. These narratives of caring with rather than in isolation from one's social entanglements provide an alternative imaginary through which we can consider future pandemic responses.
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Qualitative research
Language:
English
Journal:
Med Anthropol
Year:
2023
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Article
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01459740.2023.2198127
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