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dc.contributor.authorMerrild, Camilla Hoffmann
dc.contributor.authorRisør, Mette Bech
dc.contributor.authorVedsted, Peter
dc.contributor.authorAndersen, Rikke Sand
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-09T10:34:10Z
dc.date.available2016-03-09T10:34:10Z
dc.date.issued2015-10-12
dc.description.abstractIn recent years an extensive social gradient in cancer outcome has attracted much attention, with late diagnosis proposed as one important reason for this. Whereas earlier research has investigated health care seeking among cancer patients, these social differences may be better understood by looking at health care seeking practices among people who are not diagnosed with cancer. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among two different social classes in Denmark, our aim in this article is to explore the relevance of class to health care seeking practices and illness concerns. In the higher middle class, we predominantly encountered health care seeking resembling notions of health consumerism, practices sanctioned and encouraged by the health care system. However among people in the lower social class, health care seeking was often shaped by the inseparability of physical, political, and social dimensions of discomfort, making these practices difficult for the health care system to accommodate.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Medical Anthropology on 12.10.2015, available online: <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2015.1102248>http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2015.1102248</a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationMedical Anthropology 2015en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1281020
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01459740.2015.1102248
dc.identifier.issn0145-9740
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/8800
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8363
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectCanceren_US
dc.subjectDenmarken_US
dc.subjecthealth care seekingen_US
dc.subjecthealth consumerismen_US
dc.subjectsocial sufferingen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin, sosialmedisin: 801en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine, Social medicine: 801en_US
dc.titleClass, Social suffering and Health Consumerismen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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