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dc.contributor.authorKvamme, Maria Fredriksen
dc.contributor.authorWang, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson
dc.contributor.authorWaage, Trond
dc.contributor.authorRisør, Mette Bech
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-04T08:44:34Z
dc.date.available2020-08-04T08:44:34Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-23
dc.description.abstractLittle is known about the perspectives of young people suffering from medically unexplained symptoms. This study aims to explore the experiences and strategies of young Norwegians related to incipient and persistent health complaints affecting everyday life functioning. The study draws on field notes, video material and interview transcripts from a multi-sited ethnographic study of healthcare services and select schools in a small Norwegian town between 2015 and 2016. A central theme is the emphasis upon social and existential constraints seemingly framed by a social imaginary of youth rather than a medical imaginary, and their active engagements to ‘fix’ their lives through what we identify as two main modalities of self-care. Navigating temporal and relational aspects of sociocultural configurations of youth in their social environments, they imagine and enact alternative qualifying positions better adapted to constraints, personal preferences and needs. Our findings may add to understandings of the needs and strategies of young sufferers of medically unexplained symptoms, relevant for health and social care encounters.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKvamme MF, Wang CEA, Waage TW, Risør MB. ‘Fixing my life’: young people’s everyday efforts towards recovery from persistent bodily complaints.. Anthropology & Medicine. 2020en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1821175
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2020.1719456
dc.identifier.issn1364-8470
dc.identifier.issn1469-2910
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18914
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalAnthropology & Medicine
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine, Social medicine: 801en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin, sosialmedisin: 801en_US
dc.title‘Fixing my life’: young people’s everyday efforts towards recovery from persistent bodily complaintsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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