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Abstract
Through an online ethnographic analysis of a Facebook allergy group in Turkey, this article investigates how mothers carry out the daily process of managing risks and making decisions relating to the diets of babies with food allergies. Where allergy-management advice provided clinically by doctors tends to take the form of a relatively uniform and future-oriented risk-management process, parents making dietary decisions for babies with food allergies often need immediate advice that doctors cannot provide. To meet this need, many mothers complement the advice they receive from doctors with the knowledge and expertise of strangers online in making decisions about their children’s diet. Through a focus on how mothers engage with issues of allergy-related risk in an online community, this study demonstrates the different layers of temporality mothers navigate and the different strategies they employ in responding to allergy-related risk and how these co-exist, often complementarily, with the clinical management of allergies.
期刊介绍：
Health Risk & Society is an international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of the social processes which influence the ways in which health risks are taken, communicated, assessed and managed. Public awareness of risk is associated with the development of high profile media debates about specific risks. Although risk issues arise in a variety of areas, such as technological usage and the environment, they are particularly evident in health. Not only is health a major issue of personal and collective concern, but failure to effectively assess and manage risk is likely to result in health problems.
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