Self-Care as Social Crafting: Transnational Narratives During COVID-19.

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-02-17 Epub Date: 2023-04-19 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2023.2198127

Gillian Chan

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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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自我保健作为社会制作：COVID-19期间的跨国叙事。

与公共卫生将自我保健定义为个性化的身体调节相反，人们对COVID-19的跨国叙述表明，自我保健是建立社会关系的一种手段。在他们的自我护理实践中，受访者利用了他们结构丰富的关系领域，锻炼了他们的灵活性和洞察力，并建立了新的关系网络。此外，一些人讲述了他们在与受感染的朋友或亲戚共同隔离和照顾时无视身体界限的激进护理时刻。这些关于关心而不是孤立于社会纠葛的叙述为我们提供了另一种想象，通过这种想象，我们可以考虑未来的大流行应对措施。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.