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Experiencing Food Allergy and Food Intolerance

An Analysis of Lay Accounts

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ID2322013
AuthorsSarah Nettleton (0000-0002-5184-2764, University of York, corresponding author), Brian Wood (Independent sociologist), Brian Woods (Independent sociologist), Roger Burrows (0000-0001-6837-1586, University of York, corresponding author), Anne Kerr (0000-0002-9958-301X, University of Leeds, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume44
Issue2
Pages289-305
Publication date2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038509357208
OpenAlexW2153869476
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited15

This article offers an analysis of 28 lay accounts of the experience of living with either food allergy or food intolerance in England. We structure the presentation of our data in terms of Mike Bury's three types of narrative form - contingent, moral and core. We suggest that people with food allergies at risk of acute, severe and potentially fatal symptoms on exposure to allergens find their condition to be less socially problematic than do those who suffer intolerances to certain foods, which can result in chronic, but not life-threatening, symptoms. Drawing on the extant literatures on the sociology of food and eating we propose a conceptualization in relation to notions of identity, anomie and communality that attempts to make sense of this finding

Aesthetics · Allergy · Anomie · Conceptualization · Extant taxon · Food allergy · Food intolerance · Identity (music) · Narrative · Relation (database) · Sociology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Immunology · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology

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