Illness Narratives of African Americans Living With Coronary Heart Disease
A Critical Interactionist Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4635242 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie Dubbin (0000-0002-7044-5799, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA, corresponding author), M R Mclemore (0000-0001-6539-4256, University of California, San Francisco), Monica Mclemore (University of California, San Francisco, California, USA), Janet K Shim (0000-0002-4597-7961, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 497-508 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732316645319 |
| PMID | 27117961 |
| OpenAlex | W2344281047 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 52 |
How African American men and women respond to and manage living with coronary heart disease (CHD) is not well understood despite the well-documented disproportionate burden of CHD and its complications among African Americans in the United States. Through a critical interactionist perspective, we explore illness experiences of African Americans living with CHD and describe a broad range of micro-, meso-, and macro-contextual factors that influence their illness experiences. For participants in this study, CHD has become a "Black disease" wherein certain bodies have become historically and racially marked; a conceptualization maintained and passed on by African Americans themselves. Such findings highlight that CHD is more than a "lifestyle disease" where high-risk behaviors and lack of healthy choices are ultimate culprits. Rather, CHD is perceived by African Americans who have it as yet another product of ongoing racial and socio-structural dynamics through which their health burdens are created, sustained, and reproduced
African american · Conceptualization · Coronary heart disease · Disease · Pathology · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gerontology
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |