Ahalya Ganesh
Biographic Data
| ID | 362626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahalya Ganesh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahalya |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganesh |
| SIGNATURE | GANESH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gender Studies Faculty of Social Sciences Tampere University Tampere Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9430-6147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tenderness (central), sensitivity and/or distress: Tracing gendered enactments of fibromyalgia in medical research
Despite being unrelated to feminized organs or bodily processes, the contested condition called fibromyalgia is said to be overwhelmingly feminized and diagnosed predominantly in (assumed-) women. Few social scientific studies have explored the reasons or pathways for fibromyalgia’s genderedness. In this article, I analyze medical scholarship on fibromyalgia over five decades to trace how it is gendered in this body of knowledge and how this gend…
Gendering Chronic Illness in Patient Advocacy
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity
Multimorbidity, meaning multiple long-term conditions impacting a person's health, has become a rising societal and public health issue. The article contributes to the sociological study of chronic illness and multimorbidity by analysing how the blurriness of illnesses and entanglement of symptoms in multimorbidity is experienced and negotiated by people with coexisting chronic conditions. Drawing on qualitative interviews with people who live wi…
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity
Multimorbidity, meaning multiple long-term conditions impacting a person's health, has become a rising societal and public health issue. The article contributes to the sociological study of chronic illness and multimorbidity by analysing how the blurriness of illnesses and entanglement of symptoms in multimorbidity is experienced and negotiated by people with coexisting chronic conditions. Drawing on qualitative interviews with people who live wi…
Gendering Chronic Illness in Patient Advocacy
Gendering Chronic Illness in Patient Advocacy
Entangled Illnesses: Embodied Experiences of Managing Multimorbidity
Multimorbidity, meaning multiple long-term conditions impacting a person's health, has become a rising societal and public health issue. The article contributes to the sociological study of chronic illness and multimorbidity by analysing how the blurriness of illnesses and entanglement of symptoms in multimorbidity is experienced and negotiated by people with coexisting chronic conditions. Drawing on qualitative interviews with people who live wi…
Tenderness (central), sensitivity and/or distress: Tracing gendered enactments of fibromyalgia in medical research
Despite being unrelated to feminized organs or bodily processes, the contested condition called fibromyalgia is said to be overwhelmingly feminized and diagnosed predominantly in (assumed-) women. Few social scientific studies have explored the reasons or pathways for fibromyalgia’s genderedness. In this article, I analyze medical scholarship on fibromyalgia over five decades to trace how it is gendered in this body of knowledge and how this gend…
Fibromyalgia (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Athletes (1 works) · Biomedicine (1 works) · Chronic disease (1 works) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (1 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works)