My health, my responsibility? Complementary medicine and self (health) care

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ID2399147
AutoresAlex Broom (0000-0003-1258-1140, The University of Queensland), Nicole Cort (0000-0001-8434-5994, The University of Queensland), Carla Meurk (0000-0002-5792-5229, The University of Queensland), Jon Adams (0000-0002-9901-5717, University of Technology Sydney), David Sibbritt (0000-0003-3561-9447, University of Technology Sydney)
Ano2014
Volume50
Fascículo4
Páginas515-530
Data de publicação2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1440783312467098
OpenAlexW2002050471
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas27

People are increasingly compelled to take responsibility for their health and illness trajectories. The existing literature on what may be termed self-care points to the ways that public health initiatives have instigated the transfer of governance onto the individual through campaigns promoting physical activity and diet among other things. Meanwhile, cultural trends may have been enhanced and/or transformed by the increased prominence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) which often include a focus on self-determination and self-responsibility for achieving health and wellbeing. This article examines women's contemporary self-care practices and the logics underpinning their approaches to health, illness and healing. Our findings show that although these women were often positive about the prospects of being autonomous decision-makers, their search for alternatives and practices of self (health) care can be problematic in certain cases and may be viewed as reproducing neoliberal forms of governance and their derivative inequalities

Corporate governance · Economics · Health care · Management · Moral responsibility · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Underpinning · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing