Understanding Gut Sensations

Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diagnostic Fluidity in Danish Clinical Practice

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4564337
AutoresCamilla Brændstrup Laursen (0000-0002-7089-2310, Department of Research and Development, The Prehospital Emergency Medical Services, Central Denmark Region Aarhus, Denmark, autor correspondente), Rikke Sand Andersen (0000-0003-2450-5866, Department of Public Health, Family Medicine, University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark), Marie Louise Tørring (0000-0003-0665-2993, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark)
Ano2024
Volume43
Fascículo2
Páginas174-187
Data de publicação2024-02-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2023.2248354
PMID37682635
OpenAlexW4386563686
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas47

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prevalent health challenge in a Danish welfare context. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two Danish gastroenterology clinics, and inspired by Charles E. Rosenberg's idea of styles of explaining widespread diseases, we outline three styles of understanding and treating gut trouble in daily clinical work: "The microbial gut," "the mindful gut," and "the lifestyled gut." Moreover, we suggest the concept of fluidity to characterize IBS as a diagnostic category that allows clinicians and patients to operate through complex understandings of permeable boundaries between body, mind, and environment to negotiate personalized solutions for embodied gut sensations

Clinical Practice · Danish · Family medicine · Irritable bowel syndrome · Psychiatry · Gastrointestinal motility and disorders · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Whipple's Disease and Interleukins