Stress Knocks Hard on Your Immune System
Asthma and the Discourse on Stress
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2151591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Betsy Pohlman (Institute on Aging, corresponding author), Gay Becker (University of California, San Francisco) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-295 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740600860063 |
| PMID | 16895829 |
| OpenAlex | W2002790678 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
Stress has been described by anthropologists and other scholars as a problematic concept, a discourse, a modern metaphor, a collective representation, and a cultural resource. The vast array of academic work in the arena of stress research belies the historical reality of stress as an object of inquiry; rather, stress is presented as new, the story of its emergence intermingled with processes of industrialization, individualism, and perceptions of modern life. This article traces the uses to which the concept of stress is put in the illness narratives of persons with asthma. It argues that multiple invocations of stress not only make visible the workings of personal responsibility and individualism regarding chronic illness management in the contemporary United States but also gesture toward the social relations of sickness that lie beyond individual control
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Individualism · Linguistics · Metaphor · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Stress (linguistics · Asthma and respiratory diseases · Gender Studies · Health, psychology, and well-being · Law · Obesity and Health Practices · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The global burden of asthma
Psyche, soma, and society
When rational men fall sick
Positivism and interpretation in sociology
Putting Stress in Life
The discourse on stress and the reproduction of conventional knowledge
Asthma, Wheezing, and Allergies in Russian Schoolchildren in Relation to New Surface Materials in the Home
Community Violence and Asthma Morbidity
Experimentally induced emotions, facial muscle activity, and respiratory resistance in asthmatic and non‐asthmatic individuals
Discourse, Ideology, Discourse, Ideology, Discourse, Ideology
The Harmony of Illusions
The dilemma of seeking urgent care
On the nature of social stress
Situating Stress
Mechanism and Morality in Patients' Views of Illness and Injury
Breathless in Houston
Sweet blood and social suffering
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |