Notions of Child Health
Mothers' Accounts of Health in Their Young Babies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2248408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonja Olin Lauritzen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 436-456 |
| Publication date | 1997-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1997.tb00412.x |
| OpenAlex | W1972527857 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper is concerned with mothers’ understandings of child health in their young babies. To explore how child health is depicted, explained and contextualised by mothers, altogether 29 mothers in Stockholm and London were interviewed through the baby's first months about day‐to‐day experiences of the baby's health and well‐being. The analysis of the mothers’ accounts reveals how the mothers, in the process of assessing health, try to ‘read’ the bodily signs and reactions in their babies. Some major themes emerge on how the mothers identify and characterise threats to the health of the baby; here described as threats of abnormalities, threats to the survival of the baby, threats to the thriving of the baby and threats from illnesses. Notions of child health are discussed in relation to the ‘bodily’ and the ‘social’, and how the embodied images of child health are intertwined with the mothers’ presentations of themselves as responsible for the health of their children and as ‘worthy’ parents
Child health · Developmental psychology · Embodied cognition · Health care · Political science · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Thriving · Child and Adolescent Health · Children's Rights and Participation · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Pediatrics
Babies’ engagements with everyday things
Making sense of health in PE
‘The best thing for the baby’
Risk as a relational phenomenon
Inter-embodied parental vigilance; the case of child food allergy
Attitudes to weight and weight management in the early teenage years
It's a Terrible Thing When Your Children Are Sick
Precious, Pure, Uncivilised, Vulnerable
Infant embodiment and interembodiment
Optimizing” Health in the Time of Covid-19
Mothers’ accounts of healthcare encounters
La reconstrucción del sentido en madres de niños con una enfermedad degenerativa
Organizing allergy and being a `good' parent
Becoming a diagnostic agent
Lay voices on allergic conditions in children
Give My Child a Label
Leaps of Faith' and MMR
Constructing health and sickness in the context of motherhood and paid work
Parents' constructions of normality and pathology in child mental health assessments
Normality, risk and the future
Health and Lifestyles
Worlds of Illness
Doing Feminist Research
InterViews
The Body and Social Theory
The child as project and the child as being
Concepts of illness causation and responsibility
The causes of disease
Making Sense of illness
Concepts of Health
Politics in a Neighbourhood of Guatemala City
Accounts of health and illness
The Division of Labour in Early Child Care-Mothers and Others
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2023 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |