Colonising the future
Temporal Perceptions and Health-Relevant Behaviours Across the Adult Lifecourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2248656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Lawton (0000-0002-8016-7374, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 714-733 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| 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 | 10.1111/1467-9566.00315 |
| OpenAlex | W2074363865 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 61 |
Health promotion is premised upon a proactive approach to health and its management, one that requires a future-orientated outlook, in which the threats of (future) ill-health can be anticipated and thereby mitigated. Despite this, little is known about the extent to which concerns about morbidity and mortality actually feature in people's present and future perceptions of self, and whether such perceptions have any influence upon their present health-relevant behaviours. By drawing upon interviews with 55 people aged 26-81, this article highlights the central role that embodiment plays in the mediation of health promotion messages. The embodied experience of ill-health, it will be shown, is an important, underlying prerequisite for perceiving a future in which (further) ill-health is anticipated. This pivotal finding will be used to illuminate the observation that, when lifestyles are changed to concur with professional recommendations, these changes tend to be reactive in nature
Embodied cognition · Health promotion · Mediation · Perception · Public health · Social science · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Health disparities and outcomes · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
Engaging with the discourse on lifestyle modifications
Experiences of living with, managing, and preventing reoccurrence of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Everything is okay’
To be seen, confirmed and involved - a ten year follow-up of perceived health and cardiovascular risk factors in a Swedish community intervention programme
Health logic and health-related behaviours
Health-related lifestyle advice
Quand le passé n’est pas garant de l’avenir
Social Class and Ageing Bodies
Food and Eating Practices During the Transition from Secondary School to New Social Contexts
Exploring the limitations of an adult-led agenda for understanding the health behaviours of young people
The Singaporean foodscape - Convenience, choice, entertainment, and sociality for young workers
The influence of social processes on the timing of cancer diagnosis
Planning for end of life care within lay-led chronic illness self-management training
Patients projetés et patients en pratique dans un dispositif de suivi à distance
Hospitalization for Type 2 Diabetes
Making sense of eating, weight and risk in the early teenage years
Lay perceptions of type 2 diabetes in Scotland
Experience of health changes and reasons for delay in seeking care
Temporally divergent significant meanings, biographical disruption and self-management for chronic joint pain
The Subject of Functional Foods
Making sense of drinking
Overcoming stigma
Am I in 'Suboptimal Health
What help can you get talking to somebody?' Explaining class differences in the use of talking treatments
Fatalism and short-termism as cultural barriers to cardiac rehabilitation among underprivileged men
Lay experiences of health and illness
Risk Society
Hardship and health in women's lives
Health and Lifestyles
Unbearable Weight
The Imperative of Health
“The Ages of Me”
The Black report on socioeconomic inequalities in health 10 years on.
Fear of victimization and health
Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems
Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis
Material Discourses of Health and Illness
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care
Consumerism, commodity culture and health promotion
The importance of lay theorising for health promotion research and practice
The Body and Social Theory
The Dying Process
Assessing Future Possible Selves by Gender and Socioeconomic Status Using the Anticipated Life History Measure
Lifecourse and lifestyle
Comparison of Traffic Accident and Chronic Disease Risk Perceptions
Older people's attitudes towards death in England
Death Anxiety in Older Adults
The sociology of chronic illness
Death Attitudes across the Life-Span
The Effect of Bereavement upon Death-Related Attitudes and Fears
Perceptions of Time Remaining and Distance from Death
I Don't Feel Old’
The Vicissitudes of Embodiment Across the Chronic Illness Trajectory
Risk society
Health as moral performance
Self-care components of lifestyles
Male Bodies
Health and subjectivity
Ageing and the Limiting Conditions of the Body
Gender and Health
Taboos and excesses
Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox
Chronic illness as biographical disruption
Theorising class, health and lifestyles
Style of life and the salience of health
Loss of self
Looking good, feeling good
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |