Seeking help for atrial fibrillation
The Role of the Body in Distributed Decision Making
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| ID | 4589593 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Meredith K D Hawking (0000-0003-1519-2458, Queen Mary University of London, autor correspondente), Deborah Swinglehurst (0000-0003-1261-9268, Queen Mary University of London) |
| Ano | 2024 |
| Volume | 350 |
| Páginas | 116944 |
| Data de publicação | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Editora | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116944 |
| PMID | 38728979 |
| OpenAlex | W4396661562 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 30 |
We adopt Rapley's (2008) concept of distributed decision making to explore the role of the body in people's decisions to seek medical care. We conducted in-depth interviews with patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF) who were taking long-term anticoagulants to prevent stroke. We interviewed seventeen patients recruited from English anticoagulant clinics using the biographic-narrative-interpretive method, and conducted thematic, structural and metaphorical analyses. This pluralistic analysis focused on how distributed decision-making was enacted through a range of socio-material, relational and embodied practices. Participants told how they experienced AF-related sensations that fluctuated in intensity and form. Some had no symptoms at all; others experienced sudden incapacitation - these experiences shaped different journeys towards seeking medical help. We draw on work by Mol (2002) to show how the body was differently observed, experienced and done across contexts as the narratives unfolded. We show that as part of a relational assemblage, involving social, material and technological actors over time, a new body-in-need-of-help was enacted and medical help sought. This body-in-need-of-help was collectively discussed, interpreted and experienced through distribution of body parts, fluids and technological representations to shape decisions. RAPLEY T., 2008. Distributed decision making: the anatomy of decisions-in-action. Sociology of Health & Illness, 30, 429-444. MOL A., 2002. The body multiple: ontology in medical practice. Duke University Press: Durham
Atrial fibrillation · Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes · Medicine · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Internal Medicine
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