Abstract: Recent research indicates that asthma is more complicated than already recognized, requiring a multilateral approach of study in order to better understand its many facets. Apart from being a health problem, asthma is seen as a knowledge problem, and as we argue here, a cultural problem. Employing cultural analysis we outline ways to challenge conventional ideas and practices about asthma by considering how culture shapes asthma experience, diagnosis, management, research, and politics. Finally, we discuss the value of viewing asthma through multiple lenses,· and how such "explanatory pluralism" advances transdisciplinary approaches to asthma.
Source
Fortun, Mike, Kim Fortun, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Tahereh Saheb, Daniel Price, Alison Kenner, and Jerome Crowder. “Asthma, Culture, and Cultural Analysis: Continuing Challenges.” In Heterogeneity in Asthma, edited by Allan R. Brasier, 321–32. New York: Springer, 2013.
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Mike Fortun, Kim Fortun, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Tahereh Saheb, Daniel Price, Alison Kenner and Jerome Crowder, "Asthma, Culture, and Cultural Analysis: Continuing Challenges", contributed by James Adams, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 1 August 2018, accessed 21 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/asthma-culture-and-cultural-analysis-continuing-challenges
Critical Commentary
Abstract: Recent research indicates that asthma is more complicated than already
recognized, requiring a multilateral approach of study in order to better understand its many facets. Apart from being a health problem, asthma is seen as a knowledge problem, and as we argue here, a cultural problem. Employing cultural analysis we outline ways to challenge conventional ideas and practices about asthma by considering how culture shapes asthma experience, diagnosis, management, research, and politics. Finally, we discuss the value of viewing asthma through multiple lenses,· and how such "explanatory pluralism" advances transdisciplinary approaches to asthma.