Understanding Gut Sensations: Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diagnostic Fluidity in Danish Clinical Practice.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Epub Date: 2023-09-08 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2023.2248354

Camilla Brændstrup Laursen, Rikke Sand Andersen, Marie Louise Tørring

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Abstract

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prevalent health challenge in a Danish welfare context. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two Danish gastroenterology clinics, and inspired by Charles E. Rosenberg's idea of styles of explaining widespread diseases, we outline three styles of understanding and treating gut trouble in daily clinical work: "The microbial gut," "the mindful gut," and "the lifestyled gut." Moreover, we suggest the concept of fluidity to characterize IBS as a diagnostic category that allows clinicians and patients to operate through complex understandings of permeable boundaries between body, mind, and environment to negotiate personalized solutions for embodied gut sensations.

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了解肠道感觉：丹麦临床实践中的肠易激综合征和诊断流畅性。

肠易激综合征（IBS）是丹麦福利环境中普遍存在的健康问题。根据在丹麦两家肠胃病诊所进行的人种学实地调查，并受查尔斯-E-罗森伯格（Charles E. Rosenberg）关于解释普遍疾病的风格的思想启发，我们概述了在日常临床工作中理解和治疗肠道疾病的三种风格："微生物肠道"、"有思想的肠道 "和 "生活化的肠道"。此外，我们还提出了 "流动性 "的概念，将肠易激综合征描述为一种诊断类别，使临床医生和患者能够通过对身体、心灵和环境之间可渗透界限的复杂理解，协商个性化的肠道感觉解决方案。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.