矛盾的猜测：在英国利用 Facebook 支持小组学会与巴雷特食道癌共存。

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2376004

Elspeth Davies

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摘要

通过对 Facebook 支持小组的实地调查，我在本文中探讨了现在的患者是如何学会与巴雷特食管--一种食管癌的危险状态或 "癌前病变"--共处的。这一诊断为我们带来了面对和避免癌症的可能性。成员们绝非被动的接受者，而是努力突出对 "希望的未来 "的推测，在这种推测中，及时的监测成功地预防了癌症死亡，将癌症风险转化为希望的契机。这里的推测是一个矛盾和积极的过程，不仅涉及 "观察潜在性"，还涉及对理想和不理想潜在性的开放和取缔。

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Ambivalent Speculations: Learning to Live with Barrett's Esophagus in the UK Using Facebook Support Groups.

Drawing on fieldwork in Facebook support groups, in this article I explore how people, now patients, learnt to live with Barrett's esophagus, a risk state or "precancer" for a type of esophageal cancer. This diagnosis brought the possibility of both facing and averting cancerous futures into the present. Far from passive recipients, members worked to foreground speculations of "wanted futures" in which prompt surveillance successfully prevented cancer deaths, transforming cancer risk into an opportunity for hope. Speculation here was an ambivalent and active process, involving not only the "observation of potentiality," but the opening up and foreclosing of both desirable and undesirable potentialities.

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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.