2019 - Franco Angeli
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Chronic illness and the ideology of the individual : towards a critique of the concept of agency
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- The author analyses how the concept of agency may enhance some forms of social normativity and encourage a type of individual among children and adults. The article questions these characteristics, examines how far they are socially prescribed, and shows how they constitute a touchstone of the passage into adulthood. By the preliminary findings of a research on age transition of adolescents suffering Type 1 diabetes in France, the author questions the social ideal of managing and optimizing one's capacities, projecting oneself over time, being flexible and breaking the ties of dependence, and underlines how these social exhortations can bring new forms of determinism and disempowerment. [Publisher's text].
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Salute e società : XVIII, 3, 2019-
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ISSN: 1972-4845
KEYWORDS
- Body, Age transition, Youth, Diabetes, Empowerment-Disempowerment, Subject
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In this issue
- Introduction
- Rethinking agency through children's experiences of chronic illness : when being an actor also means not participating
- Daily disruption and learning : comparing two activities for children and adolescents with diabetes
- Chronic illness and the ideology of the individual : towards a critique of the concept of agency
- Rethinking relationships among generations : active listening and children's participation in therapeutic relationships
- Youth and chronic illness : thinking age and health care trajectories among asthmatic patients
- Children living in families with cancer; the interplay between children's agency and family biographical disruptions
- Ethics and research : methodological issues in health research with children
- Being a girl with a rare disease : an anthropological investigation on Turner Syndrome
- Agency or disempowerment : children with learning disorders in France
- Illness Stories in Children's and Young Adults' Literature : Reflections on the Representation of the Concepts of Competency and Agency
- Pubblicità televisiva e scelte alimentari dei bambini
- Solitudine : malattia emergente del XXI secolo
- Comunità innovative di pratiche online come strumento di attivazione di salute : il caso Diastasi Italia