Book chapter
Asthma, Culture, and Cultural Analysis: Continuing Challenges
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, pp 321-332
01 Jan 2014
PMID: 24162918
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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.
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- Title
- Asthma, Culture, and Cultural Analysis: Continuing Challenges
- Creators
- Mike Fortun - Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteKim Fortun - Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBrandon Costelloe-Kuehn - Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTahereh Saheb - Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDaniel Price - University of HoustonAlison Kenner - Drexel UniversityJerome Crowder - The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- Contributors
- A R Brasier (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, pp 321-332
- Series
- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
- Publisher
- Springer Nature; BERLIN
- Number of pages
- 12
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000332364000023
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84934435104
- Other Identifier
- 991019169519904721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Allergy
- Biology
- Medicine, Research & Experimental
- Respiratory System