TY - CHAP
T1 - Asthma, culture, and cultural analysis
T2 - Continuing challenges
AU - Fortun, Mike
AU - Fortun, Kim
AU - Costelloe-Kuehn, Brandon
AU - Saheb, Tahereh
AU - Price, Daniel
AU - Kenner, Alison
AU - Crowder, Jerome
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Anthropology of science
KW - Compliance and cultural competency
KW - Cultural frames
KW - Environmental health
KW - Explanatory pluralism
KW - Qualitative methods
KW - Transdisciplinarity
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-8603-9_20
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-8603-9_20
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 24162918
AN - SCOPUS:84934435104
SN - 9781461486022
T3 - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SP - 321
EP - 332
BT - Heterogeneity in Asthma
PB - Springer New York LLC
ER -