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标题：Am I fine?
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作者：Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen ; Mette Bech Risør ; Peter Vedsted 等
期刊名称：Medicine Anthropology Theory
电子版ISSN：2405-691X
出版年度：2020
卷号：3
期号：3
DOI：10.17157/mat.3.3.392
语种：English
出版社：University of Edinburgh Library
摘要：Woven into the fabric of human existence is the possibility of death and suffering from disease. This essential vulnerability calls forth processes of meaning making, of grappling with uncertainty and morality. In this article we explore the uncertainty and ambiguity that exists in the space between bodily sensations and symptoms of illness. Bodily sensations have the potential to become symptoms of disease or to be absorbed into ordinariness, prompting the question: how do we ascribe meaning to sensations? In the context of middle-class everyday life in Denmark, we show how different potentialities of ambiguous sensations are weighed against each other on a culturally and morally contingent continuum between normal and not normal, uncovering the complex interplay between the body, everyday life, and pervasive biomedical discourses focusing on health promotion, symptom awareness, and care seeking.