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标题：‘The Good Citizen’
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作者：Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen ; Peter Vedsted ; Rikke Sand Andersen 等
期刊名称：Anthropology in Action
印刷版ISSN：0967-201X
电子版ISSN：1752-2285
出版年度：2017
卷号：24
期号：1
页码：6-12
DOI：10.3167/aia.2017.240102
摘要：A bstract This article explores how healthcare-seeking practices and the transformation of bodily sensations into symptoms are embedded in what we term a ‘moral sensescape’ of everyday life. Based on fieldwork in a suburban middle-class neighbourhood in Denmark, we discuss how a moral relation between the Danish welfare state and the middle-class population is embodied in a responsibility for individual health. Overall, we identify a striving to be a ‘good citizen’; this entails conflicting moral possibilities in relation to experiencing, interpreting and acting on bodily sensations. We examine how people meet the conflicting moral possibilities of complying with current public health rhetoric on proper healthcare seeking, including timely presentation of symptoms, and simultaneously try to avoid misusing the healthcare system and be characterised as overly worried or even as a hypochondriac; this challenge constitutes complex navigational routes through the moral sensescape of the Danish middle class.
关键词：Denmark;healthcare seeking;middle class;morality;sensations;sensescape;symptoms;welfare