20. Women, Chronic Illness, and Rural Australia: Exploring the Intersections between Space, Identity, and the Body

2012 ◽  
pp. 385-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Pini ◽  
Karen Soldatic
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rural Australia

scholarly journals Removing Trigger Point and Balancing Metabolic Reactions Are the Keys to Fatigue, Nerve Pain, Chronic Illness, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s Diseases, Vestibular Disorder, and Neurodegenerative Diseases

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽  
Blood Circulation ◽  
Trigger Point ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vestibular Disorder ◽  
Metabolic Reactions ◽  
Alzheimer’S Diseases

When we talk about the vital role of oxygen, we forget that the vital role of oxygen is to interact with glucose in the cells catalyzed by many enzymes to generate energy. The main source to generate energy in cells is from glucose, enough glucose is as vital as enough oxygen. Poor blood circulation may come from the blocking points in the vessels or from low blood pressure or low blood glucose. In the body, all the billions of cells of all body systems need the energy to have normal functions; which is mainly generated from metabolizing glucose. When the cells hunger for glucose, it can start to use structure stored glucose or stored lipids or polysaccharides or structure lipid or structure protein. To take stored glucose, the body needs good blood circulation and right body temperature. The people with chronic illness often have hormonal imbalanced – which need glucose as the main source of energy also, and poor blood circulation and disorder of thermoregulation. If we do not stop these disorders, these people may have metabolic disorders or metabolic diseases. The main energy source for the cells is from the catabolism of glucose. So any problem for glycemia and oxygen saturation will make the billions of cells of the body are out of balance. During practice Vietnamese Qi gong combining with traditional medicine, the author realizes that in just ten minutes, just by removing trigger point and balancing metabolic reactions, we can deal easily most of the symptoms of fatigue, nerve pain, chronic illness, diabetes, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s diseases, Vestibular disorder, and Neurodegenerative Diseases.

scholarly journals Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body.

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Kelly ◽  
David Field
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Medical Sociology ◽  
The Body

Exploring the Chronic Illness Experience of Rural-Dwelling Latinos of Mexican Origin

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anissa Guzman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Cultural Orientation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
National Statistics

Introduction: Chronic illness is a complex and ever-growing phenomenon that is affecting millions of Americans every day, and it is disproportionately experienced by Latinos of Mexican origin. Method: In this quantitative study, the specific aims were to evaluate perceptions of chronic illness(es), locus of control (health and God), health status, and cultural orientation of rural-dwelling Latinos of Mexican origin in Colorado who have one or more chronic illnesses and to explore the relationships existing between these concepts. Results: A sample of 102 varied from overall national statistics for this population in the United States by gender, mean annual income, and education completed. Conclusion: As Latinos of Mexican origin move toward becoming the largest minority population in the United States, it is important to improve the body of nursing science that targets this population.

On Feminist Temporalities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Critique

This entry inserts feminist critiques of traditions of thinking time and temporality into major strands of philosophy to reveal underlying connections from this critique to themes discussed in materialist and postcolonial philosophy. The Greek contrast between chronos, time as date, and kairos, time as turning point, as transmitted, splits philosophy into physics and ethics, natural philosophy and politics, which for feminist purposes must be reunited around a single account of time, and temporality, history and materiality. Analyses of differential embodiment, pregnancy and sterility, disability and chronic illness, reveals difference where oversimplified phenomenologies of the body seek a single unified body in question. The same holds for time and history, as this account of feminist temporalities seeks to show. A philosophical fixation with death, as opposed to analysing births, helps keep in place a one size fits all approach to bodies, deaths and time, which feminist critique seeks to disrupt.

‘An endless procession of catastrophes’: Reading the War on Terror in Contemporary HIV Life Writing

Somatechnics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-232
Author(s):  
Jonathon Zapasnik
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Western World ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Ghost Dance ◽  
September 11 Terrorist Attacks

This paper examines the shifting paradigms of language used in HIV/AIDS life writing. As a testimonial genre, military metaphors have played a crucial role in mobilising communities and revealing how discourses around chronic illness inscribe themselves on the body. Through a textual analysis of three memoirs, Douglas Wright's Ghost Dance (2004) and Terra Incognito (2006), and David Caron's The Nearness of Others (2014), I argue that these texts represent a shift that instead engage metaphors of terrorism and security to convey meaning of lived experience and negotiate the precariousness of ongoing survival. Simultaneously, Wright and Caron maintain their health through protease inhibitors and reflect on the national anxieties produced by the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States of America. Both writers draw on the language of terrorism, especially the images taken from the Abu Ghraib prison, to inform their own experiences as HIV-positive white, middle-upper class, gay men. The significance of these metaphors can be found in their individual struggles with depression. What this paper contributes to is an understanding of what it means to think about HIV after the pharmaceutical turn when HIV is no longer considered a death sentence in the Western world, how discourses of terror inform public and personal understandings of chronic illness and mental health, and how embodied experience informs autobiographical modes of expression, and vice versa.

Two Decades of Insider Research: What We Know and Don’t Know About Chronic Illness Experience

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
SALLY E. THORNE ◽  
BARBARA L. PATERSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Body ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Insider Research

Chronic illness in a general sense and certain chronic diseases in particular have attracted considerable attention from qualitative researchers in nursing as well as in other health and social sciences. This review critically examines the body of available research about the experience of living with a chronic illness from an “insider” perspective. From this foundation the authors interpret the manner in which this large body of writing both contributes to and complicates our theoretical understanding of what it is like to live with a chronic disease. In so doing they illuminate themes within the knowledge that can be gleaned from qualitative inquiry into the chronic illness experience, as well as inherent limitations that roust be taken into consideration when applying such knowledge to practice.

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