Nerves as Status and Nerves as Stigma: Idioms of Distress and Social Action in Newfoundland and Northern Norway
The nature of the cross-culturally occurring folk or popular complaint of nerves as a form of psychosomatic illness and idiom of distress has been speculated on by a wide variety of scholars. Much of the research seeks to identify common symptomatologies with universal, diagnostic equivalents and/or...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/104973239700700304 2023-05-15T17:21:08+02:00 Nerves as Status and Nerves as Stigma: Idioms of Distress and Social Action in Newfoundland and Northern Norway Davis, Dona Lee Joakimsen, Lisa Moe 1997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104973239700700304 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/104973239700700304 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Qualitative Health Research volume 7, issue 3, page 370-390 ISSN 1049-7323 1552-7557 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journal-article 1997 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/104973239700700304 2022-04-14T04:38:38Z The nature of the cross-culturally occurring folk or popular complaint of nerves as a form of psychosomatic illness and idiom of distress has been speculated on by a wide variety of scholars. Much of the research seeks to identify common symptomatologies with universal, diagnostic equivalents and/or seeks to expand on the more distinctive metaphorical qualities of nerves as an idiom of distress. Comparison and contrast of anthropological studies of two fishing villages (one in Newfoundland and one in Northern Norway) shows how, despite similarities in symptomatologies and metaphorical qualities of nerves in each community, the local sociocultural context can shape and reflect social action in ways that affect the experience of nerves and the consequences for those who suffer from them in a significantly different fashion. Contrary to the universalist perspective, we conclude that a person's experience of nerves cannot be abstracted from the local sociocultural context. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Northern Norway SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Norway Qualitative Health Research 7 3 370 390 |
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The nature of the cross-culturally occurring folk or popular complaint of nerves as a form of psychosomatic illness and idiom of distress has been speculated on by a wide variety of scholars. Much of the research seeks to identify common symptomatologies with universal, diagnostic equivalents and/or seeks to expand on the more distinctive metaphorical qualities of nerves as an idiom of distress. Comparison and contrast of anthropological studies of two fishing villages (one in Newfoundland and one in Northern Norway) shows how, despite similarities in symptomatologies and metaphorical qualities of nerves in each community, the local sociocultural context can shape and reflect social action in ways that affect the experience of nerves and the consequences for those who suffer from them in a significantly different fashion. Contrary to the universalist perspective, we conclude that a person's experience of nerves cannot be abstracted from the local sociocultural context. |
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Nerves as Status and Nerves as Stigma: Idioms of Distress and Social Action in Newfoundland and Northern Norway |
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Nerves as Status and Nerves as Stigma: Idioms of Distress and Social Action in Newfoundland and Northern Norway |
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Nerves as Status and Nerves as Stigma: Idioms of Distress and Social Action in Newfoundland and Northern Norway |
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Nerves as Status and Nerves as Stigma: Idioms of Distress and Social Action in Newfoundland and Northern Norway |
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Nerves as Status and Nerves as Stigma: Idioms of Distress and Social Action in Newfoundland and Northern Norway |
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nerves as status and nerves as stigma: idioms of distress and social action in newfoundland and northern norway |
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