TY - JOUR
T1 - Existential vulnerability
T2 - an ethnographic study of everyday lives with diabetes in Vietnam
AU - Gammeltoft, Tine M.
AU - Bui Thi Huyen Dieu, null
AU - Vu Thi Kim Dung, null
AU - Vu Duc Anh, null
AU - Le Minh Hieu, null
AU - Nguyen Thi Ai, null
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article asks: how can the concept of existential vulnerability help us to comprehend the human impact of chronic disease? Across the globe, the prevalence of chronic health conditions is rising dramatically, with wide-ranging consequences for human lives. Taking type II diabetes in northern Vietnam as its ethnographic case, this study explores how chronic health conditions are woven into everyday lives, altering subjectivities and social relations. Applying the notion of existential vulnerability as its analytical prism, the article explores three different dimensions of vulnerability: physical, emotional, and social. The analysis highlights the importance of a focus on social connectedness for comprehending the everyday impact of chronic disease and for the development of health care interventions in this domain.
AB - This article asks: how can the concept of existential vulnerability help us to comprehend the human impact of chronic disease? Across the globe, the prevalence of chronic health conditions is rising dramatically, with wide-ranging consequences for human lives. Taking type II diabetes in northern Vietnam as its ethnographic case, this study explores how chronic health conditions are woven into everyday lives, altering subjectivities and social relations. Applying the notion of existential vulnerability as its analytical prism, the article explores three different dimensions of vulnerability: physical, emotional, and social. The analysis highlights the importance of a focus on social connectedness for comprehending the everyday impact of chronic disease and for the development of health care interventions in this domain.
KW - Chronic disease
KW - diabetes
KW - emotion
KW - existential vulnerability
KW - Vietnam
U2 - 10.1080/13648470.2021.1994334
DO - 10.1080/13648470.2021.1994334
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34844468
VL - 29
SP - 271
EP - 288
JO - Anthropology & Medicine
JF - Anthropology & Medicine
SN - 1364-8470
IS - 3
ER -