CHILDREN'S MATTERS: NEGOTIATING ILLNESS IN EVERYDAY INTERACTIONS AT HOME AND SCHOOL IN GHANA
Tesi di Dottorato
Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
CHILDREN'S MATTERS: NEGOTIATING ILLNESS IN EVERYDAY INTERACTIONS AT HOME AND SCHOOL IN GHANA / C. Santah ; supervisors: R. Reis, L. M. Leonini ; co-supervisor: C. Broer, R. Bosisio ; director of doctoral program: M. Barisione. Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche, 2020 Mar 27. 30. ciclo, Anno Accademico 2017. [10.13130/santah-colette_phd2020-03-27].
Abstract:
Focusing on sensations of not feeling well or illness complaints that have not yet been given a diagnosis by a health professional, this research asks how children in an adult-centered and pluralistic context of health care negotiate their illness experiences at home and school. The ways in which children actively construct, frame and deal with their illness, and the role their social position (gender and social class) in the Ghanaian context plays in this process is explored. The research highlights how children intentionally navigate relations and interactions with adults, make use of their social and physical environment to contest, self-diagnose, self-medicate and to deal with their sensations of not feeling well.
Tipologia IRIS:
Tesi di dottorato
Keywords:
Childhood; child-adult relations; medicalization; health; children; illness; agency; generations; Ghana
Elenco autori:
C. Santah
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