‘Doing’ Hypertension: Experiential Knowledge and Practice in the Self-Management of ‘High Blood’ in the Philippines

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lasco, Gideon, Renedo, Alicia, Mendoza, Jhaki A., Seguin, Maureen L, Palafox, Benjamin, Palileo-Villanueva, Lia M, Balabanova, Dina, McKee, Martin
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• الموضوعات: disease ontology; embodiment; hypertension; medical sociology; patient experiential knowledge; symptom; Medicine and Health; Medicine and Health Sciences; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/114; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/article/1114/viewcontent/Sociology_Health___Illness___2022___Lasco___Doing__hypertension__Experiential_knowledge_and_practice_in_the_self_management.pdf

Patients’ embodied experiences do not always correspond to the biomedical concepts of particular diseases. Drawing from year-long fieldwork in the Philippines that involved semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and digital diaries, we examine how individuals ‘do’ hypertension through t...