The Body Projects of University Students With Type 1 Diabetes
The Body Projects of University Students With Type 1 Diabetes
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DOI：
10.1177/1049732308328052
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Balfe, Myles
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作者：
Balfe, Myles
患有 1 型糖尿病的年轻人是一个“被遗忘的群体”。研究很少涉及他们的观点，这意味着我们对他们参与（或不参与）糖尿病自我护理实践的原因知之甚少。对这些年轻人观点进行调查的有限工作表明，他们在健康与正常之间经历着紧张。在本文中，我从患有糖尿病的特定年轻人群体（大学生）的角度审视了这种紧张局势。我研究了正常对这些学生意味着什么，以及他们尝试正常对糖尿病控制有何影响。我认为这些学生的常态是通过身体构建和维持的。受访者试图通过参与先令所说的“身体项目”来保持正常。学生参与开发的每个身体项目都旨在产生一种不受糖尿病影响的特定类型的正常体现身份。不幸的是，特定身体项目的宪法实践往往会损害其他项目的宪法实践，并且可能对学生的糖尿病控制带来风险。因此，学生必须在不同的身体项目之间达到平衡。本文有助于解决对年轻糖尿病患者观点研究的缺乏，并有助于身体项目概念的理论研究。
Young adults with type 1 diabetes are a "forgotten group." Their perspectives are rarely addressed by research studies, meaning that we know little about the reasons why they engage (or not) in diabetes self-care practices. The limited work that has investigated these young people's perspectives suggests that they experience a tension between being healthy and being normal. In this article, I examine this tension from the viewpoints of a particular group of young adults with diabetes: university students. I examine what being normal means for these students and how their attempts to be normal impact upon their diabetes control. I argue that normalcy for these students is constructed and maintained through the body. Respondents attempt to be normal by engaging in what Shilling refers to as "body projects." Each of the body projects that students are involved in developing is intended to produce a particular kind of normal embodied identity that is unaffected by diabetes. Unfortunately, the constitutional practices of particular body projects often undermine those of others, and can be risky for students' diabetes control. As such, students have to reach a balance between their different body projects. This article helps to address the lack of research on the perspectives of young adults with diabetes, and contributes to theoretical research on the concept of body projects.