Department of Communication, Purdue University, Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education, Room 2114, 100 N.University St., West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098, USA.
Qual Health Res. 2010 Jun;20(6):845-58. doi: 10.1177/1049732310362400. Epub 2010 Feb 24.
Against the backdrop of contesting the mainstream biomedical models of health communication, the culture-centered approach suggests dialogic research methodologies to coconstruct meanings of health through direct engagement with cultural communities. In this project, we engaged in in-depth interviews and informal conversations with elderly Druze women and their caregiver daughters to develop an understanding of the intersections of religion and health meanings in the context of aging women in this Lebanese community. Attending to the cultural constructions of health, particularly in religious contexts, opens up the discursive spaces of health communication to alternative cosmologies of health, illness, healing, and curing. Four themes emerged as a result of our grounded theory analysis: health as faith; mistrust, privacy, and modern medicine; polymorphic health experiences; and health as structure. These themes serve as the backdrop for playing out the competing tensions between the local and the global in the realm of interpretations of health meanings.
在对主流的健康传播生物医学模式提出质疑的背景下，以文化为中心的方法通过与文化社区的直接互动，提出了对话研究方法来共同构建健康的意义。在这个项目中，我们与老年德鲁兹妇女及其照顾女儿进行了深入的访谈和非正式的对话，以了解在这个黎巴嫩社区中，宗教和健康意义的交集在老年妇女的背景下是如何体现的。关注健康的文化构建，特别是在宗教背景下，为健康传播的话语空间开辟了通往健康、疾病、治疗和治愈的替代宇宙论的道路。我们的扎根理论分析产生了四个主题：健康即信仰；不信任、隐私和现代医学；多态的健康体验；以及健康即结构。这些主题为在健康意义的解释领域中，发挥出本地与全球之间相互竞争的紧张关系提供了背景。
