Stjerna Marie-Louise, Brady Geraldine
Department of Special Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Social Work, Care and Community, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Front Sociol. 2023 Jul 27;8:1213769. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1213769. eCollection 2023.
There is developing interest in issues of embodiment in studies of children, health and illness. We take our point of departure in the parent-child-health/illness triad to explore the embodied aspects of parental vigilance in parenting children who have a food allergy, utilizing the concept of inter-embodiment. Drawing on a focus group study with parents in Sweden the analysis reveals that this vigilance can be seen as the embodied manifestation of concern for children's bodies in perpetual liminality, when constantly exposed to allergens and the risk of becoming ill. We argue that the lens of inter-embodiment, with a focus on bodies in relation, captures how parents lived experience of managing food allergy intertwines with that of their children in the parent-child-health/illness triad. The analysis uncovers a form of embodied knowledge that is often not verbalized, offering potential for new understandings of parent-child relations that center on chronic child health conditions.
在关于儿童、健康与疾病的研究中，人们对体现性问题的兴趣与日俱增。我们以亲子健康/疾病三元组为出发点，运用相互体现的概念，探讨在养育患有食物过敏症儿童时父母警惕性的体现方面。基于对瑞典父母的焦点小组研究，分析表明，当孩子不断接触过敏原和患病风险，处于一种永恒的临界状态时，这种警惕性可被视为对孩子身体关切的体现。我们认为，相互体现的视角，聚焦于相互关联的身体，捕捉到了在亲子健康/疾病三元组中，父母管理食物过敏的生活体验与孩子的体验是如何交织在一起的。该分析揭示了一种常常未被言语化的体现性知识形式，为以儿童慢性健康状况为中心的亲子关系新理解提供了可能。
