Diabetes at Home
Diabetes at Home
Explanatory Models in Everyday Practice
This chapter uses interview data collected from Japanese patients, members of the general public, and health care providers to examine personal explanatory models and illness narratives surrounding type 2 diabetes. Participants articulated a model of health that revolves around the idea of an “ordered” life. In particular, order comes from careful adherence to a classification of time and relies on a clear division of domestic labor. Having a “rhythm” to one’s life, and observing regular, unchanging hours for core activities like waking, eating, and bathing were identified as key to a healthy life. But the responsibility for this temporal maintenance falls largely on women: women work to organize the time of loved ones into a healthy, regular rhythm. Men without mothers, wives, sisters, or daughters to take care of them are thus thought to be particularly at risk of illness.
Keywords: Explanatory models, Temporal management, Gender, Daily practices, Philosophy of health
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