Men, chronic illness and health work: accounts from male partners of women with endometriosis

dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NCen
dc.contributor.authorHudson, Nicky
dc.contributor.authorLaw, Caroline
dc.contributor.authorCulley, Lorraine
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, H.
dc.contributor.authorDenny, E.
dc.contributor.authorNorton, Wendy
dc.contributor.authorRaine-Fenning, N.
dc.date.acceptance2020-05-12
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-02T10:38:18Z
dc.date.available2020-07-02T10:38:18Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-26
dc.descriptionopen access articleen
dc.description.abstractCurrently dominant in medical discourse, the concept of self‐management sees the responsibility for health and illness shift from the state to the individual. However, while this emphasis on individual responsibility and management has burgeoned, the role and status of partners and other family members in the management of chronic illness remains under‐theorised. While self‐management privileges individual responsibility for the management of chronic illness, the role of partners remains unclear. This paper utilises data from a study of heterosexual couples’ experiences of living with the chronic gynaecological condition endometriosis to explore how male partners engage in its day‐to‐day management. In all, 22 couples participated in in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with each partner interviewed separately (n = 44). Data were analysed thematically and dyadically, informed by an interpretivist relational approach. The paper utilises the concept of healthwork to describe the illness work, everyday life work, biographical work and emotion work men engaged in. The paper demonstrates how the conceptual value of healthwork is enhanced by incorporating an analysis of the emotional effort required in managing chronic illness. The paper illustrates the value of investigating the role of partners in managing chronic illness to provide a fuller account of the distributed and relational nature of healthwork.en
dc.funderESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)en
dc.identifier.citationHudson, N., Law, C., Culley, L., Mitchell, H., Denny, E., Norton, W., Raine-Fenning, N. (2020) Men, chronic illness and health work: accounts from male partners of women with endometriosis. Sociology of Health and Illness,en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13144
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19910
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidES/J003662/1en
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.researchinstituteCentre for Reproduction Research (CRR)en
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectIntimate relationshipsen
dc.subjectLong term conditionsen
dc.subjectSelf-managementen
dc.subjectCareen
dc.titleMen, chronic illness and health work: accounts from male partners of women with endometriosisen
dc.typeArticleen

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