​​Irritating Bowels​: Attention and Everyday Management of Gut Trouble in Denmark

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) constitutes an irritating and embarrassing problem for an estimated 11–16% of the Danish population. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how young and middle-aged people diagnosed with IBS attend to, experience, and manage gut trouble in a...

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Main Author: Camilla Brændstrup Laursen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2023-04-01
Series:Medicine Anthropology Theory
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Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/6998