Digesting Stigma: Exploring the Illness Experience of New Zealanders with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (‘It’s just shitty’)

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Digesting Stigma: Exploring the Illness Experience of New Zealanders with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (‘It’s just shitty’)

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This thesis is an anthropological exploration of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and the first ethnographic study of people with IBS in New Zealand. It explores the illness experience of people with IBS and whether stigma plays a role within this experience. IBS is a gastrointestinal illness that affects 10-20% of New Zealand’s population. However, its aetiology is unknown, there is no cure, and the biomedical approach that informs its diagnosis and treatment is often incongruous with its liv...

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23 Nov, 2021

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Cunningham-Pow, Bryony

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Stigma / Illness experience / Irritable Bowel Syndrome / School: School of Social and Cultural Studies / 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified / 200206 Globalisation and Culture / 200204 Cultural Theory / Degree Discipline: Cultural Anthropology / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Arts / Cultural Theory / Globalisation and Culture / Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified

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