“To be healthy to me is to be free”: how discourses of freedom are used to construct healthiness among young South African adults

Purpose: Healthiness is constructed, in Western culture, as a moral ideal or supervalue. This paper will interrogate the assumption that health and the pursuit of healthiness is always and unquestionably positive, by exploring how discourses of health and freedom interact to reinforce the current in...

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Main Authors: Michelle De Jong, Anthony Collins, Simóne Plüg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2019.1603518