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Interembodiment, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Health

Bunkley, Emma Nelson·2022·Medical Anthropology Quarterly
DOI 10.1111/maq.12689
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This article introduces the concept of interembodiment, animated bodily entanglements between people, to illustrate the shared sense of illness that transgresses discrete biological bodies. Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in Senegal, West Africa, this article expands common understandings of inheritance and intergenerational health by exploring how women caring for others with metabolic disorders come to interembody the afflicted's symptoms, regardless of their own diagnostic status. These experiences trouble the clear distinction between communicability and noncommunicability and disrupt Western understandings of unshared biologies. Through the concept of interembodiment, we can see how noncommunicable diseases come to be communicated. Interembodiment helps explain aspects of intergenerational health between mothers and daughters and allows for broader understandings that encompass multiple biologies. Shifting the focus of health and illness from the individual to multiple interembodied biologies allows for a more nuanced understanding of disease and disease transmission, which could enable global health and public health programs to better address noncommunicable diseases around the world.

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  1. Farquhar J., 2007, Introduction from Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
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Authors
Bunkley, E. N.
Affiliations
University of Colorado Denver (US)
Corresponding author
Bunkley, Emma Nelson
ORCID
Bunkley, Emma Nelson
Venue
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2022-02-14
Volume
36
Issue
2
Pages
256-271
ISSN
  • 0745-5194 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-1387
DOI
10.1111/maq.12689
OpenAlex
W4213089831
Cited by
33
References
28
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2
FWCI
6.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Medical Anthropology Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Race, Genetics, and Society
Keywords
heredity (biology), intergenerational health, non-communicable diseases, metabolic disorders, women caregivers, transmissibility, mother and daughter, disease transmission, Senegal
MeSH terms
Noncommunicable Diseases, Anthropology, Cultural, Female, Humans, Mothers, Nuclear Family, Anthropology, Medical

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