Health as Experience: Exploring Health in Daily Life Drawing From theWork of Aaron Antonovsky and John Dewey

摘要

Research has pursued salutogenic and narrative approaches to deal with questionsabout how everyday settings are constitutive for different health practices.Healthy behavior is not a distinguishable action, but a chain of activities,often embedded in other social practices. In this article, we have endeavored todescribe such a chain of activities guided by the salutogenic claim of exploringthe good living argued by McCuaig and Quennerstedt. We use biographical materialwritten by Karl Ove Knausgaard who has created a life story entitled . The novel is selected upon an approach influenced byBrinkmann who stresses that literature can be seen as a qualitative socialinquiry in which the novelist is an expert in transforming personal lifeexperiences into common human expressions of life. The study illustrates howresearch with a broader notion of health can convey experiences of health,thereby complementing (and sometimes challenging) public health evidence.