| Titre : | Sleep, culture and health : Reflections on the other third of life. Gender differences in approaches to self-management of poor sleep in later life. (2013) |
| Auteurs : | Susan VENN ; Sara Arber ; Doug Henry ; KNUTSON (Kristen) / éd. : USA. Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care. Department of Medicine. University of Chicago. ; MEADOWS (Robert) : GBR. Department of Sociology. University of Surrey. Guildford. ; ORZECH (Kathryn) / éd. : USA. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. ; Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender. (C.R.A.G.). Department of Sociology. University of Surrey. Guildford. GBR |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 79, 2013) |
| Pagination : | 117-123 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Sexe ; Etude comparée ; Sommeil ; Médicament ; Thérapeutique médicamenteuse ; Chimiothérapie ; Homme ; Europe ; Thérapeutique ; Vieillissement |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 7Aqn8R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In this paper we seek to understand the influence of gender on the different approaches to managing poor sleep by older men and women through the conceptual framework of existing theoretical debates on medicalization, healthicization and'personalization'In-depth interviews undertaken between January and July 2008 with 62 people aged 65-95 who were experiencing poor sleep, revealed that the majority of older men and women resisted the medicalization of poor sleep, as they perceived sleep problems in later life were an inevitable consequence of ageing. However, older men and women engaged differently with the healthicization of poor sleep, with women far more likely than men to explore a range of alternative sleep remedies, such as herbal supplements, and were also much more likely than men to engage in behavioural practices to promote good sleep, and to avoid practices which prevented sleep. Women situated'sleep'alongside more abstract discussions of'diet'and health behaviours and drew on the discourses of the media, friends, family and their own experiences to create'personalized'strategies, drawn from a paradigm of healthicization. Men, however, solely relied on the'body'to indicate when sleep was needed and gauged their sleep needs largely by how they felt, and were able to function the following day. |
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