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Keeping healthy at home and school: ‘it's my body, so it's my job‘
Author(s) -
Mayall Berry
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1993.tb00356.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , division of labour , structuring , qualitative research , health care , psychology , sociology , developmental psychology , nursing , medicine , social science , political science , biology , paleontology , law
Abstract This paper focusses on children as a social group, in order to discuss the division of labour in health care between children, parents and teachers. It draws on data from a qualitative study of children's, parents’ and teachers’ perspectives on the health care of primary school children. The paper argues that the distinctive social and emotional context of the home and the school are critical for the structuring of children's health care activities and experience. In particular the paper considers children's own contributions to health care and the functions of their own social worlds in the division of labour.