Index
Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures
ISBN: 978-1-80455-585-9, eISBN: 978-1-80455-584-2
Publication date: 3 July 2024
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(2024), "Index", Smith, N., Southerton, C. and Clark, M. (Ed.) Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 167-171. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-584-220241013
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Copyright © 2024 Naomi Smith, Clare Southerton and Marianne Clark
INDEX
Aaron Rodgers
, 56
Abbey Sharp
, 140, 142–143
Advanced cancer
assessing wellbeing
, 74–76
findings
, 67–71
limitations
, 67
methodology
, 66
pain and distress
, 72–73
pain and functioning
, 71–72
rapid literature review
, 66–67
support and sociality
, 73–74
Advice-giving
, 129–130
Affect
, 116, 123
Affective constraints of participation in digital socialities
, 158–159
Affordance
, 99
Alphabet (trillion-dollar company)
, 82, 88
Amazon
, 82
Anti-vaccination movement
, 54
Apple
, 82
Apple Music (music streaming apps)
, 104
Asian–Australian
, 114–115
Australia, spiritual complexity in
, 16
Authenticity, persuasion through
, 35–37
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)
, 8, 96, 100, 104
at wellness/pleasure intersection
, 101–103
Beauty
, 8, 114, 118, 121, 129
Belle Gibson
, 1–2
Berlant’s concept of cruel optimism
, 92
Better Health
, 50
Binaural beats, digital drugs to
, 103–104
Bio-psycho aspects of symptom burden
, 72–73
Biocitizenship
, 49
Bioethics
, 144
Biomedical metrics
, 49
Biomedical model
, 17
Biopsychosocial model
, 64–65, 69
Blogilates (wellness programmes online)
, 122
Blood pressure
, 49
BMI
, 49
Bodies
, 9, 19, 155–157
Bodily autonomy and sovereignty
, 19–22
Body complex
analysis
, 28–30
conspirituality, bodily autonomy and sovereignty
, 19–22
medical pluralism and mainstreaming SWell
, 16–19
2021 SWell in Australia Study
, 22–28
Body positivity movement
, 129
Body sovereignty movement
, 19
Bodywork
and body ideals in visual digital culture
, 154–155
practices
, 155
Brief Pain Inventory-Long Form (BPI-LF)
, 71
Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BPI-SF)
, 71
Brown Girl Therapy on Instagram
, 119
Buddhist
, 24, 83, 84, 88
Burnout
, 82, 84
Cannabidiol (CBD)
, 65
Climate change
, 162–163
Climate collapse, post-script on disjuncture between neoliberal fantasy of perfect life and impending
, 162–163
Clinical assessment of symptoms and conceptualisation of wellbeing
, 67–71
Clinical gaze, Fit, healthy bodies and
, 52
Collaborative ethics
, 140, 147–148
Collaborative life narratives
, 145–147
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
, 17
Conceptualisation of wellbeing
, 67–71
Conspiracy cultures
, 5–6
Conspirituality
, 19–22
Consumer
, 8, 146
Consumption
, 2, 20, 154
Contemporary ‘risk societies’ and managing risky body
, 48
Contemporary society
, 5
Contemporary wellness movement
, 18–19
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
, 19, 37, 39, 51
crisis
, 57
‘fit, healthy’ body and
, 50–52
information disorder
, 34–35
mis/disinformation in online wellness communities
, 34
pandemic
, 22, 48, 53, 98
performing ‘wellness’ online
, 35–37
risk in time of
, 48–50
task
, 40–42
virus
, 6
whiteness, individualism, and co-opting of social justice language
, 37–40
Corporate mindfulness initiatives
, 82
cruel optimism
, 85–86
methodology
, 83
mindfulness
, 83–84
promise of better life
, 89–92
search inside yourself
, 86–89
Critical discourse analysis
, 83
Cruel optimism
, 85–86, 162
Deficit model
, 100
Deleuzian theory
, 116
Diet culture (see also Wellness culture)
conceptualising relaxed restriction
, 128–129
‘80/20’ rule and regulated indulgence
, 131
illusions of non-restriction
, 133–134
intuitive eating as self-discipline
, 132–133
methods
, 130–131
misinterpretations of intuitive eating
, 131–132
native expertise, influencers and advice-giving
, 129–130
postfeminist framing of diet
, 129
in pursuit of ‘perfect’ diet
, 135–136
rebranding diet culture through ‘embodied food feelings’
, 134–135
return of
, 128
Digital drugs
, 96, 100
to binaural beats
, 103–104
Digital media
, 114, 122
Digital mis/disinformation, resilience in efforts
, 40–42
Digital platforms
, 8, 101–102
Digital pleasures
, 100, 105
producing
, 105–106
Digital socialities, affective constraints of participation in
, 158–159
Digital technologies
, 99
Disaster capitalism
, 34
Discourse
, 131
Discourse analysis approach
, 130
Disinformation
, 38
problem of
, 35
Distress, pain and
, 72–73
Downing’s analysis
, 7
Durkheim
, 21
Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS)
, 65
‘80/20’ rule and regulated indulgence
, 131
Embodied diet discourse
, 134
Embodied food feelings, rebranding diet culture through
, 134–135
Emotions
, 74
Eugenics
, 20, 38
Facebook
, 104, 158
Femininity
, 114
Feminist new materialism
, 116
Fit healthy body
and clinical gaze
, 52
and COVID-19 pandemic
, 50–52
problematising
, 52–53
Fitness
, 3, 6, 50, 53
Food porn
, 102
Foucauldian concept of bio-power
, 49
Foucault
, 49, 52
Fun Activities List (see Pleasurable Activities List)
Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–General questionnaires (FACT-G)
, 67
Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy scale (FACIT)
, 67
Gendered processes of embodiment
, 155
Global Drug Survey (GDS)
, 101
Google
, 89
Google Scholar
, 66
Gwenyth Paltrow
, 1
Health
, 154
professionals online
, 141–142
Healthism
, 49, 114–115, 154
Healthy body
, 56
Hesitancy
, 19, 48
High level wellness
, 4
Holistic SWell movements
, 18
Holistic wellness
, 161
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
, 73
Human Research Ethics Committee, The
, 117
Hunger-fullness diet
, 131–132
Hyper-individualised conception of health
, 19
IDoser (technology-based audio application)
, 104
Individualism
, 37–40
Influence pedagogy
, 141
Influencers
, 34, 36–37, 40, 129–130
Information disorders
, 34
Instagram (digital platforms)
, 8, 158–159
Interdisciplinarity
, 74–76
Intimacy, persuasion through
, 35–37
Intuitive eating
misinterpretations of
, 131–132
as self-discipline
, 132–133
Joe Rogan
, 55, 57
Lauren Berlant
, 7, 83, 85, 162–163
Life narrative
, 9, 140, 145, 150
Life writing
, 140–141, 143–150
Lifestyle disease
, 57
Lifestyle gurus
, 35, 129, 143
Lived wellness practices
, 6–8
Lockdown
, 25–26, 29, 38, 50, 121
Low risk body concept
, 48
Luminous femininity
, 155
Management
, 82
Materialism
, 116
McMindfulness
, 84
MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI)
, 71, 73
Medical cannabis
, 65, 75
Medical diversity concept
, 19
Medical pluralism
, 16–19
Medical Subject Heading (MeSH)
, 66
Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS)
, 72
Meta
, 82
Microsoft
, 82
Mind-body dualism
, 74
Mindfulness
, 83–84, 91
meditation
, 85
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
, 84
Misinformation
, 38
guidelines
, 148
problem of
, 35
Multi-dimensional ethical practice
, 143–145
Native expertise
, 129–130
Natural immunity
, 5
Neoliberal-healthism
, 114–115
Neoliberalism
, 105, 114–115
Nutritional insurance
, 55
Online WIEIAD environment
, 128
Ontology
, 75
Pain and distress
, 72–73
Pain and functioning
, 71–72
Pain Intensity-Numerical Rating Scale (PI-NRS)
, 71
Palliative care
, 67
Pandemic and wellness
, 98–99
Perfect diet, in pursuit of
, 135–136
Perfect life, promise of
, 159–161
Persuasion through authenticity and intimacy
, 35–37
Pete Evans
, 1, 36
Photo-elicitation
, 157
Photo-voice
, 157
Physiological aspects of symptom burden
, 71–72
Platform
, 9, 105
Pleasurable Activities List
, 99
Pleasure
, 100–101
affording
, 99–100
ASMR at pleasure intersection
, 101–103
Pop celebrities agential capacity
, 124
Postfeminist framing of diet
, 129
Productivity
, 82
Public health pedagogy
, 40
Public pedagogy
, 130
Purism
, 20
Purity politics
, 20
Race
, 35, 38, 124
Radical human potential movement
, 18
Randomised clinical trials (RCTs)
, 65
Rational approaches
, 2
Reciprocal causation
, 41
Reflexive modernity concept
, 128
Relaxed restriction
, 131, 134–135
conceptualising
, 128–129
Research process
, 117
Resilience in efforts to address digital mis/disinformation
, 40–42
Risk
, 48
management
, 49
in time of COVID-19
, 48–50
Risk-free
, 48, 52, 90
Rotterdam Symptom Checklist (RSCL)
, 72
SARS-CoV-2 virus
, 34
Search inside yourself (Google’s Programme)
, 86–89
Self-care
, 2
Self-responsibility
, 9, 98
SIYLI programme
, 87–88, 91–92
Social ecological approach
, 41
Social ecology model
, 6
Social impacts of symptom burden
, 73–74
Social justice
co-opting of social justice language
, 37–40
movements
, 40
Social media
, 34, 144
bodies
, 161
influencers
, 142
platforms
, 104–105, 122
Social Science Database
, 66
Sociality, support and
, 73–74
Sociologists
, 154
Sociology
, 16, 82
Sovereignty
, 19–22
Spiritual and Religious (SRL)
, 24
Spiritual but not Religious (SBNR)
, 24
Spiritual complexity in Australia
, 16
Spiritual Revolution
, 18
Spirituality
, 24–25
Support and sociality
, 73–74
SWell
in Australia Study (2021)
, 22
interviews
, 24–28
mainstreaming
, 16–19
pilot study (2021)
, 28
survey
, 22–24
Symptom Distress Scale (SDS)
, 72
Technological affordances
, 122
Technology
, 100–101
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
, 65
The bloodiest battles of conspirituality wellness’
, 19
The Fair Use guidelines
, 147
Thematic narrative analysis
, 117
TikTok (Digital platforms)
, 8, 120–121
TikTok Docs
, 141
Ubiquity
, 4
Vaccination
, 22
Vaccine hesitancy
as/and bodily practice
, 53–54
cultural sites of
, 54–57
Verbal Rating Scale (VRS)
, 72
Vignette technique
, 117
Visual Analogue Scale (Pain) (VAS-P)
, 71
Visual digital culture, bodywork and body ideals in
, 154–155
Volume eating
, 133–134
Web of Science
, 66
Wellbeing
, 64, 154
assessment
, 74–76
clinical assessment of symptoms and conceptualisation of
, 67–71
Wellness
, 1–6, 16, 20, 35, 41, 100–101, 140, 142, 144, 154
ASMR at
, 101–103
frames
, 106
influencers
, 36
methodology and study details
, 157–158
pandemic and
, 98–99
practices
, 17
realm
, 27
study
, 4–5
Wellness Body
, 8–10
Wellness culture
, 4–5, 8, 135
(see also Diet culture)
Asian-Australian
, 115
conceptual framework
, 116
in context
, 97–98
methodology
, 116, 117–122
vignettes
, 118–122
wellness and neoliberal-healthism
, 114–115
Wellness washing
, 95–96, 104–105
cases
, 100
concept
, 7
Western biomedicine
, 16
Western medicine
, 34
Western Sydney
, 38
What I Eat In A Day (WIEIAD)
, 8
videos
, 9, 128–130, 135, 142–143, 148
White supremacy
, 39
Whiteness
, 5–6, 37–40
Work
, 96
Workplace
, 4, 6, 86, 98
World Health Organization (WHO)
, 34
Young people
, 9, 28, 116, 154–155
YouTube
, 104–105, 135–136, 140, 143, 149
Abbey Sharp
, 142–143
Authorial Rights of Video Subjects
, 147–148
collaborative life narratives
, 145–147
health professionals online
, 141–142
multi-dimensional ethical practice
, 143–145
platform
, 147
videos
, 146
YouTuber disclaimers
, 148–149
- Prelims
- Introduction: Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures
- Section 1: Wellness, Whiteness and Conspiracy Cultures
- Chapter 1: The Body Complex: (Con)spirituality, Wellness and COVID-19 in Australia
- Chapter 2: COVID-19 Mis/Disinformation in Online Wellness Communities: Narratives of Individualism and Practices of Networked Resistance
- Chapter 3: Looking Good, Feeling Good and Refusing the Jab: Tracing the Relationships Between Healthism, Wellness Culture and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
- Section 2: Lived Wellness Practice
- Chapter 4: Measuring Wellbeing: A Critical Rapid Review of Scales Used in Advanced Cancer Contexts
- Chapter 5: Search Inside Yourself: Google, Mindfulness, and Workplace Wellbeing
- Chapter 6: Wellness Washing: Wellness, Work and the Transformation of Pleasure
- Section 3: The ‘Wellness Body’, Food and Diet Culture
- Chapter 7: ‘I Just Have to Remember that My Body is Different’: Asian-Australian Women’s Experiences with Wellness Culture
- Chapter 8: ‘Relaxed Restriction’: ‘What I Eat In A Day’ Videos and the Persistence of Diet Culture
- Chapter 9: Combatting Wellness Misinformation on Youtube: The Case of Abbey Sharp
- Chapter 10: ‘Having it All’: Wellness Culture, Instagram Bodies and ‘Perfect Lives’ in a Time of Global Ecological Crisis
- Index