TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Health should not have to be a problem'
T2 - Talking health and accountability in an internet forum on veganism
AU - Sneijder, Petra
AU - te Molder, Hedwig
PY - 2004/7/1
Y1 - 2004/7/1
N2 - This article draws upon insights from discursive psychology to examine how participants in an Internet forum on veganism orient to the relationship between food choice, health and accountability. First, we explore the ways in which participants ascribe responsibility for health problems like vitamin deficiency to individual recipients. By suggesting individual practices as a cause for problems, speakers undermine the notion that problems arise through veganism as a matter of principle. Second, we show how participants construct solutions to individual health problems as involving mundane and simple actions. Both discursive procedures enable speakers to resist negative assumptions about the potentially complicated nature of veganism in relation to health protection.
AB - This article draws upon insights from discursive psychology to examine how participants in an Internet forum on veganism orient to the relationship between food choice, health and accountability. First, we explore the ways in which participants ascribe responsibility for health problems like vitamin deficiency to individual recipients. By suggesting individual practices as a cause for problems, speakers undermine the notion that problems arise through veganism as a matter of principle. Second, we show how participants construct solutions to individual health problems as involving mundane and simple actions. Both discursive procedures enable speakers to resist negative assumptions about the potentially complicated nature of veganism in relation to health protection.
KW - Discursive psychology
KW - Food
KW - Health
KW - Ideology
KW - Veganism
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U2 - 10.1177/1359105304044046
DO - 10.1177/1359105304044046
M3 - Article
C2 - 15231059
AN - SCOPUS:3042764303
SN - 1359-1053
VL - 9
SP - 599
EP - 616
JO - Journal of Health Psychology
JF - Journal of Health Psychology
IS - 4
ER -