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