Outputs (6)

"It's sort of like being a detective": Understanding how Australian men self-monitor their health prior to seeking help (2008)
Journal Article
Smith, J., Braunack-Mayer, A., Wittert, G., & Warin, M. (2008). "It's sort of like being a detective": Understanding how Australian men self-monitor their health prior to seeking help. BMC Health Services Research, 8, Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-56

Background: It is commonly held that men delay help seeking because they are ignorant about and disinterested in their health. However, this discussion has not been informed by men's lay perspectives, which have remained almost entirely absent from s... Read More about "It's sort of like being a detective": Understanding how Australian men self-monitor their health prior to seeking help.

Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI (2008)
Journal Article
Warin, M., Turner, K., Moore, V., & Davies, M. (2008). Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI. Sociology of Health & Illness, 30(1), 97-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01029.x

Despite the intense level of attention directed towards obesity, there has been limited success in addressing the rising rates of this public health phenomenon. This paper argues that current approaches to obesity fail to consider concepts of embodim... Read More about Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI.

Reconfiguring Relatedness in Anorexia (2006)
Journal Article
Warin, M. (2006). Reconfiguring Relatedness in Anorexia. Anthropology and Medicine, 13(1), 41-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470500516147

Anthropological concepts of relatedness have not been addressed in any of the writings on anorexia, despite the literature being replete with negative connotations of sociality such as withdrawal, regression, and toxic families (in the form of 'obses... Read More about Reconfiguring Relatedness in Anorexia.

Transformations of Intimacy and Sociality in Anorexia: Bedrooms in Public Institutions (2005)
Journal Article
Warin, M. (2005). Transformations of Intimacy and Sociality in Anorexia: Bedrooms in Public Institutions. Body & Society, 11(3), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x05056193

Anorexia can be characterized as a profound transformation in social relations. These transformations occur across a number of overlapping fields, and include a range of institutional and domestic spaces and myriad mundane bodily practices in each. T... Read More about Transformations of Intimacy and Sociality in Anorexia: Bedrooms in Public Institutions.

Threads of memory: Reproducing the cypress tree through sensual consumption (2005)
Journal Article
Warin, M., & Dennis, S. (2005). Threads of memory: Reproducing the cypress tree through sensual consumption. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 26(1-2), 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256860500074367

This paper is concerned with the ways in which a group of Persian women, who have all fled Iran in the last two decades, give meaning to place and memory through the everyday practices of cooking and embroidery. While there are many different localis... Read More about Threads of memory: Reproducing the cypress tree through sensual consumption.

Miasmatic Calories and Saturating Fats: Fear of Contamination in Anorexia (2003)
Journal Article
Warin, M. (2003). Miasmatic Calories and Saturating Fats: Fear of Contamination in Anorexia. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 27(1), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1023683905157

This paper draws on ethnographic material to challenge the taken-for-granted relationship between anorexia and fear of fat. While popular understandings assume anorexia to be an extension of everyday dietary guidelines and a fear of weight gain from... Read More about Miasmatic Calories and Saturating Fats: Fear of Contamination in Anorexia.