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The Dialectic of Health and Suffering: An Ontological Perspective on Young People's Health

Lisbet Lindholm

Department of Caring Science, Abo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland

Katie Eriksson

Department of Caring Science, Abo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

This study's aim is to understand the health of young people (ages 13 to 19) from an ontological perspective. The authors take an abductive research approach to understand the experience of health. Fifteen interviews are analyzed and interpreted by a hermneneutic method. From the viewpoint of the young, health is a process of becoming, which can be identified as a dialectic alternation between opposites: the experiences of having and not having something valuable, of being and not being somebody, and of becoming and not becoming an integral human being. Health as a dialectic alternation presupposes awareness, freedom, and different forms of strengths. Awareness of suffering gives depth to health. In the ontological sense, health and suffering reflect the dialectic between good and evil and between life and death.

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 8, No. 4, 513-525 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/104973239800800406
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