ABSTRACT We employed a critical approach to study uncertainty, identifying and historicizing the cultural discourses implicated in individuals' contestations of family members' health complaints. We drew upon the broader discourse typically termed the Enlightenment Subject, which imagines individuals as rational, self-regulating, self-knowing, and transcendental beings. Through interpretive thematic and critical analyses of interview data with 32 individuals, we identified 4 central contestations that reflect defining features of the Enlightenment Subject: You are not being rational; You are not trying; Your symptoms do not make sense; and You are not being yourself. This study has implications for interpersonal health communication theory connecting micro-processes to macro-level discourses, and for people as well as their family members coping with contested illness in their relationships.

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哭泣的狼：对个人为何对家庭成员的健康投诉提出异议的主题和批判性分析

摘要我们采用批判性方法来研究不确定性，识别和历史化个人对家庭成员健康投诉的争论所涉及的文化话语。我们借鉴了通常称为启蒙主题的更广泛的话语，它将个人想象为理性、自我调节、自我认识和超然的存在。通过对 32 个人的访谈数据的解释性主题和批判性分析，我们确定了 4 个反映启蒙主题定义特征的中心论点： 你不理性；你不是在尝试；你的症状没有意义；你不是你自己。这项研究对将微观过程与宏观层面的话语联系起来的人际健康传播理论有影响，