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Sociology of Health&Illness, Ahead of Print. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
‘Everybody has to think – do I have any peanuts and nuts in my lunch?’ School nurses, collective adherence, and children's food allergies
This study contributes to the study of adherence by examining the medical recommendation as a dynamic prescription, extending adherence to the study of ancillary providers’ interaction with medical recommendations, and examining the impact of illness on non‐family ties. I conclude with a discussion of implications for the field of school nursing; and potential applications of the collective adherence framework to the management of health conditions and health risks. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Vanessa Lopes Mu ñoz Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
European health inequality through the ‘Great Recession’: Social policy matters
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This paper investigates the association between the Great Recession and educational inequalities in self‐rated general health in 25 European countries. We investigate four different indicators related to economic recession: GDP; unemployment; austerity and a ‘crisis’ indicator signifying severe simultaneous drops in GDP and welfare generosity. We also assess the extent to which health inequality changes can be attributed to changes in the economic conditions and social capital in the European populations. The paper uses data from the European Social Survey (2002–2014). The analyses include both cross‐sec...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kjetil A. Wel, Therese Saltkjel, Wen ‐Hao Chen, Espen Dahl, Knut Halvorsen Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
What's in a name: are cultured red blood cells ‘natural’?
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The case of cultured red blood cells (RBCs) currently being grown in a laboratory for future use in human transfusion raises questions about the ontological status of such products of modern biotechnology. This paper presents results from a six‐year ethnographic study involving interviews, focus groups and other forms of engagement with the scientific research team and other stakeholders, including public groups, which sought to understand respondents’ reactions to cultured RBCs. These cells, derived from stem cell technology, have the potential to address the global shortage of donated blood. How these blood ...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Emma King, Catherine Lyall Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
From waste product to blood, brains and narratives: developing a pluralist sociology of contributions to health research
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The aim of this paper is to examine the meaning of the concept of donation in health research. Drawing on a set of narrative interviews with people invited to donate biosamples for research and a range of other studies, we identify several conceptual themes that speak to the complexity of the current landscape of critical thinking about donation. These conceptual themes are: the language of ‘donation’; a hierarchy of biosamples; alternative informational value; narratives as donation; coincidental donation, convenience and degree of invasiveness; and rights, consent and benefits of research participation. We c...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anne ‐Marie R. Boylan, Louise Locock, Laura Machin Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Not just things: The roles of objects at the end of life
In this study, we empirically and inductively explore the roles of objects at the EoL from the perspective of bereaved family members. Open individual interviews were conducted with 25 family members recruited from palliative in‐patient and homecare units, as well as residential care facilities. After verbatim transcription, the interviews were analysed thematically. Based on these interviews, we conceptualise the roles of objects as relating to temporality, transformations of the everyday, and care. Through analysis we offer two main insights, the first relating to interdependency between objects and people, and the sec...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Helena Cleeve, Carol Tishelman, Alastair Macdonald, Olav Lindqvist, Ida Goliath Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Co ‐production in community mental health services: blurred boundaries or a game of pretend?
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The concept of co‐production suggests a collaborative production of public welfare services, across boundaries of participant categories, for example professionals, service users, peer‐workers and volunteers. While co‐production has been embraced in most European countries, the way in which it is translated into everyday practice remains understudied. Drawing on ethnographic data from Danish community mental health services, we attempt to fill this gap by critically investigating how participants interact in an organisational set‐up with blurred boundaries between participant categories. In particular, we ...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sine Kirkegaard, Ditte Andersen Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Responses to warnings about the impact of eating disorders on fertility: A qualitative study
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Eating disorders (EDs) have often been discussed as a risk to reproductive health. But existing research is quantitative in nature, paying no attention to issues of patient experience. In discussing data from 24 semi‐structured interviews, this article draws on sociological approaches to medical ‘risk’ and feminist approaches to EDs to explore how women with experience of an ED responded to fertility warnings within treatment contexts. In doing so, it is suggested that responses to fertility warnings offer unique insight into the potentially damaging limitations of biomedical approaches to eating problems an...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - February 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Su Holmes Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Beyond the realist turn: a socio ‐material analysis of heart failure self‐care
This study draws on 10 interviews as well as researcher reflections from a larger study exploring health care teams for patients with advanced HF. Leveraging insights from actor‐network theory (ANT), this study provides two rich narratives about the contextual factors that influence HF self‐care. These descriptions portray not self‐care contexts but self‐care assemblages, which we discuss in light of socio‐materiality. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Allan McDougall, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Mark Goldszmidt, Karen Harkness, Patricia Strachan, Lorelei Lingard Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
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Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Negotiating inter ‐professional interaction: playing the general practitioner‐pharmacist game
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 426-444, March 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Sociology of Health&Illness, Ahead of Print. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Jarman, M.,Monaghan, L.and Harkin, A.Q. (eds) Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2017. 286pp £33 (pbk) £78 (hbk) ISBN 978‐1439913871
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 770-771, May 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Erela Portugaly Source Type: research
Jarman, M.,Monaghan, L.and Harkin, A.Q. (eds) Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2017. 286pp £33 (pbk) £78 (hbk) ISBN 978‐1439913871
Sociology of Health&Illness, EarlyView. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
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Sociology of Health&Illness, Ahead of Print. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
