Formats of responsibility: elective surgery in the era of evidence ‐based medicine
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 494-507, March 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 3, 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 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The sociology of cancer: a decade of research
Abstract
Biomedicine is often presented as the driving force behind improvements in cancer care, with genomics the latest innovation poised to change the meaning, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and lived experience of cancer. Reviewing sociological analyses of a diversity of patient and practitioner experiences and accounts of cancer during the last decade (2007–17), we explore the experiences of, approaches to and understandings of cancer in this period. We identify three key areas of focus: (i) cancer patient experiences and identities; (ii) cancer risk and responsibilities and (iii) bioclinical collectives. We expl...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anne Kerr, Emily Ross, Gwen Jacques, Sarah Cunningham ‐Burley Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Analysing barriers to service improvement using a multi ‐level theory of innovation: the case of glaucoma outpatient clinics
This article combines a micro theory of innovation, actor‐network theory, with organisational level processes using the ‘resource based view of the firm’. It examines the influence of, and interplay between, innovation‐seeking teams (micro) and underlying organisational capabilities (meso) during innovation processes. We used ethnographic methods to study service innovations in relation to ophthalmology services run by a specialist English NHS Trust at multiple locations. Operational research techniques were used to support the ethnographic methods by mapping the care process in the existing and redesigned clinics....
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simon Turner, Christos Vasilakis, Martin Utley, Paul Foster, Aachal Kotecha, Naomi J. Fulop Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Seeking certainty through narrative closure: men's stories of prostate cancer treatments in a state of liminality
Abstract
Radical treatments of prostate cancer often lead to a pervasive liminal state that is characterised by multiple uncertainties that relate both to a possible recurrence of cancer and recovery from side effects, such as erectile and urinary dysfunctions. Liminality can make it difficult for cancer patients to narrate their experiences, as their stories lack a definite ending. After interviews with 22 Finnish men who had undergone radical prostatectomy, we analysed how men produce closure in their illness narratives. Focusing on the timelines of control visits or their anticipated recovery from side effects, these in...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ilkka Pietil ä, Raisa Jurva, Hanna Ojala, Tuevo Tammela Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Complex care and contradictions of choice in the safety net
This article explores the complicated and often‐contradictory notions of choice at play in complex care management (CCM) programmes in the US healthcare safety net. Drawing from longitudinal data collected over two years of ethnographic fieldwork at urban safety‐net clinics, our study examines the CCM goal of transforming frequent emergency department (ED) utilisers into ‘active’ patients who will reduce their service utilisation and thereby contribute to a more rational, cost‐effective healthcare system. By considering our data alongside philosopher Annemarie Mol's (2008) conceptualisation of the competing logic...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Meredith Van Natta, Nancy J. Burke, Irene H. Yen, Sara Rubin, Mark D. Fleming, Ariana Thompson ‐Lastad, Janet K. Shim Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Culturally embedded health beliefs, self ‐care and the use of anti‐ageing medicine among Australian and Japanese older adults
Abstract
Adopting Kleinman's and Lock's ideas that there are cultural variations in understandings of health care and the medicalisation of ageing bodies, this study compares and contrasts older adults’ use of anti‐ageing medicine in two cultural settings. Based on 42 interviews conducted in Australia and Japan with adults aged 60 and over, findings revealed distinct pathways to initiating anti‐ageing medicine use between the two cohorts which reflect different attitudes to the medicalisation of ageing in the two settings. In Australia where consultation of medical doctors for major and minor ailments is routine for ...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Maho Omori, Deborah Dempsey Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
‘Just because a doctor says something, doesn't mean that [it] will happen’: self‐perception as having a Fertility Problem among Infertility Patients
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 445-462, March 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - December 27, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
‘You're there because you are unprofessional’: patient and public involvement as liminal knowledge spaces
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 463-477, March 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - December 27, 2017 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 - December 27, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
‘You're there because you are unprofessional’: patient and public involvement as liminal knowledge spaces
Abstract
Patient and public involvement in health research and care has been repeatedly theorised using the metaphor of spaces, knowledge spaces and participatory citizenship spaces. Drawing on data from a three year qualitative study of people involved in health research with organisations across England, this article explores where these spaces fit in a wider social, political and historical landscape. It outlines a theme recurring frequently in the study data: a unified public/patient/service‐user perspective in opposition to a professional/clinical/academic view. This is discussed in relation to Habermas's division b...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - December 27, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kath Maguire, Nicky Britten Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
‘I guess I do have to take back what I said before, about television’: pregnant women's understandings and use of televisual representations of childbearing
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 478-493, March 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - December 23, 2017 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 - December 23, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Olsen, W.C. and Sargent, C. (eds) African Medical Pluralism. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 2017. 265 pp. ISBN: 978 ‐0‐253‐02491‐6
Sociology of Health&Illness, EarlyView. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - December 21, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sarah Rudrum Source Type: research
