Chandler, A.Self ‐Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. 217 pp £67 (hbk) ISBN 978‐1137405272
Sociology of Health&Illness, EarlyView. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Sun, S. Socio ‐Economics of Personalized Medicine in Asia. London and New York: Routledge. 2017. 198 pp. £110 (hbk) ISBN 978‐1138933835
Sociology of Health&Illness, EarlyView. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 14, 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 - November 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Chandler, A.Self ‐Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. 217 pp £67 (hbk) ISBN 978‐1137405272
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Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paul Stronge Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Thomas, G.M. Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic. London: Routledge. 2017. 220pp £110 (hbk) ISBN 978–1138959132
Sociology of Health&Illness,Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 594-595, March 2018. (Source: Sociology of Health and Illness)
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 3, 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 - November 3, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Negotiating inter ‐professional interaction: Playing the general practitioner‐pharmacist game
This article examines GP and CP perceptions of their interactions and negotiations and, drawing on the works of Stein and Goffman, identifies a set of ‘unwritten’ rules, termed the ‘GP‐pharmacist game’, which involves the concept of ‘face‐work’. Qualitative interviews with 20 GPs and 23 CPs located in four geographically and demographically different areas in England were conducted during 2010–11. Key rules of the game include the pharmacist avoiding blaming the GP, using discretion in front of patients, and balancing the necessity and frequency of the communication. This article argues that whilst adheri...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fay Bradley, Darren M. Ashcroft, Nick Crossley Tags: Original Article 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
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Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Erela Portugaly Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Formats of responsibility: elective surgery in the era of evidence ‐based medicine
This article illustrates what pragmatic sociology refers to as investments in form, by examining the formats created and used by a group of surgeons to determine when elective surgery for pelvic floor disorders could be responsibly undertaken. Drawing upon ethnographic observations of surgical consultations at an academic medical centre in Canada, we show how two specific formats – that the patient is sufficiently bothered and the patient accepts the risks of surgery – allow for justifiable action in conditions of uncertainty and contingency and in light of the demands of dominant imperatives in medicine and health car...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ariel Ducey, Shoghi Nikoo 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
Abstract
Only some individuals who have the medically defined condition ‘infertility’ adopt a self‐definition as having a fertility problem, which has implications for social and behavioural responses, yet there is no clear consensus on why some people and not others adopt a medical label. We use interview data from 28 women and men who sought medical infertility treatment to understand variations in self‐identification. Results highlight the importance of identity disruption for understanding the dialectical relationship between medical contact and self‐identification, as well as how diagnosis acts both as a cat...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ophra Leyser ‐Whalen, Arthur L. Greil, Julia McQuillan, Katherine M. Johnson, Karina M. Shrefffler 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
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Research on television as a source of childbearing information is divided on its importance. Drawing from a sample of 64 pregnant women in the greater New York and Connecticut metropolitan area, we examine how women understand the influence of television on their expectations for pregnancy and birth. A sizable minority (44%) regularly watched reality television programmes on childbearing; all engaged in active viewing practices, such as recognising programme formula and evaluating plausibility of depictions. We find clear educational differences in how viewers believed television influenced their pregnancy knowled...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Danielle Bessett, Stef Murawsky Tags: Original Article 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
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Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sarah Rudrum Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Teenage Pregnancy, Parenting, and Intergenerational Relations
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Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aalap Bommaraju Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Mitochondrial donation, patient engagement and narratives of hope
This article develops the sociology of hope and patient engagement by exploring how patients’ perceptions and actions are shaped by narratives of hope surrounding the clinical introduction of novel reproductive techniques. In 2015, after extensive public debates, the UK became the first country to legalise a mitochondrial donation technique aimed at preventing the transmission of inherited disorders. The article draws on the accounts of twenty‐two women of reproductive age who are at risk of having a child with mitochondrial disease and would be the potential target of the technique. We explore the extent to which our ...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - November 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cathy Herbrand, Rebecca Dimond Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
