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Book Review: Injury: The politics of product design and safety law in the United States Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 214 pp. ISBN 9780691119076 (pbk) $US22.95Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Patterson, P., Rock, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Book review: The circulation of children: Kinship, adoption, and morality in Andean Peru Jessaca B. Leinaweaver. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN13 978--0--8223--4197--0 (pbk) $US21.95Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Swift, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Food allergy and food intolerance: towards a sociological agendaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article asks what sociological insights an analysis of food allergy and food intolerance might afford. We outline the parameters of debates around food allergy and food intolerance in the immunological, clinical and epidemiological literatures in order to identify analytic strands which might illuminate our sociological understanding of the supposed increase in both. Food allergy and food intolerance are contested and contingent terms and it is salient that the term true food allergy is replete throughout medico-scientific, epidemiological and popular discourses in order to rebuff spurious or ‘nonallergic’...
Source: Health: - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nettleton, S., Woods, B., Burrows, R., Kerr, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Spaces of care in the third sector: understanding the effects of professionalizationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Increasingly the health and welfare needs of individuals and communities are being met by third sector, or not-for-profit, organizations. Since the 1980s third sector organizations have been subject to significant, sector-wide changes, such as the development of contractual funding and an increasing need to collaborate with governments and other sectors. In particular, the processes of ‘professionalization’ and ‘bureaucratization’ have received significant attention and are now well documented in third sector literature. These processes are often understood to create barriers between organizations a...
Source: Health: - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carey, G., Braunack-Mayer, A., Barraket, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Identities under construction: Women hailed as addictsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Despite continuing investigations of the efficacy of Canadian addiction treatment services and supports across a range of health care settings and socio-cultural groups, many systemic, geographic and ideological barriers to service provision for women still exist. Determining how current services and supports can become more congruent with women’s gender-specific needs is a current research focus. Drawing on Butler’s reformulation of Althusser’s interpellation, this article explores the power of hailing, where hailing power lies, and how hailing operates in discourses about addiction that appear in women&...
Source: Health: - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Aston, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

A metasynthesis of midwives' experience of hospital practice in publicly funded settings: compliance, resistance and authenticityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of this metasynthesis is to explore midwives’ perceptions of hospital midwifery with a focus on labour ward practice to examine professional discourses around midwifery work in the current modernist, risk averse and consumerist childbirth context. Based on an iterative search strategy, 14 studies were selected for the metasynthesis. Three overarching themes were identified: ‘power and control’; ‘compliance with cultural norms’; and ‘attempting to normalize birth’. Most midwives aimed to provide what they characterized as ‘real midwifery’ but this intention...
Source: Health: - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: O'Connell, R., Downe, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Enacting death in the intensive care unit: medical technology and the multiple ontologies of deathEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores various ways health personnel enact death in connection with mechanical ventilation treatment withdrawal in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Trondheim University Hospital. The main focus is on sedated terminal patients who undergo mechanical ventilator treatment withdrawal and relatives’ presence at this time. Mol’s (2002) praxiographic orientation of the actor-network approach is followed while exploring this medical practice. Utilizing this interdisciplinary science and technology studies approach this article describes what Timmermans and Berg (2003) have called ‘ technology-in-pr...
Source: Health: - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hadders, H. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Call for papers: Special Issue of health: Volume 15, Number 2 Publication date: March 2011 'Another way of knowing: art, disease, and illness experience'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - August 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Radley, A., Bell, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book Review: Economics for everyone: A short guide to the economics of capitalism J. Stanford. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2008. CAD$24.95Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - August 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: McLaren, L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: The making of Our bodies, ourselves: How feminism travels across borders: Kathy Davis. Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press, 2007. 277 pp. ISBN 978 0 8223 4066 9 (pbk) $US22.95Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - August 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bell, S. E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

'A potential fifth column': conflicts and struggles for control in the context of local NHS privatizationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article uses case study data to discuss how a new procurement policy (Local Improvement Finance Trust, or LIFT) in English primary care may affect general practitioners’ control over their work. LIFT, a series of 51 public—private partnerships, will enable over the medium term a shift towards the corporate ownership of surgeries and the creation of polyclinics or ‘onestop-shops’. In this article, I explore the struggles over work autonomy and control within these new LIFT structures, as expressed by clinicians and managers in meetings and in research interviews. More generally, I consider how t...
Source: Health: - August 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Aldred, R. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Accounts of disruptions to sexuality following cancer: the perspective of informal carers who are partners of a person with cancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is a growing body of research showing that cancer impacts upon the sexuality of informal carers in a couple relationship with a person with cancer. However, this research is primarily focused on partners of a person with gynaecological or breast cancer, within a framework where the physiological effects of cancer on sexual performance are the focus. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 informal carers in a couple relationship with a person with cancer, across a range of cancer types. The aim was to explore accounts of changes to sexuality and intimacy post-cancer, in the context of discursive constructions...
Source: Health: - August 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gilbert, E., Ussher, J. M., Hawkins, Y. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Illness explanations among patients with medically unexplained symptoms: different idioms for different contextsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are often considered to be strictly confined to thinking about their symptoms as having only a physical etiology. However, several studies have shown, that the patients also apply other explanations for their sufferings. The aim of this study is to analyse the social construction of illness explanations among patients with MUS, and to illustrate the use of explanatory idioms as being dependent on space, time and setting, legitimizing each idiom. The study is based on repeated, semi-structured, qualitative interviews with nine informants during a period of 1.5 years. A them...
Source: Health: - August 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Risor, M. B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Effects of exposure to the suffering of unknown persons on health-related cognitions, and the role of moodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether exposure to the suffering of unknown persons, as an inevitable part of life, influences cognitions about health. Our assumption was that exposure to suffering affects cognitions in a negative way, as well as this influence being exerted directly and through negative mood. Eighty-nine participants were randomly assigned to two groups. The experimental group was exposed to a series of photos presenting situations of human suffering, whereas the control group was exposed to a series of photos showing relaxing situations. Participants in the experimental group reported hi...
Source: Health: - August 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Karademas, E. C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: Encounters with the invisible: Unseen illness, controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Dorothy Wall. Southern Methodist University Press, 2005Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Greene, G. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Young women's use of medicines: autonomy and positioning in relation to family and peer normsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study's findings indicate that despite increases in autonomy in medicine use, normative perceptions continued to serve as important reference points for informants' own medicine taking behaviour. Practitioners involved in the health care and promotion of youth may benefit from an increased awareness of the influential role that perceived norms in peer and family contexts can play in young women's use of medicine. (Source: Health:)
Source: Health: - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hansen, D. L., Hansen, E. H., Holstein, B. E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Holding onto womanhood: a qualitative study of heterosexual women with sexual desire lossEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores heterosexual women's accounts of sexual desire loss, particularly the ways in which it can affect their sense of themselves as women. In-depth interviews were conducted with 17 participants recruited through a psychosexual clinic in England, and the data analysed using a material-discursive approach. The findings showed that having sexual desire loss often challenged participants' perceptions of themselves as women. Specific challenges related to dealing with isolation and `otherness', addressing their own feelings of not being `proper wives' because they did not sexually satisfy their partners and ma...
Source: Health: - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hinchliff, S., Gott, M., Wylie, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Diaries from cannabis users: an Interpretative Phenomenological AnalysisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article is based on research, which aimed to uncover the meanings behind the experience of cannabis use. Six participants were recruited and asked to keep a diary for 15 days. Data were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Four master themes emerged and were explored in detail. These were: `Withdrawing from everyday life', `Indulging in the here-and-now of the emotional body', `The containment of the sacred space' and `Living the addiction'. The author draws on the theoretical insights of Analytical Psychology in an attempt to capture and explain the dynamics emerging from participants' exper...
Source: Health: - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Boserman, C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The tenacity of the coronary candidate: how people with familial hypercholesterolaemia construct raised cholesterol and coronary heart diseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article considers how people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), an inherited high cholesterol condition, construct FH, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease (CHD). These data are used to explore some of the more prevalent claims about the expansion of genetic explanations for health and illness and its implications. The article draws on 31 interviews with people with FH undertaken at a large lipid clinic, a specialist outpatient clinic, in the north of England. I argue that interviewees tended to distinguish between their own `hereditary' high cholesterol and other people's `lifestyle induced' high choles...
Source: Health: - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Weiner, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Negotiating the neurochemical self: anti-depressant consumption in women's recovery from depressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Anti-depressant treatment can be viewed as an exercise of biopower that is articulated through policies and practices aimed at the reduction of depression, population healthcare costs and effects on labour force productivity. Drawing upon a feminist governmentality perspective, this article examines the discourses that shaped women's experiences of anti-depressant medication in an Australian qualitative study on recovery from depression. The majority of women had been prescribed anti-depressants to treat a chemical imbalance in the brain, manage symptoms and restore normal functioning. One-third of participants identified ...
Source: Health: - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Fullagar, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

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Source: Health: - June 2, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Traynor, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: Deep: Real life with spinal cord injury. Editors: Marcy Epstein and Travar Pettway. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 190 pp. ISBN 13 978--0--472--03251--8 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - April 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Panitch, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Whose body is it anyway? Verbalization, embodiment, and the creation of narrativesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines the creation of narratives between people with severe disabilities and the personnel working with them. It shows that although a co-created narrative of what it means to be severely disabled (the story of dependence) seems to prevail, another narrative (the story of autonomy ) is also told, where the story of dependence is rejected by the person with disabilities. However, this story of autonomy only becomes clear if we recognize three central claims: (1) there is a connection between where the physical body of the person with disabilities is positioned in space and what he or she is allowed or able t...
Source: Health: - April 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Antelius, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Making breathing your business: enterprising practices at the margins of orthodoxyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study draws on Foucault's notion of governmentality to explore the enterprising practices of a new physiotherapy clinic established in Auckland, New Zealand. Drawing on a critical history of respiratory physiotherapy, which had previously been firmly anchored within the public health sector, we show that the actions and practices of the clinic's staff are testing the margins of orthodox physiotherapy practice and exploring the new market possibilities offered by consumer demand for optimal health. The study explores how the physiotherapists at the clinic are problematizing the practices, clinical spaces and clientele ...
Source: Health: - April 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nicholls, D. A., Walton, J. A., Price, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Oncology clinicians' accounts of discussing complementary and alternative medicine with their patientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reports the results from a series of in-depth interviews with oncology consultants and oncology nurses in two hospitals in Australia. Analysis identifies a range of self-reported approaches with which oncology clinicians discuss CAM, highlighting the potential implications for patient care and inter-professional dynamics. The interview data suggest that, whilst there are a range of consultant approaches to CAM, `risk' is consistently deployed rhetorically as a key regulatory strategy to frame CAM issues and potentially direct patient behaviour. Moreover, `irrationality', `seeking control', and `desperation' we...
Source: Health: - April 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Broom, A., Adams, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

`Islands' and `doctor's tool': the ethical significance of isolation and subordination in UK community pharmacyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Empirical ethics research is increasingly valued in offering insights into how ethical problems and decision-making occur in healthcare. In this article, the findings of a qualitative study of the ethical problems and decision-making of UK community pharmacists are presented, and it is argued that the identified themes of pharmacists' relative isolation from others and their subordination to doctors are ethically significant. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 community pharmacists in England, UK. Analysis of interviews revealed that isolation involved separation of pharmacists from their peers, other health...
Source: Health: - April 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cooper, R.J., Bissell, P., Wingfield, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Implementation of a patient safety incident management system as viewed by doctors, nurses and allied health professionalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Incident reporting systems have become a central mechanism of most health services patient safety strategies. In this article we compare health professionals' anonymous, free text responses in an evaluation of a newly implemented electronic incident management system. The professions' answers were compared using classic content analysis and Leximancer, a computer assisted text analysis package. The classic analysis identified issues which differentiated the professions. More doctors commented on lack of feedback following incidents and evaluated the system negatively. More allied health staff found that the system lacked f...
Source: Health: - April 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Travaglia, J. F., Westbrook, M. T., Braithwaite, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

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Source: Health: - April 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Traynor, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: Illness and the limits of expression Kathlyn Conway. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 158 pp. ISBN 13 978--0--472--11619--5 (cloth) $US50.00Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Frank, A. W. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: When illness goes public: Celebrity patients and how we look at medicine Barron H. Lerner. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press, 2006. 334 pp. ISBN 0--8018--8462--4 (hbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Rozanova, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: Review symposium When illness goes public: Celebrity patients and how we look at medicine Barron H. Lerner. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 334 pp. ISBN 0--8018--8462--4 (hbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Rapport, F. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: Review essay The complexities of care: Nursing reconsidered Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon (Eds.). Ithaca, NY & London: Cornell University Press, 2006. ISBN 0--8014--7322--5 (pbk) $US18.95; ISBN 978--0-8014--4505--7 (hbk) $US49.95Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Campbell, M. L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The centrality of personal relationships in the creation and amelioration of mental health problems: the current interdisciplinary caseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An interdisciplinary case is made for the centrality of personal relationships in the creation and amelioration of mental health problems. Taking the work of John Bowlby as a starting point, the article summarizes accumulating evidence from the past 50 years about the link between childhood adversity and adult mental health problems. Evidence is also reviewed about contemporary interpersonal impacts on adult mental health from natural social settings and in professional therapy. These empirical summaries are then discussed in the context of dominant trends in professional knowledge about bio-determinism within psychiatry a...
Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Pilgrim, D., Rogers, A., Bentall, R. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Little bottles and the promise of probioticsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article we explore `regimes of hope' in contemporary bioscience as articulated in spaces of health consumption. We use the case study of probiotic little bottles, highlighting their promissory branding as consumer products, to consider how hope and truth play out across different spaces of health care — the supermarket, media and laboratory. Drawing on work within both sociological and geographic literatures to think about hope, truth and probiotics, this article explores their ambiguous promise through an analysis of their biomedical and popular representation. The seemingly incommensurate promise of probiot...
Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Burges Watson, D., Moreira, T., Murtagh, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

`Automatically you become a polygamist': `culture' and `norms' as resources for normalization and managing accountability in talk about responses to infertilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the developing world, infertility is a serious problem. It leads to both psychological and social hardship, in part because childless marriages often result in divorce, men taking another wife or extramarital relationships. Such responses have been attributed to cultural norms that mandate procreation. However, there are theoretical, methodological and moral issues with treating cultural norms as behavioural determinants. They have been insufficiently acknowledged in health research. Therefore, I demonstrate an alternative discursive approach, which examines how people actively mobilize `culture' or `norms' in interacti...
Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: de Kok, B.C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The management of autonomy in adolescent diabetes: a case study of triadic medical interactionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The transfer of responsibility for diabetes management from parent to child has been seen as a central challenge for the clinical care of adolescents with Type 1 diabetes. Research is needed to better understand how clinicians, patients, and families handle the delicate balance between parental involvement and adolescent responsibility for diabetes management. The aim of this study is to investigate the interactional processes by which an adolescent's autonomy is facilitated and constrained in a clinical interaction between a nurse practitioner (NP), a 13-year-old diabetes patient, and the patient's mother. Integrating psy...
Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Buchbinder, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Organizing allergy and being a `good' parent: parents' narratives about their children's emerging problemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The article focuses on the early and problem-solving phases of the child's illness trajectory and on how child allergies are constructed and organized by the parents in a moral everyday context. The parents' narratives were reconstructed as narratives, describing the pathways parents take before they decide to seek professional medical aid as well as showing how they construct themselves as responsible parents. Before consulting health professionals the parents have often tried a range of different ways to define, control and manage their children's various problems. Allergy problems were interpreted and responded to diffe...
Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gunnarsson, N., Hyden, L.-C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The untenable boundaries of biomedical knowledge: epistemologies and rhetoric strategies in the debate over evaluating complementary and alternative medicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The article addresses contemporary epistemologies in examining struggles between the proponents of diverse medical approaches — some accepted as scientific and others that have not gained this status. It is based on research that investigated one of the central questions raised as a result of the growing popularity of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in western countries during the past three decades, namely: How can we know if CAM treatments are effective and beneficial? Discourse analysis was conducted on publications written by medical knowledge producers — experts participating in different prof...
Source: Health: - February 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Keshet, Y. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Communities of clinical practice: the social organization of clinical learningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The social organization of clinical learning is under-theorized in the sociological literature on the social organization of health care. Professional scopes of practice and jurisdictions are formally defined by professional principles and standards and reflected in legislation; however, these are mediated through the day-to-day clinical activities of social groupings of clinical teams. The activities of health service providers typically occur within communities of clinical practice. These are also major sites for clinical curriculum delivery, where clinical students learn not only clinical skills but also how to be healt...
Source: Health: - December 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Egan, T., Jaye, C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Refusing the information paradigm: informed consent, medical research, and patient participationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article challenges the assumption that patient autonomy can best be assured by providing proper information through formalized procedures such as informed consent. We suggest that to understand and consider laypeople's ways of knowing and decision making, one has to move beyond the information paradigm and take into account a much broader context. Concretely, we investigate informed consent in connection with donating skin tissue remaining from medically indicated surgery. We use interviews with patients and observation protocols to analyse patients' perceptions and ways of making sense of informed consent beyond its ...
Source: Health: - December 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Felt, U., Bister, M. D., Strassnig, M., Wagner, U. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Images, femininity and cancer: an analysis of an international patient education programmeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article is an analysis of a cancer patient education programme run by cosmetic companies. I focus on an analysis of imagery, arguing that there are particular discursive elements that the cosmetic companies use in order to make productive the relationship between femininity and cancer. I contextualize this education programme by presenting the controversies regarding cosmetics as they relate to the growth of breast tumours. In doing so, I conclude that conversations and questions about a link between chemicals and cancer are subverted by both `horror' narratives of cancer and the provocative use of standards of beauty...
Source: Health: - December 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Phillips, C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Humanizing HIV/AIDS and its (re)stigmatizing effects: HIV public 'positive' speaking in IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article critically explores the constitutive effects and inherent power relations of HIV Positive Speakers' Bureaus (PSBs) as a platform for such a display. Adopting a post-structuralist discourse analytic approach, we explore accounts of positive-speaking and HIV health from HIV-related non-government organizations in India and in PSB training manuals. In particular, we highlight ways in which positive-speaking in India can be seen to have significant (re)stigmatizing effects by way of ambivalent and hyper-real configurations of HIV 'positive' identity and life. (Source: Health:)
Source: Health: - December 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Finn, M., Sarangi, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Intimate relationships and women involved in the sex trade: perceptions and experiences of inclusion and exclusionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reports on a qualitative study exploring the intimate (non-work) relationships of women involved in the sex trade. Women working in the sex industry and intimate partners of women in the industry were interviewed in order to understand how intimate relationships are perceived as influencing the women's general health and well-being. The research suggests that intimate relationships can, and do, provide a space for feelings of inclusion and safety that are perceived as positive forces in women's general health and well-being. At the same time, however, feelings and experiences of exclusion (fuelled by the domin...
Source: Health: - December 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jackson, L. A., Augusta-Scott, T., Burwash-Brennan, M., Karabanow, J., Robertson, K., Sowinski, B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Fear, complacency and the spectacle of risk: the making of HIV as a public concern in AustraliaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores how HIV is constituted as a matter of public concern in Australia, where — unlike much of the rest of the world — there is a continuing low incidence of heterosexual transmission. In this context, it is timely to explore how the media contributes to the ongoing mobilization of public interest in HIV, and how heterosexual audiences are brought into focus as the imagined `publics' of mainstream debates on HIV. This article identifies three approaches to generating public concern in HIV news stories published in The Sydney Morning Herald between 2000 and 2005 as well as in academic media anal...
Source: Health: - December 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Newman, C., Persson, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

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Source: Health: - December 22, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Traynor, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: Review notices: books on death and dyingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - September 25, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Frank, A. W. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: Pink ribbons, Inc. breast cancer and the politics of philanthropy. Samantha King. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, 157 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-4898-6 (paper). $US18.95Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - September 25, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Frank, A. W. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Book review: The body in question: A socio-cultural approach. Alan Peterson. London: Routledge, 2007. 169pp. ISBN 0-415-32162-x (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health: - September 25, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gale, N. K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Constructions of the self in interaction with the Beck Depression InventoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, I am interested in discourses of people completing the Polish version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). I focus upon the negotiation of the spaces for constructing the self opened by the BDI. My corpus consists of transcripts of 50 sessions in which self-reportedly healthy people were asked to `think aloud' while completing the BDI. I shall demonstrate that in interactions with the `depression scale', the informants mostly rejected the spaces offered by it. Three strategies of such rejection are discussed: reformulation, recontextualization and ...
Source: Health: - September 25, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Galasinski, D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The artist as surgical ethnographer: participant observers outside the social sciencesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article pursues the idea that ethnographically informed artistic works can be viewed as critical cultural texts alongside sociological and anthropological studies of surgery. It is proposed that art provides fresh perspectives on topics of interest in health sociology and medical anthropology while simultaneously expanding our engagement with ethnographic representation. Discussion revolves around a video installation incorporating images of heart surgery by contemporary artist Bill Viola and a recent novel by Ian McEwan detailing the day-in-the-life of a neurosurgeon. Considering an emerging re-engagement, particular...
Source: Health: - September 25, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Harris, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals