Medical sociology Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Uncertain Futures
Book SynopsisThis book examines children and young people's attempts to participate in conversations about their own treatment throughout uncertain cancer trajectories, including the events leading up to diagnosis, treatment, remission, relapse, and cure or death. Clearly and compellingly written, Clementerelieson a new multi-layered methodto identify six cancer communication strategies Illustrates that communication is central to how children, parents, and healthcare professionals constitute, influence, and make sense of the social worlds they inhabitor that they want to inhabit Provides ethnographic case studies of childhood cancer patients in Spain, using children''s own words Examines the challenges of how to talk to and how to encourage patients'' involvement in reatment discussions In his critique of the telling versus not telling debates, Clemente argues that communication should be adjusted to the children's own needs, and that children''sTrade Review"...opens up broader margins of reflection about how medical diagnoses, and in general medical communication, are delivered and negotiated and provides the reader with extensive references with which the theoretical discussion is constantly confronted and challenged...Clemente is surely paving the way toward a more fertile and effective collaboration between medical and linguistic anthropology..." - Letizia Bonanno, AAA Book Forum, 2016Table of ContentsSeries Preface ix Acknowledgments xii Preface xiv 1. Children: Contributions to Communication and Illness 1 Alternatives to Speaking 5 Disclosure as a Dynamic and Heterogeneous Process 7 Disclosure to Children with Cancer 10 Problematizing Participation 13 Uncertainty and the Practice of Optimism 21 Multiple Uncertainties 21 Hierarchically Organized Uncertainties 23 Variable Uncertainties 23 Practicing Hope and Optimism 25 Ethnography and Conversation Analysis 26 Plan of the Book 31 2. A Linguistic Anthropologist in a Pediatric Cancer Unit 33 Culture and Disclosure Practices in Catalonia 34 Fieldwork with Children 38 Contexts of Children’s Questions 42 Investigating Avoidance 44 Multiple Ways of Talking about Cancer 47 3. Living and Dealing with Cancer 49 Focusing on Treatment 51 Guessing 55 Estar baixet (Having Low Blood Cell Counts) 56 Les llagues (Mouth Sores) 57 La febre (Fever and Infections) 58 Being Together 60 Acompanyar (Being at the Patient’s Side) 61 Menjar (Eating) 63 Fer una visita (Visiting) 64 Talking Privately 67 Uncertainties of Treatment 71 4. Co]constructing Uncertainty 74 Questions and Answers 76 Uncertainty and the Topic of Questions 79 Contingent Answers 80 Contingent Questions 86 Uncertainty and the Action of Questions 88 Answers that Lead to Subsequent Actions 90 Avoiding Answers and Avoiding Silence 93 Stepping into the Uncertain Future One Turn at a Time 100 5. Engaging in Communication at Catalonia Hospital 102 Learning the Diagnosis 103 L’entrevista (The Treatment Interview) 109 “And When Will I Be Completely Cured?” 111 Six Communication Strategies 127 6. Patient Pressure and Medical Authority 129 Everyday Life in Treatment 130 “How Many Chemos Do I Have Left?” 133 Seeking Answers Without Challenging Medical Authority 151 7. The Limits of Optimism at the End of Treatment 153 Remission 154 Relapse 159 Negotiating Death 161 “Is the Day of the Autotransplant Going to Be Delayed?” 168 Optimistic Collusion 178 8. Conclusion 180 Appendix A: Profiles of Patients 189 Children (ages 3-6) 189 Young people (ages 11-18) 190 Appendix B: Transcription Conventions 193 References 197 Index 214
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ageing Dementia and the Social Mind
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of the sociology of dementia with contributions from distinguished international scholars and practitioners. Organised around the four themes of personhood, care, social representations and social differentiation,Table of ContentsNotes on contributors vii 1 Ageing, dementia and the social mind: past, present and future perspectives 1Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 2 Relational citizenship: supporting embodied selfhood and relationality in dementia care 7Pia Kontos, Karen-Lee Miller and Alexis P. Kontos 3 Shifting dementia discourses from deficit to active citizenship 24Linda Birt, Fiona Poland, Emese Csipke and Georgina Charlesworth 4 Narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia: the relational basis of personhood reconsidered 37Edward Tolhurst, Bernhard Weicht and Paul Kingston 5 Power, empowerment, and person-centred care: using ethnography to examine the everyday practice of unregistered dementia care staff 52Kezia Scales, Simon Bailey, Joanne Middleton and Justine Schneider 6 Institutionalising senile dementia in 19th-century Britain 69Emily Stella Andrews 7 Dichotomising dementia: is there another way? 83Patricia Mc Parland, Fiona Kelly and Anthea Innes 8 When walking becomes wandering: representing the fear of the fourth age 95Katherine Brittain, Cathrine Degnen, Grant Gibson, Claire Dickinson and Louise Robinson 9 Re-imagining dementia in the fourth age: the ironic fictions of Alice Munro 110Marlene Goldman 10 Social class, dementia and the fourth age 128Ian Rees Jones 11 Precarity in late life: rethinking dementia as a ‘frailed’ old age 142Amanda Grenier, Liz Lloyd and Chris Phillipson Index 155
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive
Book SynopsisProvides fresh perspectives on the past, present and future-facing contributions of the anthropology of reproduction. A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the anthropological study of reproductive practices, technologies, and interventions in a global context. Exploring the medical and technological management of human reproduction through a sociocultural lens, this groundbreaking volume reviews past and current research, discusses contemporary debates and recent theoretical developments, introduces key themes and trends, examines ongoing issues of equity, inclusivity, and reproductive justice around the world, and more. The Companion brings together essays by multidisciplinary scholars in fields including sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology, reproductive health, global public health, Science and Technology Studies (STS), gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, and environmental studies, to list but a few. Five thematically organized sections address reproductive practitioners and paradigms, global reproductive health and interventions, reproductive justice, the life-course approach to the study of reproductive health, and the future of reproductive technology and medicine. Using clear, jargon-free language, the authors investigate pregnancy and childbirth; fertility treatments; birth control, contraception and abortion; COVID-19 and reproduction; reproductive cancers; epigenetics; social discrimination; gender and sexualities and reproduction for LGBTQIA+ communities; race and reproduction; migration and reproduction; reproduction and war; reproductive health financing; reproduction and disabilities, reproduction and the environment; and other important contemporary topics. A cutting-edge guide to the modern study of reproduction, this groundbreaking volume: Provides an overview of the links between anthropological study and progressive work in medicine, healthcare, and technologyAddresses both the challenges and opportunities facing researchers in the fieldIdentifies gaps in current scholarship and offers recommendations for future research topics and methodologiesHighlights the importance of ethnographic research combined with critical engagements with other disciplines for the anthropology of reproductionExplores the impact of socioeconomic conditions, environmental challenges, public policy, and legislation on reproductive health outcomesTraces the history of the field and demonstrates how anthropologists have engaged with issues of reproductive justicePart of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology series, A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and scholars in medical anthropology, science technology and society, cultural anthropology, ethnology, and gender studies, as well as medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists involved in global and public health and reproductive justice.Table of ContentsNotes on Editors x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xxii INTRODUCTION Tracing the Arc: The Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology 1Cecilia Coale Van Hollen and Nayantara Sheoran Appleton SECTION I Reproductive Practitioners and Paradigms 39 1 Into Doctors' Hands: Obstetric Praxis in Anthropology 41Vania Smith-Oka and Simona Spiegel 2 Obstetrics and Midwifery in the United States: The Tensions between the Technocratic and Midwifery Models of Maternity Care 56Robbie Davis-Floyd 3 The Promise of Interculturalidad: Contestations of Culture for Indigenous Birth Care 70Lucía Guerra-Reyes 4 On the Move: Maternal Reproductive Healthcare Practitioners in Global Circuits 87Hatice Nilay Erten and Claire Wendland 5 COVID-19 and Reproductive Health: Maternity Care in Disruptive Times 103Kim Gutschow SECTION II Global Reproductive Health Interventions 119 6 The Global Safe Motherhood Initiative's "Unintended Consequences" 121Emma Varley and Elsabé du Plessis 7 Counted: Understanding the Problem, Perception, and Reaction to Global Maternal Mortality 138Vanessa M. Hildebrand 8 The Future of Reproductive Health Financing 153Susan Erikson and Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru 9 Reproduction and the Immigrant Experience 168Carolyn Sargent, Carla Urrutia, and Laurence Kotobi 10 Reproduction in the Time of War: A Review of Ethnographic Studies from the United States' War on Terror and Beyond 185Andrea Mazzarino SECTION III Reproductive Justice: Extending and Rupturing Old Boundaries 201 11 Anthropologies of Men, Masculinities, and Reproduction 203Emily Wentzell, Maral Erol, and Salih Can Aciksöz 12 Queer Reproductive Futures 219Nessette Falu and Christa Craven 13 Inconceivable: Cisnormativity and the Management of Trans and Intersex Reproduction 234Mel Lynwood Ferrara 14 Race, Racism, and Reproductive Justice 250Ugo Edu 15 Toward Environmental Reproductive Justice 266Katharine Dow and Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago 16 Cripping Reproduction: The Intersections of Pregnancy and Disability 282Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp SECTION IV Reproductive Life Course: Mapping More than Just Birth 299 17 Menstrual Materiality: Anthropological Mappings from Menstrual Taboos to the FemCare Industry 301Malissa Kay Shaw 18 The Substance of Sperm 317Ayo Wahlberg 19 Hormonal Contraception: From Demographic Histories to Pleasurable Futures? 332Nayantara Sheoran Appleton 20 Anthropology of Abortion 349Maya Unnithan, Silvia De Zordo, Astrid Blystad, and Karen Marie Moland 21 Vaccines, Reproduction, and the Life Course 365Ben Kasstan 22 Anthropological Explorations of Women's Reproductive Cancers 381Linda Rae Bennett and Lenore Manderson SECTION V (Re)Producing the Future: Sociality of Reproductive Technology and Medicine 397 23 What's New about New Reproductive Technologies? 399Sarah Franklin 24 Conceptualizing Surrogacy 415Anindita Majumdar 25 The Egg Freezing Trifecta: Medical, Elective, and Transgender Fertility Preservation 429Marcia C. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, and Pasquale Patrizio 26 CRISPR Enters the Fertility Clinic 444Eben Kirksey 27 Epigenetics and the Anthropology of Reproduction 458Fiona C. Ross, Michelle Pentecost, and Tessa Moll 28 Reproductive Futures 473Andrea Whittaker CONCLUSION Aab Kahan?: Whither the Anthropology of Reproduction? 488Nayantara Sheoran Appleton and Cecilia Coale Van Hollen AFTERWORD Reproducing on an Impaired Planet 502Aditya Bharadwaj Index 507
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Palgrave Macmillan Political Biology Science and Social Values in
Book Synopsis1. Political Biology and the Politics of Epistemology 2. Nineteenth Century: From Heredity to Hard-Heredity 3. Into the Wild: The Radical Ethos of Eugenics 4. A Political Quadrant 5. Time for a Repositioning: Political Biology after 1945 6. Four Pillars of Democratic Biology 7. Welcome to Postgenomics: Reactive Genomes, Epigenetics and the Rebirth of Soft-Heredity 8. Conclusions: The Quandary of Political Biology in the Twenty-First CenturyTrade Review“A fascinating social and political history of human heredity spanning over 150 years from Darwin to the present moment. … it is certainly essential reading for students of history and politics of science, I would urge anyone who feels overwhelmed by the pervasiveness of modern biology and its medical imprint, and who wish to make sense of it, to at least give it a cursory read.” (Rakesh Kalshian, Down To Earth, downtoearth.org.in, July, 2017)“The book offers not only an updated and complex synthesis of existing historiography on the whole range of topics it deals with, but also presents the reader with a future-oriented narrative framework that by its very argumentative structuring invites critical reflection on the synthesis it presents, as well as on the implications and consequences issuing from the present day entwinement of biology and politics. I recommend the book very highly … .” (Snait B. Gissis, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 62, April, 2017)“Political Biology is a dense and useful addition to the voluminous literature on the history of the biological theories of heredity and their sociopolitical consequences.” (Michel Dubois, European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 58 (3), 2017)“With Political Biology Maurizio Meloni has pulled together a strikingly wide range of scholarly sources from the history of the human sciences and heredity … . There is a great deal that historians of science will enjoy and admire about Meloni’s work, particularly the breadth of reading and commitment to delivering the value of historical research to contemporary social and policy predicaments … . Political Biology is engaging, clear and an excellent inclusion in HPS and STS syllabi.” (Dominic J. Berry, British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 50 (1), 2017)Table of Contents1. Political Biology and the Politics of Epistemology 2. Nineteenth Century: From Heredity to Hard-Heredity 3. Into the Wild: The Radical Ethos of Eugenics 4. A Political Quadrant 5. Time for a Repositioning: Political Biology after 1945 6. Four Pillars of Democratic Biology 7. Welcome to Postgenomics: Reactive Genomes, Epigenetics and the Rebirth of Soft-Heredity 8. Conclusions: The Quandary of Political Biology in the Twenty-First Century
£37.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and
Book SynopsisA Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body.Trade Review“Overall, this is a rich and valuable resource which offers great insight into bodies, and anthropological research on bodies, today.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 April 2014) “This wonderful companion to embodiment and body-studies covers twenty nine different aspects from our daily embodied lives.” (The Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 1 May 2012)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Synopses xvii Introduction 1Frances E. Mascia-Lees 1. AESTHETICS 3 Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity CapitalismFrances E. Mascia-Lees 2. AFFECT 24 Learning Affect/Embodying RaceAna Yolanda Ramos-Zayas 3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 46 When I Was A Girl (Notes on Contrivance)Roger N. Lancaster 4. BIOETHICS 72 Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as PatientNora L. Jones 5. BIOPOWER 86Biopower and Cyberpower in Online NewsDominic Boyer 6. BODILINESS 102 The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of BodilinessTerence Turner 7. COLONIALISM 119 Bodies under ColonialismJanice Boddy 8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY 137 Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and IllnessThomas Csordas 9. DEAD BODIES 157 The Deadly Display of Mexican Border PoliticsRocío Magaña 10. DISSECTION 172 The Body in Tatters: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the RepressedNancy Scheper-Hughes 11. (TRANS)GENDER 207 Tomboi EmbodimentEvelyn Blackwood 12. GENOMICS 223 Embodying Molecular GenomicsMargaret Lock 13. HAPTICS 239 Haptic Creativity and the Mid-embodiments of Experimental LifeNatasha Myers and Joe Dumit 14. HYBRIDITY 262 Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific ImaginaryLesley Sharp 15. IMPAIRMENT 276 Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and ImpairedP. David Howe 16. KINSHIP 292 Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of EpigeneticsEmily Yates-Doerr 17. MASCULINITIES 307 The Male Reproductive BodyEmily Wentzell and Marcia C. Inhorn 18. MEDIATED BODIES 320 Fetal Bodies, UndoneLynn M. Morgan 19. MODIFICATION 338 Blurring the Divide: Human and Animal Body ModificationsMargo DeMello 20. NEOLIBERALISM 353 Embodying and Affecting NeoliberalismCarla Freeman 21. PAIN 370 Pain and BodiesJean E. Jackson 22. PERSONHOOD 388 Embodiment and PersonhoodAndrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart 23. POST-SOCIALISM 403 Troubling the Reproduction of the NationMichele Rivkin-Fish 24. RACIALIZATION 419 How To Do Races With BodiesDidier Fassin 25. THE SENSES 435 PolysensorialityDavid Howes 26. SENSORIAL MEMORY 451 Embodied Legacies of GenocideCarol A. Kidron 27. TASTING FOOD 467 Tasting between the Laboratory and the ClinicAnnemarie Mol 28. TRANSNATIONALISM 481 Bodies-in-Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational SurgeryEmily McDonald 29. VIRTUALITY 504 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, CyphergTom Boellstorff Index 521
£141.26
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Pharmaceuticals and Society
Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest international sociological research, this monograph takes a critical look at contemporary developments, discourses, and debate on pharmaceuticals and society. Key issues covered include pharmaceuticals and medicalization and the science and politics of drug development, testing, and regulation Investigates the constructions of pharmaceuticals in professional and popular culture and the meaning and use of medications in everyday life Investigates pharmaceuticals, consumerism, and citizenship and the impact of innovation and expectations regarding pharmaceutical futures Written in a lively, accessible style, with many engaging and important insights from key international figures in the field Trade Review?Well researched and easily digestible, this book is recommended for anyone wishing to gain further understanding of the interplay between pharmaceuticals and society.? (Pharmaceutical Journal , November 2009)Table of Contents1. The sociology of pharmaceuticals: progress and prospects: Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe and Peter Davis. 2. From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: direct-to-consumer advertising and medicalisation: Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter. 3. Waking up to sleepiness: Modafinil, the media and the pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life: Simon J. Williams, Clive Seale, Sharon Boden, Pam Lowe and Deborah Lynn Steinberg. 4. Pharma in the bedroom . . . and the kitchen. . . . The pharmaceuticalisation of daily life: Nick J. Fox and Katie J. Ward. 5. Sociology of pharmaceuticals development and regulation: a realist empirical research programme: John Abraham. 6. Sex, drugs, and politics: the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer: Monica J. Casper and Laura M. Carpenter. 7. New forms of citizenship and socio-political inclusion: accessing antiretroviral therapy in a Rio de Janeiro favela: Fabian Cataldo. 8. Over-the-counter medicines: professional expertise and consumer discourses: Fiona A. Stevenson, Miranda Leontowitsch and Catherine Duggan. 9. In whose interest? Relationships between health consumer groups and the pharmaceutical industry in the UK: Kathryn Jones. 10. The great ambivalence: factors likely to affect service user and public acceptability of the pharmacogenomics of antidepressant medication: Michael Barr and Diana Rose. 11. Shifting paradigms? Reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic stem cells and pharmaceuticals: Steven P. Wainwright, Mike Michael and Clare Williams. Index.
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American Psychological Association Designing Interventions to Promote Community
Book SynopsisThis bookarticulates a clear four-phase process for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interventions using a framework focusing on determinants from the individual, physical, and social environments. It breaks down each phaseinto detailed yet easy-to-follow steps that review important procedures, like identifying a behaviorally based problem within a community, choosing the underlying behavioral determinants to be targeted by the intervention, selecting intervention components and strategies, and evaluating outcomes to improve and further disseminate the intervention. Guidelines for engaging community members in the entire process, building teams, developing a manual of procedures, conducting pilot studies, and the importance of formative and process evaluation are reviewed as well. Also presented are instructions for adapting interventions for new communities. Feature boxes highlight key Trade ReviewDr. Lytle’s extensive experience in designing, developing, and evaluating multilevel behavioral interventions is the foundation for this important and timely book for researchers and practitioners. She has been the lead on many successful interventions involving youth and adults, concerning multiple health problems and associated behaviors, and this has resulted in a framework based on science and achievement. Her clarity reflects this wealth of knowledge, and she gifts us with clear and cogent steps to making our communities healthier places. -- Cheryl L. Perry, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; School of Public Health, Austin Campus, Austin, TX, United StatesLeslie Lytle has written a practical guide for how to plan theoretically sound, creative, and effective policies and interventions to promote healthy behaviors. Concrete examples take the reader through the various steps of the process. The book is systematic and engaging—highly recommended! -- Knut-Inge Klepp, PhD, Executive Director, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, NorwayThis is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and practitioners. The step-wise process for creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel interventions is clearly described and easy to follow. Dr. Lytle’s decades long experience with designing and evaluating multilevel interventions is made evident through her practical guidance and applied intervention examples. -- Jess Haines, PhD, MHSc, RD, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Designing Interventions to Promote Community Health: A Multilevel and Stepwise ApproachChapter 1. A Multilevel Framework for Intervention Design: Overview of the Phases and StepsChapter 2. A Practical Guide to Using Health Behavior Theories to Design Multilevel InterventionsChapter 3. The Plan PhaseChapter 4. The Create PhaseChapter 5. The Implement PhaseChapter 6. The Evaluate PhaseChapter 7. Using the Intervention Design Process to Guide the Adaptation of an InterventionReferencesIndexAbout the Author
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Material Worlds
Book SynopsisA study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. A theoretically innovative book exploring the intersections between law and materiality Offers new perspectives on a variety of high profile controversial subjects, including climate change, public health, genetics, crime, biomedical technology Investigates the futures of both the sociology of law and the study of science and technology from a novel, interdisciplinary vantage point Illustrates a wide range of empirical topics to provide a focus for critical reflection on the nature of cross-disciplinary research Illuminates relationships between transnational regulation and local practices and the relation between social agency and material worlds Table of ContentsIntroduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society (Alex Faulkner, Bettina Lange and Christopher Lawless) 1. The Pragmatic Sanction of Materials: Notes for an Ethnography of Legal Substances (Javier Lezaun) 2. The Regulation of Nicotine in the United Kingdom: How Nicotine Gum Came to Be a Medicine, but Not a Drug (Catriona Rooke, Emilie Cloatre and Robert Dingwall) 3. The Donor-conceived Child's ‘Right to Personal Identity’: The Public Debate on Donor Anonymity in the United Kingdom (Ilke Turkmendag) 4. A Socio-legal Analysis of an Actor-world: The Case of Carbon Trading and the Clean Development Mechanism (Emilie Cloatre and Nick Wright) 5. Nanotechnology and the Products of Inherited Regulation (Elen Stokes) 6. The Emergence of Biobanks in the Legal Landscape: Towards a New Model of Governance (Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag and Anne Cambon-Thomsen) 7. The Legal Landscape for Advanced Therapies: Material and Institutional Implementation of European Union Rules in France and the United Kingdom (Aurélie Mahalatchimy, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, Virginie Tournay and Alex Faulkner) 8. Bodies of Science and Law: Forensic DNA Profiling, Biological Bodies, and Biopower (Victor Toom) 9. The Materiality of What? (Alain Pottage)
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Bristol University Press Vital Bodies
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research conducted over a year, this book tells the story of twelve people, each living with illness. Focusing on everyday life, it explores ideas of care, vulnerability and choice. Juxtaposing text with illustrations, the book highlights the intimacies of visual sociology and demonstrates the value of sensuous scholarship.Trade Review"Vital Bodies reminds us that we all face the struggle of how to be at home in our skin. But like all homes our bodies are weathered by time and fall into disrepair. More than any narrowly practical exploration of health and illness this elegant book documents how people struggle with life and limb to find peace, stability and shelter in the world through their bodies. A remarkable book of gentle but brilliant insights into the nature of life itself." Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths"A beautifully judged book privileging the voices and expertise of people with chronic illnesses. Bates uses her participants’ experiences as a way into a diverse body of scholarship, through which she urges us to think more critically about what is at stake when people are disabled by the demands of contemporary urban life." Anna Ruddock, editor of Making Visible: Chronic Illness and the Academy"Astute, attentive, and illuminating, this study sheds much-needed light on people's diverse illness experiences. Bates sensitively attends to the everyday experiences of illness, which, she rightly claims, harbour the unfolding and continuously changing meaning of illness for the ill person.." Havi Carel, University of BristolRecommended for General Readers by CHOICE ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction Eat Exercise Sleep Genes and organs Feet and legs Hands and hearts Conclusion Appendix: Sensuous scholarship
£75.99
Bristol University Press Vital Bodies
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research conducted over a year, this book tells the story of twelve people, each living with illness. Focusing on everyday life, it explores ideas of care, vulnerability and choice. Juxtaposing text with illustrations, the book highlights the intimacies of visual sociology and demonstrates the value of sensuous scholarship.Trade ReviewRecommended for General Readers by CHOICE Connect"Vital Bodies reminds us that we all face the struggle of how to be at home in our skin. But like all homes our bodies are weathered by time and fall into disrepair. More than any narrowly practical exploration of health and illness this elegant book documents how people struggle with life and limb to find peace, stability and shelter in the world through their bodies. A remarkable book of gentle but brilliant insights into the nature of life itself." Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths"A beautifully judged book privileging the voices and expertise of people with chronic illnesses. Bates uses her participants’ experiences as a way into a diverse body of scholarship, through which she urges us to think more critically about what is at stake when people are disabled by the demands of contemporary urban life." Anna Ruddock, editor of Making Visible: Chronic Illness and the Academy"Astute, attentive, and illuminating, this study sheds much-needed light on people's diverse illness experiences. Bates sensitively attends to the everyday experiences of illness, which, she rightly claims, harbour the unfolding and continuously changing meaning of illness for the ill person.." Havi Carel, University of BristolTable of ContentsIntroduction Eat Exercise Sleep Genes and organs Feet and legs Hands and hearts Conclusion Appendix: Sensuous scholarship
£22.79
Bristol University Press Support Workers and the Health Professions in
Book SynopsisThis original collection analyses the global experience of health care support workers (HSWs) and examines their interface with the health professions, regulatory practice risks, employment challenges and the dilemmas of an ageing population. Crucial future policy recommendations are also made for a world becoming increasingly dependent on HSWs.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Support Workers and the Health Professions ~ Mike Saks Health Professionals, Support Workers and the Precariat ~ Mike Saks and Katherine Zagrodney Unpaid Informal Carers: The ‘Shadow’ Workforce in Health Care ~ A. Paul Williams and Janet M. Lum The Management and Leadership of Support Workers ~ Mike Dent Regulation, Risk and Health Support Work ~ Mike Saks and Judith Allsop The Interface of Health Support Workers with the Allied Health Professions ~ Susan Nancarrow Support Workers in Social Care: Between Social Work Professionals and Service Users ~ Andreas Liljegren, Anna Dunér and Elisabeth Olin Health Professionals and Peer Support Workers in Mental Health Settings ~ Aukje Leemeijer and Mirko Noordegraaf Complementary and Alternative Medicine as an Invisible Health Support Workforce ~ Joana Almeida and Nelson Barros Personal Support Workers and the Labour Market ~ Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass, Whitney Berta, Raisa Deber and Katherine Zagrodney The Role of Health Support Workers in the Ageing Crisis ~ Miwako Hosoda
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Bristol University Press Disability and Ageing
Book SynopsisEstablishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The context for disablement in older age 2. Defining disability 3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse 4. Public policies on ageing and disability Part 2: Empirical findings 5. Disabling bodies 6. Disabling or enabling contexts 7. Responding to challenges 8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability 9. Conclusion Methodological annexe
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Bristol University Press Disability and Ageing
Book SynopsisEstablishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The context for disablement in older age 2. Defining disability 3. Literature: ageing, disability and lifecourse 4. Public policies on ageing and disability Part 2: Empirical findings 5. Disabling bodies 6. Disabling or enabling contexts 7. Responding to challenges 8. Comparison: disability with ageing and ageing with disability 9. Conclusion Methodological annexe
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University of Toronto Press When Medicine Goes Awry
Book SynopsisExamining high profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction Section 1: Case Studies Focusing on the Patient Victim of Medical Error 2. Brian Sinclair: Waiting and Waiting Until Dying in the Emergency Room 3. Ashley Smith: The (Mis)Treatment and Death of an Incarcerated and Troubled Youth 4. Vanessa Young and Marit McKenzie: The Potential Harm of Prescribed Drugs 5. Amy Tan: Lyme Disease and the Battle for Legitimacy Section 2: Case Studies Focusing on the Health Care Provider Causing Medical Error 6. Dr. Charles Smith: The Case Against Blaming the Individual Doctor for Medical Error 7. Elizabeth Wettlaufer: The Nurse Who Murdered Her Long-term Care Patients While No One Noticed 8. Norman Barwin: The Story of Dr. Norman Barwin and the Mixed-up Sperm 9. Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Health Matters
Book SynopsisIn Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contributTable of Contents1. Introduction Eric Mykhalovskiy, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, Pat Armstrong, and Hugh Armstrong SECTION 1—What Counts as Evidence?: Managerial Knowledge, Visibility and Experience 2. Dematerialization of Fundamental Nursing Care in an Era of Managerial Reforms Craig Dale 3. From “Making a Decision” to “Decision Making”: A Critical Reflection on a Discursive Shift Mary Ellen Macdonald and David K. Wright 4. Code Work: RAI-MDS, Measurement, Quality and Work Organization in Long-term Care Facilities in Ontario Tamara Daly, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, and Hugh Armstrong 5. Disputing Evidence: Canadian Health Professionals’ Responses to Evidence About Midwifery Vicki Van Wagner RM, PhD and Elizabeth Darling RM, PhD 6. “Tell Me Where It Hurts:” A Case Study of the Impacts of Structural Violence, Syndemic Suffering, and Intergenerational Trauma on Indigenous People’s Health Christianne V. Stephens 7. Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Broadening the Discourse on Quality Improvement in the Home Care System Alisa Grigorovich SECTION 2— Health Markets, Individualization and Commodification 8. Cigarette Packaging Legislation in Canada and the Smoking Subject Kirsten Bell 9. Public Good, or Goods for the Public: The Commercialization of Academic Health Research Kelly Holloway and Matthew Herder 10. Making Sense of Vaginal Mesh Ariel Ducey, with Barry Hoffmaster, Magali Robert, and Sue Ross 11. Seeking Disability Politics in Disability and Health-Related Non-Profit Organizations Christine Kelly 12. Medical Laboratories: For-Profit Delivery and the Disintegration of Public Health Care Ross Sutherland 13. Nail Salons, Toxics and Health: Organizing for a Better Work Environment Anne Rochon Ford 14. Conclusion. Health Matters: Research in Practice Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Jacqueline A. Choiniere, Eric Mykhalovskiy About the Authors
£26.99
University of Toronto Press When Medicine Goes Awry
Book SynopsisMedical error often results in disability, pain, and suffering, and it is the third leading cause of death in hospitals. Despite its frequency, medical error has been largely invisible to the mainstream public. Within the medical system itself, medical error is often understood as the result of an isolated case of malpractice. When Medicine Goes Awry argues that the causes of medical error are not an anomaly but rather the outcome of a number of factors at play, ranging from political to social to economic. When Medicine Goes Awry dismisses the common blame perspective associated with medical malpractice, instead asserting that medical error is and will continue to be inevitable, given the relentless and expanding processes of medicalization. Shedding light on the ways these forces lead to medicine going awry, the book examines seven well-known cases of medical error. Taking an in-depth look at both patients and medical care providers, Juanne Nancarrow Clarke Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction Section 1: Case Studies Focusing on the Patient Victim of Medical Error 2. Brian Sinclair: Waiting and Waiting Until Dying in the Emergency Room 3. Ashley Smith: The (Mis)Treatment and Death of an Incarcerated and Troubled Youth 4. Vanessa Young and Marit McKenzie: The Potential Harm of Prescribed Drugs 5. Amy Tan: Lyme Disease and the Battle for Legitimacy Section 2: Case Studies Focusing on the Health Care Provider Causing Medical Error 6. Dr. Charles Smith: The Case Against Blaming the Individual Doctor for Medical Error 7. Elizabeth Wettlaufer: The Nurse Who Murdered Her Long-term Care Patients While No One Noticed 8. Norman Barwin: The Story of Dr. Norman Barwin and the Mixed-up Sperm 9. Conclusion
£17.99
Cornell University Press Hoping to Help
Book SynopsisOverseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations, profit-making voluntourism companies, hospitals, and large corporations all sponsor brief missions. Hoping to Help is the first book to offer a comprehensive assessment of global health volunteering, based on research into how it currently operates, its benefits and drawbacks, and how it might be organized to contribute most effectively. Given the enormous human and economic investment in these activities, it is essential to know more about them and to understand the advantages and disadvantages for host communities. Most people assume that poor communities benefit from the goodwill and skills of the volunteers. Volunteer trips are widely advertised as a means to giTrade ReviewMany scholars have discussed the theory behind global aid and the various perils in its execution. Dr. Lasker, a professor at Lehigh University, delivers instead a straightforward, data-driven review of a small health-related fraction of the enterprise, aiming to answer a few basic questions: 'Do volunteers help or hurt?' she asks. 'In what ways?' It turns out these questions cannot be answered, at least not very precisely. Still, anyone contemplating a volunteer stint is likely to be interested in Dr. Lasker's results, which amount to a sort of de facto best-practices manual. * The New York Times *This book is highly relevant to all healthcare professionals, particularly students considering an elective overseas, or dental professionals thinking about using a couple of weeks of annual leave to 'help others' abroad.... The publication is a triumph of social analysis and commentary, which rigorously appraises and summarises the existing body of evidence on the topic.... Overall it is a deeply compelling read that will give you plenty of food for thought, and perhaps change your plans, practice or even your life. I would wholeheartedly recommend it. * British Dental Journal *Hoping to Help makes an important contribution to studies of NGOs, civil society, philanthropy, and global health that both students and the wider volunteering community will enjoy and find easy to read.... Lasker provides prudent recommendations and guidelines for organizations and volunteers while also touching on deeper issues. Reading Hoping to Help led me to reflect on my past experience as a health volunteer and will encourage others to consider the ethics, opportunity costs, and colonialist relations of global health volunteering today. * Contemporary Sociology *Hoping to Help, by sociologist Judith N. Lasker, is a timely contribution to a growing literature that examines the unintended consequences of well-intentioned efforts to help, improve, or fix other people's problems. One of the strengths of Lasker's book is its eminent readability, teachability, and accessibility to those involved in or interested in medical volunteering abroad. * PoLAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A "Tsunami" of VolunteersPart I. The Sponsoring Organizations1. Who Sponsors International Medical Missions?2. The Activities and Goals of Sponsoring OrganizationsPart II. The Volunteers3. Becoming a Volunteer4. What Leads to Volunteering, What Volunteering Leads ToPart III. The Host Communities5. The Best and the Worst: Host Perspectives on Volunteer Programs6. Benefits to Host Communities7. "First, Do No Harm": The Unintended Negatives for Host CommunitiesPart IV. Principles for Maximizing the Benefits of Volunteer Health Trips8. Mutuality and Continuity: Two Pillars of Effective Programs9. Community-Focused Research10. Programmatic FocusConclusion: Lessons Learned; Responding to the DebateAppendix A: Methods of StudyAppendix B: Recommendations for Having the Best Possible Global Health Volunteer TripNotesReferencesIndex
£97.20
Cornell University Press Hoping to Help
Book SynopsisOverseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations, profit-making voluntourism companies, hospitals, and large corporations all sponsor brief missions. Hoping to Help is the first book to offer a comprehensive assessment of global health volunteering, based on research into how it currently operates, its benefits and drawbacks, and how it might be organized to contribute most effectively. Given the enormous human and economic investment in these activities, it is essential to know more about them and to understand the advantages and disadvantages for host communities. Most people assume that poor communities benefit from the goodwill and skills of the volunteers. Volunteer trips are widely advertised as a means to giTrade ReviewMany scholars have discussed the theory behind global aid and the various perils in its execution. Dr. Lasker, a professor at Lehigh University, delivers instead a straightforward, data-driven review of a small health-related fraction of the enterprise, aiming to answer a few basic questions: 'Do volunteers help or hurt?' she asks. 'In what ways?' It turns out these questions cannot be answered, at least not very precisely. Still, anyone contemplating a volunteer stint is likely to be interested in Dr. Lasker's results, which amount to a sort of de facto best-practices manual. * The New York Times *This book is highly relevant to all healthcare professionals, particularly students considering an elective overseas, or dental professionals thinking about using a couple of weeks of annual leave to 'help others' abroad.... The publication is a triumph of social analysis and commentary, which rigorously appraises and summarises the existing body of evidence on the topic.... Overall it is a deeply compelling read that will give you plenty of food for thought, and perhaps change your plans, practice or even your life. I would wholeheartedly recommend it. * British Dental Journal *Hoping to Help makes an important contribution to studies of NGOs, civil society, philanthropy, and global health that both students and the wider volunteering community will enjoy and find easy to read.... Lasker provides prudent recommendations and guidelines for organizations and volunteers while also touching on deeper issues. Reading Hoping to Help led me to reflect on my past experience as a health volunteer and will encourage others to consider the ethics, opportunity costs, and colonialist relations of global health volunteering today. * Contemporary Sociology *Hoping to Help, by sociologist Judith N. Lasker, is a timely contribution to a growing literature that examines the unintended consequences of well-intentioned efforts to help, improve, or fix other people's problems. One of the strengths of Lasker's book is its eminent readability, teachability, and accessibility to those involved in or interested in medical volunteering abroad. * PoLAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A "Tsunami" of VolunteersPart I. The Sponsoring Organizations1. Who Sponsors International Medical Missions?2. The Activities and Goals of Sponsoring OrganizationsPart II. The Volunteers3. Becoming a Volunteer4. What Leads to Volunteering, What Volunteering Leads ToPart III. The Host Communities5. The Best and the Worst: Host Perspectives on Volunteer Programs6. Benefits to Host Communities7. "First, Do No Harm": The Unintended Negatives for Host CommunitiesPart IV. Principles for Maximizing the Benefits of Volunteer Health Trips8. Mutuality and Continuity: Two Pillars of Effective Programs9. Community-Focused Research10. Programmatic FocusConclusion: Lessons Learned; Responding to the DebateAppendix A: Methods of StudyAppendix B: Recommendations for Having the Best Possible Global Health Volunteer TripNotesReferencesIndex
£18.99
Cornell University Press Achieving Access
Book SynopsisAt a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues, Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris's analysis is situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and public health and will speak Trade ReviewThrough his focus on professional movements at the domestic level, Harris makes new contributions to the literatures on the transnational AIDS movement, democratization and the medical profession's role in health policy.... The book is a major contribution to the study of professionals in (health) politics and timely given the ongoing struggle for universal coverage models in global health institutions. * Global Affairs *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Achieving Access
Book SynopsisAt a time when the world's wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues, Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris's analysis is situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and public health and will speak Trade ReviewThrough his focus on professional movements at the domestic level, Harris makes new contributions to the literatures on the transnational AIDS movement, democratization and the medical profession's role in health policy.... The book is a major contribution to the study of professionals in (health) politics and timely given the ongoing struggle for universal coverage models in global health institutions. * Global Affairs *
£27.54
University of Minnesota Press Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the
Book SynopsisHow the politics of “medical necessity” complicates American health care The definition of medical necessity has morphed over the years, from a singular physician’s determination to a complex and dynamic political contest involving patients, medical companies, insurance companies, and government agencies. In this book, Daniel Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining this concept, arguing that sustained political engagement with medical necessity is essential to developing a health care system that meets basic public health objectives.From medical marijuana to mental health to reproductive politics, the concept of medical necessity underscores many of the most divisive and contentious debates in American health care. Skinner’s close reading of medical necessity’s production illuminates the divides between perceptions of medical need as well as how the gatekeeper concept of medical necessity tends to frame medical objectives. He questions the wisdom of continuing to use medical necessity when thinking critically about vexing health care challenges, exploring the possibility that contracts, rights, and technology may resolve the contentious politics of medical necessity.Skinner ultimately contends that a major shift is needed, one in which health care administrators, doctors, and patients admit that medical necessity is, at its base, a contestable political concept.Trade Review"Medical Necessity brings high-level theoretical concepts to bear on the idea of necessity, showing that this uniquely important aspect of contemporary medical administration appears and recedes in relation to a set of actors—doctors, patients, insurance companies, paraprofessionals, and lawyers—who manage the classification of treatments and negotiate the technical aspects of ‘need’ within their domains."—Cindy Patton, editor of Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
£80.00
University of Minnesota Press Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the
Book SynopsisHow the politics of “medical necessity” complicates American health care The definition of medical necessity has morphed over the years, from a singular physician’s determination to a complex and dynamic political contest involving patients, medical companies, insurance companies, and government agencies. In this book, Daniel Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining this concept, arguing that sustained political engagement with medical necessity is essential to developing a health care system that meets basic public health objectives.From medical marijuana to mental health to reproductive politics, the concept of medical necessity underscores many of the most divisive and contentious debates in American health care. Skinner’s close reading of medical necessity’s production illuminates the divides between perceptions of medical need as well as how the gatekeeper concept of medical necessity tends to frame medical objectives. He questions the wisdom of continuing to use medical necessity when thinking critically about vexing health care challenges, exploring the possibility that contracts, rights, and technology may resolve the contentious politics of medical necessity.Skinner ultimately contends that a major shift is needed, one in which health care administrators, doctors, and patients admit that medical necessity is, at its base, a contestable political concept.Trade Review"Medical Necessity brings high-level theoretical concepts to bear on the idea of necessity, showing that this uniquely important aspect of contemporary medical administration appears and recedes in relation to a set of actors—doctors, patients, insurance companies, paraprofessionals, and lawyers—who manage the classification of treatments and negotiate the technical aspects of ‘need’ within their domains."—Cindy Patton, editor of Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
£21.59
Bristol University Press Living Data: Making Sense of Health Biosensing
Book SynopsisAs individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding and sharing data about their own bodies, this book offers a critique of the popular claim that ‘more information’ equates to ‘better health’. In a study that redefines the public, academic and policy related debates around health, bodies, information and data, the authors consider the ways in which the phenomenon of self-diagnosis has created alternative worlds of knowledge and practises which are often at odds with professional medical advice. With a focus on data that concerns significant life changes, this book explores the potential challenges related to people’s changing relationships with traditional health systems as access to, and control over, data shifts.Trade Review“This is an original and timely text – an absolute pleasure to read and a unique contribution to the field.” Emma Rich, University of Bath''This book presents a compelling account of people's engagements with biosensors. Drawing on their long history of research in science and technology studies, the authors elucidate how people can be helped or disappointed by these new technologies.'' Deborah Lupton, University of New South WalesTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Does Biosensing Do? Fertility Biosensing Biosensing Stress Platform Biosensing and Post- Genomic Relatedness Biosensing in Old Age Conclusion: What Might Biosensing Do?
£43.19
Bristol University Press Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological
Book SynopsisHow can sociology explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or individuals? This authoritative book makes a case for the renewal of the sociology of mental illness, proposing a reorganisation of this field around four areas: social stratification, stress, labelling and culture. Drawing on case studies from a range of global contexts, the book argues that current research focuses on identifying ‘social factors’, leaving the question of causality to psychiatry, while significant critical perspectives remain untapped. The result is an unprecedented resource that maps the current state of sociology of mental health, providing an invigorating manifesto for its future.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Critical Renewal of the Sociology of Mental Health 1. Social Positions ‘and’ Mental Disorders 2. Society as Stressor 3. The Weight of Labels 4. The Uses of Culture Conclusion: Explaining the ‘Mental Health Crisis’
£76.00
Bristol University Press Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies:
Book SynopsisFrom health tracking to diet apps to biohacking, technology is changing how we relate to our material, embodied selves. Drawing from a range of disciplines and case studies, this volume looks at what makes these health and genetic technologies unique and explores the representation, communication and internalization of health knowledge. Showcasing how power and inequality are reflected and reproduced by these technologies, discourses and practices, this book will be a go-to resource for scholars in science and technology studies as well as those who study the intersection of race, gender, socio-economic status, sexuality and health.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Social and Behavioural Genomics and the Ethics of (In)Visibility - Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko 2. PureHealth: Feminist New Materialism, Posthuman Auto-Ethnography and Hegemonic Health Assemblages - Tina Sikka 3. Ambivalent Embodiment and HIV Treatment in South Africa - Elizabeth Mills 4. An ‘Artificial’ Concept as the Opposite of Human Dignity - Kazuhiko Shibuya 5. Health Praxis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Diagnostics, Caregiving and Reimagining the Role(s) of Healthcare Practitioners - Kevin Cummings and John Rief 6. Digital Health Technological Advancements and Gender Dynamics in STS - Anamika Gulati 7. Automation in Medical Imaging: Who Gets What AI Sees? Insights from the Adopters’ Perspective - Filomena Berardi and Giorgio Vernoni 8. Robots for Care: A Few Considerations from the Social Sciences - Miquel Domènech and Núria Vallès-Peris 9. Are Ovulation Biosensors Feminist Technologies? - Joann Wilkinson and Celia Roberts Conclusion
£77.39
Bristol University Press Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis: Making
Book SynopsisWhat is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment, the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of having children. They also raise questions about how gender and sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire. This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary crises.Table of ContentsInterleave 1 1 Reproducing in Climate Crisis Interleave 2 2. Methods in Crisis Interleave 3 3. Breath, Breathing and 'Mum-Guilt' Interleave 4 4. Smoke, Machines and Public Health Interleave 5 5. Kin, Care and Crises Interleave 6 6. Pyro-Reproductive Futures Interleave 7 7. Making Bushfire Babies
£72.00
University of Massachusetts Press Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and
Book SynopsisWhen an epidemic strikes, media outlets are central to how an outbreak is framed and understood. While reporters construct stories intended to inform the public and convey essential information from doctors and politicians, news narratives also serve as historical records, capturing sentiments, responses, and fears throughout the course of the epidemic.Constructing the Outbreak demonstrates how news reporting on epidemics communicates more than just information about pathogens; rather, prejudices, political agendas, religious beliefs, and theories of disease also shape the message. Analyzing seven epidemics spanning more than two hundred years -- from Boston's smallpox epidemic and Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in the eighteenth century to outbreaks of diphtheria, influenza, and typhoid in the early twentieth century -- Katherine A. Foss discusses how shifts in journalism and medicine influenced the coverage, preservation, and fictionalization of different disease outbreaks. Each case study highlights facets of this interplay, delving into topics such as colonization, tourism, war, and politics. Through this investigation into what has been preserved and forgotten in the collective memory of disease, Foss sheds light on current health care debates, like vaccine hesitancy.Trade Review"Well-written and engaging, Constructing the Outbreak is a particularly timely study, given the growing challenges to scientific research on vaccine-preventable illnesses." — Robert B. Hackey, author of Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Heath Care Debate "With meticulous research featuring a wealth of media and archival resources, Katherine A. Foss makes fascinating observations on the connections between these horrific epidemics and the cultures of each era, with a clarity and accessibility that will appeal to both experts and general readers." — Janice Hume, author of Popular Media and the American Revolution: Shaping Collective Memory"In her new book, Katherine A. Foss, professor of media studies at Middle Tennessee University, traces the multifaceted layers of the connection between epidemics, media, and cultural contexts shaping the perception and representations of outbreaks. [...] The different chapters give a detailed, grippingly narrated account of the outbreaks." — Connections Journal
£65.45
University of Massachusetts Press Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and
Book SynopsisWhen an epidemic strikes, media outlets are central to how an outbreak is framed and understood. While reporters construct stories intended to inform the public and convey essential information from doctors and politicians, news narratives also serve as historical records, capturing sentiments, responses, and fears throughout the course of the epidemic.Constructing the Outbreak demonstrates how news reporting on epidemics communicates more than just information about pathogens; rather, prejudices, political agendas, religious beliefs, and theories of disease also shape the message. Analyzing seven epidemics spanning more than two hundred years -- from Boston's smallpox epidemic and Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in the eighteenth century to outbreaks of diphtheria, influenza, and typhoid in the early twentieth century -- Katherine A. Foss discusses how shifts in journalism and medicine influenced the coverage, preservation, and fictionalization of different disease outbreaks. Each case study highlights facets of this interplay, delving into topics such as colonization, tourism, war, and politics. Through this investigation into what has been preserved and forgotten in the collective memory of disease, Foss sheds light on current health care debates, like vaccine hesitancy.Trade Review"Well-written and engaging, Constructing the Outbreak is a particularly timely study, given the growing challenges to scientific research on vaccine-preventable illnesses." — Robert B. Hackey, author of Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Heath Care Debate "With meticulous research featuring a wealth of media and archival resources, Katherine A. Foss makes fascinating observations on the connections between these horrific epidemics and the cultures of each era, with a clarity and accessibility that will appeal to both experts and general readers." — Janice Hume, author of Popular Media and the American Revolution: Shaping Collective Memory "In her new book, Katherine A. Foss, professor of media studies at Middle Tennessee University, traces the multifaceted layers of the connection between epidemics, media, and cultural contexts shaping the perception and representations of outbreaks. [...] The different chapters give a detailed, grippingly narrated account of the outbreaks." — Connections Journal
£21.80
University of Massachusetts Press A Drunkard's Defense: Alcohol, Murder, and
Book SynopsisIs drunkenness a defense for murder? In the early nineteenth century, the answer was a resounding no. Intoxication was considered voluntary, and thus provided no defense. Yet as the century progressed, American courts began to extend exculpatory value to heavy drinking. The medicalization of alcohol use created new categories of mental illness which, alongside changes in the law, formed the basis for defense arguments that claimed unintended consequences and lack of criminal intent. Concurrently, advocates of prohibition cast "demon rum" and the "rum-seller" as the drunkard's accomplices in crime, mitigating offenders' actions. By the postbellum period, a backlash, led by medical professionals and an influential temperance movement, left the legacy of an unsettled legal standard. In A Drunkard's Defense, Michele Rotunda examines a variety of court cases to explore the attitudes of nineteenth-century physicians, legal professionals, temperance advocates, and ordinary Americans toward the relationship between drunkenness, violence, and responsibility, providing broader insights into the country's complicated relationship with alcohol.
£23.70
Equinox Publishing Ltd Communication in Surgical Practice
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a range of linguistic, sociological, and professional views on communication in surgical practice. It aims to provide an insight into the complexity of communication in surgery, covering the variety of communicative activities required in everyday surgical work.The selection of authors from a variety of interactive sociolinguistic disciplines in collaboration with clinicians explores a broad range of topics and the methodologies currently used to understand communication in surgical practice.The intended audience for this book includes surgeons, medical educators, communication researchers, linguists, sociologists, and others with an interest in surgical and medical communication.Trade ReviewThis volume has significant academic merit and fills a gap that currently exists in the academic literature - pulling together a variety of perspectives on communication in surgery. Marcy E. Rosenbaum, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Chair of tEACH, the teaching committee for European Association for Communication in HealthcareTable of Contents1. Examining Communication in Surgical PracticeSarah J. White and John A. CartmillSection I2. The Referred ConsultationSarah J. White, Maria Stubbe, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Lindsay Macdonald, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Tony Dowell, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Kevin Dew, Victoria University of Wellington, and Rod Gardner, Griffith University3. Doing Patient-centred ConsultationsLynda Yates, Macquarie University, and Maria R. Dahm, Macquarie University4. Psychological Effects in Surgical Decision-making: Evidence, Ethics, and OutcomesY. Gavriel Ansara, National LGBTI Health Alliance, Australia5. Breaking Informed Consent: Some Challenges for International Medical GraduatesMaria R. Dahm and Israel Berger, Macquarie University6. Do Surgeons Want to Operate? Negotiating the Treatment Plan in Surgical ConsultationsMaria Stubbe, Sarah J. White, Lindsay Macdonald, Tony Dowell, Rod Gardner, and Kevin Dew7. Negotiating Treatment Recommendations in Orthopaedic Surgery RecommendationsShannon Clark, University of Canberra, and Pamela Hudak, Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario, Toronto, CanadaSection II8. Transactions between Matter and Meaning: Surgical Contexts and Symbolic ActionDavid G. Butt, Macquarie University, Alison R. Moore, University of Wollongong, and John A. Cartmill9. Operating Together: The Collective Achievement of Surgical ActionLorenza Mondada, University of Basel10. "Coming Up!": Why Verbal Acknowledgement Matters in the Operating TheatreTerhi Korkiakangas, Institute of Education, University College London, Sharon-Marie Weldon, Imperial College London, Jeff Bezemer, Institute of Education, University College London, and Roger Kneebone, Imperial College London11. Lovers, Wrestlers, Surgeons: A Contextually Motivated View of Interpersonal Engagement and Body Alignment in Surgical InteractionAlison R. Moore12. Who's Who?: Constructing Roles during Minor Awake SurgeriesIsrael Berger and Sarah J. White13. Toward a Language of Operative SurgeryDavid G. Butt and John A. CartmillSection III14. Interprofessional Clinical Handovers in Surgical PracticePeter Roger, Macquarie University, Maria R. Dahm, Lynda Yates and John A. Cartmill15. Open Disclosure in Surgical PracticeStewart Dunn, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney16. Clinical Communication Education for SurgeonsSuzanne Kurtz, Washington State University
£72.25
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Food and Health: Actor Strategies in Information
Book SynopsisFood is a major health issue; the links between diet and health are dominant in nutrition discourse and practice. Food and Health: Actor Strategies in Information and Communication identifies the informational practices of nutrition professionals and consumers to study the structural elements of food and health. It analyzes the communication strategies of actors and the dissemination and use of information related to both food for health and health through food. The book considers nutrition from the point of view of public policies, educational organizations, preventive measures, consumers and patients. Table of ContentsPreface xiViviane CLAVIER and Jean-Philippe DE OLIVEIRA Introduction xiiiViviane CLAVIER and Jean-Philippe DE OLIVEIRA Part 1. Public Space and Communication and Legitimization Strategies 1 Chapter 1. Food as a Public Health Problem: Convergences and Divergences of Public and Private Actor Games 3Sylvie BARDOU-BOISNIER and Jean-Philippe DE OLIVEIRA 1.1. Introduction 3 1.2. The “crisis of confidence” in the agri-food industries 5 1.2.1. Food and fear 6 1.2.2. A generalized crisis of agri-food companies and their communication policies 10 1.2.3. An evolution in consumer food practices 14 1.3. Food as a public health issue 15 1.3.1. Organizations and the emergence of a societal issue 16 1.3.2. Constituted audiences and opinion leaders 18 1.4. The PNNS: communication and actors’ logic 20 1.4.1. A consensus on the need for regulation 20 1.4.2. The PNNS as a framework for the State: better production for better communication? 22 1.5. Conclusion 25 1.6. References 26 Chapter 2. From Controversy to Media Controversy: Analysis of Communication Strategies Concerning the Health Risk of Growing Limousin Apples 29Christelle DE OLIVEIRA and Audrey MOUTAT 2.1. Introduction 29 2.2. The Limousin apple at the heart of a controversy 31 2.3. Unbalanced communication strategies 37 2.4. From controversy to media controversy 42 2.5. Conclusion 47 2.6. References 49 Chapter 3. Naming “Antibiotic-Free” Meat: American Agri-Food Industry Communication between Commitment and Guaranteeing Food Safety 53Estera BADAU 3.1. Globalization of the antimicrobial resistance problem and diversification of action programs 53 3.2. A variety of formulas to name “antibiotic-free” meat in the United States 54 3.3. Problematization, hypothesis and methodology 56 3.4. Stages of progressive communication 60 3.4.1. The voluntary approach 60 3.4.2. First naming attempts 62 3.4.3. Commitment through action 62 3.5. Emergence and use of the no antibiotics ever and no/without medically important antibiotics formulas 63 3.5.1. Private industry’s claim and takeover of an institutional formula 63 3.5.2. Brand commitment and guarantee of food safety 64 3.6. Conclusion 66 3.7. Appendix. Methodological aspects: corpus building 68 3.7.1. The press corpus compiled for our thesis work 68 3.7.2. Constitution of the corpus for this chapter 68 3.8. References 72 Chapter 4. From Health Responsibility to Ethical Responsibility: The Legitimization of New Vegetable Experts in France 75Clémentine HUGOL-GENTIAL, Sarah BASTIEN, Hélène BURZALA and Audrey NOACCO 4.1. Introduction 75 4.2. Expert nutritionists and the gradual erasure of the traditional expert figure 78 4.3. Dissemination of the socio-ecological discourse on vegetables: the dissolution of journalistic discourse in favor of “ethical” value 84 4.4. Chefs and culinary experts: from the acceleration of public authorities’ health discourse to an integrative discourse on ethics 86 4.5. Conclusion 90 4.6. References 92 Part 2. Education and Prevention: A Critical Approach to Discourses and Dispositives 97 Chapter 5. Food at School: Between Science and Norm 99Simona DE IULIO, Susan KOVACS, Christian ORANGE, Denise ORANGE-RAVACHOL and Davide BORRELLI 5.1. Introduction 99 5.2. Using scientific expertise to achieve public policy 102 5.2.1. Public policy on food education: strategic use of studies and statistics on obesity and overweight 102 5.2.2. The “Food Education” page of the Éduscol web portal: rewriting technocratic science 104 5.3. Food pedagogy and the challenge of school interdisciplinarity 107 5.3.1. Promoting interdisciplinarity across school subjects 107 5.3.2. Interdisciplinarity in teachers’ discourse 111 5.4. Food pedagogy and food communication dispositives: applied or normative science? 116 5.4.1. In praise of applied science: food in school textbooks 116 5.4.2. Playful science as a means to promote eating behaviors 118 5.4.3. When students take on the role of statisticians: relaying technocratic science 121 5.5. Conclusion 123 5.6. References 124 Chapter 6. Info-educational Dispositives to Educate Children about Nutrition 129Marie BERTHOUD 6.1. Introduction 129 6.2. Educating about the nutritional model 133 6.3. Designing info-pedagogical dispositives to educate about nutrition in schools 134 6.3.1. The association of multiple professionals 135 6.3.2. A homogeneous production 136 6.4. Adapted national dispositives 139 6.4.1. “Léo and Léa”: info-educational dispositives for schools 139 6.4.2. A tool belonging to national public institutions 142 6.4.3. A tool to mobilize children 144 6.5. Conclusion 147 6.6. References 148 Chapter 7. Communication and Nutrition: The Clinician’s Point of View 151Anne-Laure BOREL 7.1. Introduction 151 7.2. The physiology of eating behavior and its dysfunction in terms of obesity 152 7.3. The “confusiogenic” effect of communication on nutrition among obese people 154 7.4. The danger of increasing the stigmatization of obese people through communication on nutrition 156 7.5. The danger of increased eating disorders through nutrition communication 158 7.6. Conclusion 159 7.7. References 160 Part 3. Information, Food and Health: Consumers’ and Patients’ Points of View 161 Chapter 8. Information Resources and Information Practices in the Context of the Medicalization of Food 163Viviane CLAVIER 8.1. Introduction 163 8.2. Taking context into account in the study of information practices and information resources 165 8.2.1. The medicalization of food 165 8.2.2. From nutritional information to the nutritionalization of knowledge 168 8.2.3. Three social logics in the health sector 170 8.3. More diversified information practices than in the health field 171 8.3.1. Targeted and intentional practices 172 8.3.2. Floating and unintentional practices 174 8.4. Sources of information and forms of medicalization of knowledge 175 8.4.1. Nutrition professionals as resources 176 8.4.2. Food in health discussion forums 178 8.5. Conclusion 182 8.6. References 183 Chapter 9. Labeling for Sustainable Food: The Consumer’s Point of View 189Anne LACROIX, Laurent MULLER and Bernard RUFFIEUX 9.1. The potential role of labeling in a sustainable food perspective 189 9.2. Data collection techniques 191 9.2.1. Observing information behaviors when purchasing 194 9.2.2. Defining priorities for information 196 9.2.3. Identifying opinions and beliefs 198 9.2.4. Assessing expectations 199 9.3. Limited use of information when purchasing 200 9.3.1. Consultation of a small part of the available information 200 9.3.2. Price and origin: major benchmarks 201 9.3.3. Influence of education and income levels on the use of information 201 9.3.4. Diversified benchmarks for sustainable food 202 9.4. A widely shared desire for more information 203 9.4.1. A significant demand for information from less well-off consumers 203 9.4.2. Packaging: a favored material 204 9.4.3. Priorities for clarification information on packaging 204 9.5. Opinions expressing beliefs and mistrust 205 9.5.1. Origin, a vector of beliefs on sustainable food 205 9.5.2. Mistrust towards all actors in the food chain 206 9.5.3. Simpler and more practical labeling 206 9.5.4. A plea for comprehensive information 207 9.6. Conclusions 208 9.6.1. From desired information to the information used 208 9.6.2. Sustainable food from a consumer point of view 208 9.7. Implications for stakeholders 209 9.8. Appendices 211 9.8.1. Appendix 1. Screenshot of the online experiment 211 9.8.2. Appendix 2. Screenshot of the face-to-face survey 212 9.9. References 213 Chapter 10. Social Appropriation of “Diet and Health” Information: From Public Health Campaigns to Digital Tools 217Faustine RÉGNIER 10.1. Introduction 217 10.2. Dissemination and appropriation of “diet and health” information in public health campaigns 220 10.2.1. Dissemination of general information 220 10.2.2. General information: socially unequal reception 221 10.3. “Diet and health” information and personalized digital tools: issues and shifts 225 10.3.1. Customization tools: are they effective media? 225 10.3.2. First lessons: plural shifts and appropriations of information via digital technology 228 10.4. Conclusion 234 10.5. References 235 Postface 239David DOUYÈRE List of Authors 243 Index 245
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health
Book SynopsisThis engaging Research Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on social factors and mental health, examining how important it is to consider the social context in which mental health issues develop. It illustrates how social factors contribute to problems with mental health and how society, in turn, responds to people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Expert contributors provide an in-depth review of the history of social factors and mental health, and also discuss how boundaries between disorders such as bipolar and borderline personality disorder can be blurred and contested. Past and current social factors are thoroughly reviewed such as refugee mental health, stressors linked to discrimination based on race, gender or sexual orientation, exposure to police violence and the impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The challenges and stigma faced by those diagnosed with disorders, alongside prejudices and discrimination in the health care system are also examined. The Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health will be an excellent resource for scholars studying social issues in relation to mental health or illness and researchers wishing to take an interdisciplinary approach by studying biopsychosocial factors. Mental health providers interested in well-rounded learning and those people experiencing and living with mental illness will find the alternative viewpoints to mainstream psychiatry and psychology informative and illuminating.Trade Review‘This superb volume, edited by Marta Elliott, offers a rich and distinctly sociological exploration of classic and contemporary topics in mental health research. The authors, including emerging and eminent scholars, address core topics like stigma and medicalization as well as the mental impacts of contemporary crises like COVID-19 and environmental threats. Scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike have much to learn from this collection.’ -- Deborah Carr, Boston University, US‘This wide-ranging and timely volume is a welcome addition to research on the social dynamics of mental health and illness. Including focused reviews and original empirical work, the contributions provide important insights on both established areas and more recent areas of concern such the COVID-19 pandemic, school shootings, and police violence.’ -- Kerry Dobransky, James Madison University, US‘In this outstanding volume, Marta Elliott assembles an impressive range of authors to present the latest thinking on both common and novel topics in mental health research. From the classic sociological roots of mental health research to critical analyses of contemporary therapies, the chapters offer fresh insights to readers who are new to the field as well as to seasoned scholars.’ -- Jane D. McLeod, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health xv Marta Elliott 1 The historical legacy of the sociology of mental health 1 Allan V. Horwitz 2 Seekers and providers: medicalization of circumstantial sadness and fear 20 Sigita Doblytė 3 Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or borderline bipolar? Negotiating the blurred boundaries between psychosocial and biomedical categories 34 Rhiannon Lane 4 The digital forces of medicalization: the role of apps for mental health 53 Antonio Maturo and Marta Gibin 5 Obscuring air pollution and pesticides’ contribution to depression: the role of the Canadian and New Zealand governments 66 Manuel Vallée 6 Refugee mental health: differential trauma exposure and gendered expectations as explanatory mechanisms for disparities 82 Jessica R. Goodkind, Julia Meredith Hess, Ryeora Choe, Yuka Doherty, Meredith A. Blackwell, David T. Lardier, and Deborah I. Bybee 7 Stratified access to care and mental health implications for pregnant and postpartum immigrants in the US‒Mexico border region 101 Victoria De Anda and Carina Heckert 8 Racial identity and the racial paradox in mental health 115 Michael Hughes, K. Jill Kiecolt, and Verna M. Keith 9 Does racial identity buffer against poor mental health among Black Americans? Examining everyday discrimination and the nexus of ethnicity and nativity 136 Dawne M. Mouzon, Breanna D. Brock, Ebony D. Johnson, and Thalya Reyes 10 Beyond immigrant generation: religious approach, perceptions of discrimination, and the stress process model 159 Sarah Shah 11 Stigma visibility and mental health among lesbians and gay men 176 Michael J. Doane and Marta Elliott 12 Disability, ableism, and mental health 201 Robyn Lewis Brown and Gabriele Ciciurkaite 13 The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on stress: a cross-national analysis of economic and public health policies and individual characteristics 218 James M. Ragsdale, Megan LaMotte, and Marta Elliott 14 School shootings: the social dynamics of mental disorder 233 Anne Nassauer 15 The social epidemiology of adverse childhood experiences 251 Heather A. Turner and Deirdre A. Colburn 16 Police violence and mental health: the uncharted empirical inquiry of a long-standing societal problem 268 Jonathan Marsh, Dania Lerman, Jordan DeVylder, and Lisa Fedina 17 Impact of relationship to the perpetrator and self-blame on college women’s well-being following sexual assault 289 Ann E. Jones 18 The bitter and the sweet revisited: religious resources, spiritual struggles, and psychological distress 306 Christopher G. Ellison and Kevin J. Flannelly 19 College student mental health: current trends and implications for higher education 325 Sasha Zhou and Daniel Eisenberg 20 Coping with the “pains of imprisonment”: the interaction of institutional conditions and individual experiences on inmate mental health 348 Timothy G. Edgemon 21 The impact of stigma on the well-being of people diagnosed with mental illness: why stigma persists and why it remains consequential 366 Jason Schnittker 22 Understanding inequity in mental health care: the role of discrimination in providing and experiencing care 382 Annahita Ehsan, Charlotte Woodhead, Preety Das, Rebecca Rhead and Stephani L. Hatch 23 Trans men’s access to and discrimination in mental healthcare in the Southeastern United States 409 Baker A. Rogers and Austin H. Johnson 24 Beyond psychoanalysis: psychodynamic psychotherapy in a biomedical and behavioral world 428 Dena T. Smith 25 Withdrawal, not relapse: analysis of an online forum for people coming off antidepressant medications 445 Pınar Üstel 26 Open Dialogue approach to treating serious mental illness 461 Rhoshel K. Lenroot, Marcello A. Maviglia, Ming Tai-Seale, and Douglas Ziedonis 27 Community-based mental health care 482 René Keet Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between
Book SynopsisWinner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2023 In a major contribution to the sociology of medicine, Alison Pilnick shifts the terms of the debate around patient centred care (PCC). PCC is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. However, empirical research repeatedly fails to show a clear link between the adoption of PCC and improvement in health outcomes. These results are largely considered as professional failings, to be remediated through ‘better’ training in PCC; as a result empirical research is largely focused on the extent to which practice does not live up to checklists of PCC criteria. Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings over a 25 year period, Pilnick illustrates the ways in which there are good organisational and interactional reasons for what may look from a PCC perspective like ‘bad’ healthcare practice. Conceptualisations of PCC typically foreground the importance of patient autonomy, to be exercised through choice and control; the analysis presented here highlights the problems with these consumerist underpinnings of PCC, and shows how the interactional consequence of attempting to enact them is often the sidelining of medical expertise that patients want or need. Arguing that reform would be better directed at considering how this expertise can be re-centred in contemporary healthcare, the analysis illustrates why values-driven policy can be problematic in practice, and points to the importance of using analyses of healthcare interaction to inform healthcare policy making from the outset, rather than simply as a barometer of its success.Trade ReviewReconsidering Patient Centred Care … is essential reading … it provides a convincing, empirically grounded assessment of patient centered care, which is being evaluated and judged both in relation to the logics and imperatives of real-life interaction in medical encounters and with reference to the societal purpose and function of medicine in the first place. -- Melisa Stevanovic * Symbolic Interaction *The book would be enjoyable and useful to clinicians and policymakers, as well as sociologists. It shows the problems with widespread assumptions about what happens in the medical encounter. Such assumptions are taken as the starting point of policy interventions (and indeed sociological analyses) into many pressing issues and the book therefore successfully commends conversation analysis as a method for interrogating PCC by starting, not ending, with study of interaction itself. -- Eleanor Kashouris, Kashouris, E. (2023), Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, Alison, Emerald. 2022. 168pp. £65 (hbck). ISBN: 9781800717442. Sociol Health Illn, 45: 1393-1394. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13646The array of topics and extracts in this 5-chapter monograph shows how challenging PCC is for healthcare professionals to define and enact, particularly when PCC is competing with other institutional goals and service delivery constraints […] The book is potentially of interest to anyone involved in researching, developing, teaching or implementing healthcare policy and practice and may particularly appeal to clinical academics. -- Avril Nicoll, Nicoll, A. (2023), Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, A. Bingley, Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 168. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9781800717442. Sociol Health Illn, 45: 1395-1396. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13677This is a pathbreaking book in its use of conversation analysis to revisit core issues in medical sociology [...] It shows a deep knowledge of the history of debates in the field and a breadth of scholarship that situates conversation analysis firmly as a sociological practice. [...] This book clearly shows the value of detailed, painstaking and thorough empirical work for challenging self-defined assumptions of virtuous practice. It needs to be read by anyone with an interest in the communication skills of health professionals. -- Robert Dingwall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Nottingham Trent UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. What is Patient Centred Care? Chapter 2. Patient Centred Care in Practice Chapter 3. On good interactional reasons for ‘bad’ healthcare practice Chapter 4. Rehabilitating medical expertise for the 21st Century Chapter 5. Moving beyond Patient Centred Care?
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Liverpool University Press The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary
Book SynopsisCan literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In the past twenty years, health humanists and scholars of literature and medicine have drawn on Romantic ideas to argue that literature cures by making sufferers whole again. But this model oversimplifies how Romantic writers thought literature addressed suffering. Poetics documents how writers like William Wordsworth and Mary Shelley explored palliative forms of literary medicine: therapies that stressed literature’s manifold relationship to pain and its power to sustain, comfort, and challenge even when cure was not possible. The book charts how Romantic writers developed these palliative poetics in conversation with their medical milieu. British medical ethics was first codified during the Romantic period. Its major writers, John Gregory and Thomas Percival, endorsed a palliative mandate to compensate for doctors’ limited curative powers. Similarly, Romantic writers sought palliative approaches when their work failed to achieve starker curative goals. The startling diversity of their results illustrates how palliation offers a more comprehensive metric for literary therapy than the curative traditions we have inherited from Romanticism.Trade Review'This erudite and beautifully written book stages a dialogue between historicist work on Romanticism and medicine, disability studies, and the emerging field of the health humanities. Starting from the premise that the Romantic period was the first to conceive of literature as the stuff of medical therapy, Pladek shows it was also the first to criticise a naïve version of that view. In five crisp chapters, she shows how writers as diverse as Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, John Stuart Mill and Mary Shelley thought of literature as a palliative, not a cure, for human suffering. In each of these discussions, she reveals how romantic literature anticipated some of the most controversial ideas in the health humanities today, notably the notion that to be effective medicine must treat the whole person, and she also traces fascinating genealogies of a great many ideas in modern medicine that are assumed to have no romantic pedigree. The result is an interdisciplinary dialogue of the first order and a literary tour de force.'Neil Vickers, University College London‘The Poetics of Palliation offers a serious and expert engagement with the field of the health humanities as a legacy of Romantic literature and criticism. Extensively researched, it will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested the relationship between those two areas, as well as in the intertwined genealogies of therapeutic holism, the New Criticism, and certain strains of liberalism. A reparative reader in the sense proposed by Eve Sedgwick, Pladek maintains her commitment to literature’s ability to give and to model care, but without assuming that it can – or should – cure.’ Kevis Goodman, University of California, Berkeley‘Pladek’s book reaffirms the importance of the Romantic period in its identification of the era as witnessing the origin of New Critical ideas of unity and wholeness in literature and therapeutic holism in the health humanities. It places the literature of the period center stage in debates that are still ongoing now.’ Sharon Ruston, European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Therapeutic Holism: The Persistence of Metaphor2 From John Stuart Mill to the Medical Humanities3 ‘Soothing Thoughts’: William Wordsworth and the Poetry of Relief4 Palliating Humanity in The Last Man5 John Keats’s ‘Sickness Not Ignoble’6 Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s ‘Fictitious Condition’Works CitedIndex
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.With contributions from leading experts in the fields of anthropology, communications, disaster studies, economics, epidemiology, Indigenous studies, philosophy and sociology, this expansive book offers a diverse range of social science perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic, providing critical insights into what a research agenda for COVID-19 and society resembles across different fields of study. This timely Research Agenda investigates what the social sciences can contribute to COVID-19 scholarship, exploring topics such as the impact of the pandemic on women and Indigenous Peoples, ideas behind herd immunity, drivers of vaccine diplomacy, magnification of existing inequalities, and the ethics of vaccine passports. Driven by a particular focus on the causes and consequences of the pandemic, the book considers the opportunities that research into COVID-19 presents, including how such disasters might be mitigated, as well as how we might change the world for the better and carry out our own work differently in the future. Drawing upon numerous critical theories and methodological approaches, this incisive Research Agenda will be an invaluable tool for academics across the social sciences, particularly disaster scholars. Graduate and undergraduate students will benefit from its wealth of insightful contributions from experts working in their respective fields.Trade Review‘Social science at its best. This important book takes huge steps towards helping us reimagine the social world, highlighting and thinking through the strengths but also the weakness of social, political and cultural bonds revealed by the pandemic. Strongly grounded in empirical research but also theoretically compelling, this book will stimulate a range of new insights into how we can navigate our way towards radically altered horizons.’ -- Robert van Krieken, The University of Sydney, Australia‘A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society provides impressive critical analyses and innovative research reflections on the complex social consequences of the SARS-CoV 2 pandemic. The volume has compelling contributions from social scientists from a range of disciplinary fields, including sociology, anthropology, philosophy and political economy, and provides incisive analyses of reactions to the pandemic in a number of countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and the US.A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society also provides analyses of the pandemic and its consequences in relation to indigeneity, gender and the pandemic amplification of the care crisis, the interconnection of humans to other animals, plants, and non-organic things, as well as in respect of the multiple disruptions to everyday life, and not least the ways in which the necessity for forms of governmental intervention and increased investment in and support for the public sphere has served to confirm the limitations of the neoliberal policy paradigm. A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society deserves to be widely read and will prove to be a very valuable resource for researchers across the social sciences.' -- Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth, England‘Steve Matthewman is unquestionably one of the world's leading sociologists of catastrophe and disaster. In this collection, he has unerringly marshalled a series of revelatory perspectives that will be essential for understanding COVID-19 and “the new normal”. There is not one weak spot among them. This is a landmark contribution to the field.’ -- Chris Rojek, City, University of London, UK
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social
Book SynopsisFeaturing state-of-the-art contributions from leading experts in their respective fields, the Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences explores an extensive range of topics, concepts, research approaches and theoretical orientations aimed at providing guidance for those undertaking health research.Cross-disciplinary in scope, the Encyclopedia provides an accessible introduction to a wide variety of complex topics and presents a comprehensive overview of the latest findings in the field of health research. Entries examine timely issues such as big data in healthcare, complementary and alternative medicine, feminism and population health, social class and health inequalities, and vaccination debates. It ultimately exemplifies how social science perspectives can be deployed to help us better understand how individuals, institutions and society can act to support health and wellbeing. This informative Encyclopedia will be an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students across disciplines with an interest in the complex relations between health research and the social sciences. Key Features: 65 fully-referenced entries An interdisciplinary approach, with topics ranging from animal studies to wellbeing Written in a concise and accessible style, enabling researchers and students of social science to consider how to relate entries to their own interests Trade Review‘Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan offer an invaluable conceptual toolkit for health researchers wanting to learn more about what the social sciences have to offer them. The range of topics covered in this volume is impressive, providing guidance to key ideas, debates and further reading on specialist topics.’ -- Alan Petersen, Monash University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Health Research in the Social Sciences x Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan Animal studies and healthcare 1 James Gillett Big data in healthcare 7 Mary F.E. Ebeling Breastfeeding 12 Emily Hansen and Jennifer Ayton Chronic illness 18 Dima Rusho and Narelle Warren Commercial determinants of health 24 Sarah Hill Communication research on climate change 30 Eryn Campbell, Sri Saahitya Uppalapati, John Kotcher, and Edward Maibach Complementary and alternative medicine 36 Caragh Brosnan Complexity theory and evaluation 42 Elizabeth McGill Contested illness 48 Tarryn Phillips and Catherine Trundle Critical policy analysis 54 Heather Came and Dominic O’Sullivan Critical quantitative research 59 Lindsay McLaren Critical realism 65 Lee F. Monaghan Cultural health capital 71 Leslie Dubbin and Janet K. Shim Death and dying 77 Rebecca E. Olson and Zhaoxi Zheng Dementia studies 82 James Rupert Fletcher Digital health 88 Benjamin Marent and Flis Henwood Disasters and health 94 Sudeepa Abeysinghe Discourse analysis 98 Ewen Speed Economics for health equity 103 Lindsay McLaren Ethical sensibilities in ethnographies of care 109 Ignacia Arteaga and Henry Llewellyn Ethnicity, racism and health 115 Hannah Bradby Feminism and population health 122 Kalysha Closson and Allison Carter Framing pollution 128 Lesley Henderson Genetic medicine 135 Courtney Addison Harm reduction 140 Rebecca J. Haines-Saah and Elaine Hyshka Health promotion 146 Morten Hulvej Rod and Katherine L. Frohlich Hermeneutic phenomenology 151 Susan Crowther Hormonal contraception 158 Nayantara Sheoran Appleton Indigenous peoples and health research 164 Anna Adcock and Fiona Cram Indoor ecologies and health 169 Rachael Wakefield-Rann Leadership 175 David Evans LGBTQ+ health and social research 181 Anthony K.J. Smith and Christy E. Newman Life course research 187 David Blane Medicalisation 192 Kevin Dew Micro-analysis and health interactions 198 Maria Stubbe Mobilities and health 204 Judith Green Nature and wellbeing 211 Jonathan (Yotti) Kingsley Neoliberalism 216 Peri Ballantyne New medical technologies 221 John Gardner Occupational health and safety 227 Josh Barton Older age 232 Gavin J. Andrews and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis Pandemics and epidemics 237 Robert Dingwall Pharmaceuticalisation 243 Jonathan Gabe Postmodernism and health research 248 Lee Thompson Practice theory and health intervention 251 Fiona Spotswood Prenatal screening 256 Ruth P. Fitzgerald Professionalization 261 Jette Ernst Qualitative evidence synthesis 266 Christopher J. Colvin Qualitative interviews 271 Hilary Thomas and Sarah Earthy Responsibility 277 Catherine Trundle Science and Technology Studies 283 Catherine M. Montgomery Sensory methods 288 Marilys Guillemin and Susan M. Cox Sexuality and health 293 Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz Social class and health inequalities 299 Sarah Hill Social marketing 305 Fiona Spotswood Sociology of pesticides 310 Manuel Vallée Stigma and public health 317 Tamar M.J. Antin and Emile Sanders Symbolic interactionism 322 James Rupert Fletcher Translational research 328 Trisha Greenhalgh and Anne E. Ferrey Trust 335 Michael Calnan Vaccination debates 342 Brian Martin Video-reflexive ethnography 346 Katherine Carroll Violence against women 352 Janet L. Fanslow Visual methods 359 Susan M. Cox and Marilys Guillemin Wellbeing 365 Kim McLeod
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Edward Elgar Publishing The Intersection of Global Health and Sustainable
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life
Book SynopsisThe development of health across an individual’s life depends on many factors, but social determinants play a vital role. This timely Handbook simultaneously uses theoretical, descriptive, explanatory and policy approaches to explore health inequalities related to income, education, occupational status, social capital, and also biological and genetic factors.World- leading experts define and present the most prominent research topics, perspectives, and findings in the field and pose critical questions from within and beyond the research community. Structured into five parts this handbook addresses theories, methods, single stages of the life course, long-term perspectives on the whole life course, and policies. It helps readers understand the complexity of health sociology while also investigating important mechanisms and solutions through which health inequalities can be reduced.Providing a comprehensive, multi- and interdisciplinary analysis of topics and approaches to health inequalities, this Handbook will be an inspiring resource for researchers seeking to expand their knowledge and tackle new research questions. Advanced students of sociology, demography, epidemiology, public health and related fields will also benefit.Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course: a societal problem and a source for interdisciplinary research 1 Rasmus Hoffmann PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH INEQUALITIES ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE 2 Sociology of the life course and its implications for health inequalities 15 Karl Ulrich Mayer 3 Cumulative dis/advantage processes, nutrition transition, and global metabolic disparities: interrogating the cohort-policy linkage 32 Jessica A. Kelley, Abolade Oladimeji and Dale Dannefer 4 Economic theories of health inequality across the life course 46 Titus J. Galama and Hans van Kippersluis 5 Health as a consequence of genetic variation, gene transcription and life course experiences 59 Martin Diewald PART II METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES FOR THE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES 6 Methods for studying life course health inequalities 75 Scott M. Lynch and Christina Kamis 7 Causal inference based on non-experimental data in health inequality research 93 Michael Gebel 8 Predictive machine learning approaches – possibilities and limitations for the future of life course research 112 Hannes Kröger 9 Instrumental variables in studies of health and health inequalities 127 Rasmus Hoffmann and Gabriele Doblhammer PART III MECHANISMS AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR HEALTH INEQUALITIES AT STAGES OF THE LIFE COURSE 10 Health inequalities in adolescence and their consequences for (emerging) adulthood 145 Marie Bernard, Kristina Winter, and Irene Moor 11 Social inequalities, social capital, and health inequalities in the process of growing up 159 Andreas Klocke and Sven Stadtmüller 12 Work and health inequalities 171 Johannes Siegrist 13 Family relations and health inequalities: grandparents and grandchildren 187 Valeria Bordone, Giorgio Di Gessa and Karsten Hank 14 The effects of retirement on health and mortality by socio-economic group 202 Matthias Giesecke 15 Health inequalities in older age: the role of socioeconomic resources and social networks in context 214 Martina Brandt, Nekehia T. Quashie and Alina Schmitz PART IV LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES ACROSS LIFE COURSE STAGES 16 Early childhood origins of modern social class health disparities 232 Alberto Palloni, Daniel Ramirez and Sebastian Daza 17 The long arm hypothesis: childhood poverty, epigenetic ageing, and late-life health in America, Britain, and Europe 251 Gindo Tampubolon 18 Childhood conditions and health later in life: examples from Sweden 273 Serhiy Dekhtyar and Stefan Fors 19 The influence of early health on educational and socioeconomic outcomes 290 Marco Cozzani and Juho Härkönen 20 Divergence and convergence: how health inequalities evolve as we age 305 Johan Fritzell and Johan Rehnberg 21 Environmental inequality and health outcomes over the life course 325 Christian König and Jan Paul Heisig 22 Infectious diseases across the life course: an inequalities perspective 347 Nico Dragano PART V POLICY PERSPECTIVES AND EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS OF INTERVENTIONS AGAINST HEALTH INEQUALITIES 23 Policy, inequity, and the life course in the US 366 Sarah Petry 24 The role of Social Protection Policies in reducing health inequalities 382 Amanda Aronsson, Hande Tugrul, Clare Bambra and Terje Andreas Eikemo Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Healthcare and Elderly Care in Europe:
Book SynopsisGiven growing caseloads, limited funding and staff shortages, the need for coordination in healthcare and elderly care is at an all-time high. This timely book conducts a cross-national analysis of coordination problems in healthcare and long-term care systems, providing novel insights on how to improve the lives of the elderly.This book focuses on four European welfare states with well-developed healthcare and long-term care systems: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. It examines the two critical interfaces of the transition from hospital care to home care and integrated home care arrangements. Using empirical data and extensive interviews with major stakeholder organisations, the authors identify best practice examples of healthcare and long-term coordination. The book ultimately considers both professional-level and system-level coordination problems, suggesting original solutions in financing reform, institutionalisation, and academisation.Healthcare and Elderly Care in Europe will be a fascinating read for scholars and students interested in health policy, long-term care, the sociology of health, welfare states and comparative public policy. It will also be a valuable guide for policymakers seeking to design effective healthcare and long-term care systems.Trade Review‘This book focuses on a very important yet understudied topic: how to improve the living conditions of frail older people through better coordination between healthcare and elderly care systems. The volume analyses the coordination problems in Continental European countries and puts forward very interesting proposals for solutions. The book is a necessary read for those studying long-term care systems.’ -- Emmanuele Pavolini, University of Macerata, Italy‘Coordination in service delivery is important for individual well-being and a great challenge for contemporary systems of care. This book provides an insightful and theoretically grounded comparative analysis of coordination problems in long-term care, as well as a great variety of concrete solutions to overcome the most challenging obstacles for effective coordination.’ -- Kenneth Nelson, Stockholm University, Sweden‘Clearly written and well-researched, this book applies a compelling actor-centric and institutionalist framework to analyze and compare coordination problems between healthcare and elderly care systems in four European countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. Students of health policy governance should learn a great deal from reading this excellent book.’ -- Daniel Béland, McGill University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Healthcare and elderly care in Europe: an introduction 2. Theory: institutions and actors 3. Data and methods: interviews with stakeholder organizations 4. Germany: social insurance with a divide between healthcare and long-term care 5. The Netherlands: institutional fragmentation in a patient-centered system 6. Sweden: regional and local autonomy 7. Switzerland: merits and downsides of medical dominance 8. Professional-level problems: staff shortage, divided responsibilities, or missing communication? 9. System-level coordination problems: impact of the institutional structure 10. Conclusion: coordination requires financing reform, institutionalization, and academization References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Public Management and
Book SynopsisFollowing the extensive global impact of COVID-19, this forward-looking Research Handbook examines the pandemic from a public management perspective, exploring the roles and responses of public managers and considering how public organisations will be reshaped in the future.This Research Handbook brings together a wealth of established and early career international scholars who offer summative and comparative analyses of jurisdictions’ pandemic responses, alongside vital in-depth studies of jurisdictional pandemic experiences. Chapters interrogate public management successes and failures in response to the pandemic, the systemic inequalities highlighted by the pandemic, how the pandemic challenged public managers and political leaders, and crucially how the pandemic challenged fundamental concepts of public management. Offering key advice as to how public management can adapt and reorient going forward, this Research Handbook is a vital contribution to the developing discussion and debate taking place within this discipline.Exploring a broad range of key concepts in the field, this book will be an invaluable read for students, academics and researchers of public management, public administration, health care management, sociology and social policy. Providing important data relating to crisis response, this book will also be of practical benefit to public leaders and their professional teams when coordinating action in emergency situations.Trade Review‘This Handbook draws together theory and empirical evidence to tease out important implications for understanding the role of public management in the pandemic, across a wide range of countries and public services, and with insights across a range of themes of relevance to government, public organizations, and citizens. Read it to understand this complex recent past – and also to understand how to prepare for the future. A fine collection of chapters.’ -- Jean Hartley, The Open University, UK‘This remarkable book analyzes the COVID-19 crisis through the eyes of some of the most insightful and creative public policy and public management scholars in the world. It is a “must read” – now and in the future – for anyone interested in improving our collective response to global public challenges.’ -- Rosemary O'Leary, University of Kansas, US‘A fascinating collection on the potential and limitations of public management to meet the challenges posed by COVID-19. A key message is that mainstream public management theory and practice is fatally flawed by its ongoing failure to take account of structural inequality. Happily, it offers ideas and evidence of how to do better in the future.’ -- Helen Sullivan, Australian National University‘The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented public management challenges and exposed weaknesses that had festered for a long time. This is a timely book on the challenges and how they were addressed. Public management scholars and practitioners around the world will find the book useful.’ -- M. Ramesh, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19 1 Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Sophie Yates and Janine O’Flynn PART I PUBLIC PROBLEMS AND PUBLIC MANAGERS: THE CHALLENGES OF COVID-19 AND HOW THEY HAVE CHALLENGED PUBLIC MANAGERS IN THEIR ESTABLISHED ROLES 2 Pandemic challenges for public managers: juggling parallel crisis playbooks 19 Arjen Boin and Paul ‘t Hart 3 Reconsidering public management in a post-COVID world 31 Zeger van der Wal 4 What COVID-19 showed us about populism, democracy, and performance: the case of the United States 43 Naim Kapucu and Donald Moynihan 5 Uncertainty and ambiguity during a crisis and the challenge for public management: COVID-19 crisis management in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia 57 Nicholas Bromfield 6 The politics of “letting it rip”: why Australia went from zero-COVID to COVID-central 72 Blair Williams PART II HOW COVID-19 CHALLENGED THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 7 Procurement and public spending: amplification and emergence of issues arising from COVID-19 86 Barbara Allen 8 Citizen participation in public management: activated, empowered, responsibilised, abandoned? 99 Catherine Durose, Beth Perry and Liz Richardson 9 Public Service Logic: a service lens on the COVID-19 vaccination programmes 112 Stephen Osborne, Maria Cucciniello and Tie Cui 10 Can co-production that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic be sustained? 126 Trui Steen, Taco Brandsen and Menno Hoppen 11 Examining the impact of COVID-19 on managing public sector employees: overcoming or exacerbating incoherences? 137 Sue Williamson and Linda Colley 12 The governance of public services during COVID-19: a review of challenges and opportunities 150 Rachel Ashworth and Catherine Farrell PART III SUCCESS, FAILURE, AND IN-BETWEEN: WHAT THE PANDEMIC TAUGHT US 13 Responding to COVID-19 in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: the importance of strengths-based public administration, cultural safety and working in genuine partnership 162 Catherine Althaus, Dawn Casey and Lucas de Toca 14 A review of COVID-19 organisational recovery in a UK metropolitan police force utilising a complexity theory framework 176 Phil Davies 15 Policing the pandemic: deciding and acting in the face of uncertainty and the unexpected 192 Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, Nicky Miller, Helen Selby-Fell and Benjamin Bowles 16 Trust, capacity and management of vaccine rollouts 206 Adam Hannah, Katie Attwell and Jordan Tchilingirian 17 The governance of food security in the post-COVID-19 context: innovative principles for public management in Argentina 218 Joaquín Pérez Martín 18 ‘Build back better’: infrastructure policy’s post-pandemic promise 228 Sara Bice 19 Ubuntu philosophy in times of crises: COVID-19 pandemic period and beyond 243 Xolile Carol Thani 20 Small island states, COVID-19, and public policies: a thematic analysis 257 Kim Moloney 21 Death management in public administration: lessons from the front lines 274 Staci M. Zavattaro 22 The rise of robots in the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for public management 286 Helen Dickinson and Catherine Smith PART IV REVEALING AND ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS 23 “Stay home” and queer(y)-ing the heteronormative assumptions of COVID policy responses 300 Peter Matthews and Daniel Edmiston 24 Public management challenges with the emergency response for people with disability during COVID-19 312 Sophie Yates and Helen Dickinson 25 Gender mainstreaming and collaborative public management during COVID-19: a case study of national machineries for gender equality and care infrastructure in Argentina 325 Natalia Dopazo, Maria Daels and Hayley Henderson 26 How useful is priority setting in an emergency? An analysis of its role in national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic 339 Iestyn Williams, Suzanne Robinson, Chris Smith, Lydia Kapiriri and Helen Dickinson 27 The future of public management as we emerge from the acute phase of COVID-19: key themes and future trajectories 354 Sophie Yates, Janine O’Flynn, Helen Dickinson and Catherine Smith
£200.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19
Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook examines sport-related research and analysis pertaining to how the sport industry has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Taking stock of the changes over the course of the pandemic, it also provides key insights into how the sport industry and its stakeholders might move forward in post-pandemic times. Organized into six parts, the first half of the book explores the areas of sport management, sport communication, and sport marketing, while the final three parts analyze sport events, sport stakeholders, and sport and society. Expert international contributors delve into a wide array of topics related to the sport industry including athletes, clubs, leagues, and brand and sport management to illuminate how the pandemic has influenced these aspects of sport. Offering a comprehensive analysis of how Covid-19 has affected the sport industry, this Research Handbook will be a key resource for business and management scholars and advanced students with a particular interest in sport, health, and well-being. Its use of global case studies will also be beneficial for sport managers and practitioners in this field.Trade Review‘The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sport industry cut across myriad areas, from financial to organisational to socio-cultural. In the Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19, Pedersen has collated works that highlight all the various implications from this once-in-a-generational event. From an international perspective, this resource not only documents the experiences for future generations of sport scholars, but also provides a truly valuable resource to demonstrate how one event can systematically change the landscape of an entire industry – affecting how we operate, view, consume, and value sports as part of our everyday existence, while also fast-tracking innovation and new opportunities for growth.’ -- Lauren M. Burch, Loughborough University London, UK‘The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted sport in ways not previously imagined, and necessity spawned multifaceted innovation. Sport entities rich in resiliency and creativity connected with sport consumers via new approaches, and many of these novel methods will remain permanent. The true value of the Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19 lies in its rich description of pandemic-induced innovation as relayed by 92 contributors from 22 countries, and, accordingly, the text is a must-read for sport managers desiring to thrive in the face of future disruption.’ -- Damon P.S. Andrew, Florida State University, US‘In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the planet to a standstill. The impacts on the sport industry at all levels (grassroots, Olympic, or professional) were unimaginable. Editor Paul M. Pedersen had the foresight to reach out to scholars and practitioners from different segments of the sport industry to study and report on the effects of COVID-19 on the business of sports worldwide as it was happening. With unique insights from over 20 countries, this book will be of great interest to students, academics, and sport managers alike.’ -- Benoit Séguin, University of Ottawa, Canada‘The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great effect on all aspects of our lives. Editor Paul M.Pedersen’s Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19 is an extremely timely resource that examines these effects on sports. With almost 100 scholars and practitioners (representing over 20 countries) contributing to the Handbook, readers will learn how the pandemic impacted sports and what we have learned as we enter a post-pandemic world.’ -- Brian A. Turner, The Ohio State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19 1 Paul M. Pedersen PART I SPORT MANAGEMENT 2 Economics lessons from sports during the COVID-19 pandemic 8 Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, Peter Dolton, James Reade and Dominik Schreyer 3 The impact of COVID-19 on amateur sport 18 Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Patxi León-Guereño, Ewa Malchrowicz-Mośko and Arkaitz Castaneda Babarro 4 The impact of COVID-19 on French sports federations 30 Nicolas Delorme 5 The impact of COVID-19 on the management of the sport media 44 Hamid Ghasemi and Ryan Vooris 6 Changing business models – how fitness centers reacted to COVID-19: the case study of a Polish fitness operator 54 Julia Ziółkowska and Tomasz Taraszkiewicz 7 The impact of COVID-19 on interscholastic athletics 66 Tyler Ratts, Braden Norris, Brian Mancuso and Paul M. Pedersen PART II SPORT COMMUNICATION 8 De-globalization, de-commercialization, and semi-mediatization: the influence of COVID-19 on global sport communication 87 Wei Wei and Li Siying 9 Young audiences’ sports media repertoires and expectations towards sport coverage during COVID-19 98 Daniel Nölleke 10 The hard law of live: a case study on French sports channels during COVID-19 112 Valérie Bonnet and Tyler Ratts 11 Professional football clubs and associations under pressure: COVID-19 as a precursor of structural change in European sport 124 Jürgen Mittag and Jörg-Uwe Nieland 12 Accelerating direct virtual public relations for sport organizations through information subsidies during COVID-19 137 Mark Dottori, Alex Sévigny and Norm O’Reilly PART III SPORT MARKETING 13 Relationship marketing during COVID-19: strategies and processes of communication in German and Austrian sports clubs 153 Thomas Horky, Christof Seeger, Jörg-Uwe Nieland, Daniel Nölleke, Christiana Schallhorn and Philip Sinner 14 Using consumption capital theory to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on major and minor sports in Germany 165 Andreas Hebbel-Seeger, Thomas Horky and Hermann A. Richter 15 Who wants football back? Surveying fans in Brazil during COVID-19 177 Ary José Rocco Junior, Thadeu Gasparetto, Marina Tranchitella, Luis Felipe Monteiro de Barros, Luiz Augusto Brum and Romulo Macedo 16 The impact of COVID-19 on athlete branding 190 Zack P. Pedersen, Antonio S. Williams and Ryan M. Brewer 17 COVID-19 as a new chance for a sport league: motivation behind watching Korea Baseball Organization games 202 Minkyo Lee, Ju Young Lee, Jinwook Chung, Inae Oh and Choonghoon Lim 18 The star and COVID-19: Serie A soccer celebrities and the self-narrative of contagion on social media 214 Mario Tirino, Luca Bifulco and Simona Castellano PART IV SPORT EVENTS 19 The impact of COVID-19 on sports events, national federations, and organizations in South Africa over a 16-month period 230 David Maralack, Donovan Jurgens and Roger Woodruff 20 Sport event pandemic risk management and what has been learned from COVID-19 245 Kong-Ting Yeh, Tsu-Lin Yeh, and Nakibae Kitiseni 21 Innovation in sport events during COVID-19 258 Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Christian Dragin-Jensen and Thomas Könecke 22 Fourteen days: athletes’ media usage and stories in hard quarantine during COVID-19 269 Sam Duncan, Tim Breitbarth and Chris Bowers 23 Sport management during COVID-19 in the Norwegian context 289 Elsa Kristiansen PART V SPORT STAKEHOLDERS 24 COVID-19 and the Bundesliga: a study of digital fan engagement strategies in professional soccer 300 Laura Matz, Gashaw Abeza and David Wagner 25 COVID-19 and the decline of volunteers in Australian community sport: solutions to move forward 312 Charles Mountifield and Stirling Sharpe 26 An assessment of mood and anxiety in university athletes and non-athletes during social mobility restrictions of COVID-19 328 Oswaldo Ceballos Gurrola, Minerva Thalia Juno Vanegas Farfano, Ramón Ernesto Mendoza Baldenebro, Rosa Elena Medina Rodríguez, Luis Tomás Ródenas Cuenca, Jeanette M. López-Walle and José Tristán Rodríguez 27 Between total loss and immunity: does the crisis resilience thesis prove its worth in times of COVID-19 in Germany? 337 Norbert Schütte 28 Parent hockey culture during “unsettled times”: COVID-19 and the hockey community 347 Sandra M. Bucerius, Bryan Hogeveen, Brad W.R. Roberts and Albert H. Vette PART VI SPORT AND SOCIETY 29 The football segment of the sport industry and the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy: a conflict analysis 358 Luca Bifulco 30 From the stadiums to the consoles: the role of sports computer games during COVID-19 374 Ilan Tamir 31 Social stratification patterns in physical activity and sports during COVID-19 384 Jeroen Scheerder, Erik Thibaut, Veerle De Bosscher, Margot Ricour and Annick Willem 32 Sports betting and COVID-19 399 Arif Yüce 33 Sports activism during the COVID-19 pandemic era 414 Orr Levental, Roy David Samuel and Yair Galily 34 Utilizing critical ethnography to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the structure of elite soccer in Korea 423 Alex Gang, Kihan Kim, Sunghwan Byun and Paul M. Pedersen Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and
Book SynopsisDrawing together the latest research on migration, gender and COVID-19, this erudite Research Handbook contributes to a better understanding of the immediate and longer-term implications of the pandemic on gender dynamics and roles in international migration. Providing a wealth of expert critical analysis, it considers post-COVID-19 realities and assesses the future scope of research in this interdisciplinary field of study.Capturing multi-disciplinary insights and diverse geographies, the Research Handbook explores migration in all of its facets, from displacement and internal and international mobility to return migration and labour mobility. Chapters address topical issues relating to the policy and programmatic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for migration and migrants from a gender perspective. Marie McAuliffe and Céline Bauloz, alongside leading researchers and academics, present a major contribution to scholarly inquiry which is crucial for informing inclusive and sustainable responses to improve migrants’ wellbeing and protection.Offering a state-of-the-art review of the implications of COVID-19 on migration through the lens of gender, this Research Handbook will provide a thought-provoking resource for students and researchers in demography, migration studies, geography, political science, sociology and international law. Its critical examination of policy and programmatic interventions designed to address gender inequalities in migration will also be of significant interest to policymakers and practitioners.Trade Review‘COVID-19 has had a profound effect on migration dynamics, leaving an indelible mark on the world. This exceptional volume explores complex interplays between COVID-19, migration processes, and gender, offering invaluable insights across an array of global contexts. It is an essential resource for understanding the pandemic’s far-reaching consequences.’ -- Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Migration, gender and COVID-19: an overview 1 Marie McAuliffe and Céline Bauloz, PART I (MIS)UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS: MIGRATION AND GENDER RESEARCH & ANALYSIS 2 Researching Afghan women’s mobility decisions during COVID-19 and multiple crises – stayers or left behind? 17 Nassim Majidi and Katherine James 3 The ‘covidisation’ of migration and health research: understanding the implications of the pandemic for the field 34 Thea de Gruchy, Jo Vearey, Kavita Datta, Elaine Chase and Linda Musariri,, 4 COVID-19 and the intersections of gender, migration status, work and place 48 Denise Spitzer PART II GENDER IMPLICATIONS OF MOVING DURING COVID-19 5 Internal migration, informal work, and the COVID-19 pandemic: city-level insights on intersecting vulnerabilities 64 Marcela Valdivia and Ghida Ismail 6 Gendered impacts on internal migrant workers in the informal economy in India 83 Megan Schmidt-Sane, Mihir Bhatt, Mehul Pandya and Lyla Mehta 7 Migration of Venezuelan and Haitian women in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic: outlooks, gender, and governance 95 Roberto Rodolfo Georg Uebel 8 Intersectionality, violence, and migration during COVID-19: women on the move in Central America 109 Adriana Salcedo 9 Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on international students in Korea 123 Taehoon Lee and Sang Hyun Park PART III DESTINATION COMPLEXITIES OF MOBILITY AND IMMOBILITY 10 Care as relational practice: Filipino migrant workers creating communities of care under COVID-19 141 Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Tanya Yared, Edwin Carlos and Maria Renee Zapata 11 Syrian refugees in Lebanon: gendered impacts of a multi-layered crisis 154 Irene Tuzi and Weam Ghabash 12 Gendered control over space in migrant housing 168 Mastoureh Fathi 13 Pandemic precarity, crisis-living, and food insecurity: female Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa 180 Sujata Ramachandran, Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera and Elizabeth Opiyo Onyango 14 By the wayside: gender dimensions of stranded migrants during the COVID-19 crisis 196 Marie McAuliffe PART IV RETURN MIGRATION AND REINTEGRATION IMPACTS 15 Pre-pandemic mobility: uncoupling gendered return migration and COVID-19 in Zimbabwe 213 Rose Jaji 16 Impact of COVID-19 on women migrant workers: case of domestic workers in the South Asia–Gulf corridor 225 S. Irudaya Rajan and Rakkee Thimothy 17 Return migration and women’s empowerment: the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in return migrant households 239 Céline Bauloz and Jenna Blower-Nassiri 18 Understanding return migration from the Gulf to East Africa during crisis: youth and gender dimensions 259 Adrian Kitimbo PART V MIGRATION AND GENDER IN A POST COVID-19 WORLD 19 COVID-19 vaccine access and the intersection of gender and displacement 278 Katharine M. Donato, Elizabeth Ferris, Shuait Nair, Erin M. Sorrell and Claire J. Standley 20 Changing practices of providing (financial) care: gender, digital access and remittances during COVID-19 291 Iris Lim and Kavita Datta 21 One step forward, two steps back: pandemic policy responses and the gendered implications for women and LGBTQI+ migrants 309 Jenna Hennebry and Hari KC 22 The impacts of COVID-19 and coup on Myanmar migrant children’s education in Thailand 325 Pyone Myat Thu and Premjai Vungsiriphisal 23 Addressing irregularity and combating vulnerabilities: regularisation programmes implemented during and as a result of COVID-19 344 Pablo Rojas Coppari and Samuel Poirier Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited Health Policy, Power and Politics: Sociological
Book SynopsisIn the context of substantial changes in health service policy and public health policy in England over the last two decades, Health Policy, Power and Politics fills an important gap by providing an up-to-date and accessible account of recent trends in health policies and a sociological analysis of why these policies have taken the shape they have. This book provides a theoretically informed analysis of key recent policy changes in England and how the interplay of powerful structural interests has influenced policy in health. It includes chapters on recent reforms in the NHS and the drift towards privatisation, policies aimed at enhancing public and patient involvement, the regulation of the drug industry, medicalisation and mental health policy, the role and effect of the media and recent changes in social and environmental health policy. The analysis examines the influence of the State, professional medicine, the media, commercial interests such as those of the pharmaceutical, food and fossil fuel industries, patient’s groups and the wider global environment. While the key focus of the book is on England, the analysis drawn on by the author comes from a plethora of policy examples in health systems in high and low to middle income countries across the world. This widened context shines a light on the influence of globalisation and highlights both the distinctive character of health policy in England, as well as the common themes it shares in a world-wide context.Trade Review'Professor Calnan is very well qualified to write on health policy, power and politics in the UK, in which he has a national and international reputation. This book is solidly grounded on his recent teaching and distinctively and revealingly adopts a sociological perspective in addressing several key facets of the UK policy agenda.' -- Mike Saks, Emeritus Professor, University of Suffolk‘Health Policy, Power and Politics is an excellent book ideal for students undertaking health policy modules. Effectively a course text in its own right, it draws on Michael Calnan’s years of teaching, researching and writing on and around this topic.’ -- Mike Dent, Emeritus Professor, Staffordshire UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Continuity or Change? Organisational Developments in the National Health Service Chapter 2. Medical Professionalism and Its Reconfiguration Chapter 3. A Responsive Health Service? Patient Choice, Public Involvement and Co-Production Chapter 4. Rationing, Regulating and Big Pharma Chapter 5. Mental Health Policy and an Epidemic of Misery Chapter 6. Framing Health Policy in the Media Chapter 7. the Widening in Social Inequalities in Health but the Narrowing of Policy Chapter 8. Environment, Place and Health Policy
£30.99
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine
Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies.Through critically analysing the wide variety of approaches taken by sociologists of health and medicine, this Handbook explores what makes the field distinctive. Chapters cover the full human life span and review key theoretical viewpoints as well as significant empirical themes, drawing on cutting-edge research. The diverse selection of contributors offer insights into important areas of health and medical development including precision medicine, epidemics and pandemics, data-intensive medicine, AI, neuroscience, and future hospitals. The chapters also examine the implications of COVID-19 across various domains of health, medicine, and healthcare.Covering key questions, debates, and emerging perspectives, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in sociology, public health, and science and technology studies. It will also be an important guide for policymakers and practitioners seeking to develop effective health policies and programs.Trade Review‘The Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine is an outstanding resource, unpacking and exploring classic and contemporary perspectives in health sociology. Spanning enduring issues such as (bio)medicalisation right through to the more recent digital and affective turns, it contains fresh and critical contributions by an illustrious group of scholars who lead the field globally. Artfully balancing conceptual and empirical concerns, this Handbook will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in health, illness and care.’ -- Alex Broom, University of Sydney, Australia‘This Handbook is a triumph! Leading scholars contribute chapters on classic and contemporary sociological theories, substantive topics in health and medicine, and key concepts inter alia biomedicalization, digitisation, emotion, embodiment, inequality, narratives, and risk. This text is a must for students and scholars who are studying and researching matters of health, illness, and medicine.’ -- Sarah Nettleton, University of York, UK‘This timely Handbook is an ecumenical collection of essays from respected international colleagues, from Australasia, the UK, Canada and the US, and Scandinavia, each with refreshingly different perspectives and priorities. It covers a broad range of problems, levels of analysis, theoretical views, and methods, and draws upon and will be useful for knowledge workers in related disciplines like philosophy, epidemiology, healthcare policy, social psychology, anthropology, and ethics.’ -- John B. McKinlay, retired Professor of Sociology, Boston University, US‘In this wide-ranging collection of essays, leading international authors present evidence and analysis of key topics in medical sociology. A major addition to the field - especially relevant at a time of upheaval in global health and society. An essential guide for all students and researchers in health and illness.’ -- Mike Bury, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine 1 Alan Petersen PART I MAJOR THEORETICAL INFLUENCES AND PERSPECTIVES 2 Constructing the boundaries of health sociology 28 Fran Collyer 3 Critical theories in sociologies of health and medicine 47 Graham Scambler 4 New materialist perspectives on health, illness and health care 62 Nick J. Fox 5 Sociologies of health and gender 76 Ellen Annandale 6 Biomedicalisation revisited: concepts and practices 91 Adele E. Clarke, Melanie Jeske, Janet K. Shim, and Laura Mamo 7 Health inequalities 110 Kevin Dew and Sarah Donovan 8 Illness narratives: from analysis to answerability 124 Danielle Spencer and Arthur Frank PART II SIGNIFICANT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH THEMES 9 Young people and the sociology of chronic illness: meanings, management and consequences 139 Jonathan Gabe and Lee F. Monaghan 10 The sociology of mental health and illness 151 Joan Busfield 11 Pharmaceuticalisation: origins, drivers and new developments 170 Jonathan Gabe and Paul Martin 12 Sociological approaches to the gendering of emotions in health and illness 187 Gillian Bendelow and Alison Phipps 13 Sociology of the medical profession and para-professions 199 Will Schupmann and Stefan Timmermans 14 Health, society and social suffering 213 Iain Wilkinson 15 Sociologies of food and eating 227 Anne Murcott 16 Diagnosis 243 Annemarie Jutel 17 The media politics of health, illness and healthcare 257 Alison Anderson 18 The sociology of bioethics 274 Raymond De Vries 19 Antimicrobial resistance: discourse, practice and relating 291 Nik Brown 20 Sociologies of public health and health promotion 308 Judith Green and Cristian Montenegro 21 Risk and health 324 Andy Alaszewski 22 Ageing 339 Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 23 Racism and racialisation in healthcare settings 354 Sarah Hamed and Hannah Bradby 24 Disability and the sociology of health and illness 378 Gareth M. Thomas 25 Sociology of the pregnant and birthing body 393 Mandie Scamell and Andy Alaszewski 26 Sleep, health and medicine: sociological agendas 408 Simon J. Williams, Catherine Coveney and Robert Meadows 27 Sociological contributions to the study of death in health and medicine 424 Glenys Caswell PART III EMERGING TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES 28 Sociologies of precision medicine 439 Barbara Prainsack 29 The sociology of epidemics and pandemics 455 Robert Dingwall 30 Data-intensive medicine 474 Klaus Hoeyer 31 Artificial intelligence for long-term care in later life 488 Barbara Barbosa Neves and Maho Omori 32 Digital health: practices and infrastructures 504 Benjamin Marent and Henriette Langstrup 33 Neuroscience, novelty, and the sociology of the brain 525 Martyn Pickersgill 34 Hospitals of the future 541 John Gardner Index 555
£245.00
Emerald Publishing Limited Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts. While many of the international articles focus on infectious disease, some discussion is given to treating psychiatric epidemics and the analysis of the political and cultural meanings that epidemics have. A sociological volume on emerging epidemics, covering psychiatric or psychological diseases as well as infectious disease is long overdue and topics included here are as wide ranging as: bipolar disorder; obesity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; SARS; West Nile Virus; pandemic influenzas; deviance; depression; ADHD; Alzheimer's; and autism. This valuable reference tool empirically examines emerging epidemics themselves and offers a theoretical analysis of the use of epidemics and epidemiology as frameworks for understanding these phenomena. It will appeal to a broad audience of readers of researchers and practitioners in this field, ranging from those involved in public health policy, human security and community health to medical sociologists and other scientists working in health and medicine.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Capitalism is making us sick: poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto. False perceptions and falciparum. Policy, polity, and the HIV crisis in emerging economies: India and Russia compared. The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited. Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic. Emerging and concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics and windows of opportunity: prevention and policy pitfalls. The social politics of pandemic influenzas: the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries. The poetics of American circumcision on the margins of medical necessity. Of rebels, conformists, and innovators: applying Merton's typology to explore an effective home care policy for the emerging Alzheimer's epidemic. ‘Promoted by Hong Tao, the Chlamydia Hypothesis Had Become Well Established...': Understanding the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epedemic - But Which One?. The rhetoric of science and statistics in claims of an autism epidemic. Bipolar disorder and the medicalization of mood: an epidemics of diagnosis?. What epidemic? The social construction of bipolar epidemics. The depression epidemic: how shifting definitions and industry practices shape perceptions of depression prevalence in the United States. Biomedicalizing mental illness: The case of attention deficit disorder. Contagious youth: deviance and the management of youth sociality. A social change model of the obesity epidemic. Who says obesity is an epidemic? How excess weight became an American health crisis. “Who are you calling ‘fat’?”: the social construction of the obesity epidemic. Advances in medical sociology. Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches. Copyright page.
£98.99
Wits University Press Contradicting Maternity: HIV-positive motherhood
Book SynopsisDrawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, ""Contradicting Maternity"" provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother's point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing that maternal experience is important in its own right. The book explores the situation in which two very powerful identities, those of motherhood and of being HIV-positive, collide in the same moment. This collision takes place at the interface of complex, and often split, social and personal meanings concerning the sanctity of motherhood and the anxieties of HIV. The book offers an interpretation of how these personal and social meanings resonate with, and also fail to encompass, the experiences surrounding HIV-positive mothers. Photographs, academic literature and the accounts of real women are read with both a psychodynamic and discursive eye, highlighting the contradictions within maternal experience, as well as between maternal experience and the social imagination. ""Contradicting Maternity"" will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in psychology, the social sciences and the health professions. The sensitive and readable analysis will also be of interest to mothers, whether HIV-positive or not.Table of ContentsFacing the HIV-positive Mother; the Joys of Motherhood; finding the HIV-positive mother; minding Baby's Body; mother's mind; mother's body; Thula Mama; contradicting maternity.
£23.75
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Handbook of Salutogenesis
Book SynopsisThis open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.Revised and updated from the first edition are background and historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence that differentiate salutogenesis from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts. Many new chapters emphasize intervention research findings. Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of families, infants and young children, adolescents, unemployed young people, pre-retirement adults, and older people. A dedicated section addresses how salutogenesis helps tackle vulnerability, with chapters on at-risk children, migrants, prisoners, emergency workers, and disaster-stricken communities. Wide-ranging coverage includes new topics beyond health, like intergroup conflict, politics and policy-making, and architecture. The book also focuses on applying salutogenesis in birth and neonatal care clinics, hospitals and primary care, schools and universities, workplaces, and towns and cities. A special section focuses on developments in salutogenesis methods and theory.With its comprehensive coverage, The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2nd Edition, is the standard reference for researchers, practitioners, and health policy-makers who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic. It is also written to support post-graduate education courses and self-study in public health, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Table of ContentsPARTS AND CHAPTERS (Revised Chapters Indicated by Δ)Part I Salutogenesis from its origins to the presentWhat is new in the 2nd Edition?Maurice B. MittelmarkThis is a two-page summary of the entire book, and explains the rationale for a new edition so soon after the 1st edition. It also brags a bit about the popularity of the 1st edition.Mileposts in the development of salutogenesis as a thriving academic arenaBengt LindströmThis new chapter gives Bengt a chance to tell the recent history of salutogenesis' development as a scientific arena, which only he can do justice to. It indicates names, places, events, and key developments that are the mileposts of our field’s development since the mid-1990’s.Δ Meanings of Salutogenesis: The Salutogenic Model of Health, The Sense of Coherence, and the broader salutogenic orientationMaurice B Mittelmark and Georg F. BauerThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ A profile of Aaron Antonovsky by two who knew him well (1923-1994)Avishai Antonovsky and Shifra SagyThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ Antonovsky’s development of the salutogenesis ideaEva LangelandThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing. Eva takes over as sole author, with a footnote thanking the original contributions of Hege Vinje and Torill Bull, both of whom are unavailable this time round, and both of whom have told us they are delighted that Eva is taking over the reins.Salutogenesis meeting places: The Society for Theory and Research on Salutogenesis, the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis, and the Center on Salutogenesis at the University of ZurichGeorg F. BauerThis new chapter gives Georg the opportunity to tell readers about our infrastructure to support salutogenesis’ development, and it is a sort of follow-up to Bengt’s earlier chapter. Georg promotes the Society and our web site.Part II Key concepts in the salutogenic model of healthSummary by Part Editor Monica ErikssonA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The Sense of Coherence: The concept and its relationship to healthMonica Eriksson and Bengt LindströmThis returning chapter plans to be lightly polished, but Monica may have more ambitious plans.Δ The Sense of Coherence: measurement issuesMonica Eriksson and Paolo ContuThis returning chapter plans to be at least lightly polished, but perhaps the updated version is to be more extensive, with Paulo coming on as an enthusiastic new co-author (Maurice is coming off from his co-author role in the 1st edition).Δ Salutogenesis: generalised resistance resourcesOrly Idan, Monica Eriksson, Michal Al-Yagon and Ruca MaassThis returning chapter aims to be lightly polished.Δ Salutogenesis: specific resistance resourcesMaurice B. Mittelmark, Marguerite Daniel and Helga UrkeThis returning chapter is lightly polished.Part III The sense of coherence in the life courseSummary by Part Editor Claudia Meier MagistrettiThis Part emphasizes the centrality of cultural contexts at all life course phases, and also the importance of learning in the life course.A one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.The development of the sense of coherence in pre-, peri- and early postnatal lifeClaudia Meier Magistretti, Soo Downe, Shefaly Shorey, Bengt LindströmThis new chapter proposed by Claudia has several interested, possible co-authors, but authorship and order is still not decided.Δ The sense of coherence in families and childrenOrly Idan, Orna Braun-Lewensohn, Bengt Lindström and Malka MargalitThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ The sense of coherence in adolescenceOrna Braun-Lewensohn, Orly Idan, Bengt Lindström and Malka MargalitThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ The sense of coherence in older peopleMaria Koelen, Monica Eriksson and Mima CattanThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing. Not sure if Mima is available this time.Effectiveness of interventions to enhance the sense of coherence over the life courseClaudia Meier Magistretti, Bengt Lindström, Monica ErikssonThis new chapter may have co-authors, but it is still TBD.Part IV Salutogenesis beyond healthSummary by Part Editor Shifra SagyA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Salutogenesis beyond health: interdisciplinary research advancesShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi ManCollective sense of coherence: advances of the concept from the individual to group levelsShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi ManaSalutogenesis, the sense of coherence and intergroup relationsShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi SrourΔ Positive Psychology and its relation to salutogenesisStephen Joseph and Shifra SagyA very light polishing of the 1st-edition chapter.The application of salutogenesis in political settingsGeir Arild Espnes, Ruca Elisa Maass, Mathieu Roy, Delors Juvinyà Canal and Bengt LindströmThis is a new chapter proposed by Geir and with Ruca, Mathieu, Delors and Bengt expressing eagerness to contribute. Shall this chapter address only health politics, and/or political processes more generally? What about equity, social justice, equal opportunity? It should be more than just health if it is to in this Part. It is important for Geir and potential co-authors to discuss this thoroughly, in concert with Shifra, so we can decide where in the book it is really at home.The application of salutogenesis to preservation of the environmentTrevor Hancock is to be contacted by Bengt Lindström about taking lead author responsibility for this chapterPart V Salutogenesis and community-based health promotionSummary by Part Editor Maurice MittelmarkA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in communities and neighbourhoodsLenneke Vaandrager and Lynn KennedyA light polishing is in order, but maybe Lenneke and Lynn have more ambitious plans - TBD.The application of salutogenesis to communitywide mental health promotionVibeke Koushede and Robert DonovanThis new chapter is centered on the ABCs of mental health project in Denmark, and hopefully also the Act-Belong-Commit project in Australia if Robert is interested in participating… Vibeke needs to contact him about this. Both programmes are mental health promotion campaigns using a community approach. Nina Helen Mjösund from Norway might be a good addition to this chapter, but she has not been contacted about this as yet. It is up to Vibeke to decide whether to contact Nina or not.Δ The application of salutogenesis in cities and townsRuca Elisa Karin Maass, Monica Lillefjell and Geir Arild EspnesThis most likely gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in neonatal and infant care settingsSoo Downe (pending confirmation), Claudia Meier Magistretti, Bengt Lindström, Shefaly ShoreyThis new chapter is proposed by Claudia, and the other persons listed have all indicated great interest in this topic. Claudia plans to have discussions with Soo and Shefaly about their participation.The application of salutogenesis in early childcareBengt Lindström and Helga UrkeThis is a new chapter that Bengt and Helga are already in contact about, both ready and eager to collaborate on this.The application of salutogenesis for active, engaged ageing at homeMélanie LevasseurThis chapter and author is a suggestion by Mathieu, and Mélanie is quite happy to take the lead.Digital health promotion and the advancement of salutogenesisPauline Bakibinga, Luis Saboga-Nunes, Georg F. BauerThis new chapter was proposed some time ago (at our Zurich meeting) by Pauline, and Luis and Georg have indicated keen interest. Pauline needs to get a dialogue going between this author grouping to outline the contents of the chapter.Salutogenesis post-graduate education: Experience from the European Perspective on Health Promotion Summer courses, 1991 to the presentVaandrager, L. Bonmati, A., Contu, P., Ortiz Barreda, G., Masanotti, G., Hofmeister, A., Boonekamp, G., Kennedy, L., Pocetta, G., Juvinya, D., Garista, P., Lindstrom, B. & Wrzesińska, M.Maurice is delighted that this group has agreed to participate with a description of this capacity-building summer school on health promotion, in which salutogenesis has permeated every nook and cranny!Part VI Salutogenesis in health-promoting organisations and environmentsSummary by Part Editor Georg F. BauerA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in organisationsGeorg F. Bauer and Gregor J. JennyThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis at workGregor J. Jenny, Georg F. Bauer, Katharina Vogt and Steffen TorpThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in restorative settingsEike von Lindern, Freddie Lymeus and Terry HartigThis gets a light polishing.Δ Salutogenic architectureJan A. GolembiewskiThis gets a light polishing, but knowing Jan it might well be more than that.Salutogenesis for organisational leaders and decision makers: Case studies illustrating what is possibleMathieu Roy and Sally FergusonThis new chapter is under early discussion by Mathieu and Sally.Δ The application of salutogenesis in schoolsBjarne Bruun Jensen, Wolfgang Dür and Goof BuijsThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in universitiesMark Dooris, Sharon Doherty and Judy OrmeThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in the training of health professionalsLiv Hansen Ausland and Eva LangelandThis gets a light polishing. Liv has kindly agreed to take lead author responsibility as Hege Vinje is unable to do it.The Application of Salutogenesis in Military SettingsAvishai AntonovskyThis new chapter is enthusiastically proposed by Avishai; Maurice is unaware if Avishai plans to ask co-authors to contribute.Part VII The application of salutogenesis in health careSummary by Part Editor Jürgen M. PelikanA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in hospitalsChristina Dietscher, Ulrike Winter and Jürgen M. PelikanThis gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in primary health careDaniela Rojatz, Peter Nowak, Jürgen M. PelikanThis is a new chapter, covering an area that was missed in the 1st edition.Δ The application of salutogenesis in mental healthcare settingsEva LangelandThis gets a light polishing by Eva, without Hege who was co-author in the first edition.Δ The application of salutogenesis in vocational rehabilitation settingsMonica Lillefjell, Ruca Elisa Karin Maass and Camilla IhlebækThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in residential care settingsViktoria Quehenberger and Karl KrajicThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in chronic care settingsIsabelle Aujoulat, Lawrence Mustin, François, Julie Pélicand and James RobinsonThis gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in midwifery practiceSally Ferguson and Deborah DavisA very welcome new chapter!Sense for coherence: An emerging concept for salutogenesis practice?Claudia Meier MagistrettiAlso a very welcome new chapter; Maurice is not sure it belongs here and needs to hear more from Claudia about its main theme.PART VIII Salutogenesis in challenging social circumstances and environmentsSummary by Part Editor Bengt LindströmA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The salutogenic approach to childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on children who thrive in the face of adversityDickson Amugsi, Pauline Backibinga, Dennis MatandaThis offering is from three of Maurice's former PhD students, from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, a real lift for participation in the book from Africa!Salutogenesis and migrationMarguerite Daniel and Fungisai Puleng Gwanzura OttemöllerThis is from two of Maurice's closest colleagues here in Bergen, whose research is centered right on this topic.Salutogenesis as a framework for child protectionGaby Margarita Ortiz BarredaGaby plans to recruit co-authors; she is a new, very productive member of Maurice's Department.Salutogenesis in Dementia CareJan Golembiewski, Lenneke Vaandrager, Monica Eriksson (pending her interest)Jan is doing a lot of work on this subject these days, and he is very enthusiastic to take this chapter on in addition to his returning chapter elsewhere in this book.Salutogenesis as a framework for social recovery after disasterMathieu Roy and Mélissa GénéreuxA new chapter proposed by Mathieu.Salutogenesis and the mental health of first respondersAvishai AntonovskyA new chapter proposed by Avishai; he may recruit co-authors.Salutogenesis in PrisonsJames Woodall, Nick de Viggiani, Rachael Dixey, and Jane SouthThis new chapter ‘replaces’ the 1st-edition chapter by Henning et al on correctional officers. It now covers prisons more comprehensively.Part IX Salutogenesis theory and methods: developments and innovationsSummary by Part Editor Lenneke VaandragerA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Evolution of the ‘health’ concept in salutogenesisJürgen M. Pelikan and Georg F. BauerA new chapter these fellows have been dying to write for ages!An Integrated Health Development Model: Interaction Paths of Pathogenesis and SalutogenesisGeorg F. BauerGeorg has written about this integration before, but we need it in our book!Theoretical issues in the further development of the sense of coherence constructJacek HochwälderMaurice recruited Jacek after reading some of his newer work on salutogenesis as theory. He has a forthcoming journal publication on this subject that is impressive.Qualitative approaches to the study of the sense of coherenceAvishai Antonovsky, Lenneke Vaandrager, Susana Arveklev Höglund, Ulla Hällgren Graneheim, Berit Lundman (Pending expressions of interest from the last four)This is Avishai’s proposal, supported enthusiastically by Monica and LennekeThe dynamic interrelatedness of the sense of coherence componentsLuis Saboga-NunesThis is Luis’ proposal, as a member of the Working Group.Context-sensitive evaluation of salutogenic interventionsLenneke VaandragerLenneke is tremendously excited about writing this chapter!Salutogenesis and health literacy – how do these concepts relate?Jürgen M. Pelikan, Luis Saboga-NunesThese two are already in contact about this chapter; they may ask other health literacy aficionados to participate.Fostering salutogenesis and Indigenous CommunitiesMargareth Santos Zanchetta, Melissa Stevenson, Joanna Anneke Rummens, Michelle Peltier and two collaborators, Jessica Sherk and Matthias Nunno.Maurice recruited Margareth and her team after reading her work on this subject; this chapter really adds depth and context to the book.Salutogenesis in academic literature other than English: A comparative analysisBengt LindströmBengt and Maurice had the idea to include other languages in this way, thinking that it might be too early to update the languages Part from the 1st edition. This analysis plans to use, among other material, the chapters in this Part of the 1st edition.
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Book SynopsisThe second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology. The first part of the book includes updated analyses of important concepts and tools for community intervention. It discusses the importance of centrally involving community members in all phases of community development activities. Part II includes several completely new chapters and focuses on projects in a number of countries -- the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, the Philippines and France. It covers topics such as establishing human rights cities; involving and empowering local communities; research in communities; the healthy cities movement; and climate change. This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination and Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), women in prison, and gender factors in climate risk. The appendices include profiles of outstanding practitioners and scholar-practitioners over the last 100 years. This edition includes contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners in clinical sociology and is of interest to sociologists, social policy makers, social workers, and sustainability researchers. The first edition of this book received the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the Clinical Sociology Division of the International Sociological Association.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to the Volume.Part I: The Basics of Community Practice.Chapter 2: Essentials of Community Intervention.Chapter 3: Research for the Community.Chapter 4: The Researcher’s Mark: What Researchers Bring to Communities, and What May or May Not be Left Behind When Their Work is Done.Part II: Selected Applications.Chapter 5: Community Development and Empowerment: A Clinical Sociology Perspective.Chapter 6: The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement: The Global Diffusion of Local Initiatives.Chapter 7: Cultural Encounters: A Research-Intervention Approach for Working with Immigrants in the Community.Chapter 8: Coeducation in the Popular/Neighbourhood Districts of Marseille.Chapter 9: Economic Interventions in Communities: The Québec Case.Chapter 10: Communities for CEDAW: Initiating Change on the Local Level.Chapter 11: Women and Prison: The Symbolic Recognition of Knowledge.Chapter 12: Gender, Power and Climate Risk Assessment for Community Resilience.Chapter 13: A Clinical Sociologist on City Council: Intervention in Local Politics.Chapter 14: Human Rights Cities.Chapter 15: Participatory Interventions in the Community: Social Vulnerabilities, Life History and Transgenerationality in Brazil.Chapter 16: Involving Residents in the Design of Urban Renewal Projects based upon a Generative Analysis of Social Processes.Chapter 17: Riding Off into the Sunset? Establishing an Inclusive Post-Apartheid South African Community.
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