样式: 排序: IF: - GO 导出 标记为已读
-
“Too soft for real psychiatry”? Gendered boundary-making between coercion and dialog in Italian wards Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Eleonora Rossero, Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto
Psychiatric practice has always entailed a coercive dimension, visible not only in its formal expressions (e.g. compulsory treatment) but in many informal and implicit forms. In fact, contemporary psychiatric practices are characterized by an interplay of coercion and dialog to be interpreted not as binary categories but as extremes of a spectrum. Within this perspective, it becomes crucial to draw
-
Rethinking the logic of early diagnosis in cancer Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Christina Sadolin Damhus, Mette Bech Risør, John Brandt Brodersen, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson
To reduce morbidity and mortality of cancer, more countries have implemented strategies to detect cancer, based on the logic of ‘the sooner the better’. Time is thereby an essential component in how cancer research, policies, and prevention are practiced today. Where the logic of early diagnosis benefits some, the logic also produces harms. In this article, we use a cross-disciplinary case-study design
-
Vibrant Screens: Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Marjo Kolehmainen
This article analyses the digital screen as a health technology. In particular, the article asks how screens as a part of therapy settings or counselling practices materialise – or fail to materialise – care. The empirical data comprise interviews with therapy and counselling professionals, whose experiences with technology during the COVID-19 pandemic were my original interest. Adopting a sociomaterial
-
‘Hearts’ and ‘minds’: Illustrating identity tensions of people living and working through marketising policy change of allied health disability services in Australia Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Kristen Foley, Stacie Attrill, Chris Brebner
Service-based caring sectors like disability are increasingly being operated via market logic, including shifts towards personalised funding. These shifts must be brought to life in/through people already located in relation to ideas and values that underpin historical policies. Our manuscript examines how identities are re/shaped in relation to marketised policy change and explores how identity change
-
Mind-Stuff and Withdrawal of the Senses: Toward an Interpretation of Pratyahara in Contemporary Postural Yoga Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Elizabeth McKibben
Yoga has become a popular health and wellbeing practice that draws on ancient philosophy. Pratyahara is a core tenet of yoga practice and is often translated to mean withdrawal of the senses. Withdrawing from the senses plays a key role in aiding yoga practitioners to find spiritual enlightenment by transcending the worldly. Withdrawing from the material world, however, does not neatly fit within the
-
Composing adult lives with a ventilator at the intersection of developmental and neoliberal discourses of time Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Elizabeth J Straus, Helen Brown, A. Fuchsia Howard, Gail Teachman
This paper explores temporalities and experiences of time drawn from an analysis of interview data from a critical narrative inquiry of the experiences of young adults living with home mechanical ventilation (HMV). The analysis centers the ideological effects of dominant discourses that shape understandings of time in the Euro-Western world and the ways in which young adults’ stories prompt a rethinking
-
Navigating ambivalence: A qualitative study of young fitness self-trackers’ engagement with body ideals through social media Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Carsten Stage, Stinne Bach Nielsen
This article explores how social media are involved in imagining and sensing body ideals among young fitness self-trackers in Denmark (age 15–24). The analysis is based on 20 interviews and contrib...
-
Constructing therapeutic support and negotiating competing agendas: A discourse analysis of vocational advice provided to individuals who are absent from work due to ill-health Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Benjamin Saunders, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Gail Sowden, Kendra Cooke, Karen Walker-Bone, Ira Madan, Vaughan Parsons, Cathy H Linaker, Gwenllian Wynne-Jones
Work participation is known to benefit people’s overall health and wellbeing, but accessing vocational support during periods of sickness absence to facilitate return-to-work can be challenging for...
-
Media portrayals of psychotropic agents in AD/HD treatment: A social constructionist approach Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Josef Qaderi, Jonas Lindblom
In recent decades there has been a significant increase in diagnosing children and adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), and in the use of pharmacological treatment with Rit...
-
Void and narrative in the clinic of addictions: A theoretical proposal Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Clément Cimolaï, Vincent Bréjard
We propose a connection between the void and addiction via psychoanalysis and current developments in narration in the context of the psychoanalytic clinic. We maintain that the addicted subject is...
-
Layers of senses: Experiencing intercorporeality in teletherapy Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Ariela Popper-Giveon, Yael Keshet
Teletherapy, namely, therapy that uses technology for communication between patients and therapists, is challenged by the impersonal nature of remote and digital communication. Using Merleau-Ponty’...
-
Peer support for accepting distressing reality: Expertise and experience-sharing in psychiatric peer-to-peer group discussions Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Elina Weiste, Melisa Stevanovic, Lise-Lotte Uusitalo, Hanna Toiviainen
Peer-based interventions are increasingly used for delivering mental health services to help people with an illness re-examine their situation and accept their illness as part of their life story. ...
-
Epistemic racism in the health professions: A qualitative study with Black women in Canada Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Brenda L Beagan, Stephanie R Bizzeth, Kaitlin R Sibbald, Josephine B Etowa
Systemic racism within health care is increasingly garnering critical attention, but to date attention to the racism experienced by health professionals themselves has been scant. In Canada, anti-B...
-
‘Madness’ after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – challenging dominant understandings of distress Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Reima Ana Maglajlic, Halida Vejzagić, Jasmin Palata, China Mills
This article reports on the findings from a small-scale co-produced qualitative study on experiences of distress caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Inspired by the emerging interdis...
-
Shared care and gender identity support in Primary Care: The perspectives and experiences of parents/carers of young trans people Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Zowie Davy, Jack Benson, Abby Barras
This article addresses the complex issues surrounding trans youths’ shared care perceived by parents in primary care settings in the UK. The analyses in this article draws on qualitative data deriv...
-
‘Engaging on a slightly more human level’: A qualitative study exploring the care of individuals with back pain in a multidisciplinary pain clinic Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Karime Mescouto, Rebecca E Olson, Nathalia Costa, Kerrie Evans, Miriam Dillon, Niamh Jensen, Kelly Walsh, Megan Weier, Kathryn Lonergan, Paul W Hodges, Jenny Setchell
Chronic low back pain is characterised by multiple and overlapping biological, psychological, social and broader dimensions, affecting individuals’ lives. Multidisciplinary pain services have been ...
-
How the context of reception affects the meaning of RCT evidence Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Simon Carmel
This article takes as a case study a set of disagreements in the early 2000s about randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence for a newly developed drug in the field of intensive care medicine. The...
-
Resident training in psychopathology and uncertainty in a clinical situation Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Alicia Hamui Sutton, María Alejandra Sánchez-Guzmán
The central theme of this article is the way in which psychiatry physicians-in-training deal with uncertainty in the discussion of clinical cases in Mexico. Methodologically, it is approached from ...
-
‘Don’t freak out if you get a letter saying cancer patient pathways!’: Communication work between different demands in cancer care Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Siri Christine K Næss
This article explores healthcare professionals’ experiences of their work with patient communication in standardised cancer patient pathways (CPPs). The theoretical and methodological framework for...
-
Keeping the conversation going: How progressivity is prioritised in co-remembering talk between couples impacted by dementia Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Felicity Slocombe, Elizabeth Peel, Alison Pilnick, Saul Albert
This article explores how partners keep the conversation going with people living with dementia (PLWD) when speaking about shared memories. Remembering is important for PLWD and their families. Ind...
-
Stigma, shame and family secrets as consequences of mental illness in previous generations: A micro-history approach Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Eileen Clark, Jennifer Munday, Alison Watts
In this article we evaluate micro-history as a method for investigating the meaning of stigma, shame and family secrets through generations. We present micro-histories of two Australian soldiers wh...
-
Medical professionals’ agency and pharmaceuticalization: Physician-industry relations in Russia Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Ekaterina Borozdina, Olga Zvonareva
In the contemporary world pharmaceuticals have become a go-to answer to a growing number of questions. This process of pharmaceuticalization gives rise to a concern with the increasing influence of...
-
The day program multiple: Noncoherence and ontological politics Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Holly Symonds-Brown, Christine Ceci
Globally, day programs are increasingly proposed in policy as one way to address the support needs of people living at home with dementia and their families. Day programs represent a kind of space ...
-
“Time work”: An analysis of temporal experiences and agentic practices in the “good” doctor-patient relationship in general practice Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Elisabeth Assing Hvidt
This article contributes to social health research by presenting an analysis of the temporal dimensions of the “good” doctor-patient relationship as perceived and enacted by patients and general pr...
-
Ghosts in the machinery: Living with and beyond radiotherapy treatment for gynaecological cancer Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Hilary Stewart, Lisa Ashmore, Mette Kragh-Furbo, Vicky Singleton, Daniel Hutton
This paper explores post-treatment experiences of women who have had radiotherapy for gynaecological cancer. Drawing on data from a project which explored post-treatment wellbeing, conceptual metap...
-
The critical (micro)political economy of health: A more-than-human approach Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Nick J Fox
The critical political economy of health offers different explanations for the social causes of health and the social factors determining the distribution of these causes. However, the relational, ...
-
Information gaps in persuasion knowledge: The discourse regarding the Covid-19 vaccination Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Tamar Israeli, Ariela Popper-Giveon, Yael Keshet
Persuasion knowledge is personal knowledge about persuasion attempts that has an effect on the way people respond to these attempts. Persuasion attempts are made to effectively handling the Covid-1...
-
Calibrating logics: How adolescents and young adults calibrate often-competing logics in their daily self-management of type 1 diabetes Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Emilie Mølholm Kjærulff, Natasja Kingod, Mirjam Due Tiemensma, Ayo Wahlberg
Adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes must manage a demanding chronic condition in their daily lives, but adequate self-management remains a major challenge. In this article, we explore...
-
Conducting member checking within a qualitative case study on health-related behaviours in a large European city: Appraising interpretations and co-constructing findings Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Ignacio de Loyola González-Salgado, Jesús Rivera-Navarro, Marta Gutiérrez-Sastre, Paloma Conde, Manuel Franco
Although member checking is a well-established strategy for appraising credibility, there is a lack of research reporting procedures and outcomes when using this strategy. In recent years, scholars...
-
Creating an (ethical) epistemic space for the normalization of clinical and “real food” oral immunotherapy for food allergy Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Stephanie A Nairn
Researchers and sociologists have argued the consequences of standardization vis-à-vis clinical practice guidelines are diverse and argue they should be explored empirically. Sociologists have also...
-
Maintaining a medical institution in a context of materiality change: Lessons from a Canadian university hospital Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Nassera Touati, Charo Rodríguez, Marie-Pierre Moreault, Claude Sicotte, Liette Lapointe
This research aimed to better understand how institutions are maintained, and the role of materiality in this institutional work. More specifically, the present qualitative case study analyzed how different actors in a large academic hospital in Canada worked together (i.e. accomplished institutional work) to maintain the institution of medical record keeping as a new clinical information system (computerized
-
A psychosocial exploration of resistances to service user involvement in United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) mental health services Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Timothy Moore, Laetitia Zeeman
Policy promotes the active participation of those with lived experience of mental health difficulties in UK NHS mental health services, from the level of collaborative care-planning to service delivery, leadership and development. However, research indicates different forms of resistance to the implementation of such service user involvement. This article reports the findings of a qualitative, interview-based
-
Disparities in the prevalence of ADHD diagnoses, suspicion, and medication use between Flanders and Québec from the lens of the medicalization process Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Marie-Christine Brault, Emma Degroote, Mieke Van Houtte
The prevalence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnoses and medication use has increased over time around the world, but significant regional differences remain. This paper aims to determine and explain disparities in ADHD prevalence and medication use among school-aged children in two distinct school systems, in Flanders (Belgium) and Québec (Canada). We present detailed descriptive
-
Imperatives of health or happiness: Narrative constructions of long-term smoking after undergoing lung screening Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Rebecca E Olson, Ek, Xuan Wen, Zoe Staines, Felicia Goh, Henry M Marshall
Tobacco control policies reinforce a health imperative that positions citizens as duty-bound to manage their health by abstaining from or quitting smoking. Limited attention is paid to the repercussions – especially for lung screening – of anti-smoking rhetoric emphasising individual responsibility. Drawing on interviews with 27 long-term smokers involved in an international lung screening trial, this
-
‘Is it in your basic personality?’ Negotiations about traits and context in diagnostic interviews for personality disorders Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Maarit Lehtinen, Liisa Voutilainen, Anssi Peräkylä
What does it mean to claim that somebody’s personality is disordered? The aim in this paper is to examine how the process of diagnosing personality disorders (PD) unfolds on a practical level. We take an in-depth look at PD interviews, paying close attention to the occasional discrepancies in the clinicians’ and the patients’ approaches to generalising the behaviour of patients to describe their personality
-
On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Francesco Miele
This paper contributes to challenging common behavioural or cognitive explanations for health and wellbeing outcomes, focussing on social practices through which people, with the help of other subjects, try to improve their health conditions. To renew the debate about health promotion, my work is placed at the intersection between the sociology of health and illness and science and technology studies
-
Involuntary psychiatric treatment and the erosion of consent: A critical discourse analysis of mental health legislation in British Columbia, Canada Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Maja Kolar, Colleen Varcoe, Helen Brown, Rochelle Einboden
The Mental Health Act (1996) is legislation that directs voluntary and involuntary psychiatric treatment for people experiencing mental health issues in British Columbia (BC), Canada. This critical discursive analysis explores how BC’s Mental Health Act (1996) and the Guide to the Mental Health Act (2005) structure involuntary psychiatric treatment and illustrates how the discourses within these texts
-
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Sahil Bhandari, Øyvind Thomassen, Rajan Nathan
To improve the safety of healthcare systems, it is necessary to understand harm-related events that occur in these systems. In mental health services, particular attention is paid to harm arising from the actions of patients against themselves or others. The primary intention of examining these adverse events is to inform changes to care provision so as to reduce the likelihood of the recurrence of
-
Luckily—I am not the worrying kind: Experiences of patients in the Danish cancer patient pathway for non-specific symptoms and signs of cancer Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Christina Sadolin Damhus, John Brandt Brodersen, Mette Bech Risør
In Denmark, due to the implementation of the Non-specific Symptoms and Signs of Cancer-Cancer Patient Pathway (NSSC-CPP), more people with symptoms such as fatigue and weight loss are informed that their symptoms might indicate cancer and they are referred to the pathway. But what do patients in the NSSC-CPP experience, in particular, with respect to being in an affective state of anticipation of a
-
‘The day you start lifting is the day you become forever small’: Bodybuilders explain muscle dysmorphia Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Mair Underwood, Roberto Olivardia
Muscle dysmorphia (MD) is a pathological preoccupation with muscularity characterised by negative body image, compulsive behaviours, and obsessive thoughts. Since its first identification academics have suggested that it is caused by sociocultural factors. Despite this there has been very little research exploring the role of sociocultural factors in the development and maintenance of MD, and no research
-
CORRIGENDUM to “Vol 26, Issue 1” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-03-03
Due to an administrative error, an incomplete list of Guest Editors was published in Print for the special issue: Critical Suicide Studies Special Edition: Between Methodology and Ethics. The Guest Editors of this special issue are Amy Chandler, Rob Cover and Scott J Fitzpatrick.
-
CORRIGENDUM to "Vol 26, Issue 1". Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-03-03
-
Conceptual unclarity about COVID-19 ethnic disparities in Sweden: Implications for public health policy Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Anna Bredström, Shai Mulinari
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on abundant racial and ethnic health disparities in many countries around the world. In Sweden, statistics on COVID-19 mortality and morbidity from both the first and the second wave of the pandemic show that foreign-born individuals have been disproportionately affected, compared to Swedish-born individuals. However, as demonstrated in this article, key stakeholders
-
Spaces out of reach? Service user involvement in residents’ meetings at recovery-oriented social housing facilities for young people with mental health disorders Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Anne Mia Steno, Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson
Through anthropological fieldwork among people with severe mental health disorders, this article focuses on these service users’ interactions and relations with the professionals and with other service users at recovery-oriented housing facilities in Denmark. We discuss how recovery-oriented spaces designed for the service users may feel out of reach to them, hence making the service users feel awkward
-
Accounting for complexity in healthcare innovation debates: Professional views on the use of new IVF treatments Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Alina Geampana, Manuela Perrotta
Social scientists have long been interested in the forces and values driving healthcare innovation. The simultaneous rise of 20th century healthcare reforms, increased importance of evidence and upsurge in lay health activism have shaped modern medicine. On this backdrop, fertility care emerged in the 1970s. Recent developments reveal a contentious relationship between new fertility treatments and
-
Secondary emotional labor: How female nurses respond to the contradictions of caring Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Beverly Hogan, Patricia Drentea
Prior research suggests that caring is in tension with a financially incentivized, technologically-driven healthcare system. Nevertheless, employers, the public, and nurses expect nurses to be caring when providing care to patients and families. This article focuses on nurses’ emotional labor strategies when managing emotions related to organizationally imposed interference with caring. We analyzed
-
Quality-of-life measurement in depression trials: A consumerist relic Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Susan McPherson, Jeppe Oute, Ewen Speed
Quality-of-life measurement in depression is advocated as a patient-centred indicator of recovery, but may instead enhance the mimetic authority of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) which have been roundly critiqued in mental health. In this paper we draw on the social life of methods approach to extend the well-developed critique of RCTs into the field of quality-of-life measurement. We accomplish
-
A narrative exploration of identity in adults with de novo scoliosis Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Lucy Tweedlie, Laura Simonds, Paul Hanna, Darren F Lui
Adult de novo scoliosis is a chronic health condition characterised by a curvature in the ageing spine. It can cause debilitating back pain and significant visible differences. Yet there has been very limited research on the psychological effects of this condition, particularly around identity. Therefore, we undertook semi-structured interviews to explore the ways in which individuals with scoliosis
-
Taking care of oneself and others: The emotion work of women suffering from a rare skin disease Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Yannick Le Henaff, Stéphane Héas, Pascal Joly
In this article, we analyze the emotion work of women suffering from pemphigus, a rare skin disease. We suggest that this approach sheds new light on the upheavals caused by illness and more generally on the experience of illness itself. Our study draws on a series of 27 interviews with pemphigus patients whose average age was 57. We show that serious and chronic illness does not radically alter the
-
A solidarity paradox – welfare state data in global health data economy Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Karoliina Snell, Heta Tarkkala, Aaro Tupasela
Nordic welfare states have well institutionalised practises of gathering health and social wellbeing data from their citizens. The establishment of population registers coincided with the building of welfare state institutions and a social contract relying on solidarity. During the last decade, the significance of Nordic registers and health data has increased and they have become sources of economic
-
From domestication to imperial patronage: Deconstructing the biomedicalisation of occupational therapy Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Pier-Luc Turcotte, Dave Holmes
Occupational therapy knowledge emerged in the 19th century as reformist movements responded to the industrialisation of society and capitalist expansion. In the Global North, it was institutionalised by State apparatuses during the First and Second World Wars. Although biomedicine contributed to the rapid expansion and establishment of occupational therapy as a health discipline, its domestication
-
Corona hotels in Israel: Care and abandonment under the auspices of digital medicine Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Shirly Bar-Lev
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Israel established a number of ‘corona hotels’ – hybrid spaces that were neither fully treatment-oriented nor fully incarcerational, in which people known or suspected to be infected with the coronavirus were confined, sometimes for prolonged and indefinite periods. This paper describes the experience of 25 people who were confined in corona recovery and
-
An auto-ethnographic reflection on the nature of nursing in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Helen T Allan
In this article I discuss the effects on the patient experience of isolation nursing during the CoronaVirus Disease (COVID)-19 pandemic. An unintended consequence of isolation nursing has been to distance patients from nurses and emphasise the technical side of nursing while at the same time reducing the relational or affective potential of nursing. Such distanced forms of nursing normalise the distal
-
Book Review: Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research: A Practical Introduction Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Juma Kasadha
-
Disciplinary differences in the study of the relationship between social variables and mental health: A systematic mapping review Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Tegan Cruwys, Baptiste Brossard, Haochen Zhou, Gabriel Helleren-Simpson, Kathleen A Klik, Dirk Van Rooy, Philip J Batterham, Alison L Calear
There has been sustained interest in the intersection between social constructs and mental health from diverse disciplines including psychiatry, sociology and public health. However, no systematic attempt has been made to catalogue what is meant by ‘social’ by different researchers, how variables deemed ‘social’ constructs are linked to mental health, nor whether these patterns differ by academic discipline
-
Racial biases in healthcare: Examining the contributions of Point of Care tools and unintended practitioner bias to patient treatment and diagnosis Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Sachil Singh
Sophisticated algorithms are used daily to search through hundreds of medical journals in order to package updated medical insights into commercial databases. Healthcare practitioners can access these searchable databases—called Point of Care (PoC) tools—as downloadable apps on their smartphones or tablets to comprehensively and efficiently inform patient diagnosis and treatment. Because racist biases
-
Constituting good health citizenship through British Columbia’s COVID-19 public updates Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Philippa Spoel, Naomi Lacelle, Alexandra Millar
The COVID-19 pandemic has augmented discourses of individual citizen responsibility for collective health. This article explores how British Columbia, Canada’s widely praised COVID-19 communication participates in the development of neo-communitarian “active citizenship” governmentalities focused on the civic duty of voluntarily taking responsibility for the health of one’s community. We do so by investigating
-
Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals’ discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Maija Korhonen, Katri Komulainen
This discourse analytical study explores how health professionals (HPs) construct burnout as a form of mental distress in the context of Finnish burnout rehabilitation framed with a particular rehabilitation ethos. Burnout is a fuzzy concept and lacks a disease status. Therefore, it calls for context-specific definition and justification. By highlighting the socially and interactionally produced character
-
The ethics of facing the Other in suicide Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Katrina Jaworski
Despite a plethora of existing literature on the topic of suicide, very little attention has been given to research ethics in practice in research on suicide. When suicide research does pay attention to the ethical issues researchers are likely to face, the focus is on the roles institutional human ethics review committees fulfil to ensure ethical conduct in all stages of research. In response to this
-
Bodies of concern? A qualitative exploration of eating, moving and embodiment in young mothers Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (IF 3.132) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Grace Lucas, Ellinor K Olander, Debra Salmon
In some countries, including the United Kingdom, young mothers’ pregnant and postnatal bodies remain an area of concern for policy and practice, with interventions developed to support improved health behaviours including diet and physical activity. This article explores what young women themselves think and feel about eating and moving during and after pregnancy. Semi-structured interviews with 11