Roitenberg, Neta
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Health (London, England : 1997)
The article extends the discussion on the challenges in gaining access to the field in medical ethnographic research, focusing on long-term care (LTC) facilities. Medical institutions have been documented to be difficult sites to access. The reference, however, is to the recruitment of patients as informants. The challenges of recruiting practition...
Scallan, Eilish Lancaster, Kari Kouyoumdjian, Fiona
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Health (London, England : 1997)
The United Nations states that prisoners should enjoy the same standards of health care that are available in the community. Despite this, persons in prison experience barriers to care and face unique health challenges. Given the ways in which prisons shape health outcomes for incarcerated persons, it is important to interrogate how the provision o...
MacGregor, Casimir Petersen, Alan Munsie, Megan
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Health (London, England : 1997)
This article examines how Australian providers of unproven autologous 'stem cell treatments' legitimise these products and their practices. We focus on the strategies employed by providers in their efforts to create and sustain a market for procedures that have yet to be proven safe and clinically efficacious. Drawing on the work of Thomas Gieryn a...
Paxman, Christina G
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Health (London, England : 1997)
This qualitative study reflects an analysis of 50 stories told by Americans living with fibromyalgia, a chronic condition marked by widespread physical pain. Stories were randomly collected from The Experience Project, an online public forum, and analyzed using the communication theory of identity as a guiding framework. Thematic analysis was used ...
Stuij, Mirjam Elling, Agnes Abma, Tineke
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Health (London, England : 1997)
The dominant notion that exercise is medicine puts a strong normative emphasis on individual responsibility for participation in sport and physical activity. The aim of this article was to explore how people with type 2 diabetes, a condition strongly linked to lifestyle behaviour both in origin and in management, translate this notion into their da...
Lydahl, Doris
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Health (London, England : 1997)
This article uses a material semiotic perspective to study a highly influential model of healthcare policy and practice today: person-centred care. While person-centred care is often regarded as implying a turn away from technology and standardization towards more humanistic values in care, this article shows that mundane standardization technologi...
Venkatesan, Sathyaraj Saji, Sweetha
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Health (London, England : 1997)
Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives on mental illness find expression through the unique semiotic nature of comics, which facilitates the encapsulation of complex psychic-scapes and embodiment of the artist's experiences. In so ...
Merrild, Camilla Hoffmann Andersen, Rikke Sand
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Health (London, England : 1997)
In recent years, the organisation of healthcare in many welfare states is gradually moving towards an individualised and responsibility-driven self-care and use of healthcare services. Departing in this restructuring of care, this article explores how bodies are experienced and how care is sough, by socially disadvantaged cancer patients. Based on ...
Krzeczkowska, Anna Flowers, Paul Chouliara, Zoe Hayes, Peter Dickson, Adele
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Health (London, England : 1997)
The current study aimed to explore the lived experience of patients with hepatitis C virus infection. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven male participants living with hepatitis C virus and were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Two master themes were identified: (1) diagnosis and the search for meaning and (...
Yoeli, Heather Macnaughton, Jane
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Health (London, England : 1997)
Anecdotal experience and qualitative accounts suggest that singing groups, classes or choirs specifically for people with COPD (henceforth referred to as COPD-SGs) are effective in improving health. However, this is not reflected in the quantitative evidence. This meta-ethnography deployed phenomenological methods to explore this discrepancy. Analy...
