Published in Critical Sociology
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities within countries and across geographies. It reminded us how the world and its people are interconnected. Gender-based violence (GBV), which is an expression of gender inequality and toxic masculinity, is another pandemic that exists in all societies at varying degrees of prevalence...
Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repeatedly fail to fulfill the responsibilities they have been assigned in fostering innovation. But I argue here that in their moments of misbehavior, we can catch a glimpse of the social roles patents play when no one is watching. Drawing on insights fro...
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Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction: Mandated restrictions on outdoor physical activity (PA) during the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the lifeworld of millions of people and led to a contradictory situation. On the one hand, PA was perceived as risky behaviour, as it might facilitate transmission of the virus. On the other hand, while taking precautions, regular PA was ...
Published in Arts & health
Social capital is often cited as shaping impacts of participatory arts, although the concept has not been systematically mapped in arts, health and wellbeing contexts. In wider health inequalities research, complex, differential, and sometimes negative impacts of social capital have been recognised. This paper maps of social capital concepts in qua...
Published in Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
Louise Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, was born more than 40 years ago in England. For Louise Brown’s infertile mother, Lesley, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) was the ‘hope technology’ which allowed her to overcome her tubal infertility after 9 years of heart-breaking involuntary childlessness. Since then, IVF has travelled to diverse global...
Published in BMJ Open Sport — Exercise Medicine
Objectives To evaluate the impact of Achilles tendinopathy (AT) on quality of life (QoL), work performance, healthcare utilisation and costs in adults with conservatively treated chronic midportion AT. Methods This cross-sectional survey-based study included 80 patients and took place in a sports medicine department of a large regional hospital in ...
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Artykuł wprowadza w problematykę numeru, koncentrując się szczególnie na sekcji tematycznej: Etnografia sportu i e-sportu. Metodologiczne doświadczenia z badań terenowych. Redaktor zwraca uwagę na główne wątki rozważane we współczesnej literaturze przedmiotu, podkreślając relewantny dobór autorek/autorów i artykułów zgromadzonych we wspomnianej sek...
Published in Qualitative Health Research
In this article, we qualitatively explore the manner and style in which medical encounters between patients and general practitioners (GPs) are mutually conducted, as exhibited in situ in 10 consultations sourced from the One in a Million: Primary Care Consultations Archive in England. Our main objectives are to identify interactional modes, to dev...
