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The stories we tell: Qualitative research interviews, talking technologies and the ‘normalisation’ of life with HIV

Mazanderani, Fadhila; Paparini, Sara - In: Social Science & Medicine 131 (2015) C, pp. 66-73

Since the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, talking about the virus has been a key way affected communities have challenged the fear and discrimination directed against them and pressed for urgent medical and political attention. Today, HIV/AIDS is one of the most prolifically and...

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Stress and diabetes in socioeconomic context: A qualitative study of urban Indians

Mendenhall, Emily; Shivashankar, Roopa; Tandon, Nikhil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2522-2529

Type 2 diabetes has escalated in urban India in the past two decades. Historically a disease of the affluent, recent epidemiological evidence indicates rising diabetes incidence and prevalence in urban India's middle class and working poor. Although there is substantial qualitative data about...

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Cultures of resistance? A Bourdieusian analysis of doctors' antibiotic prescribing

Broom, Alex; Broom, Jennifer; Kirby, Emma - In: Social Science & Medicine 110 (2014) C, pp. 81-88

The prospect of an ‘antimicrobial perfect storm’ in the coming decades through the emergence and proliferation of multi-resistant organisms has become an urgent public health concern. With limited drug discovery solutions foreseeable in the immediate future, and with evidence that resistance...

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The art of letting go: Referral to palliative care and its discontents

Broom, Alex; Kirby, Emma; Good, Phillip; Wootton, Julia; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 78 (2013) C, pp. 9-16

Accompanying patients from active treatment towards specialist palliative care is a complex sphere of clinical practice that can be fraught with interpersonal and emotional challenges. While medical specialists are expected to break ‘bad news’ to their patients and ease their transitions to...

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Uneasy subjects: Medical students' conflicts over the pharmaceutical industry

Holloway, Kelly - In: Social Science & Medicine 114 (2014) C, pp. 113-120

In this article I report on an investigation of the pharmaceutical industry's influence in medical education. Findings are based on fifty semi-structured interviews with medical students in the United States and Canada conducted between 2010 and 2013. Participant responses support the...

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Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health

Orford, Jim; Velleman, Richard; Natera, Guillermina; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 78 (2013) C, pp. 70-77

(AFMs), possibly in the region of 100 million worldwide. A non-pathological stress–strain–coping–support model of the …

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Childhood trauma and metabolic syndrome in men and women

Lee, Chioun; Tsenkova, Vera; Carr, Deborah - In: Social Science & Medicine 105 (2014) C, pp. 122-130

coping mechanisms that he or she employs. …

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‘Dying from’ to ‘living with’: Framing institutions and the coping processes of African American women living with HIV/AIDS

Watkins-Hayes, Celeste; Pittman-Gay, LaShawnDa; Beaman, Jean - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 12, pp. 2028-2036

interpreting and coping with HIV as a chronic but manageable illness? Using interview data collected from 30 HIV-positive African … institutions’ shape the form and tenor of coping trajectories by offering initial information about one's HIV status, a conceptual …

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Adapting the minority stress model: Associations between gender non-conformity stigma, HIV-related stigma and depression among men who have sex with men in South India

Logie, Carmen H.; Newman, Peter A.; Chakrapani, Venkatesan - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 8, pp. 1261-1268

/severe depression scores. Participants in Chennai reported significantly higher levels of GNS, social support and resilient coping, and … to measure associations between independent (GNS, HIV-S), moderator (social support, resilient coping) and dependent … locations, although HIV-S was only a significant predictor in Kumbakonam. Social support and resilient coping were associated …

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Emotion awareness and coping in children with functional abdominal pain: A controlled study

Veek, Shelley M.C. van der; Derkx, H.H.F.; de Haan, Else; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 2, pp. 112-119

emotions and use maladaptive coping strategies when coping with everyday problems. In addition, coping is hypothesized to … abdominal pain (AP) of diverse etiology filled out questionnaires concerning their pain, emotion awareness and coping. MANOVA … was used to investigate group differences in emotional awareness and coping. Structural equation modeling was used to …

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