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Food for thought: An ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a UK foodbank

Garthwaite, K.A.; Collins, P.J.; Bambra, C. - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 38-44

Emergency foodbanks have become an increasingly prominent and controversial feature of austerity in Europe and the USA. In the UK, foodbanks have been called a ‘public health emergency’. Despite this, there has been no UK research examining the health of foodbank users. Through an...

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“Surviving is not the same as living”: Cancer and Sobrevivencia in Puerto Rico

Dyer, Karen E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 20-29

“Cancer survivorship” is an evolving concept that has been elaborated to a large extent in the mainland U.S. through the work of national advocacy organizations, and it has served as a source of cohesion for many people who have experienced cancer. However, anthropologists and other social...

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Framing in policy processes: A case study from hospital planning in the National Health Service in England

Jones, Lorelei; Exworthy, Mark - In: Social Science & Medicine 124 (2015) C, pp. 196-204

This paper reports from an ethnographic study of hospital planning in England undertaken between 2006 and 2009. We explored how a policy to centralise hospital services was espoused in national policy documents, how this shifted over time and how it was translated in practice. We found that...

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An exploratory study of knowledge brokering in hospital settings: Facilitating knowledge sharing and learning for patient safety?

Waring, Justin; Currie, Graeme; Crompton, Amanda; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 79-86

This paper reports on an exploratory study of intra-organisational knowledge brokers working within three large acute … hospitals in the English National Health Services. Knowledge brokering is promoted as a strategy for supporting knowledge … given to brokers who support knowledge sharing and learning within healthcare organisations. With specific reference to the …

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A case for critical ethnography.

Fassin, Didier - In: Social Science & Medicine 99 (2013) C, pp. 119-126

proposes a defense and illustration of a critical ethnography at three moments of the research. Ethnography is first discussed … cultural and behavioral interpretations. Ethnography is then discussed as writing, suggesting acknowledgment of the social … epidemic. Ultimately ethnography is considered from the perspective of its afterlife, that is, the continuous process of its …

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What matters to older people with assisted living needs? A phenomenological analysis of the use and non-use of telehealth and telecare

Greenhalgh, Trisha; Wherton, Joe; Sugarhood, Paul; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 93 (2013) C, pp. 86-94

Telehealth and telecare research has been dominated by efficacy trials. The field lacks a sophisticated theorisation of [a] what matters to older people with assisted living needs; [b] how illness affects people's capacity to use technologies; and [c] the materiality of assistive technologies....

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Rewriting abortion: Deploying medical records in jurisdictional negotiation over a forbidden practice in Senegal

Suh, Siri - In: Social Science & Medicine 108 (2014) C, pp. 20-33

Senegal, where induced abortion is prohibited under any circumstance. Findings are based on an institutional ethnography of …

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The narrative (re)production of prestige: How neurosurgeons teach medical students to valorise diseases

Johannessen, Lars E.F. - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 85-91

others. However, little is known about how doctors acquire the knowledge to do this rating. Based on a fieldwork study of the …

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The habitus of ‘rescue’ and its significance for implementation of rapid response systems in acute health care

Mackintosh, Nicola; Humphrey, Charlotte; Sandall, Jane - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 233-242

The need to focus on patient safety and improve the quality and consistency of medical care in acute hospital settings has been highlighted in a number of UK and international reports. When patients on a hospital ward become acutely unwell there is often a window of opportunity for staff,...

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Seeing risk and allocating responsibility: Talk of culture and its consequences on the work of patient safety

Szymczak, Julia E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 252-259

To improve patient safety, hospitals have implemented interventions to change their culture. Although there is great enthusiasm for these interventions at policy and management levels, we know little about how clinicians talk about “culture” as they do the work of quality and safety...

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