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Over the last forty years, nursing's claim to professional expertise has been expressed in terms of its care-giving function. Informed by a distinctive ‘holistic’ approach, models of nursing identify therapeutic relationships as the cornerstone of practice. While ‘knowing the patient’...
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The short report describes the development from page to stage of a work of theatre based on an ethnographic study. The originating research focused on the work of health care assistants (nurse's aides) whose direct impact on the quality of life of highly dependent people is often overlooked. The...
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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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“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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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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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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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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differential class-based application of scientific knowledge on its causes and consequences. Public health campaigns should …
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Disclosing overall scientific results to clinical trial participants has become an ethical obligation. Here we studied how participants understand these results in view of their experience of clinical trials and illness in general and what modes of disclosure they preferred. Interviews were...
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functioning of the country's health system. This paper presents reflections on the role of ethnography in policy-based social … sensibilities can reside within the interactive and knowledge production practices among experts oriented toward policy change. …
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