Barbara F Sharf
Biographic Data
| ID | 108709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara F Sharf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara F |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharf |
| SIGNATURE | SHARF B F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Storied Health and Illness
Roads Less Traveled
An increasing number of health seekers in the United States are looking outside conventional medicine to address their health needs. It is estimated that in the United States, 38% of adults use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Extant research characterizes CAM users as a unified homogeneous group, with little understanding of the differences among them in terms of attitudes toward body, wellness, disease, and pivotal aspects of their…
Narrative Turns Epic
Seasoning for the Soul
This article examines the idea of empowerment through food preparation and applies it to a specific context—that of the life of immigrant Mexican women from two South Texas settlement areas, or colonias. Based on ethnographic data gathered through participant observation by bilingual research teams of promotoras and formally educated health professionals embedded with participant families, we analyze the living situations of low-income Mexican wo…
Opting out while fitting in
Understanding Risk Communication Through Patient Narratives About Complex Antithrombotic Therapies
The purpose of this study was to explore how patients use narratives to create coherent understandings of risks associated with complex antithrombotic therapies. We led four focus groups consisting of patients older than 65 years of age who had a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and were using a prescription for cardioprotective agents, such as aspirin, anticoagulants, and/or antiplatelets. The participants' stories were retrospective accounts…
The Dark Side of Truth(s)
This article explores the sometimes problematic issue of truth when conducting qualitative research on people's lives. Four ethical dilemmas are presented relating to the potentially harmful consequences of truth encountered by the authors in their own research: a promise to share the analysis of a patient's medical record containing unflattering comments by her physicians; the unintended sharing of a traumatic event, held secret since its occurr…
Frame Feedback to Improve Professional Performance
Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services
Why cultural awareness matters to American medicine
THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN: A HMONG CHILD, HER AMERICAN DOCTORS, AND THE COLLISION OF TWO CULTURES. By Anne Fadiman. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. 341 pp. $13.00 U.S
Communicating Breast Cancer On-Line
Using participant-observation and discourse analysis, this study explores the communication occurring on the Breast Cancer List, an on-line discussion group which continues to grow in membership and activity. Issues discussed include the evolution of the List, who participates, what topics are discussed. Three major dimensions are identified: exchange of information, social support, and personal empowerment. Social support via computer is compare…
Poster Art as Women's Rhetoric
Literature and Medicine - Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 1995
Reading the vital signs
Charting the Chart—An Exercise in Interpretation(s)
Charting the Chart—An Exercise in Interpretation(s) Suzanne Poirier, Lorie Rosenblum, Lioness Ayres, Daniel J. Brauner, Barbara F. Sharf, and Ann Folwell Stanford The multiauthored article is standard in the medical sciences, where the politics of the laboratory and the academy often loom larger than the singularity of the argument or grace of its execution. The following paper, however, depends upon the singularity of each of its authors and ha…
The Critic as Rhetor
Journal Article The Critic as Rhetor: Psychiatry and Fantasy Theme Analysis Get access Barbara F. Sharf Barbara F. Sharf 1University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 37, Issue 4, December 1987, Pages 169–171, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1987.tb01014.x Published: 07 February 2006
Send in the Clowns
Journal Article Send in the Clowns: The Image of Psychiatry during the Hinckley Trial Get access Barbara F. Sharf Barbara F. Sharf 1Barbara F. Sharf is Associate Professor of Health Professions Education at the Center for Educational Development and a faculty member in the Departments of Psychiatry and Communication and Theater at the University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journa…
A rhetorical analysis of leadership emergence in small groups
A rhetorical framework based on Burkean theory is used to analyze the relative success of leadership contenders in small groups in obtaining cooperation of the other members and resolving the struggle for leadership. The study adds to a gradually accumulating body of qualitative group research. A series of five steps delineates critical responsibilities for this analysis. To illustrate and support the conceptual schema, it has been applied to rec…
The Dark Side of Truth(s)
This article explores the sometimes problematic issue of truth when conducting qualitative research on people's lives. Four ethical dilemmas are presented relating to the potentially harmful consequences of truth encountered by the authors in their own research: a promise to share the analysis of a patient's medical record containing unflattering comments by her physicians; the unintended sharing of a traumatic event, held secret since its occurr…
Reading the vital signs
Opting out while fitting in
A rhetorical analysis of leadership emergence in small groups
A rhetorical framework based on Burkean theory is used to analyze the relative success of leadership contenders in small groups in obtaining cooperation of the other members and resolving the struggle for leadership. The study adds to a gradually accumulating body of qualitative group research. A series of five steps delineates critical responsibilities for this analysis. To illustrate and support the conceptual schema, it has been applied to rec…
Seasoning for the Soul
This article examines the idea of empowerment through food preparation and applies it to a specific context—that of the life of immigrant Mexican women from two South Texas settlement areas, or colonias. Based on ethnographic data gathered through participant observation by bilingual research teams of promotoras and formally educated health professionals embedded with participant families, we analyze the living situations of low-income Mexican wo…
Roads Less Traveled
An increasing number of health seekers in the United States are looking outside conventional medicine to address their health needs. It is estimated that in the United States, 38% of adults use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Extant research characterizes CAM users as a unified homogeneous group, with little understanding of the differences among them in terms of attitudes toward body, wellness, disease, and pivotal aspects of their…
A rhetorical analysis of leadership emergence in small groups
A rhetorical framework based on Burkean theory is used to analyze the relative success of leadership contenders in small groups in obtaining cooperation of the other members and resolving the struggle for leadership. The study adds to a gradually accumulating body of qualitative group research. A series of five steps delineates critical responsibilities for this analysis. To illustrate and support the conceptual schema, it has been applied to rec…
Send in the Clowns
Journal Article Send in the Clowns: The Image of Psychiatry during the Hinckley Trial Get access Barbara F. Sharf Barbara F. Sharf 1Barbara F. Sharf is Associate Professor of Health Professions Education at the Center for Educational Development and a faculty member in the Departments of Psychiatry and Communication and Theater at the University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journa…
The Critic as Rhetor
Journal Article The Critic as Rhetor: Psychiatry and Fantasy Theme Analysis Get access Barbara F. Sharf Barbara F. Sharf 1University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 37, Issue 4, December 1987, Pages 169–171, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1987.tb01014.x Published: 07 February 2006
Charting the Chart—An Exercise in Interpretation(s)
Charting the Chart—An Exercise in Interpretation(s) Suzanne Poirier, Lorie Rosenblum, Lioness Ayres, Daniel J. Brauner, Barbara F. Sharf, and Ann Folwell Stanford The multiauthored article is standard in the medical sciences, where the politics of the laboratory and the academy often loom larger than the singularity of the argument or grace of its execution. The following paper, however, depends upon the singularity of each of its authors and ha…
Reading the vital signs
Poster Art as Women's Rhetoric
Literature and Medicine - Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 1995
Communicating Breast Cancer On-Line
Using participant-observation and discourse analysis, this study explores the communication occurring on the Breast Cancer List, an on-line discussion group which continues to grow in membership and activity. Issues discussed include the evolution of the List, who participates, what topics are discussed. Three major dimensions are identified: exchange of information, social support, and personal empowerment. Social support via computer is compare…
Why cultural awareness matters to American medicine
THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN: A HMONG CHILD, HER AMERICAN DOCTORS, AND THE COLLISION OF TWO CULTURES. By Anne Fadiman. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. 341 pp. $13.00 U.S
Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services
Frame Feedback to Improve Professional Performance
The Dark Side of Truth(s)
This article explores the sometimes problematic issue of truth when conducting qualitative research on people's lives. Four ethical dilemmas are presented relating to the potentially harmful consequences of truth encountered by the authors in their own research: a promise to share the analysis of a patient's medical record containing unflattering comments by her physicians; the unintended sharing of a traumatic event, held secret since its occurr…
Opting out while fitting in
Understanding Risk Communication Through Patient Narratives About Complex Antithrombotic Therapies
The purpose of this study was to explore how patients use narratives to create coherent understandings of risks associated with complex antithrombotic therapies. We led four focus groups consisting of patients older than 65 years of age who had a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and were using a prescription for cardioprotective agents, such as aspirin, anticoagulants, and/or antiplatelets. The participants' stories were retrospective accounts…
Seasoning for the Soul
This article examines the idea of empowerment through food preparation and applies it to a specific context—that of the life of immigrant Mexican women from two South Texas settlement areas, or colonias. Based on ethnographic data gathered through participant observation by bilingual research teams of promotoras and formally educated health professionals embedded with participant families, we analyze the living situations of low-income Mexican wo…
Narrative Turns Epic
Storied Health and Illness
Roads Less Traveled
An increasing number of health seekers in the United States are looking outside conventional medicine to address their health needs. It is estimated that in the United States, 38% of adults use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Extant research characterizes CAM users as a unified homogeneous group, with little understanding of the differences among them in terms of attitudes toward body, wellness, disease, and pivotal aspects of their…
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)