A Shaw
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2454 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Shaw |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Shaw |
| FIRMA | SHAW A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5907-4608 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 337 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Is It a Boy, or a Girl? The Challenges of Genital Ambiguity
Signalling and Performance
A graduate of Reading
Views about integrating smoking cessation treatment within psychological services for patients with common mental illness
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking rates are significantly higher in people with common mental illness compared to those without. Smoking cessation treatment could be offered as part of usual outpatient psychological care, but currently is not. OBJECTIVE: To understand patient and health care professionals' views about integrating smoking cessation treatment into outpatient psychological services for common mental illness. DESIGN: Qualitative in-depth i…
‘A tool to help me through the darkness’
Yoga is widely regarded as beneficial for physical and emotional health, and as a safe ancillary intervention for managing a range of psychological conditions. Evidence of injury, harm, and abuse in yoga traditions is difficult to square with this emphasis on healing. Drawing mainly from on online memoirs by long-term practitioners of Ashtanga yoga, this paper examines the relationship between suffering and healing in yoga, showing how long-term …
Yoga bodies, yoga minds
“ The child’s got a complete circle around him ”. The care of younger children (5–11 years) with CFS/ME. A qualitative study comparing families’, teachers’ and clinicians’ perspectives’
Society needs to improve the care of children with complex needs. Guidelines recommend integrating care across health and educational settings, however, there is little research on whether this is achieved or how this can be done in practice. Our aim was to address this gap by examining how the care of children (aged 5-11 years) with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is shared across home, education and health settings,…
Development of a conceptual framework to underpin a health-related quality of life outcome measure in paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME)
An interactive card ranking exercise worked well for adolescents aged 12-17 to elicit the most important outcomes to them and explore each domain in further detail. We developed a final conceptual framework of HRQoL that forms the basis of a new paediatric patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) in CFS/ME
Towards an ecological understanding of readiness to engage with interventions for children exposed to domestic violence and abuse
Children's experiences and needs in situations of domestic violence
Estimates suggest that 15% of children in the United Kingdom have been exposed to at least one form of domestic violence (DV) during their childhood, with more than 3% having witnessed an incident during the past year. This exposure increases the risk of children suffering both short-term and long-term impacts, including effects on their behaviour, social development, physical and mental health, educational attainment and quality of life. In addi…
Genetic Screening and Medical Genetics
Medical genetics is concerned with improving human health through the diagnosis, risk assessment, and management of human genetic disease. Genetic screening refers to the protocols and technologies for ascertaining risks for medical conditions with known genetic causes or contributions. The emerging anthropology of these practices offers a commentary on processes of clinical diagnosis and expertise, on the social settings of policies and practice…
Managing clients’ expectations at the outset of online C ognitive B ehavioural T herapy ( CBT ) for depression
BACKGROUND: Engaging clients in psychotherapy by managing their expectations is important for therapeutic success. Initial moments in first sessions of therapy are thought to afford an opportunity to establish a shared understanding of how therapy will proceed. However, there is little evidence from analysis of actual sessions of therapy to support this. OBJECTIVE: This study utilised recorded session logs to examine how therapists manage clients…
Orienting to Emotion in Computer-Mediated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exploring emotions is a defining feature of psychotherapy. This study explores how therapists orient to emotions when they cannot see or hear their clients. In analyzing 1,279 sessions of online text-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focused on therapists’ commiserations (e.g., “I’m sorry to hear that”) and their affective inferences (e.g., “that sounds very scary for you”). Both practices routinely prefaced moves to pursue a range of …
The physical activity profiles of South Asian ethnic groups in England
BACKGROUND: To identify what types of activity contribute to overall physical activity in South Asian ethnic groups and how these vary according to sex and age. We used the White British ethnic group as a comparison. METHODS: Self-reported physical activity was measured in the Health Survey for England 1999 and 2004, a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey that boosted ethnic minority samples in these years. We merged the two survey y…
Triggering transformative change
While climate change action plans are becoming more common, it is still unclear whether communities have the capacity, tools, and targets in place to trigger the transformative levels of change required to build fundamentally low-carbon, resilient, healthy communities. Evidence increasingly supports the finding that this transformation is not triggered by climate policy alone, but rather is shaped by a broad array of decisions and practices that …
Rituals of Infant Death
This article is about the recognition of personhood when death occurs in early life. Drawing from anthropological perspectives on personhood at the beginnings and ends of life, it examines the implications of competing religious and customary definitions of personhood for a small sample of young B ritish Pakistani M uslim women who experienced miscarriage and stillbirth. It suggests that these women's concerns about the lack of recognition given …
Kinship and Continuity
Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the present day. Alison Shaw addresses the dynamics of migration, patterns of residence and kinship, ideas about health and illness, and notions of political and religious authority, and discusses the transformations and continuities of the lives of British Pakistanis against the backdrop of rural Pakistan and …
Accelerating the sustainability transition
Acknowledging Trade-offs and Understanding Complexity
Vercoe, R. A., M. Welch-Devine, D. Hardy, J. A. Demoss, S. N. Bonney, K. Allen, P. Brosius, D. Charles, B. Crawford, S. Heisel, N. Heynen, R. G. De Jesús-Crespo, N. Nibbelink, L. Parker, C. Pringle, A. Shaw, and L. Van Sant. 2014. Acknowledging trade-offs and understanding complexity: exurbanization issues in Macon County, North Carolina. Ecology and Society 19(1): 23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05970-190123
Marital instability among British Pakistanis
This article offers insights into the dynamics underlying an increase in marital instability in British Pakistani families, thus challenging stereotypes of British South Asian populations as representing 'old-fashioned' families, with their lower rates of divorce in contrast with the wider British population. In addition to problems of compatibility, domestic violence and infidelity, we explore dynamics that may be more specific to the British Pa…
Crime and Muslim Britain
The novelty of this study of crime and British Muslims is that, rather than calculating rates or types of crime from an established, external criminological perspective, Bolognani’s interest is in eliciting and analysing the views of British Muslims themselves on what defines and causes criminal behaviour. Bolognani’s explicit aim is to ‘fill the gap’ in criminological studies concerning the links between race, ethnicity and crime, by providing a…
Risk and reproductive decisions
How far does ethnicity/culture/religion mediate couples' responses to genetic risk? This paper examines the responses of 51 British Pakistani couples referred to a genetics clinic in southern England to counselling about recurrence risks for genetic problems in children. It is based on fieldwork conducted between 2000 and 2004 that combined participant observation of genetics consultations with interviews in respondents' homes. Interviews were co…
Patient choice and evidence based decisions
Objective Current government policies simultaneously pursue the development of ‘patient‐led’ and ‘evidence‐based’ approaches to healthcare. The objective of this study was to explore how primary care clinicians and Primary Care Trust (PCT) managers balance these potentially competing tensions when considering popular, controversial treatments, like complementary therapies, in consultations (clinicians) or funding decisions (PCT managers). Setting…
Primary‐care patients’ expectations and experiences of online cognitive behavioural therapy for depression
Objective To explore expectations and experiences of online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) among primary‐care patients with depression, focusing on how this mode of delivery impacts upon the therapeutic experience. Design Qualitative study, using repeat semi‐structured interviews with patients before and after therapy. The study was conducted in parallel with a randomized controlled trial examining the effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of…
Over-the-counter advice seeking about complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in community pharmacies and health shops
In many ways, consumers of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) embody the values that current policies aim to encourage such as self-caring and private consumption. For example, the British Government's choice agenda suggests patient choice and self-management are key government priorities and state that good information should be at the heart of all services. However, research on community pharmacies suggests that there is a continued l…
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
Kinship, Cultural Preference and Immigration
This article offers an analysis and interpretation of a high rate of marriage to relatives, especially first cousins, in a sample of second-generation British Pakistanis. It argues that the high rate of such marriage is not a simple reflection of a cultural preference. A better explanation requires an analysis of the factors that influence the decisions and choices of the marriage arrangers in the particular context of Pakistani migration to Brit…
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
South Asian transnational marriages in comparative perspective
This issue on South Asian transnational marriages brings diverse practices and networks into detailed ethnographic focus. Gender and agency are key themes explored in the collection, as well as the potential and actual transformation of gendered status resulting from marrying a migrant or joining a spouse overseas. The introduction identifies some common threads. Several articles challenge the assumption of wives' passivity in arranged marriages …
Rishtas
The popularity of transnational marriages that in most cases involve first cousins or other kin distinguishes Pakistanis from other British South Asian groups. In this article we explain the popularity of such marriages. We seek to complement accounts that stress kinship obligations and socio-economic strategy by showing that transnational marriages are also motivated by the emotional ties of kinship. Central to this analysis is a focus on the Ur…
Rebirthing the Clinic
The article reconsiders the nature and location of science in the development of genetic classification. Drawing on field studies of medical genetics, we explore how patient categorization is accomplished in between the clinic and laboratory. We focus on dysmorphology, a specialism concerned with complex syndromes that impair physical development. We show that dys-morphology is about more than fitting patients into prefixed diagnostic categories …
Marital instability among British Pakistanis
This article offers insights into the dynamics underlying an increase in marital instability in British Pakistani families, thus challenging stereotypes of British South Asian populations as representing 'old-fashioned' families, with their lower rates of divorce in contrast with the wider British population. In addition to problems of compatibility, domestic violence and infidelity, we explore dynamics that may be more specific to the British Pa…
Accelerating the sustainability transition
The arranged transnational cousin marriages of British Pakistanis
Links with kin ‘back home’ have been central to Pakistani migration and settlement in Britain. Fifty years since the first phase of migration began, these links are maintained and re-created most centrally through the common practice of arranged transnational marriage, mostly involving first cousins. This paper outlines and comments on several strands of critique of this social trend. It describes how arranged transnational cousin marriage has be…
Interpreting Images
The diagnosis of rare genetic disorders involves classifying patients on the basis of clinical understandings of the relationship between visible, measurable characteristics (the phenotype) and an underlying genetic characterization (the genotype). Diagnosis is performed through the routine ritual observation and interpretation of images of patients in relation to their clinical features and test results. In this process, which is mediated by sen…
Risk and reproductive decisions
How far does ethnicity/culture/religion mediate couples' responses to genetic risk? This paper examines the responses of 51 British Pakistani couples referred to a genetics clinic in southern England to counselling about recurrence risks for genetic problems in children. It is based on fieldwork conducted between 2000 and 2004 that combined participant observation of genetics consultations with interviews in respondents' homes. Interviews were co…
I don't see any point in telling them’
The sharing of genetic information following the diagnosis of a genetic condition can be important for managing familial risks for genetic conditions. This paper explores factors that impede or facilitate the sharing of genetic information within a sample of British Pakistani families. It draws from research investigating understandings of genetics and inheritance, attitudes to prenatal diagnosis and risk communication in the family that used met…
What are 'they' Doing to our Food
This paper explores 'expert' constructions of public concerns about food within a sociological framework. Concerns about potential risks in food have become controversial social and political issues in Britain in recent years. This paper reflects on these wider debates, and on sociological work on food, 'risk' and science, which provide the backdrop for qualitative research studying 'expert' and 'lay' understandings of food risks. The first phase…
A Pakistani Community in Britain
The Single European Market and SMEs
SMALLBONE D., CUMBERS A., SYRETT S. and LEIGH R. (1999) The Single European Market and SMEs: a comparison of its effects in the food and clothing sectors in the UK and Portugal, Reg. Studies 33 , 51-62. The creation of a Single European Market in 1992 represented an attempt to accelerate the process of European economic integration. However, in terms of the actual impact of the Single Market process, most of the attention so far has concentrated …
Obstacles on the path to a primary-care led National Health Service
Institutions, Alternative Farming Systems, and Local Reregulation
The weakening of the postwar nexus of a productivist agriculture and a distinctive system of regulating the rural economy has created new challenges for British rural institutions. The task of diversifying rural and farm economies has required the institutions to change how they operate. Using the concept of the local mode of social regulation (MSR) we explore the interrelationships between the development of alternative farming systems and the i…
Orienting to Emotion in Computer-Mediated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exploring emotions is a defining feature of psychotherapy. This study explores how therapists orient to emotions when they cannot see or hear their clients. In analyzing 1,279 sessions of online text-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focused on therapists’ commiserations (e.g., “I’m sorry to hear that”) and their affective inferences (e.g., “that sounds very scary for you”). Both practices routinely prefaced moves to pursue a range of …
Acknowledging Trade-offs and Understanding Complexity
Vercoe, R. A., M. Welch-Devine, D. Hardy, J. A. Demoss, S. N. Bonney, K. Allen, P. Brosius, D. Charles, B. Crawford, S. Heisel, N. Heynen, R. G. De Jesús-Crespo, N. Nibbelink, L. Parker, C. Pringle, A. Shaw, and L. Van Sant. 2014. Acknowledging trade-offs and understanding complexity: exurbanization issues in Macon County, North Carolina. Ecology and Society 19(1): 23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05970-190123
Why might young British Muslims support the Taliban
Game plans, buzzes, and sheer luck
Signalling and Performance
A graduate of Reading
Children's experiences and needs in situations of domestic violence
Estimates suggest that 15% of children in the United Kingdom have been exposed to at least one form of domestic violence (DV) during their childhood, with more than 3% having witnessed an incident during the past year. This exposure increases the risk of children suffering both short-term and long-term impacts, including effects on their behaviour, social development, physical and mental health, educational attainment and quality of life. In addi…
The physical activity profiles of South Asian ethnic groups in England
BACKGROUND: To identify what types of activity contribute to overall physical activity in South Asian ethnic groups and how these vary according to sex and age. We used the White British ethnic group as a comparison. METHODS: Self-reported physical activity was measured in the Health Survey for England 1999 and 2004, a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey that boosted ethnic minority samples in these years. We merged the two survey y…
The community pharmacy and discursive complexity
The present paper examines the developing role of the medicines counter assistant (MCA) based in community pharmacies in the UK. In recent years, community pharmacies have been promoted as sources of primary care advice, and this has been accompanied by an increase in the number of pharmacy-only medicines made available for purchase without prescription. At the forefront of these changes is the MCA, who responds to requests for medicines and also…
Breast screening
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine the relative effectiveness of three interventions designed to increase the uptake of breast screening. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial of a nurse visit with health education (group A), nurse visit without health education (group B), and GP letter (group C). SETTING: The area of south east London served by the Butterfly Walk Breast Screening Unit in Camberwell. PARTICIPANTS: Women aged between 50 and 64 years who…
Meeting the challenge of educational care in heart disease
Meeting the challenge of educational care in heart disease. C E Vavra, L S Urbain, and A ShawCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.56.9.1507 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Effects on the Legibility of Increasing Information
A Pakistani Community in Britain
Breast screening
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine the relative effectiveness of three interventions designed to increase the uptake of breast screening. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial of a nurse visit with health education (group A), nurse visit without health education (group B), and GP letter (group C). SETTING: The area of south east London served by the Butterfly Walk Breast Screening Unit in Camberwell. PARTICIPANTS: Women aged between 50 and 64 years who…
Game plans, buzzes, and sheer luck
Institutions, Alternative Farming Systems, and Local Reregulation
The weakening of the postwar nexus of a productivist agriculture and a distinctive system of regulating the rural economy has created new challenges for British rural institutions. The task of diversifying rural and farm economies has required the institutions to change how they operate. Using the concept of the local mode of social regulation (MSR) we explore the interrelationships between the development of alternative farming systems and the i…
Contesting Culture
The Single European Market and SMEs
SMALLBONE D., CUMBERS A., SYRETT S. and LEIGH R. (1999) The Single European Market and SMEs: a comparison of its effects in the food and clothing sectors in the UK and Portugal, Reg. Studies 33 , 51-62. The creation of a Single European Market in 1992 represented an attempt to accelerate the process of European economic integration. However, in terms of the actual impact of the Single Market process, most of the attention so far has concentrated …
Obstacles on the path to a primary-care led National Health Service
What are 'they' Doing to our Food
This paper explores 'expert' constructions of public concerns about food within a sociological framework. Concerns about potential risks in food have become controversial social and political issues in Britain in recent years. This paper reflects on these wider debates, and on sociological work on food, 'risk' and science, which provide the backdrop for qualitative research studying 'expert' and 'lay' understandings of food risks. The first phase…
Kinship, Cultural Preference and Immigration
This article offers an analysis and interpretation of a high rate of marriage to relatives, especially first cousins, in a sample of second-generation British Pakistanis. It argues that the high rate of such marriage is not a simple reflection of a cultural preference. A better explanation requires an analysis of the factors that influence the decisions and choices of the marriage arrangers in the particular context of Pakistani migration to Brit…
“It just goes against the grain.” Public understandings of genetically modified (GM) food in the UK
This paper reports on one aspect of qualitative research on public understandings of food risks, focusing on lay understandings of genetically modified (GM) food in a UK context. A range of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical literature on food, risk, and the public understanding of science are reviewed. The fieldwork methods are outlined and empirical data from a range of lay groups are presented. Major themes include: varying “technical” kno…
Why might young British Muslims support the Taliban
Surveying 'slides'
The work of clinical geneticists includes the inspection of visible abnormalities and their allocation to clinical categories. Drawing on observations of departmental clinical meetings in a medical genetics service, we describe how diagnostic work is accomplished through the practical observation and reasoning of clinical professionals. We suggest that, while the use of molecular tests is increasing the diagnostic repertoire in various ways, clin…
Interpreting Images
The diagnosis of rare genetic disorders involves classifying patients on the basis of clinical understandings of the relationship between visible, measurable characteristics (the phenotype) and an underlying genetic characterization (the genotype). Diagnosis is performed through the routine ritual observation and interpretation of images of patients in relation to their clinical features and test results. In this process, which is mediated by sen…
Discourses of risk in lay accounts of microbiological safety and BSE
This paper reports on a qualitative study of lay understandings of food risks, focusing on discourses of risk in lay accounts of microbiological safety and BSE. The research was conducted using interpretive sociological methods. In-depth interviews were conducted with 32 lay participants from a range of social backgrounds and perspectives on food issues. The qualitative data were analysed thematically, drawing on principles and techniques derived…
From Schism to Continuum? The Problematic Relationship Between Expert and Lay Knowledge—An Exploratory Conceptual Synthesis of Two Qualitative Studies
Ideas about lay and expert knowledge increasingly underscore debates within qualitative health research. In this article, the authors develop an exploratory synthesis of two qualitative studies in which they critique the lay-expert divide, suggesting instead a spectrum of knowledge(s) about health and scientific issues. In the original studies, the researchers examined food risks and alternative medicine, and they shared an interest in the lay-ex…
Expectations of patients and parents of children with asthma regarding access to complementary therapy information and services via the NHS
Objective To explore the expectations of patients and parents of children with asthma regarding access to complementary therapies via the NHS. Methods Fifty semi‐structured interviews with adults and parents of children with asthma, from a range of health‐care settings, including users and non‐users of complementary therapies. Interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim and the data were analysed thematically. Results Thirty‐one patients were …
Science and Politics in the International Environment (review)
Reviewed by: Science and Politics in the International Environment Alison Shaw N.E. Harrison and G. C. Bryner , eds, Science and Politics in the International Environment. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004, 357 pp. Science and Politics in the International Environment provides the reader with a valuable and long overdue examination of the increasingly pertinent environmental problems of the 21st century. As problems become glo…
The arranged transnational cousin marriages of British Pakistanis
Links with kin ‘back home’ have been central to Pakistani migration and settlement in Britain. Fifty years since the first phase of migration began, these links are maintained and re-created most centrally through the common practice of arranged transnational marriage, mostly involving first cousins. This paper outlines and comments on several strands of critique of this social trend. It describes how arranged transnational cousin marriage has be…
Rebirthing the Clinic
The article reconsiders the nature and location of science in the development of genetic classification. Drawing on field studies of medical genetics, we explore how patient categorization is accomplished in between the clinic and laboratory. We focus on dysmorphology, a specialism concerned with complex syndromes that impair physical development. We show that dys-morphology is about more than fitting patients into prefixed diagnostic categories …
South Asian transnational marriages in comparative perspective
This issue on South Asian transnational marriages brings diverse practices and networks into detailed ethnographic focus. Gender and agency are key themes explored in the collection, as well as the potential and actual transformation of gendered status resulting from marrying a migrant or joining a spouse overseas. The introduction identifies some common threads. Several articles challenge the assumption of wives' passivity in arranged marriages …
Rishtas
The popularity of transnational marriages that in most cases involve first cousins or other kin distinguishes Pakistanis from other British South Asian groups. In this article we explain the popularity of such marriages. We seek to complement accounts that stress kinship obligations and socio-economic strategy by showing that transnational marriages are also motivated by the emotional ties of kinship. Central to this analysis is a focus on the Ur…
Predictors of complementary therapy use among asthma patients
Patients with chronic conditions are increasingly using complementary therapies. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in the UK. Qualitative research has suggested reasons why asthma patients use complementary therapies. However, there is little reliable quantitative evidence regarding the prevalence of complementary therapy use among asthma patients and predictors of use. A postal survey of complementary therapy use among asthma patients wa…
The community pharmacy and discursive complexity
The present paper examines the developing role of the medicines counter assistant (MCA) based in community pharmacies in the UK. In recent years, community pharmacies have been promoted as sources of primary care advice, and this has been accompanied by an increase in the number of pharmacy-only medicines made available for purchase without prescription. At the forefront of these changes is the MCA, who responds to requests for medicines and also…
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