C L Cain
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 48633 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | C L Cain |
| NOMBRES | C L |
| APELLIDO | Cain |
| FIRMA | CAIN C L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5149-3592 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Dignity, Personhood, or Sacred Selves? Complicating Medical Literature and Caregiver Narratives in Dementia Care
Perceptions of people living with dementia are shaped by a variety of “narratives” produced by medical authorities, family members of people living with dementia, and paid care workers. Narratives often define how a person living with dementia should be treated, with a focus on dignity and personhood. Using data from published medical literature, a discussion board for family caregivers, and participant observation of a memory‐care unit of a long…
An Exploration of the Contemporary U.S. Academic Physician Experience with the Formal Rationalization of Health Care
It has been over three decades since it was predicted that the processes of formal rationalization would lead to dire consequences for all physicians. Prompted by a social concern about elevated burnout rates in U.S. physicians, there have been some investigations about organizational influences on their work lives. However, these studies have not used formal rationalization as a conceptual framework. This exploratory study was undertaken to exam…
Too Soon or Too Late
Cultural narratives shape how we think about the world, including how we decide when the end of life begins. Hospice care has become an integral part of the end‐of‐life care in the United States, but as it has grown, its policies and practices have also imposed cultural narratives, like those associated with the “six‐month rule” that the majority of the end of life takes place in the final six months of life. This idea is embedded in policies for…
What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis
Medical Aid in Dying
Medical aid in dying (MAID) has been a productive target for social scientific inquiry at the intersections of law and medicine over the past two decades. Insofar as MAID crystallizes and reflects personal and cultural understandings of key concepts such as individualism, dependency, dignity, and care, it is a rich site for social scientific theorizing. This article reviews and assesses the contributions of social scientific perspectives to resea…
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice
Moments of ritual reveal symbolic meanings, reinforce boundaries of the social group, and tie actors to one another. Because rituals are so important to social life, ethnographers must be attuned to both institutionalized and everyday rituals of their sites. However, methodological literature rarely discusses how everyday rituals should be treated during data collection, analysis, or presentation. We use data from two ethnographic sites—a yoga st…
Why Surgeons Struggle with Work-Hour Reforms
Creating 'Risky' New Roles in Healthcare
Healthcare is experiencing two countervailing pressures: to increase efficiency and be more responsive to consumer demands. Healthcare organizations often create new work arrangements, including 'lay healthcare' roles, to respond to these pressures. Using longitudinal qualitative data, this article analyzes how one set of new lay healthcare workers attempted to construct a workplace identity, sell their value to existing professional workers, and…
Valuing Black lives and the 'Good Death' in the United States
Integrating work and home when patients are dying
Scholars of work and family have argued that flexibility in hours and location may support integration between work and home. Home-based hospice care is a type of work that has a great deal of flexibility but it is not clear that it is used to support workers. Using interview and survey data from 179 US hospice workers, we show that the speeding up of care and culture of self-sacrifice make integration difficult. Almost a third of workers report …
Quelling moral panics? The case of physician aid in dying in California
Identity work within attempts to transform healthcare
Studies have shown that workers’ identities matter for a host of individual and organizational outcomes. However, the question of how identities work becomes more complex when considering settings where workers must negotiate multiple – and sometimes conflicting – identities. Interprofessional healthcare teams are one such setting. Within interprofessional teams, workers are expected to adopt both professional and team-based identities, sometimes…
Agency and Change in Healthcare Organizations
There is no doubt that the organization of healthcare is currently shifting, partly in response to changing macrolevel policies. Studies of healthcare policies often do not consider healthcare workers' experiences of policy change, thus limiting our understanding of when and how policies work. This article uses longitudinal qualitative data, including participant observation and semistructured interviews with workers within hospice care as their …
Expanded definitions of the 'good death'? Race, ethnicity and medical aid in dying
The range of end-of-life options is expanding across North America. Specifically, medical aid in dying (AID), or the process by which a patient with a terminal illness may request medical assistance with hastening death, has recently become legal in eight jurisdictions in the United States and all of Canada. Debates about AID often rely on cultural constructions that define some deaths as 'good' and others as 'bad'. While research has found commo…
Local Leaders' Perspectives on Women Veterans’ Health Care
Boundaried Caring and Gendered Emotion Management in Hospice Work
Caring work, which is premised on caring for and caring about recipients, involves a great deal of emotion management. Feeling rules shape expectations about emotion management and are informally shared through workers’ narratives about quality work. Using qualitative data from hospice workers in the southwestern US, I find that narratives of quality within hospice include emotion-management skills such as listening, truly caring, keeping calm an…
Labors of Love
Bridging Science and Religion
Contrary to the notion that medical science has supplanted religious understandings of human suffering, recent research suggests that health-care workers like nurses can still portray their confrontations with illness and death in spiritual terms through storytelling. However, scholars have yet to systematically analyze the rhetorical devices used to construct spiritual meanings. Drawing on a symbolic interactionist perspective, we theorize that …
The Joy of Science
Science and emotions are typically juxtaposed: science is considered rational and unattached to outcomes, whereas emotions are considered irrational and harmful to science. Ethnographic studies of the daily lives of scientists have problematized this opposition, focusing on the emotional experiences of scientists as they go about their work, but they reveal little about disciplinary differences. We build on these studies by analyzing Citation Cla…
Cultural Correlates of Gender Integration in Science
Gender integration within science has been uneven: some fields have integrated women to almost equitable levels, while others remain male‐dominated. Explanations for this variation abound, but few are able to assess empirically the relevance of disciplinary cultures in a systematic way. We take up this challenge by analysing accounts of scientific success in fields that integrated women to a large degree (Psychology and the Life Sciences) and fie…
Straight from the source
How do highly cited scientists account for their success? A number of approaches have been used to explain scientific success, but none incorporates scientists’ own understandings, which are critical to a complete, process-oriented explanation. We remedy this oversight by incorporating scientists’ own descriptions of the value of their work, as reflected in essays written by authors of highly cited articles (‘Citation Classics’). As cultural obje…
Emotions and the Research Interview
Interviewing about death and loss can bring up unexpected emotions for respondents and interviewers. Positivist social scientific research methods often either ignore the emotions of the researcher, or argue that emotional expressions are to be avoided in research, even when the topic is thought to inspire intense feelings – like death and dying. This article argues for taking an alternative position toward emotions in death and dying research. U…
Integrating Dark Humor and Compassion
In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman drew attention to the various ways that individuals present themselves across settings. One aspect of his discussion was the division of space into front and back regions. In this article, I use data from two years participant observation and forty-one interviews with hospice workers to examine the ways that workers identify as well as how they use those identities to account for discrepancies…
Integrating Dark Humor and Compassion
In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman drew attention to the various ways that individuals present themselves across settings. One aspect of his discussion was the division of space into front and back regions. In this article, I use data from two years participant observation and forty-one interviews with hospice workers to examine the ways that workers identify as well as how they use those identities to account for discrepancies…
Cultural Correlates of Gender Integration in Science
Gender integration within science has been uneven: some fields have integrated women to almost equitable levels, while others remain male‐dominated. Explanations for this variation abound, but few are able to assess empirically the relevance of disciplinary cultures in a systematic way. We take up this challenge by analysing accounts of scientific success in fields that integrated women to a large degree (Psychology and the Life Sciences) and fie…
Straight from the source
How do highly cited scientists account for their success? A number of approaches have been used to explain scientific success, but none incorporates scientists’ own understandings, which are critical to a complete, process-oriented explanation. We remedy this oversight by incorporating scientists’ own descriptions of the value of their work, as reflected in essays written by authors of highly cited articles (‘Citation Classics’). As cultural obje…
Expanded definitions of the 'good death'? Race, ethnicity and medical aid in dying
The range of end-of-life options is expanding across North America. Specifically, medical aid in dying (AID), or the process by which a patient with a terminal illness may request medical assistance with hastening death, has recently become legal in eight jurisdictions in the United States and all of Canada. Debates about AID often rely on cultural constructions that define some deaths as 'good' and others as 'bad'. While research has found commo…
Agency and Change in Healthcare Organizations
There is no doubt that the organization of healthcare is currently shifting, partly in response to changing macrolevel policies. Studies of healthcare policies often do not consider healthcare workers' experiences of policy change, thus limiting our understanding of when and how policies work. This article uses longitudinal qualitative data, including participant observation and semistructured interviews with workers within hospice care as their …
The Joy of Science
Science and emotions are typically juxtaposed: science is considered rational and unattached to outcomes, whereas emotions are considered irrational and harmful to science. Ethnographic studies of the daily lives of scientists have problematized this opposition, focusing on the emotional experiences of scientists as they go about their work, but they reveal little about disciplinary differences. We build on these studies by analyzing Citation Cla…
Boundaried Caring and Gendered Emotion Management in Hospice Work
Caring work, which is premised on caring for and caring about recipients, involves a great deal of emotion management. Feeling rules shape expectations about emotion management and are informally shared through workers’ narratives about quality work. Using qualitative data from hospice workers in the southwestern US, I find that narratives of quality within hospice include emotion-management skills such as listening, truly caring, keeping calm an…
Emotions and the Research Interview
Interviewing about death and loss can bring up unexpected emotions for respondents and interviewers. Positivist social scientific research methods often either ignore the emotions of the researcher, or argue that emotional expressions are to be avoided in research, even when the topic is thought to inspire intense feelings – like death and dying. This article argues for taking an alternative position toward emotions in death and dying research. U…
Identity work within attempts to transform healthcare
Studies have shown that workers’ identities matter for a host of individual and organizational outcomes. However, the question of how identities work becomes more complex when considering settings where workers must negotiate multiple – and sometimes conflicting – identities. Interprofessional healthcare teams are one such setting. Within interprofessional teams, workers are expected to adopt both professional and team-based identities, sometimes…
Medical Aid in Dying
Medical aid in dying (MAID) has been a productive target for social scientific inquiry at the intersections of law and medicine over the past two decades. Insofar as MAID crystallizes and reflects personal and cultural understandings of key concepts such as individualism, dependency, dignity, and care, it is a rich site for social scientific theorizing. This article reviews and assesses the contributions of social scientific perspectives to resea…
Creating 'Risky' New Roles in Healthcare
Healthcare is experiencing two countervailing pressures: to increase efficiency and be more responsive to consumer demands. Healthcare organizations often create new work arrangements, including 'lay healthcare' roles, to respond to these pressures. Using longitudinal qualitative data, this article analyzes how one set of new lay healthcare workers attempted to construct a workplace identity, sell their value to existing professional workers, and…
Valuing Black lives and the 'Good Death' in the United States
Bridging Science and Religion
Contrary to the notion that medical science has supplanted religious understandings of human suffering, recent research suggests that health-care workers like nurses can still portray their confrontations with illness and death in spiritual terms through storytelling. However, scholars have yet to systematically analyze the rhetorical devices used to construct spiritual meanings. Drawing on a symbolic interactionist perspective, we theorize that …
Emotions and the Research Interview
Interviewing about death and loss can bring up unexpected emotions for respondents and interviewers. Positivist social scientific research methods often either ignore the emotions of the researcher, or argue that emotional expressions are to be avoided in research, even when the topic is thought to inspire intense feelings – like death and dying. This article argues for taking an alternative position toward emotions in death and dying research. U…
Integrating Dark Humor and Compassion
In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman drew attention to the various ways that individuals present themselves across settings. One aspect of his discussion was the division of space into front and back regions. In this article, I use data from two years participant observation and forty-one interviews with hospice workers to examine the ways that workers identify as well as how they use those identities to account for discrepancies…
Straight from the source
How do highly cited scientists account for their success? A number of approaches have been used to explain scientific success, but none incorporates scientists’ own understandings, which are critical to a complete, process-oriented explanation. We remedy this oversight by incorporating scientists’ own descriptions of the value of their work, as reflected in essays written by authors of highly cited articles (‘Citation Classics’). As cultural obje…
Cultural Correlates of Gender Integration in Science
Gender integration within science has been uneven: some fields have integrated women to almost equitable levels, while others remain male‐dominated. Explanations for this variation abound, but few are able to assess empirically the relevance of disciplinary cultures in a systematic way. We take up this challenge by analysing accounts of scientific success in fields that integrated women to a large degree (Psychology and the Life Sciences) and fie…
The Joy of Science
Science and emotions are typically juxtaposed: science is considered rational and unattached to outcomes, whereas emotions are considered irrational and harmful to science. Ethnographic studies of the daily lives of scientists have problematized this opposition, focusing on the emotional experiences of scientists as they go about their work, but they reveal little about disciplinary differences. We build on these studies by analyzing Citation Cla…
Labors of Love
Bridging Science and Religion
Contrary to the notion that medical science has supplanted religious understandings of human suffering, recent research suggests that health-care workers like nurses can still portray their confrontations with illness and death in spiritual terms through storytelling. However, scholars have yet to systematically analyze the rhetorical devices used to construct spiritual meanings. Drawing on a symbolic interactionist perspective, we theorize that …
Boundaried Caring and Gendered Emotion Management in Hospice Work
Caring work, which is premised on caring for and caring about recipients, involves a great deal of emotion management. Feeling rules shape expectations about emotion management and are informally shared through workers’ narratives about quality work. Using qualitative data from hospice workers in the southwestern US, I find that narratives of quality within hospice include emotion-management skills such as listening, truly caring, keeping calm an…
Local Leaders' Perspectives on Women Veterans’ Health Care
Identity work within attempts to transform healthcare
Studies have shown that workers’ identities matter for a host of individual and organizational outcomes. However, the question of how identities work becomes more complex when considering settings where workers must negotiate multiple – and sometimes conflicting – identities. Interprofessional healthcare teams are one such setting. Within interprofessional teams, workers are expected to adopt both professional and team-based identities, sometimes…
Agency and Change in Healthcare Organizations
There is no doubt that the organization of healthcare is currently shifting, partly in response to changing macrolevel policies. Studies of healthcare policies often do not consider healthcare workers' experiences of policy change, thus limiting our understanding of when and how policies work. This article uses longitudinal qualitative data, including participant observation and semistructured interviews with workers within hospice care as their …
Expanded definitions of the 'good death'? Race, ethnicity and medical aid in dying
The range of end-of-life options is expanding across North America. Specifically, medical aid in dying (AID), or the process by which a patient with a terminal illness may request medical assistance with hastening death, has recently become legal in eight jurisdictions in the United States and all of Canada. Debates about AID often rely on cultural constructions that define some deaths as 'good' and others as 'bad'. While research has found commo…
Integrating work and home when patients are dying
Scholars of work and family have argued that flexibility in hours and location may support integration between work and home. Home-based hospice care is a type of work that has a great deal of flexibility but it is not clear that it is used to support workers. Using interview and survey data from 179 US hospice workers, we show that the speeding up of care and culture of self-sacrifice make integration difficult. Almost a third of workers report …
Quelling moral panics? The case of physician aid in dying in California
Creating 'Risky' New Roles in Healthcare
Healthcare is experiencing two countervailing pressures: to increase efficiency and be more responsive to consumer demands. Healthcare organizations often create new work arrangements, including 'lay healthcare' roles, to respond to these pressures. Using longitudinal qualitative data, this article analyzes how one set of new lay healthcare workers attempted to construct a workplace identity, sell their value to existing professional workers, and…
Valuing Black lives and the 'Good Death' in the United States
Everyday Ritual and Ethnographic Practice
Moments of ritual reveal symbolic meanings, reinforce boundaries of the social group, and tie actors to one another. Because rituals are so important to social life, ethnographers must be attuned to both institutionalized and everyday rituals of their sites. However, methodological literature rarely discusses how everyday rituals should be treated during data collection, analysis, or presentation. We use data from two ethnographic sites—a yoga st…
Why Surgeons Struggle with Work-Hour Reforms
What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis
Medical Aid in Dying
Medical aid in dying (MAID) has been a productive target for social scientific inquiry at the intersections of law and medicine over the past two decades. Insofar as MAID crystallizes and reflects personal and cultural understandings of key concepts such as individualism, dependency, dignity, and care, it is a rich site for social scientific theorizing. This article reviews and assesses the contributions of social scientific perspectives to resea…
Too Soon or Too Late
Cultural narratives shape how we think about the world, including how we decide when the end of life begins. Hospice care has become an integral part of the end‐of‐life care in the United States, but as it has grown, its policies and practices have also imposed cultural narratives, like those associated with the “six‐month rule” that the majority of the end of life takes place in the final six months of life. This idea is embedded in policies for…
Dignity, Personhood, or Sacred Selves? Complicating Medical Literature and Caregiver Narratives in Dementia Care
Perceptions of people living with dementia are shaped by a variety of “narratives” produced by medical authorities, family members of people living with dementia, and paid care workers. Narratives often define how a person living with dementia should be treated, with a focus on dignity and personhood. Using data from published medical literature, a discussion board for family caregivers, and participant observation of a memory‐care unit of a long…
An Exploration of the Contemporary U.S. Academic Physician Experience with the Formal Rationalization of Health Care
It has been over three decades since it was predicted that the processes of formal rationalization would lead to dire consequences for all physicians. Prompted by a social concern about elevated burnout rates in U.S. physicians, there have been some investigations about organizational influences on their work lives. However, these studies have not used formal rationalization as a conceptual framework. This exploratory study was undertaken to exam…
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