Christina Sinding
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 78789 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christina Sinding |
| NOMBRES | Christina |
| APELLIDO | Sinding |
| FIRMA | SINDING C |
| AFILIACIONES | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6025-7989 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The ‘Means Available to Relieve Suffering’
In Canada in 2021, people with non-life-limiting health conditions and disabilities became eligible for medical assistance in dying (MAiD). New legislative safeguards include a ninety-day assessment period and a requirement that health professionals engage with the person requesting MAiD about ‘means available to relieve their suffering’ (MARS). Government communications about the MARS safeguards emphasise distinct policy objectives, that we illu…
Gender and Trajectories of Marital Breakdown
The relatively sparse literature has documented various challenges international migration poses to martial stability, yet we know little about immigrant women's experiences with marital breakdown. Drawing data from a qualitative study of Chinese economic immigrants to Canada, this article explores women's experiences of navigating the processes of this life circumstance, and of how gender-including their senses of changing gender roles in post-i…
Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation
Mobility work’
Risk and preventing perinatal HIV transmission
This paper presents an institutional ethnography that explored how risk discourse organised the experiences of pregnant women living with HIV and was reproduced in the work of healthcare providers operating in a ‘high risk’ prenatal clinic in Ontario, Canada. This inquiry began from the standpoint of pregnant women living with HIV, and made connections between women’s experiences, the work of healthcare providers delivering prenatal care, and the…
Exploring the intersections of transnationalism, sexuality and HIV risk
Intimacy, identity and relationship in the accounts of Chinese immigrants to Canada
In this paper we use narrative analysis to consider how the discursive resources that come with living 'in between' countries and cultures unfold in personal stories. We do this by presenting a close analysis of two transcripts drawn from a study about the vulnerability to HIV faced by Chinese immigrants to Canada. Our goal is to illustrate the application of narrative analysis and highlight the contributions it can make to conceptualising how tr…
How do development assistance partners conceptualise and prioritise evidence in Priority Setting (PS) for health programmes relevant to low income countries? A qualitative study
There is limited literature on how donors conceptualise and prioritise evidence in healthcare priority setting (PS) affecting low income countries (LICs). We interviewed 35 donors and reviewed their websites to describe how they conceptualise, prioritise and perceive the role evidence plays in their organisation’s healthcare prioritisation affecting LICs. There was a correlation between the respondents’ organisation and how they conceptualised an…
Seniors' narratives of asking (and not asking) for help after a fall
Falls among community-dwelling seniors constitute a major public health concern because of the potential morbidity and mortality associated with the fall. This study examined the informal care networks accessed by Canadian seniors who had visited the Emergency Department as a result of a fall, and considered the implications of the processes of asking for and receiving help on the senior's identity. Four themes were identified. The first was valu…
Social Work Artfully
The Ethics of Engaged Presence
In this article, we present an ethics framework for health practice in humanitarian and development work: the ethics of engaged presence. The ethics of engaged presence framework aims to articulate in a systematic fashion approaches and orientations that support the engagement of expatriate health care professionals in ways that align with diverse obligations and responsibilities, and promote respectful and effective action and relationships. Dra…
Metaphors in a Patient's Narrative
This paper is premised on the idea that the metaphors patients use in their efforts to articulate 'good care' can deepen our understanding of the limitations of particular patient–professional relations and help us imagine and justify new ones. Its intent is to extend critical scholarship about patient involvement, and professional disengagement, in contemporary healthcare contexts. The paper draws from a study that highlighted the range of ways …
Of time and troubles
Patient involvement in care practice has many and diverse proponents. It is endorsed by health care institutions and promoted by community agencies representing people with illness. A vast literature documents the benefits of patient involvement and describes ways to enable it. This article contributes to a critical literature on patient involvement by documenting the work done by women with cancer in relation to care timelines and in responding …
“I like to be an informed person but…” negotiating responsibility for treatment decisions in cancer care
Using Institutional Ethnography to Understand the Production of Health Care Disparities
Questions of health care access and equity are often examined by researchers using quantitative approaches, describing patterns of service utilization. Articles based on such approaches often reveal relatively little about how health care services and resources come to be distributed as they are. Articles about qualitative research with marginalized people, although offering textured accounts of people's experiences of care, often do not systemat…
Experiences of Transwomen with Hormone Therapy
This article describes the experiences of 12 transwomen on hormone treatment, ranging in age from 30 to 63. Findings from interviews revealed seven prominent themes: transitioning before hormone treatment, starting on hormones, matching expectations with reality, tracking changes, relationships with health professionals, reflections on gender identity, and impact of hormones. Participants tended to be highly curious about the impact of hormone th…
Listening to the Voices of Lesbians Diagnosed with Cancer
This paper focuses on the operations of heterosexism and strategies to counter it in a particular service context: the context of psychosocial support services for women with cancer. The paper draws on findings from a participatory, qualitative study set in Ontario, Canada in which 26 lesbians were interviewed about their experiences of cancer diagnosis, treatment, health care and social support, and their feelings and perceptions about shifts in…
Active aging—spunky survivorship? Discourses and experiences of the years beyond breast cancer
Informal care-two-tiered care? The work of family members and friends in hospitals and cancer centres
In a qualitative study conducted in Ontario, Canada, family members and friends of ill people defined a normal territory in which care from health professionals could not be counted on to be timely, effective or empathic. Under these conditions relatives and friends took on considerable responsibility, both for providing care and for securing care from health professionals. Yet considerable variation was apparent in this study in the sense respon…
Disarmed complaints
Exposing failures, unsettling accommodations
This article aims to augment collective understandings of the ethical complexities of qualitative research, and to encourage more attention to the actual practices of interviewing than has usually been paid in discussions in this area. Drawing on interview transcripts, we offer an analysis of the ways vulnerability may be produced for research participants by the intersection of interview factors (an interview strategy, the interviewer's presence…
Staging Breast Cancer, Rehearsing Metastatic Disease
Social science researchers have fruitfully used a range of conceptualizations of "performance": as a metaphor for social life, a way of vivifying research findings, and a form of scholarly representation. In this article, the researchers consider performance in its hermeneutic sense, as a way of generating meaning. The drama Handle With Care? Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer was created by a research team, a theater troupe, and women with bre…
Navigating the Social Context of Metastatic Breast Cancer
Over the past two decades there has been a dramatic shift in attitudes towards cancer, particularly breast cancer. The former stigma associated with the disease, while not entirely eradicated, is no longer primary. Breast cancer’s new upbeat image focuses on prevention, early detection and survivorship, not on death. In this article we explore the implications of this societal shift for women with metastatic breast cancer. To do this, we draw on …
Active aging—spunky survivorship? Discourses and experiences of the years beyond breast cancer
Exposing failures, unsettling accommodations
This article aims to augment collective understandings of the ethical complexities of qualitative research, and to encourage more attention to the actual practices of interviewing than has usually been paid in discussions in this area. Drawing on interview transcripts, we offer an analysis of the ways vulnerability may be produced for research participants by the intersection of interview factors (an interview strategy, the interviewer's presence…
Using Institutional Ethnography to Understand the Production of Health Care Disparities
Questions of health care access and equity are often examined by researchers using quantitative approaches, describing patterns of service utilization. Articles based on such approaches often reveal relatively little about how health care services and resources come to be distributed as they are. Articles about qualitative research with marginalized people, although offering textured accounts of people's experiences of care, often do not systemat…
Of time and troubles
Patient involvement in care practice has many and diverse proponents. It is endorsed by health care institutions and promoted by community agencies representing people with illness. A vast literature documents the benefits of patient involvement and describes ways to enable it. This article contributes to a critical literature on patient involvement by documenting the work done by women with cancer in relation to care timelines and in responding …
Mobility work’
Staging Breast Cancer, Rehearsing Metastatic Disease
Social science researchers have fruitfully used a range of conceptualizations of "performance": as a metaphor for social life, a way of vivifying research findings, and a form of scholarly representation. In this article, the researchers consider performance in its hermeneutic sense, as a way of generating meaning. The drama Handle With Care? Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer was created by a research team, a theater troupe, and women with bre…
Listening to the Voices of Lesbians Diagnosed with Cancer
This paper focuses on the operations of heterosexism and strategies to counter it in a particular service context: the context of psychosocial support services for women with cancer. The paper draws on findings from a participatory, qualitative study set in Ontario, Canada in which 26 lesbians were interviewed about their experiences of cancer diagnosis, treatment, health care and social support, and their feelings and perceptions about shifts in…
Disarmed complaints
Seniors' narratives of asking (and not asking) for help after a fall
Falls among community-dwelling seniors constitute a major public health concern because of the potential morbidity and mortality associated with the fall. This study examined the informal care networks accessed by Canadian seniors who had visited the Emergency Department as a result of a fall, and considered the implications of the processes of asking for and receiving help on the senior's identity. Four themes were identified. The first was valu…
Navigating the Social Context of Metastatic Breast Cancer
Over the past two decades there has been a dramatic shift in attitudes towards cancer, particularly breast cancer. The former stigma associated with the disease, while not entirely eradicated, is no longer primary. Breast cancer’s new upbeat image focuses on prevention, early detection and survivorship, not on death. In this article we explore the implications of this societal shift for women with metastatic breast cancer. To do this, we draw on …
Navigating the Social Context of Metastatic Breast Cancer
Over the past two decades there has been a dramatic shift in attitudes towards cancer, particularly breast cancer. The former stigma associated with the disease, while not entirely eradicated, is no longer primary. Breast cancer’s new upbeat image focuses on prevention, early detection and survivorship, not on death. In this article we explore the implications of this societal shift for women with metastatic breast cancer. To do this, we draw on …
Staging Breast Cancer, Rehearsing Metastatic Disease
Social science researchers have fruitfully used a range of conceptualizations of "performance": as a metaphor for social life, a way of vivifying research findings, and a form of scholarly representation. In this article, the researchers consider performance in its hermeneutic sense, as a way of generating meaning. The drama Handle With Care? Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer was created by a research team, a theater troupe, and women with bre…
Disarmed complaints
Exposing failures, unsettling accommodations
This article aims to augment collective understandings of the ethical complexities of qualitative research, and to encourage more attention to the actual practices of interviewing than has usually been paid in discussions in this area. Drawing on interview transcripts, we offer an analysis of the ways vulnerability may be produced for research participants by the intersection of interview factors (an interview strategy, the interviewer's presence…
Informal care-two-tiered care? The work of family members and friends in hospitals and cancer centres
In a qualitative study conducted in Ontario, Canada, family members and friends of ill people defined a normal territory in which care from health professionals could not be counted on to be timely, effective or empathic. Under these conditions relatives and friends took on considerable responsibility, both for providing care and for securing care from health professionals. Yet considerable variation was apparent in this study in the sense respon…
Listening to the Voices of Lesbians Diagnosed with Cancer
This paper focuses on the operations of heterosexism and strategies to counter it in a particular service context: the context of psychosocial support services for women with cancer. The paper draws on findings from a participatory, qualitative study set in Ontario, Canada in which 26 lesbians were interviewed about their experiences of cancer diagnosis, treatment, health care and social support, and their feelings and perceptions about shifts in…
Active aging—spunky survivorship? Discourses and experiences of the years beyond breast cancer
Experiences of Transwomen with Hormone Therapy
This article describes the experiences of 12 transwomen on hormone treatment, ranging in age from 30 to 63. Findings from interviews revealed seven prominent themes: transitioning before hormone treatment, starting on hormones, matching expectations with reality, tracking changes, relationships with health professionals, reflections on gender identity, and impact of hormones. Participants tended to be highly curious about the impact of hormone th…
“I like to be an informed person but…” negotiating responsibility for treatment decisions in cancer care
Using Institutional Ethnography to Understand the Production of Health Care Disparities
Questions of health care access and equity are often examined by researchers using quantitative approaches, describing patterns of service utilization. Articles based on such approaches often reveal relatively little about how health care services and resources come to be distributed as they are. Articles about qualitative research with marginalized people, although offering textured accounts of people's experiences of care, often do not systemat…
Of time and troubles
Patient involvement in care practice has many and diverse proponents. It is endorsed by health care institutions and promoted by community agencies representing people with illness. A vast literature documents the benefits of patient involvement and describes ways to enable it. This article contributes to a critical literature on patient involvement by documenting the work done by women with cancer in relation to care timelines and in responding …
The Ethics of Engaged Presence
In this article, we present an ethics framework for health practice in humanitarian and development work: the ethics of engaged presence. The ethics of engaged presence framework aims to articulate in a systematic fashion approaches and orientations that support the engagement of expatriate health care professionals in ways that align with diverse obligations and responsibilities, and promote respectful and effective action and relationships. Dra…
Metaphors in a Patient's Narrative
This paper is premised on the idea that the metaphors patients use in their efforts to articulate 'good care' can deepen our understanding of the limitations of particular patient–professional relations and help us imagine and justify new ones. Its intent is to extend critical scholarship about patient involvement, and professional disengagement, in contemporary healthcare contexts. The paper draws from a study that highlighted the range of ways …
Social Work Artfully
How do development assistance partners conceptualise and prioritise evidence in Priority Setting (PS) for health programmes relevant to low income countries? A qualitative study
There is limited literature on how donors conceptualise and prioritise evidence in healthcare priority setting (PS) affecting low income countries (LICs). We interviewed 35 donors and reviewed their websites to describe how they conceptualise, prioritise and perceive the role evidence plays in their organisation’s healthcare prioritisation affecting LICs. There was a correlation between the respondents’ organisation and how they conceptualised an…
Seniors' narratives of asking (and not asking) for help after a fall
Falls among community-dwelling seniors constitute a major public health concern because of the potential morbidity and mortality associated with the fall. This study examined the informal care networks accessed by Canadian seniors who had visited the Emergency Department as a result of a fall, and considered the implications of the processes of asking for and receiving help on the senior's identity. Four themes were identified. The first was valu…
Exploring the intersections of transnationalism, sexuality and HIV risk
Intimacy, identity and relationship in the accounts of Chinese immigrants to Canada
In this paper we use narrative analysis to consider how the discursive resources that come with living 'in between' countries and cultures unfold in personal stories. We do this by presenting a close analysis of two transcripts drawn from a study about the vulnerability to HIV faced by Chinese immigrants to Canada. Our goal is to illustrate the application of narrative analysis and highlight the contributions it can make to conceptualising how tr…
Risk and preventing perinatal HIV transmission
This paper presents an institutional ethnography that explored how risk discourse organised the experiences of pregnant women living with HIV and was reproduced in the work of healthcare providers operating in a ‘high risk’ prenatal clinic in Ontario, Canada. This inquiry began from the standpoint of pregnant women living with HIV, and made connections between women’s experiences, the work of healthcare providers delivering prenatal care, and the…
Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation
Mobility work’
Gender and Trajectories of Marital Breakdown
The relatively sparse literature has documented various challenges international migration poses to martial stability, yet we know little about immigrant women's experiences with marital breakdown. Drawing data from a qualitative study of Chinese economic immigrants to Canada, this article explores women's experiences of navigating the processes of this life circumstance, and of how gender-including their senses of changing gender roles in post-i…
The ‘Means Available to Relieve Suffering’
In Canada in 2021, people with non-life-limiting health conditions and disabilities became eligible for medical assistance in dying (MAiD). New legislative safeguards include a ninety-day assessment period and a requirement that health professionals engage with the person requesting MAiD about ‘means available to relieve their suffering’ (MARS). Government communications about the MARS safeguards emphasise distinct policy objectives, that we illu…
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