L Walker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8469 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L Walker |
| NOMBRES | L |
| APELLIDO | Walker |
| FIRMA | WALKER L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1652-5800 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Ill by mouth? Patients’ experiences of the oral and dental manifestations of scleroderma
Scleroderma is a rare chronic multi-system disease characterised by fibrotic changes in the skin, connective tissues and internal organs. The high mortality rate associated with the condition means that clinical attention is often focussed exclusively in these contexts. This paper reports on a mixed methods study which explored patients’ and practitioners’ experiences of the oral and dental manifestations of scleroderma – other aspects of the con…
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity
This Viewpoints piece is a collection of six contributions to a wider Special Issue for Children’s Geographies on ‘Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people.’ The pieces extend the Issue in two key ways: i) by representing urgent questions of pandemic and crisis related ethics; and ii) extending the geographical and cultural scope of thinking ethically in research with children and young people
Making the mundane remarkable
The concept of dignity is core to community district nursing practice, yet it is profoundly complex with multiple meanings and interpretations. Dignity does not exist absolutely, but, rather, becomes socially (de)constructed through and within social interactions between nurses and older adult patients in relational aspects of care. It is a concept, however, which has, to date, received little attention in the context of the community nursing car…
Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi
Millions of orphans, created by parental deaths due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, live with, and are cared for, by grandparents. Little research has considered how grandparents and, in particular, grandfathers, are caring for orphans. Here, we employ the analytical concept of generative grandfathering to analyse rural grandfathers’ roles in orphan care within communities of Zomba District, Southern Malawi. Using an ethnographic …
Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease
Advanced, incurable disease is a highly stressful and traumatic life event that can lead to losses of social identity, social connectedness, and losses associated with bodily disintegration. The combination of these losses makes it difficult to remain socially active and sometimes results in experiences of social death. However, few studies have explored the role of group-based hospice activities for mitigating the impact of social death in peopl…
“Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing
Purpose This paper aims to explore the concept and practice, of dignity as understood and experienced by older adults and district nursing staff. The paper adds a new, nuanced, understanding of safeguarding possibilities in the context of district nursing care delivered in the home. Design/methodology/approach The research used an ethnographic methodology involving observations of care between community district nursing clinicians and patients (n…
Problematising the Discourse of ‘Post-Aids’
This paper reflects on the meanings of 'post-AIDS' in the Global North and South. I bring together contemporary arguments to suggest that the notion of 'post-AIDS' is, at best, misplaced, not least because its starting point remains a biotechnical one. Drawing on aspects of the sub-Saharan African experience, this essay suggests that, despite significant shifts in access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV continues to be fundamentally shaped by…
It was like an animal in pain’
Using the concept of institutional thoughtlessness, this article examines a range of issues embedded within daily prison life which have a detrimental effect upon the lives of those bereaved during a prison sentence. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research undertaken with bereaved prisoners, staff members and volunteers at a male prison in the North of England, the article explores how individual and institutional goals compete, compounding bere…
Feeling the benefit? Fluctuating illness and the world of welfare
This article explores the experiences of people living with fluctuating long-term conditions, with a particular focus on the UK welfare benefits system. Respondents in this study suggested that this system constitutes a critical barrier to maintaining a positive work-based identity, being characterised by assessment and decision-making processes that are inappropriately focused and inflexibly implemented. Here, we report the findings from a cross…
There's no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame
The experience of living with HIV, in the global north, has changed significantly over the past 20 years. This is largely the result of effective biomedical methods of treatment and prevention. HIV is now widely considered to be a long-term condition like many others - it has been argued that HIV has been 'normalised'. Drawing on online qualitative survey data, with respondents aged 18-35 years, diagnosed with HIV in the past 5 years, this resear…
Why Are People on the Move
Diagnostic vertigo
Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) is a complex condition characterised by wide ranging symptoms that are sometimes transient in nature. This makes recognising and diagnosing lupus particularly challenging for both patients and practitioners. The diagnostic process in this condition is a complex interplay between the boundaries of knowledge and power, control, integrity and legitimacy, which are (re)constructed and (re)negotiated between contem…
His mam, my dad, my girlfriend, loads of people used to bring him up’
This research analyses key findings from qualitative research conducted with (ex) offender fathers and their probation officers. This paper focuses on the critical role of family and social support for (ex) offender fathers who seek to build and maintain relationships with their children. The research reported in this paper shows that the men receive social support, both formal and informal from a wide ranging and complex network of family, frien…
My Son Gave Birth to Me
This paper analyses key findings from narrative intrviews with 16 (ex) offender fathers. All fathers interviewed served custodial sentences, ranging from 6 months to 14 years, and were on licence at the time of interview. This research focuses on the ways in which this group of marginal men reflect on their perceptions, practices and aspirations as fathers. It seeks to understand how they make sense of fathering in the context of criminality. The…
‘My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status…’
Stigma is not a new concept; however, it remains highly significant in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. There is wide consensus that HIV/AIDS-related stigma compromises the well-being of people living with the disease. This paper is part of a larger study that seeks to understand the social and cultural complexity related to the provision and outcomes of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africa. It explores and analyses how patients o…
They (ARVs) are my life, without them I’m nothing”—experiences of patients attending a HIV/Aids clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa
Teachers as researchers in a major research project
Voicing Gender
Naomi André's Voicing Gender sets out to consider a number of issues: how we might attempt to ‘hear’ historical voices; the transitional period between the decline of the castrati and the rise of the prima donna in the early nineteenth century (the primo Ottocento); and the emergence during this period of a different type of female heroine, the ‘second woman’ . This latter figure was essentially, according to André, a ‘hybrid’, containing element…
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
Reviewed by: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History Liz Walker Harriet Deacon, Howard Phillips, and Elizabeth van Heyningen, eds. The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History. Clio Medica, no. 74. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2004. 318 pp. Ill. $94.00, €75.00 (cloth, 90-420-1074-6); $44.00, €35.00 (paperbound, 90-420-1064-9). The social history of medicine in South Afr…
Developing a questionnaire to measure the psychosocial impact of an abnormal cervical smear result and its subsequent management
Men behaving differently
Liberal versions of sexuality, which mark South Africa's new democracy, have had a number of highly contradictory consequences for women and men, as old notions of masculinity and male privilege have been destabilized. The transition to democracy has precipitated a crisis of masculinity. Orthodox notions of masculinity are being challenged and new versions of masculinity are emerging in their place. Some men are seeking to be part of a new social…
Sex and secrecy
The colour White
This article explores meanings of whiteness through a case study of the South African Society of Medical Women [SASMW]. It unpacks the social meanings attached to being a white woman doctor in South Africa under apartheid, through an analysis of the professional struggles of the SASMW (overwhelmingly dominated by white women) from 1950-1990. 1 demonstrate that being white and female created opportunities for women doctors along with constraints. …
Sex and secrecy
Sex Then and Now
We are bitter but we are satisfied
Treading the path of least resistance
Diagnostic vertigo
Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) is a complex condition characterised by wide ranging symptoms that are sometimes transient in nature. This makes recognising and diagnosing lupus particularly challenging for both patients and practitioners. The diagnostic process in this condition is a complex interplay between the boundaries of knowledge and power, control, integrity and legitimacy, which are (re)constructed and (re)negotiated between contem…
Aids in Context
In the late 1999 concern over the inadequacies of social research prompted a group of academics and nongovernmental organization (NGO)-based researchers and activists to plan a conference. It was held at the University of the Witwatersrand in April 2001 entitled Aids in Context: Explaining the Social Cultural and Historical Roots of the Epidemic in southern Africa. Key objectives were to cross-fertilize existing work to create new organizational …
There's no pill to help you deal with the guilt and shame
The experience of living with HIV, in the global north, has changed significantly over the past 20 years. This is largely the result of effective biomedical methods of treatment and prevention. HIV is now widely considered to be a long-term condition like many others - it has been argued that HIV has been 'normalised'. Drawing on online qualitative survey data, with respondents aged 18-35 years, diagnosed with HIV in the past 5 years, this resear…
His mam, my dad, my girlfriend, loads of people used to bring him up’
This research analyses key findings from qualitative research conducted with (ex) offender fathers and their probation officers. This paper focuses on the critical role of family and social support for (ex) offender fathers who seek to build and maintain relationships with their children. The research reported in this paper shows that the men receive social support, both formal and informal from a wide ranging and complex network of family, frien…
They (ARVs) are my life, without them I’m nothing”—experiences of patients attending a HIV/Aids clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa
The colour White
This article explores meanings of whiteness through a case study of the South African Society of Medical Women [SASMW]. It unpacks the social meanings attached to being a white woman doctor in South Africa under apartheid, through an analysis of the professional struggles of the SASMW (overwhelmingly dominated by white women) from 1950-1990. 1 demonstrate that being white and female created opportunities for women doctors along with constraints. …
Conservative Pioneers
This article analyses the professional struggles for the South African Society of Medical Women during the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on interview and archival material, it details their first two campaigns. The first aimed to raise the retirement age of women doctors to bring it in line with their male colleagues, and the second sought to abolish the marriage bar which prevented married women from working in the public service. The research reveal…
A randomised controlled trial of postal versus interviewer administration of a questionnaire measuring satisfaction with, and use of, services received in the year before death
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To develop a short form of an interview schedule used successfully in previous national surveys of care for the dying, and to investigate the effect of administering it by post on response rate, response bias and on the nature of responses to questions. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: An inner London health authority. PARTICIPANTS: Informants (person registering death) of random sample of cancer deaths between June…
My work is to help the woman who wants to have a child, not the woman who wants to have an abortion
This paper details the responses of a group of African Primary Health Care Nurses (PHCNs), practising in Soweto clinics, to the issue of abortion. The majority of nurses interviewed — 70 per cent of a sample of 27 — unequivocally and unambiguously rejected abortion. The central concern of this paper is to explore why the responses of this 'rejecting group' to women who face the predicament of an unwanted pregnancy were cast in such judgemental te…
The practice of Primary Health Care
"They heal in the spirit of the mother" 1
This paper details aspects of the gendered and racial character of medical professionalisation in South Africa during the apartheid years. It does so through a case study of the South African Society of Medical Women (SASMW) an organisation that was established in 1951 with the express purpose of promoting the interests of women doctors and combating gender inequality in the medical profession. (authors
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity
This Viewpoints piece is a collection of six contributions to a wider Special Issue for Children’s Geographies on ‘Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people.’ The pieces extend the Issue in two key ways: i) by representing urgent questions of pandemic and crisis related ethics; and ii) extending the geographical and cultural scope of thinking ethically in research with children and young people
It was like an animal in pain’
Using the concept of institutional thoughtlessness, this article examines a range of issues embedded within daily prison life which have a detrimental effect upon the lives of those bereaved during a prison sentence. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research undertaken with bereaved prisoners, staff members and volunteers at a male prison in the North of England, the article explores how individual and institutional goals compete, compounding bere…
HIV/Aids in South Africa
This paper presents an overview of the development of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, taking into consideration the social context and analyzing the factors most likely to have influenced its spread as well as the societal response to it. The authors argue that macro factors such as social and political structures, in addition to behavioral ones, have combined to shape the course of the epidemic. Since various factors linked to social inequalities have…
Making the mundane remarkable
The concept of dignity is core to community district nursing practice, yet it is profoundly complex with multiple meanings and interpretations. Dignity does not exist absolutely, but, rather, becomes socially (de)constructed through and within social interactions between nurses and older adult patients in relational aspects of care. It is a concept, however, which has, to date, received little attention in the context of the community nursing car…
Feeling the benefit? Fluctuating illness and the world of welfare
This article explores the experiences of people living with fluctuating long-term conditions, with a particular focus on the UK welfare benefits system. Respondents in this study suggested that this system constitutes a critical barrier to maintaining a positive work-based identity, being characterised by assessment and decision-making processes that are inappropriately focused and inflexibly implemented. Here, we report the findings from a cross…
My Son Gave Birth to Me
This paper analyses key findings from narrative intrviews with 16 (ex) offender fathers. All fathers interviewed served custodial sentences, ranging from 6 months to 14 years, and were on licence at the time of interview. This research focuses on the ways in which this group of marginal men reflect on their perceptions, practices and aspirations as fathers. It seeks to understand how they make sense of fathering in the context of criminality. The…
Sex and secrecy
It's Safer on the Streets
The practice of Primary Health Care
My work is to help the woman who wants to have a child, not the woman who wants to have an abortion
This paper details the responses of a group of African Primary Health Care Nurses (PHCNs), practising in Soweto clinics, to the issue of abortion. The majority of nurses interviewed — 70 per cent of a sample of 27 — unequivocally and unambiguously rejected abortion. The central concern of this paper is to explore why the responses of this 'rejecting group' to women who face the predicament of an unwanted pregnancy were cast in such judgemental te…
Generations in Conflict
1. Introduction: Generation conflict and German history 1770-1968 Mark Roseman 2. The ideal of youth in late 18th-century Germany Joachim Whaley 3. Young Germans and Young Germany: some remarks on the history of German youth in the late 18th and in the first half of the 19th century Rainer Elkar 4. The battle for the young: mobilising young people in Wilhelmine Germany Jurgen Reulecke 5. Jewish politics and generation conflict in Wilhelmine Germa…
Henry Adams's 1912 Stroke
A randomised controlled trial of postal versus interviewer administration of a questionnaire measuring satisfaction with, and use of, services received in the year before death
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To develop a short form of an interview schedule used successfully in previous national surveys of care for the dying, and to investigate the effect of administering it by post on response rate, response bias and on the nature of responses to questions. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: An inner London health authority. PARTICIPANTS: Informants (person registering death) of random sample of cancer deaths between June…
Heterogeneity of coronary heart disease risk factors in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and European origin populations
OBJECTIVE: To compare coronary risk factors and disease prevalence among Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis, and in all South Asians (these three groups together) with Europeans. DESIGN: Cross sectional survey. SETTING: Newcastle upon Tyne. PARTICIPANTS: 259 Indian, 305 Pakistani, 120 Bangladeshi, and 825 European men and women aged 25-74 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Social and economic circumstances, lifestyle, self reported symptoms and dis…
Conservative Pioneers
This article analyses the professional struggles for the South African Society of Medical Women during the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on interview and archival material, it details their first two campaigns. The first aimed to raise the retirement age of women doctors to bring it in line with their male colleagues, and the second sought to abolish the marriage bar which prevented married women from working in the public service. The research reveal…
Hiv/Aids
A previous version of this paper was presented at the AIDS in Context Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 4-7 April 2001 This paper engages some aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the complexities associated with it. It outlines the socio-epidemiological patterns of the epidemic and in doing so identifies the groups with the greatest and fastest growing rates of infection. The pattern of the epidemic in South Africa is as…
HIV/Aids in South Africa
This paper presents an overview of the development of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, taking into consideration the social context and analyzing the factors most likely to have influenced its spread as well as the societal response to it. The authors argue that macro factors such as social and political structures, in addition to behavioral ones, have combined to shape the course of the epidemic. Since various factors linked to social inequalities have…
Treading the path of least resistance
Aids in Context
In the late 1999 concern over the inadequacies of social research prompted a group of academics and nongovernmental organization (NGO)-based researchers and activists to plan a conference. It was held at the University of the Witwatersrand in April 2001 entitled Aids in Context: Explaining the Social Cultural and Historical Roots of the Epidemic in southern Africa. Key objectives were to cross-fertilize existing work to create new organizational …
Secrecy, stigma and HIV/Aids
This paper situates the articles selected for this special issue of AJAR within the context of the Sex and Secrecy conference, from which they emerged and within the discourse of secrecy. Secrecy and silence which have characterised the HIV/AIDS epidemic in many societies, have been the focus of limited academic attention. Yet the power of the secret is evident in multiple spheres. This introduction uses the lens of secrecy to enhance our underst…
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"They heal in the spirit of the mother" 1
This paper details aspects of the gendered and racial character of medical professionalisation in South Africa during the apartheid years. It does so through a case study of the South African Society of Medical Women (SASMW) an organisation that was established in 1951 with the express purpose of promoting the interests of women doctors and combating gender inequality in the medical profession. (authors
Sex and secrecy
Sex Then and Now
We are bitter but we are satisfied
Developing a questionnaire to measure the psychosocial impact of an abnormal cervical smear result and its subsequent management
Men behaving differently
Liberal versions of sexuality, which mark South Africa's new democracy, have had a number of highly contradictory consequences for women and men, as old notions of masculinity and male privilege have been destabilized. The transition to democracy has precipitated a crisis of masculinity. Orthodox notions of masculinity are being challenged and new versions of masculinity are emerging in their place. Some men are seeking to be part of a new social…
Sex and secrecy
The colour White
This article explores meanings of whiteness through a case study of the South African Society of Medical Women [SASMW]. It unpacks the social meanings attached to being a white woman doctor in South Africa under apartheid, through an analysis of the professional struggles of the SASMW (overwhelmingly dominated by white women) from 1950-1990. 1 demonstrate that being white and female created opportunities for women doctors along with constraints. …
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century
Reviewed by: The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History Liz Walker Harriet Deacon, Howard Phillips, and Elizabeth van Heyningen, eds. The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History. Clio Medica, no. 74. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2004. 318 pp. Ill. $94.00, €75.00 (cloth, 90-420-1074-6); $44.00, €35.00 (paperbound, 90-420-1064-9). The social history of medicine in South Afr…
Voicing Gender
Naomi André's Voicing Gender sets out to consider a number of issues: how we might attempt to ‘hear’ historical voices; the transitional period between the decline of the castrati and the rise of the prima donna in the early nineteenth century (the primo Ottocento); and the emergence during this period of a different type of female heroine, the ‘second woman’ . This latter figure was essentially, according to André, a ‘hybrid’, containing element…
‘My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status…’
Stigma is not a new concept; however, it remains highly significant in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. There is wide consensus that HIV/AIDS-related stigma compromises the well-being of people living with the disease. This paper is part of a larger study that seeks to understand the social and cultural complexity related to the provision and outcomes of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africa. It explores and analyses how patients o…
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