Yael Keshet
Biographic Data
| ID | 105293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yael Keshet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yael |
| FAMILY NAME | Keshet |
| SIGNATURE | KESHET Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Galilee College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9128-4648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Boundary-work of primary care physicians using telemedicine technologies for communication
Implementing telemedicine technologies (TT) for patient-physician communication leads to the emergence of new structures of boundaries. Hence, boundary work theory can provide a useful lens for examining how primary care physicians (PCPs) experience TT. The objective of this research was to examine the experiences of PCPs in using TT in their communication with patients. During 2023 in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 Israeli PCPs: family …
Telemedicine and patient-centered care: The perspective of primary-care physicians
Patient-centered care (PCC) has become a central aim for healthcare systems worldwide due to recognition of its advantages. The growing use of telemedicine technologies (TT) raises concerns of diminishing interpersonal contact, especially in primary care, and questions the appropriate way of implementing PCC. This article aims to explore primary-care physicians' (PCP) experiences of PCC when using TT. During 2023 in-depth interviews were conducte…
Layers of senses: Experiencing intercorporeality in teletherapy
Teletherapy, namely, therapy that uses technology for communication between patients and therapists, is challenged by the impersonal nature of remote and digital communication. Using Merleau-Ponty's theoretical concept of intercorporeality, which refers to the perceived reciprocity between two people's bodies during communication, this article aims to elaborate on spiritual caregivers' experience of interacting with patients during teletherapy. S…
Information gaps in persuasion knowledge: The discourse regarding the Covid-19 vaccination
Persuasion knowledge is personal knowledge about persuasion attempts that has an effect on the way people respond to these attempts. Persuasion attempts are made to effectively handling the Covid-19 pandemic, which is dependent on high public compliance with vaccination programs. Drawing on the idea of persuasion knowledge, we aimed at elaborating the various categories of perceived information gaps experienced by vaccine hesitants during the Cov…
What is more dangerous – the disease, the vaccine or the government? Using governmentality theory to understand vaccine hesitancy among Israeli citizens in times of corona
The Covid-19 pandemic and the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccine presented a rare opportunity to study risk perceptions that underline vaccine hesitancy and refusal (VHR). Drawing on Foucault’s governmentality theory, we aimed at studying the risk perceptions that underlie VHR in Israel by ascertaining why people decided not to be vaccinated against Covid-19. At the beginning of 2021, we conducted 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with Isr…
Non-Vaccination Stage Model (NVST): The decision-making process among Israeli ultra-orthodox Jewish parents
Although vaccination uptake is high in most countries, pockets of suboptimal coverage remain, such as those observed among ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel and elsewhere, posing a threat to both individual and public immunity. Drawing on the Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM), this study proposes a Non-Vaccination Stage Model (NVSM) to analyze the decision-making process among Non-Vaccinating Parents (NVPs), focusing on the ultra-orthodox Jewi…
“I Took the Trouble to Make Inquiries, So I Refuse to Accept Your Instructions”: Religious Authority and Vaccine Hesitancy Among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Mothers in Israel
Organizational diversity and inclusive boundary-work: The case of Israeli hospitals
Purpose The theoretical conceptualization of boundaries is proposed as a useful approach to study diversity in organizations. Design/methodology/approach Two types of diversity in health-care organizations – functional diversity and social category diversity – are compared, drawing on two extensive studies of Israeli hospitals. One study addresses the boundary between the medical professions and complementary medicine and the other examines the b…
Ethnic discordance: Why do some patients prefer to be treated by physicians from other ethnic groups
The undisciplined patient in neoliberal society: Conscious, informed and intuitive health behaviours
Applying Foucault’s theoretical concept of discipline, the present article uses the term undisciplined patients to describe those who resist medical authority, defy conventional medical interpretations concerning health risks and adopt non-normative health behaviours. There is considerable scholarly literature available on non-normative health behaviours, such as out-of-hospital birth, refusal to vaccinate or homoeopathy. While differentiating ea…
The Secret Drama at the Patient's Bedside-Refusal of Treatment Because of the Practitioner's Ethnic Identity: The Medical Staff 's Point of View
Patients' refusal of treatment based on the practitioner's ethnic identity reveals a clash of values: neutrality in medicine versus patient-centered care. Taking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into account, this article aims at examining Israeli health care professionals' points of view concerning patients' refusal of treatment because of a practitioner's ethnic identity. Fifty in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 managers and 40 health c…
The white coat trap: Pharmacy as an ethnic-dominated occupation in Israel
Health professions are perceived by the Arab minority in Israel as a desired path of education and employment. Arabs in Israel are thus highly represented in these professions, especially pharmacy. This study analyses the unique ethnic and gender composition of pharmacists in Israel and explores their career experiences and perceptions. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies are employed. The findings reflect dual marginality in the phar…
Tensions and Coping Strategies in Ethnically Mixed Teams: Findings from a Study in Two Emergency Departments
Race-based experiences of ethnic minority health professionals: Arab physicians and nurses in Israeli public healthcare organizations
We recommend combining the intergroup contact approach with the social process theory of racism to examine minorities' subjective perceptions, especially in conflictual and violent contexts; conducting broad-based quantitative research in Israeli healthcare organizations, which may have important implications for the specific strategies to be used; and emphasizing the importance of institutional support. By reconstructing race-based experiences o…
Neutrality in medicine and health professionals from ethnic minority groups: The case of Arab health professionals in Israel
New Age in Israel: Formative ethos, identity blindness, and implications for healthcare
This article presents a critical analysis of New Age culture. We draw on two empirical studies conducted in Israel and show that the lofty notions about freedom from the shackles of socially structured identities and the unifying potential this holds, as well as the claim regarding the basic equality of human beings, are utopian. Blindness toward ethno-national identity reinforces identification with a self-evident hegemonic perception, thereby l…
It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel
Coping with Illness and Threat: Why Non-religious Jews Choose to Consult Rabbis on Healthcare Issues
Complementary Medicine as a Path Toward Empowerment of Arab–Palestinian Women in Israel
Arab-Palestinians in Israel compose a traditional minority population that previously relied on traditional folk medicine and religious healing. Today some among this minority population are adopting imported complementary medicine. We interviewed Arab-Palestinians of the first generation of complementary medicine practitioners. Their decision to study complementary medicine constitutes a path toward empowerment, providing healers with an aura of…
The ‘gender puzzle’ of alternative medicine and holistic spirituality: A literature review
Workforce ethnic diversity and culturally competent health care: The case of Arab physicians in Israel
We conclude that minority physicians may prefer to promote culturally competent health care through integration and advocacy of interaction with the different cultures represented in the population, rather than serving as representatives of their own ethnic minority population. These findings may concern various medical contexts in which issues of ethnic underrepresentation in the health system are relevant, as well as sociological contexts, espe…
Seeking Empowerment and Spirituality in the Secular Age: Secular and Traditionalist Israelis Consulting Rabbis
This empirical study investigates the phenomenon of secular and traditionalist ( masorti) Israeli Jews who consult orthodox rabbis on personal matters. The study was conducted using a combined methodology: analysis of data from a large survey ( N = 6056) and conducting 50 in-depth semi-structured interviews. We found that of the 24 percent of the Israeli Jewish population who regularly consulted rabbis, 43 percent defined themselves as secular or…
Dual embedded agency: Physicians implement integrative medicine in health-care organizations
The paradox of embedded agency addresses the question of how embedded agents are able to conceive of new ideas and practices and then implement them in institutionalized organizations if social structures exert so powerful an influence on behavior, and agents operate within a framework of institutional constraints. This article proposes that dual embedded agency may provide an explanation of the paradox. The article draws from an ethnographic stu…
Integrative Health Care in Israel and Traditional Arab Herbal Medicine: When Health Care Interfaces with Culture and Politics
This article contributes to contemporary critical debate in medical anthropology concerning medical pluralism and integrative medicine by highlighting the issue of exclusion of traditional medicine (TM) and presenting attempts at border crossing. Although complementary medicine (CM) modalities are integrated into most Israeli mainstream health care organizations, local indigenous TM modalities are not. Ethnographic fieldwork focused on a group of…
The use of boundary objects to enhance interprofessional collaboration: Integrating Complementary Medicine in a Hospital Setting
Because of the inherent complexity of human health, the provision of good quality patient care requires collaboration in multidisciplinary teams. Integrative healthcare provides a unique setting for the study of interprofessional collaboration in the context of power disparities. The research objective was to examine which means and mechanisms were used to facilitate interprofessional collaboration when integrating complementary medicine (CM) int…
The untenable boundaries of biomedical knowledge: Epistemologies and Rhetoric Strategies in the Debate Over Evaluating Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The article addresses contemporary epistemologies in examining struggles between the proponents of diverse medical approaches - some accepted as scientific and others that have not gained this status. It is based on research that investigated one of the central questions raised as a result of the growing popularity of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in western countries during the past three decades, namely: How can we know if CAM tr…
Neutrality in medicine and health professionals from ethnic minority groups: The case of Arab health professionals in Israel
Workforce ethnic diversity and culturally competent health care: The case of Arab physicians in Israel
We conclude that minority physicians may prefer to promote culturally competent health care through integration and advocacy of interaction with the different cultures represented in the population, rather than serving as representatives of their own ethnic minority population. These findings may concern various medical contexts in which issues of ethnic underrepresentation in the health system are relevant, as well as sociological contexts, espe…
The use of boundary objects to enhance interprofessional collaboration: Integrating Complementary Medicine in a Hospital Setting
Because of the inherent complexity of human health, the provision of good quality patient care requires collaboration in multidisciplinary teams. Integrative healthcare provides a unique setting for the study of interprofessional collaboration in the context of power disparities. The research objective was to examine which means and mechanisms were used to facilitate interprofessional collaboration when integrating complementary medicine (CM) int…
Attitudes of Arab and Jewish patients toward integration of complementary medicine in primary care clinics in Israel: A cross-cultural study
Dual embedded agency: Physicians implement integrative medicine in health-care organizations
The paradox of embedded agency addresses the question of how embedded agents are able to conceive of new ideas and practices and then implement them in institutionalized organizations if social structures exert so powerful an influence on behavior, and agents operate within a framework of institutional constraints. This article proposes that dual embedded agency may provide an explanation of the paradox. The article draws from an ethnographic stu…
Race-based experiences of ethnic minority health professionals: Arab physicians and nurses in Israeli public healthcare organizations
We recommend combining the intergroup contact approach with the social process theory of racism to examine minorities' subjective perceptions, especially in conflictual and violent contexts; conducting broad-based quantitative research in Israeli healthcare organizations, which may have important implications for the specific strategies to be used; and emphasizing the importance of institutional support. By reconstructing race-based experiences o…
Integrative Health Care in Israel and Traditional Arab Herbal Medicine: When Health Care Interfaces with Culture and Politics
This article contributes to contemporary critical debate in medical anthropology concerning medical pluralism and integrative medicine by highlighting the issue of exclusion of traditional medicine (TM) and presenting attempts at border crossing. Although complementary medicine (CM) modalities are integrated into most Israeli mainstream health care organizations, local indigenous TM modalities are not. Ethnographic fieldwork focused on a group of…
The white coat trap: Pharmacy as an ethnic-dominated occupation in Israel
Health professions are perceived by the Arab minority in Israel as a desired path of education and employment. Arabs in Israel are thus highly represented in these professions, especially pharmacy. This study analyses the unique ethnic and gender composition of pharmacists in Israel and explores their career experiences and perceptions. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies are employed. The findings reflect dual marginality in the phar…
Network gatekeeping: Complementary medicine information on the websites of medical institutions
Integrative medicine - complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practised in mainstream healthcare organizations - combines medical treatments based on incommensurable paradigms. As the Internet has been portrayed as a crucial pathway to CAM and sites administered by reputable organizations are considered to be relatively reliable sources of medical information, the research sought to explore and compare the ways in which CAM is presented on …
Can holism be practiced in a biomedical setting? A qualitative study of the integration of complementary medicine to a surgical department
In recent decades, complementary medicine (CM) has been increasingly integrated to conventional healthcare organizations, in which the biomedical profession clearly maintains dominance. Our objective was to investigate empirically what integration and 'holism' mean to the diverse professional groups involved and whether treatment becomes more holistic when CM is integrated. A qualitative study was conducted in a general surgery department at a pu…
Attitudes of Arab-Muslims toward integration of complementary medicine in primary-care clinics in Israel: The Bedouin mystery
We hypothesize that the two communities differ due to later modernization in the Bedouin society that may highly regard and pursue medical science while forsaking traditional and herbal medicine
Non-Vaccination Stage Model (NVST): The decision-making process among Israeli ultra-orthodox Jewish parents
Although vaccination uptake is high in most countries, pockets of suboptimal coverage remain, such as those observed among ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel and elsewhere, posing a threat to both individual and public immunity. Drawing on the Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM), this study proposes a Non-Vaccination Stage Model (NVSM) to analyze the decision-making process among Non-Vaccinating Parents (NVPs), focusing on the ultra-orthodox Jewi…
Energy Medicine and Hybrid Knowledge Construction: The Formation of New Cultural-Epistemological Rules of Discourse
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a socio-cultural phenomenon in the area of healthcare and lifestyle that has spread rapidly in recent decades. Using Latour’s nature–culture hybrid concept, the article addresses one of the most commonly and widely used, and at the same time puzzling concepts of CAM: ‘energy’. Based on research that analysed publications dealing with Energy Medicine, the article shows that this concept serves as the…
Layers of senses: Experiencing intercorporeality in teletherapy
Teletherapy, namely, therapy that uses technology for communication between patients and therapists, is challenged by the impersonal nature of remote and digital communication. Using Merleau-Ponty's theoretical concept of intercorporeality, which refers to the perceived reciprocity between two people's bodies during communication, this article aims to elaborate on spiritual caregivers' experience of interacting with patients during teletherapy. S…
Information gaps in persuasion knowledge: The discourse regarding the Covid-19 vaccination
Persuasion knowledge is personal knowledge about persuasion attempts that has an effect on the way people respond to these attempts. Persuasion attempts are made to effectively handling the Covid-19 pandemic, which is dependent on high public compliance with vaccination programs. Drawing on the idea of persuasion knowledge, we aimed at elaborating the various categories of perceived information gaps experienced by vaccine hesitants during the Cov…
Ethnic discordance: Why do some patients prefer to be treated by physicians from other ethnic groups
New Age in Israel: Formative ethos, identity blindness, and implications for healthcare
This article presents a critical analysis of New Age culture. We draw on two empirical studies conducted in Israel and show that the lofty notions about freedom from the shackles of socially structured identities and the unifying potential this holds, as well as the claim regarding the basic equality of human beings, are utopian. Blindness toward ethno-national identity reinforces identification with a self-evident hegemonic perception, thereby l…
Exploring association of spiritual perspectives with complementary medicine use among patients with Type 2 diabetes in Israel
Primary care physicians need to be aware of a possible association between religiosity and CAM use in patients with diabetes. Physicians may consider adding questions on CAM and religiosity to routine clinical interviews in order to enrich their dialog with diabetes patients
Attitudes of Arab-Muslims toward integration of complementary medicine in primary-care clinics in Israel: The Bedouin mystery
We hypothesize that the two communities differ due to later modernization in the Bedouin society that may highly regard and pursue medical science while forsaking traditional and herbal medicine
The untenable boundaries of biomedical knowledge: Epistemologies and Rhetoric Strategies in the Debate Over Evaluating Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The article addresses contemporary epistemologies in examining struggles between the proponents of diverse medical approaches - some accepted as scientific and others that have not gained this status. It is based on research that investigated one of the central questions raised as a result of the growing popularity of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in western countries during the past three decades, namely: How can we know if CAM tr…
Attitudes of Arab and Jewish patients toward integration of complementary medicine in primary care clinics in Israel: A cross-cultural study
Exploring association of spiritual perspectives with complementary medicine use among patients with Type 2 diabetes in Israel
Primary care physicians need to be aware of a possible association between religiosity and CAM use in patients with diabetes. Physicians may consider adding questions on CAM and religiosity to routine clinical interviews in order to enrich their dialog with diabetes patients
Energy Medicine and Hybrid Knowledge Construction: The Formation of New Cultural-Epistemological Rules of Discourse
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a socio-cultural phenomenon in the area of healthcare and lifestyle that has spread rapidly in recent decades. Using Latour’s nature–culture hybrid concept, the article addresses one of the most commonly and widely used, and at the same time puzzling concepts of CAM: ‘energy’. Based on research that analysed publications dealing with Energy Medicine, the article shows that this concept serves as the…
Network gatekeeping: Complementary medicine information on the websites of medical institutions
Integrative medicine - complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practised in mainstream healthcare organizations - combines medical treatments based on incommensurable paradigms. As the Internet has been portrayed as a crucial pathway to CAM and sites administered by reputable organizations are considered to be relatively reliable sources of medical information, the research sought to explore and compare the ways in which CAM is presented on …
Can holism be practiced in a biomedical setting? A qualitative study of the integration of complementary medicine to a surgical department
In recent decades, complementary medicine (CM) has been increasingly integrated to conventional healthcare organizations, in which the biomedical profession clearly maintains dominance. Our objective was to investigate empirically what integration and 'holism' mean to the diverse professional groups involved and whether treatment becomes more holistic when CM is integrated. A qualitative study was conducted in a general surgery department at a pu…
Dual embedded agency: Physicians implement integrative medicine in health-care organizations
The paradox of embedded agency addresses the question of how embedded agents are able to conceive of new ideas and practices and then implement them in institutionalized organizations if social structures exert so powerful an influence on behavior, and agents operate within a framework of institutional constraints. This article proposes that dual embedded agency may provide an explanation of the paradox. The article draws from an ethnographic stu…
Integrative Health Care in Israel and Traditional Arab Herbal Medicine: When Health Care Interfaces with Culture and Politics
This article contributes to contemporary critical debate in medical anthropology concerning medical pluralism and integrative medicine by highlighting the issue of exclusion of traditional medicine (TM) and presenting attempts at border crossing. Although complementary medicine (CM) modalities are integrated into most Israeli mainstream health care organizations, local indigenous TM modalities are not. Ethnographic fieldwork focused on a group of…
The use of boundary objects to enhance interprofessional collaboration: Integrating Complementary Medicine in a Hospital Setting
Because of the inherent complexity of human health, the provision of good quality patient care requires collaboration in multidisciplinary teams. Integrative healthcare provides a unique setting for the study of interprofessional collaboration in the context of power disparities. The research objective was to examine which means and mechanisms were used to facilitate interprofessional collaboration when integrating complementary medicine (CM) int…
Coping with Illness and Threat: Why Non-religious Jews Choose to Consult Rabbis on Healthcare Issues
Complementary Medicine as a Path Toward Empowerment of Arab–Palestinian Women in Israel
Arab-Palestinians in Israel compose a traditional minority population that previously relied on traditional folk medicine and religious healing. Today some among this minority population are adopting imported complementary medicine. We interviewed Arab-Palestinians of the first generation of complementary medicine practitioners. Their decision to study complementary medicine constitutes a path toward empowerment, providing healers with an aura of…
The ‘gender puzzle’ of alternative medicine and holistic spirituality: A literature review
Workforce ethnic diversity and culturally competent health care: The case of Arab physicians in Israel
We conclude that minority physicians may prefer to promote culturally competent health care through integration and advocacy of interaction with the different cultures represented in the population, rather than serving as representatives of their own ethnic minority population. These findings may concern various medical contexts in which issues of ethnic underrepresentation in the health system are relevant, as well as sociological contexts, espe…
Seeking Empowerment and Spirituality in the Secular Age: Secular and Traditionalist Israelis Consulting Rabbis
This empirical study investigates the phenomenon of secular and traditionalist ( masorti) Israeli Jews who consult orthodox rabbis on personal matters. The study was conducted using a combined methodology: analysis of data from a large survey ( N = 6056) and conducting 50 in-depth semi-structured interviews. We found that of the 24 percent of the Israeli Jewish population who regularly consulted rabbis, 43 percent defined themselves as secular or…
It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel
New Age in Israel: Formative ethos, identity blindness, and implications for healthcare
This article presents a critical analysis of New Age culture. We draw on two empirical studies conducted in Israel and show that the lofty notions about freedom from the shackles of socially structured identities and the unifying potential this holds, as well as the claim regarding the basic equality of human beings, are utopian. Blindness toward ethno-national identity reinforces identification with a self-evident hegemonic perception, thereby l…
Tensions and Coping Strategies in Ethnically Mixed Teams: Findings from a Study in Two Emergency Departments
Race-based experiences of ethnic minority health professionals: Arab physicians and nurses in Israeli public healthcare organizations
We recommend combining the intergroup contact approach with the social process theory of racism to examine minorities' subjective perceptions, especially in conflictual and violent contexts; conducting broad-based quantitative research in Israeli healthcare organizations, which may have important implications for the specific strategies to be used; and emphasizing the importance of institutional support. By reconstructing race-based experiences o…
Neutrality in medicine and health professionals from ethnic minority groups: The case of Arab health professionals in Israel
The undisciplined patient in neoliberal society: Conscious, informed and intuitive health behaviours
Applying Foucault’s theoretical concept of discipline, the present article uses the term undisciplined patients to describe those who resist medical authority, defy conventional medical interpretations concerning health risks and adopt non-normative health behaviours. There is considerable scholarly literature available on non-normative health behaviours, such as out-of-hospital birth, refusal to vaccinate or homoeopathy. While differentiating ea…
The Secret Drama at the Patient's Bedside-Refusal of Treatment Because of the Practitioner's Ethnic Identity: The Medical Staff 's Point of View
Patients' refusal of treatment based on the practitioner's ethnic identity reveals a clash of values: neutrality in medicine versus patient-centered care. Taking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into account, this article aims at examining Israeli health care professionals' points of view concerning patients' refusal of treatment because of a practitioner's ethnic identity. Fifty in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 managers and 40 health c…
The white coat trap: Pharmacy as an ethnic-dominated occupation in Israel
Health professions are perceived by the Arab minority in Israel as a desired path of education and employment. Arabs in Israel are thus highly represented in these professions, especially pharmacy. This study analyses the unique ethnic and gender composition of pharmacists in Israel and explores their career experiences and perceptions. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies are employed. The findings reflect dual marginality in the phar…
Ethnic discordance: Why do some patients prefer to be treated by physicians from other ethnic groups
Organizational diversity and inclusive boundary-work: The case of Israeli hospitals
Purpose The theoretical conceptualization of boundaries is proposed as a useful approach to study diversity in organizations. Design/methodology/approach Two types of diversity in health-care organizations – functional diversity and social category diversity – are compared, drawing on two extensive studies of Israeli hospitals. One study addresses the boundary between the medical professions and complementary medicine and the other examines the b…
Medicine (27 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Health care (15 works) · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (11 works) · Nursing (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)