Kathryn L Mackay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn L Mackay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackay |
| SIGNATURE | MACKAY K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9022-4558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Carer harm
Purpose The purpose of this study is to consider how carer harm is understood, surfaced and responded to in contemporary policy, practice and research. Design/methodology/approach This paper offers a reflective commentary on the current “state of play” relating to carer harm drawing on existing research and related literature. This study focuses on how we define carer harm and what we know about its impact; lessons from, and for, practice and ser…
Adult safeguarding legislation
Adult safeguarding legislation is contentious because it seeks to protect 'vulnerable' adults who fall between the borderlands of social care, mental health and mental capacity law. As a new and complex area of law and practice, further research on adult safeguarding legislation is required, in particular to consider it efficacy and human rights implications. Utilising a narrative literature review approach this article explores current research …
The salience of genomic information to reproductive autonomy
Genomic testing in prenatal care is rapidly advancing and it is now possible to obtain an entire fetal genome via a blood test administered in early pregnancy. In the pursuit of reproductive autonomy, more tests are being offered to more people, for an ever-increasing range of indications. Health professionals who provide pregnancy care are at the vanguard of prenatal testing, yet their views on the impact of technology advancements remain under-…
Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy
Dangerous care
Purpose Most abuse affecting older adults in the UK, as across Europe, takes place within caring relationships, where one person is disabled and needs care/support. This paper critically appraises two of the key theoretical explanations. First, feminist theories of “intimate partner abuse” tell us that it is mostly men who perpetrate abuse against women. Second, “carer strain”: the stress caused by caring responsibilities, often with inadequate h…
Feminist Bioethics and Activism in the Wake of Covid-19
"Feminist Bioethics and Activism in the Wake of COVID-19." IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 15(1), pp. 162–163
The Turnaway Study
Negotiating safety and vulnerability in everyday life
This article reports on a participative study that began to explore what safety and vulnerability mean to older people and the resources they draw on to keep themselves safe. The methodology was designed in collaboration with an independent advocacy organisation and 10 of its older members, who were also research participants. It involved focus groups and repeated visits to five participants to discuss their daily lives. The findings indicate tha…
Authenticity and Normative Authority
Authenticity is a contested term in philosophy, and yet authenticity is also a central component of most projects to understand and describe autonomy, the grounds of moral respect, and normative authority. This is, in part, because these concepts are linked to the notion that to be an autonomous moral agent, what one does must be determined to a relevant extent by oneself, and not by other agents or influences. Many philosophers worry about wheth…
The ‘tyranny of reproduction’
This paper imagines what the liberatory possibilities of (full) ectogenesis are, insofar as it separates woman from female reproductive function. Even before use with human infants, ectogenesis productively disrupts the biological paradigm underlying current gender categories and divisions of labour. I begin by presenting a theory of women’s oppression drawn from the radical feminisms of the 1960s, which sees oppression as deeply rooted in biolog…
Mothers
In this article, I focus on two problematic aspects of British health-promotion campaigns regarding feeding children, particularly regarding breastfeeding and obesity. The first of these is that health-promotion campaigns around “lifestyle” issues dehumanize mothers with their imagery or text, stemming from the ongoing undervaluing and objectification of mothers and women. Public health-promotion instrumentalizes mothers as necessary components i…
Three challenges for behavioural science and policy
In a ‘post-truth’ era in which personality and opinion trump evidence and reason, the need for frankness in debates about the use and boundaries of science and policy is high. We welcome the reflective and nuanced approach to behavioural science in policy-making in Sanders, Snijders and Hallsworth's (2018) piece. Despite our support for the approach in this paper, we suggest that there are deeper issues than are currently acknowledged. Our critiq…
A Feminist Analysis of Anti-Obesity Campaigns
Some kinds of public health messages are unjust and unethical, and feminist analyses of oppression and autonomy can assist in explaining why. Using public health anti-obesity campaigns to provide context, I explore, in this paper, how manipulative public health campaigns oppress the targets of these messages and undermine people's ability to be self-directed decision makers. I begin with an analysis of what it means to communicate in a manipulati…
Rivka Weinberg
Implications of divergences in adult protection legislation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the similarities and differences of legal responses to older adults who may be at risk of harm or abuse in the UK, Ireland, Australia and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors draw upon a review of elder abuse and adult protection undertaken on behalf of the commissioner for older people in Northern Ireland. This paper focusses on the desk top mapping of the different legal approaches…
Neglecting justice? Exploring Scottish convictions for ill-treatment and wilful neglect
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceived low number of Scottish criminal convictions in cases of ill-treatment or wilful neglect of adults where the victims experienced mental disorder, and/or incapacity. Human rights and anti-discrimination legislation are drawn upon to consider whether victims are gaining equality of access to justice through the charging and conviction of those who commit these offences. Design/methodolo…
What difference does the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) 2007 make to social work service practitioners' safeguarding practice
Purpose This article seeks to explore the difference that adult support and protection legislation may have made to work with adults at risk of harm in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach The article is based upon findings of a joint academic and practitioner qualitative research project that interviewed 29 social service practitioners across three local authorities. Findings The legislation was seen as positive, giving greater attention to adu…
The Scottish adult support and protection legal framework
Scotland now has three key statutes that provide a legal framework for the support and protection of adults at risk of harm: Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act (2000), Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act (2003) and Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act (2007). This article provides details of the 2007 act and highlights its interaction with the other two. The author argues that an effective adult support and protection stra…
More Wives than One
Journal Article More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910 Get access More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910. By Daynes Kathryn M.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. x + 306 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Kathryn L. MacKay Kathryn L. MacKay Weber State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Almila-Georgios
Journal Article aímila-geórgios: Emily-George Get access aímila-geórgios: Emily-George. By Papanikolas Helen. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. xiv + 327 pp. Illustrations, notes.) Kathryn L. Mackay Kathryn L. Mackay Weber State College, Ogden, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 4, November 1988, Pages 462–463, https://doi.org/10.2307/968337 P…
Implications of divergences in adult protection legislation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the similarities and differences of legal responses to older adults who may be at risk of harm or abuse in the UK, Ireland, Australia and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors draw upon a review of elder abuse and adult protection undertaken on behalf of the commissioner for older people in Northern Ireland. This paper focusses on the desk top mapping of the different legal approaches…
What difference does the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) 2007 make to social work service practitioners' safeguarding practice
Purpose This article seeks to explore the difference that adult support and protection legislation may have made to work with adults at risk of harm in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach The article is based upon findings of a joint academic and practitioner qualitative research project that interviewed 29 social service practitioners across three local authorities. Findings The legislation was seen as positive, giving greater attention to adu…
Mothers
In this article, I focus on two problematic aspects of British health-promotion campaigns regarding feeding children, particularly regarding breastfeeding and obesity. The first of these is that health-promotion campaigns around “lifestyle” issues dehumanize mothers with their imagery or text, stemming from the ongoing undervaluing and objectification of mothers and women. Public health-promotion instrumentalizes mothers as necessary components i…
The Scottish adult support and protection legal framework
Scotland now has three key statutes that provide a legal framework for the support and protection of adults at risk of harm: Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act (2000), Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act (2003) and Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act (2007). This article provides details of the 2007 act and highlights its interaction with the other two. The author argues that an effective adult support and protection stra…
Negotiating safety and vulnerability in everyday life
This article reports on a participative study that began to explore what safety and vulnerability mean to older people and the resources they draw on to keep themselves safe. The methodology was designed in collaboration with an independent advocacy organisation and 10 of its older members, who were also research participants. It involved focus groups and repeated visits to five participants to discuss their daily lives. The findings indicate tha…
Dangerous care
Purpose Most abuse affecting older adults in the UK, as across Europe, takes place within caring relationships, where one person is disabled and needs care/support. This paper critically appraises two of the key theoretical explanations. First, feminist theories of “intimate partner abuse” tell us that it is mostly men who perpetrate abuse against women. Second, “carer strain”: the stress caused by caring responsibilities, often with inadequate h…
Almila-Georgios
Journal Article aímila-geórgios: Emily-George Get access aímila-geórgios: Emily-George. By Papanikolas Helen. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. xiv + 327 pp. Illustrations, notes.) Kathryn L. Mackay Kathryn L. Mackay Weber State College, Ogden, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 4, November 1988, Pages 462–463, https://doi.org/10.2307/968337 P…
More Wives than One
Journal Article More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910 Get access More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910. By Daynes Kathryn M.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. x + 306 pp. Illustrations, tables, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Kathryn L. MacKay Kathryn L. MacKay Weber State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The Scottish adult support and protection legal framework
Scotland now has three key statutes that provide a legal framework for the support and protection of adults at risk of harm: Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act (2000), Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act (2003) and Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act (2007). This article provides details of the 2007 act and highlights its interaction with the other two. The author argues that an effective adult support and protection stra…
What difference does the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) 2007 make to social work service practitioners' safeguarding practice
Purpose This article seeks to explore the difference that adult support and protection legislation may have made to work with adults at risk of harm in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach The article is based upon findings of a joint academic and practitioner qualitative research project that interviewed 29 social service practitioners across three local authorities. Findings The legislation was seen as positive, giving greater attention to adu…
Neglecting justice? Exploring Scottish convictions for ill-treatment and wilful neglect
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceived low number of Scottish criminal convictions in cases of ill-treatment or wilful neglect of adults where the victims experienced mental disorder, and/or incapacity. Human rights and anti-discrimination legislation are drawn upon to consider whether victims are gaining equality of access to justice through the charging and conviction of those who commit these offences. Design/methodolo…
Rivka Weinberg
Implications of divergences in adult protection legislation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the similarities and differences of legal responses to older adults who may be at risk of harm or abuse in the UK, Ireland, Australia and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors draw upon a review of elder abuse and adult protection undertaken on behalf of the commissioner for older people in Northern Ireland. This paper focusses on the desk top mapping of the different legal approaches…
A Feminist Analysis of Anti-Obesity Campaigns
Some kinds of public health messages are unjust and unethical, and feminist analyses of oppression and autonomy can assist in explaining why. Using public health anti-obesity campaigns to provide context, I explore, in this paper, how manipulative public health campaigns oppress the targets of these messages and undermine people's ability to be self-directed decision makers. I begin with an analysis of what it means to communicate in a manipulati…
Three challenges for behavioural science and policy
In a ‘post-truth’ era in which personality and opinion trump evidence and reason, the need for frankness in debates about the use and boundaries of science and policy is high. We welcome the reflective and nuanced approach to behavioural science in policy-making in Sanders, Snijders and Hallsworth's (2018) piece. Despite our support for the approach in this paper, we suggest that there are deeper issues than are currently acknowledged. Our critiq…
Authenticity and Normative Authority
Authenticity is a contested term in philosophy, and yet authenticity is also a central component of most projects to understand and describe autonomy, the grounds of moral respect, and normative authority. This is, in part, because these concepts are linked to the notion that to be an autonomous moral agent, what one does must be determined to a relevant extent by oneself, and not by other agents or influences. Many philosophers worry about wheth…
The ‘tyranny of reproduction’
This paper imagines what the liberatory possibilities of (full) ectogenesis are, insofar as it separates woman from female reproductive function. Even before use with human infants, ectogenesis productively disrupts the biological paradigm underlying current gender categories and divisions of labour. I begin by presenting a theory of women’s oppression drawn from the radical feminisms of the 1960s, which sees oppression as deeply rooted in biolog…
Mothers
In this article, I focus on two problematic aspects of British health-promotion campaigns regarding feeding children, particularly regarding breastfeeding and obesity. The first of these is that health-promotion campaigns around “lifestyle” issues dehumanize mothers with their imagery or text, stemming from the ongoing undervaluing and objectification of mothers and women. Public health-promotion instrumentalizes mothers as necessary components i…
The Turnaway Study
Negotiating safety and vulnerability in everyday life
This article reports on a participative study that began to explore what safety and vulnerability mean to older people and the resources they draw on to keep themselves safe. The methodology was designed in collaboration with an independent advocacy organisation and 10 of its older members, who were also research participants. It involved focus groups and repeated visits to five participants to discuss their daily lives. The findings indicate tha…
Feminist Bioethics and Activism in the Wake of Covid-19
"Feminist Bioethics and Activism in the Wake of COVID-19." IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 15(1), pp. 162–163
Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy
Dangerous care
Purpose Most abuse affecting older adults in the UK, as across Europe, takes place within caring relationships, where one person is disabled and needs care/support. This paper critically appraises two of the key theoretical explanations. First, feminist theories of “intimate partner abuse” tell us that it is mostly men who perpetrate abuse against women. Second, “carer strain”: the stress caused by caring responsibilities, often with inadequate h…
Adult safeguarding legislation
Adult safeguarding legislation is contentious because it seeks to protect 'vulnerable' adults who fall between the borderlands of social care, mental health and mental capacity law. As a new and complex area of law and practice, further research on adult safeguarding legislation is required, in particular to consider it efficacy and human rights implications. Utilising a narrative literature review approach this article explores current research …
The salience of genomic information to reproductive autonomy
Genomic testing in prenatal care is rapidly advancing and it is now possible to obtain an entire fetal genome via a blood test administered in early pregnancy. In the pursuit of reproductive autonomy, more tests are being offered to more people, for an ever-increasing range of indications. Health professionals who provide pregnancy care are at the vanguard of prenatal testing, yet their views on the impact of technology advancements remain under-…
Carer harm
Purpose The purpose of this study is to consider how carer harm is understood, surfaced and responded to in contemporary policy, practice and research. Design/methodology/approach This paper offers a reflective commentary on the current “state of play” relating to carer harm drawing on existing research and related literature. This study focuses on how we define carer harm and what we know about its impact; lessons from, and for, practice and ser…
Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Autonomy (6 works) · Elder Abuse and Neglect (6 works) · Harm (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)