Ben Killingsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 129066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Killingsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Killingsworth |
| SIGNATURE | BEN KILLINGSWORTH |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Care-Full Diagnosis
It is often argued that Western medical responses to illness take illness out of the intimate social contexts within which illness becomes meaningful for people and that, as a result, Western medicine can often constitute an ineffective or, at worst, a disempowering response to illness. While not wishing to challenge such arguments, we seek in this article to present material that might serve as a useful caveat to them. Drawn from interviews cond…
Drinking stories' from a playgroup
The narratives and comments presented in this article are drawn from material gathered while conducting fieldwork for a larger ethnographic project on mothers, motherhood and playgroups in Australia. In this article I focus on the way in which the mothers of one playgroup 'used' alcohol. The material presented shows a group of middle-class women engaged in a collective and individual struggle to come to terms with their new role as mothers. Their…
Drinking stories' from a playgroup
The narratives and comments presented in this article are drawn from material gathered while conducting fieldwork for a larger ethnographic project on mothers, motherhood and playgroups in Australia. In this article I focus on the way in which the mothers of one playgroup 'used' alcohol. The material presented shows a group of middle-class women engaged in a collective and individual struggle to come to terms with their new role as mothers. Their…
A Care-Full Diagnosis
It is often argued that Western medical responses to illness take illness out of the intimate social contexts within which illness becomes meaningful for people and that, as a result, Western medicine can often constitute an ineffective or, at worst, a disempowering response to illness. While not wishing to challenge such arguments, we seek in this article to present material that might serve as a useful caveat to them. Drawn from interviews cond…
Drinking stories' from a playgroup
The narratives and comments presented in this article are drawn from material gathered while conducting fieldwork for a larger ethnographic project on mothers, motherhood and playgroups in Australia. In this article I focus on the way in which the mothers of one playgroup 'used' alcohol. The material presented shows a group of middle-class women engaged in a collective and individual struggle to come to terms with their new role as mothers. Their…
A Care-Full Diagnosis
It is often argued that Western medical responses to illness take illness out of the intimate social contexts within which illness becomes meaningful for people and that, as a result, Western medicine can often constitute an ineffective or, at worst, a disempowering response to illness. While not wishing to challenge such arguments, we seek in this article to present material that might serve as a useful caveat to them. Drawn from interviews cond…
Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Child Welfare and Adoption (1 work) · Construct (python library (1 work) · Ethnography (1 work) · Focus group (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)