John I Macartney
Biographic Data
| ID | 132413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John I Macartney |
| GIVEN NAMES | John I |
| FAMILY NAME | Macartney |
| SIGNATURE | MACARTNEY J I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Primary Care Health Science University of Oxford UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Liminal and the Parallax: Living and Dying at the End of Life
Transitions to palliative care can involve a shift in philosophy from life-prolonging to life-enhancing care. People living with a life-limiting illness will often receive palliative care through specialist outpatient clinics, while also being cared for by another medical specialty. Experiences of this point of care have been described as being liminal in character, that is, somewhere between living and dying. Drawing on experiences of illness an…
Balancing exercises: Subjectivised narratives of balance in cancer self-health
Having a 'balanced lifestyle' is often promoted as one way to manage the competing demands of contemporary life. For people with cancer, those demands are often multiplied, particularly when they use self-health approaches that seek to bring together an array of biomedical and complementary and alternative medicine therapies and practices. Yet, how balance is used in this complex healthcare milieu and the affects it has on experiences of illness …
Cancer self-health programmes: An Ethos for Negotiating Multiplicities of Healthcare
Cancer self-health programmes are a popular form of healthcare in the UK, Australia, and North America. This article explores how they bring together heterogeneous and possibly incommensurable modes of healthcare (including complementary and alternative medicine, self-help, psychotherapy, and systems theory from bioscience) to form programmes of self-health. Through a discourse analysis of four programmes – The Bristol Approach; Health Creation P…
Locating care at the end of life: Burden, Vulnerability, and the Practical Accomplishment of Dying
Home is frequently idealised as the preferred location for end-of-life care, while in-patient hospital care is viewed with suspicion and fear. Yet many people with a terminal illness spend their final days in some form of medicalised institutional setting, such as a specialist palliative care in-patient unit. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with in-patients at a specialist palliative care unit, we focus on their difficulties in finding a be…
On resilience and acceptance in the transition to palliative care at the end of life
Specialist palliative care is a prominent and expanding site of health service delivery, providing highly specialised care to people at the end of life. Its focus on the delivery of specialised life-enhancing care stands in contrast to biomedicine's general tendency towards life-prolonging intervention. This philosophical departure from curative or life-prolonging care means that transitioning patients can be problematic, with recent work suggest…
The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Closed
Commentators such as Goldacre, Dawkins, and Singh and Ernst are worried that the rise in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) represents a flight from science propagated by enemies of reason. We outline what kind of problem CAM use is for these commentators, and find that users of CAM have been constituted as duped, ignorant, irrational, or immoral in explaining CAM use. However, this form of problematization can be described as a flight …
Locating care at the end of life: Burden, Vulnerability, and the Practical Accomplishment of Dying
Home is frequently idealised as the preferred location for end-of-life care, while in-patient hospital care is viewed with suspicion and fear. Yet many people with a terminal illness spend their final days in some form of medicalised institutional setting, such as a specialist palliative care in-patient unit. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with in-patients at a specialist palliative care unit, we focus on their difficulties in finding a be…
The Liminal and the Parallax: Living and Dying at the End of Life
Transitions to palliative care can involve a shift in philosophy from life-prolonging to life-enhancing care. People living with a life-limiting illness will often receive palliative care through specialist outpatient clinics, while also being cared for by another medical specialty. Experiences of this point of care have been described as being liminal in character, that is, somewhere between living and dying. Drawing on experiences of illness an…
On resilience and acceptance in the transition to palliative care at the end of life
Specialist palliative care is a prominent and expanding site of health service delivery, providing highly specialised care to people at the end of life. Its focus on the delivery of specialised life-enhancing care stands in contrast to biomedicine's general tendency towards life-prolonging intervention. This philosophical departure from curative or life-prolonging care means that transitioning patients can be problematic, with recent work suggest…
The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Closed
Commentators such as Goldacre, Dawkins, and Singh and Ernst are worried that the rise in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) represents a flight from science propagated by enemies of reason. We outline what kind of problem CAM use is for these commentators, and find that users of CAM have been constituted as duped, ignorant, irrational, or immoral in explaining CAM use. However, this form of problematization can be described as a flight …
Cancer self-health programmes: An Ethos for Negotiating Multiplicities of Healthcare
Cancer self-health programmes are a popular form of healthcare in the UK, Australia, and North America. This article explores how they bring together heterogeneous and possibly incommensurable modes of healthcare (including complementary and alternative medicine, self-help, psychotherapy, and systems theory from bioscience) to form programmes of self-health. Through a discourse analysis of four programmes – The Bristol Approach; Health Creation P…
The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Closed
Commentators such as Goldacre, Dawkins, and Singh and Ernst are worried that the rise in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) represents a flight from science propagated by enemies of reason. We outline what kind of problem CAM use is for these commentators, and find that users of CAM have been constituted as duped, ignorant, irrational, or immoral in explaining CAM use. However, this form of problematization can be described as a flight …
On resilience and acceptance in the transition to palliative care at the end of life
Specialist palliative care is a prominent and expanding site of health service delivery, providing highly specialised care to people at the end of life. Its focus on the delivery of specialised life-enhancing care stands in contrast to biomedicine's general tendency towards life-prolonging intervention. This philosophical departure from curative or life-prolonging care means that transitioning patients can be problematic, with recent work suggest…
Balancing exercises: Subjectivised narratives of balance in cancer self-health
Having a 'balanced lifestyle' is often promoted as one way to manage the competing demands of contemporary life. For people with cancer, those demands are often multiplied, particularly when they use self-health approaches that seek to bring together an array of biomedical and complementary and alternative medicine therapies and practices. Yet, how balance is used in this complex healthcare milieu and the affects it has on experiences of illness …
Cancer self-health programmes: An Ethos for Negotiating Multiplicities of Healthcare
Cancer self-health programmes are a popular form of healthcare in the UK, Australia, and North America. This article explores how they bring together heterogeneous and possibly incommensurable modes of healthcare (including complementary and alternative medicine, self-help, psychotherapy, and systems theory from bioscience) to form programmes of self-health. Through a discourse analysis of four programmes – The Bristol Approach; Health Creation P…
Locating care at the end of life: Burden, Vulnerability, and the Practical Accomplishment of Dying
Home is frequently idealised as the preferred location for end-of-life care, while in-patient hospital care is viewed with suspicion and fear. Yet many people with a terminal illness spend their final days in some form of medicalised institutional setting, such as a specialist palliative care in-patient unit. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with in-patients at a specialist palliative care unit, we focus on their difficulties in finding a be…
The Liminal and the Parallax: Living and Dying at the End of Life
Transitions to palliative care can involve a shift in philosophy from life-prolonging to life-enhancing care. People living with a life-limiting illness will often receive palliative care through specialist outpatient clinics, while also being cared for by another medical specialty. Experiences of this point of care have been described as being liminal in character, that is, somewhere between living and dying. Drawing on experiences of illness an…
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (3 works) · Patient Dignity and Privacy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (2 works)