A Popper-Giveon
Biographic Data
| ID | 14033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Popper-Giveon |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Popper-Giveon |
| SIGNATURE | POPPER-GIVEON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | David Yellin College of Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9252-9360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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
Preferring patient–physician concordance: The ambiguity of implicit ethnic bias
Findings reveal several factors that impact Jewish and Arab Israeli patients' preference for patient-physician concordance, some of which reflect patients' implicit bias. This phenomenon - together with practitioners' implicit bias against patients - should be recognized as contributing to the ambiguity of ethnic relations in clinical encounters, particularly in conflictual societies
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
It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel
Women Supporting Patients, Men Curing Cancer: Gender-Related Variations Among Israeli Arab Practitioners of Traditional Medicine in Their Treatment of Patients with Cancer
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…
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…
From white stone to blue bead: Materialized Beliefs and Sacred Beads Among the Bedouin in Israel
The Bedouin of southern Israel have long used healing beads of stone or coral to treat various physical ailments (such as wounds and infections). These beads, which constitute a sociocultural linchpin in Bedouin society, are now being replaced by a more modern variety: glass or plastic beads, mostly blue in color and used primarily to counter the evil eye. This article deals with the recent change in the function and appearance of Bedouin healing…
Returning to Ourselves: Palestinian Complementary Healers in Israel
Studies of traditional healers in various cultures describe their initiation into the healing profession as a climax that constructs their professional and personal identity. Literature emphasizes the healers' intense association with the culture in which they work, as reflected in the initiation narratives that healers in various cultures recount. In this article we reveal unique initiation stories and identity formation from Palestinian nonconv…
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…
Traditional healing, higher education, autonomy and hardship: Coping paths of Palestinian women in Israel
This article presents two coping paths available to Palestinian women in Israel today – turning to a traditional healer in the community, an act that represents turning ‘inwards’, and pursuing higher education, an act that represents turning ‘outwards’. These two paths enable coping – particularly in times of societal transition – and provide opportunities for the women who utilize them. On the other hand, each of these paths is laden with unique…
Women as Healers; Women as Clients: The Encounter Between Traditional Arab Women Healers and Their Clients
Paths of Power: Traditional Palestinian Women Healers in Israel
Blood and Ink: Treatment Practices of Traditional Palestinian Women Healers in Israel
This article addresses the treatment practices of traditional Palestinian women healers in Israel. It begins with a presentation of the treatment practices utilized by women healers and continues with a description of the changes such practices are currently undergoing. The research indicates that some women healers—in particular, those residing in mixed Jewish-Arab cities in the country's center—are slowly adopting treatment practices identified…
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…
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…
Claiming power through hardship: Initiation narratives of Palestinian traditional women healers in Israel
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…
Traditional healing, higher education, autonomy and hardship: Coping paths of Palestinian women in Israel
This article presents two coping paths available to Palestinian women in Israel today – turning to a traditional healer in the community, an act that represents turning ‘inwards’, and pursuing higher education, an act that represents turning ‘outwards’. These two paths enable coping – particularly in times of societal transition – and provide opportunities for the women who utilize them. On the other hand, each of these paths is laden with unique…
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…
Preferring patient–physician concordance: The ambiguity of implicit ethnic bias
Findings reveal several factors that impact Jewish and Arab Israeli patients' preference for patient-physician concordance, some of which reflect patients' implicit bias. This phenomenon - together with practitioners' implicit bias against patients - should be recognized as contributing to the ambiguity of ethnic relations in clinical encounters, particularly in conflictual societies
Returning to Ourselves: Palestinian Complementary Healers in Israel
Studies of traditional healers in various cultures describe their initiation into the healing profession as a climax that constructs their professional and personal identity. Literature emphasizes the healers' intense association with the culture in which they work, as reflected in the initiation narratives that healers in various cultures recount. In this article we reveal unique initiation stories and identity formation from Palestinian nonconv…
Blood and Ink: Treatment Practices of Traditional Palestinian Women Healers in Israel
This article addresses the treatment practices of traditional Palestinian women healers in Israel. It begins with a presentation of the treatment practices utilized by women healers and continues with a description of the changes such practices are currently undergoing. The research indicates that some women healers—in particular, those residing in mixed Jewish-Arab cities in the country's center—are slowly adopting treatment practices identified…
Claiming power through hardship: Initiation narratives of Palestinian traditional women healers in Israel
Paths of Power: Traditional Palestinian Women Healers in Israel
Blood and Ink: Treatment Practices of Traditional Palestinian Women Healers in Israel
This article addresses the treatment practices of traditional Palestinian women healers in Israel. It begins with a presentation of the treatment practices utilized by women healers and continues with a description of the changes such practices are currently undergoing. The research indicates that some women healers—in particular, those residing in mixed Jewish-Arab cities in the country's center—are slowly adopting treatment practices identified…
Women as Healers; Women as Clients: The Encounter Between Traditional Arab Women Healers and Their Clients
Traditional healing, higher education, autonomy and hardship: Coping paths of Palestinian women in Israel
This article presents two coping paths available to Palestinian women in Israel today – turning to a traditional healer in the community, an act that represents turning ‘inwards’, and pursuing higher education, an act that represents turning ‘outwards’. These two paths enable coping – particularly in times of societal transition – and provide opportunities for the women who utilize them. On the other hand, each of these paths is laden with unique…
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…
Women Supporting Patients, Men Curing Cancer: Gender-Related Variations Among Israeli Arab Practitioners of Traditional Medicine in Their Treatment of Patients with Cancer
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…
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…
From white stone to blue bead: Materialized Beliefs and Sacred Beads Among the Bedouin in Israel
The Bedouin of southern Israel have long used healing beads of stone or coral to treat various physical ailments (such as wounds and infections). These beads, which constitute a sociocultural linchpin in Bedouin society, are now being replaced by a more modern variety: glass or plastic beads, mostly blue in color and used primarily to counter the evil eye. This article deals with the recent change in the function and appearance of Bedouin healing…
Returning to Ourselves: Palestinian Complementary Healers in Israel
Studies of traditional healers in various cultures describe their initiation into the healing profession as a climax that constructs their professional and personal identity. Literature emphasizes the healers' intense association with the culture in which they work, as reflected in the initiation narratives that healers in various cultures recount. In this article we reveal unique initiation stories and identity formation from Palestinian nonconv…
It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel
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…
Preferring patient–physician concordance: The ambiguity of implicit ethnic bias
Findings reveal several factors that impact Jewish and Arab Israeli patients' preference for patient-physician concordance, some of which reflect patients' implicit bias. This phenomenon - together with practitioners' implicit bias against patients - should be recognized as contributing to the ambiguity of ethnic relations in clinical encounters, particularly in conflictual societies
“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
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…
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…
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 …
Medicine (23 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Health care (10 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Ethnic group (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Public relations (8 works)