E Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 15158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-3499-681X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ethical Labour of Overdiagnosis Research
Particularly in well-funded healthcare systems, medicine increasingly seeks to detect disease before it causes symptoms. Early detection can prevent suffering and premature death, but it can also diagnose conditions that will never become harmful. Although the existence of overdiagnosis is supported by clinical and epidemiological literature, its implications for practice remain contested. This paper examines how clinicians and researchers decide…
‘This has given me the peace of mind I needed’
In 2021 and 2022, researchers carried out an implementation trial that considered how the capsule sponge test might be used to screen for Barrett’s oesophagus using a mobile clinic in East Anglia. This paper offers insights from 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork studying the trial. It aims to highlight the value of the test in offering reassurance to worried patients, particularly to those with a family history of oesophageal adenocarcinoma. It…
Pluralising Cancer
This Review essay seeks to interrogate the vast category of ‘cancer’. Taken together, the three books explored here pluralise cancer, locating it not just in organs and bodies but also in time and space—in the social, material, and historical specificities in which people become patients. These ethnographies break apart the notion of ‘the C word’, showing the diverse experiences and illnesses that are gathered under this banner. Cancers emerge as…
Ambivalent Speculations
Drawing on fieldwork in Facebook support groups, in this article I explore how people, now patients, learnt to live with Barrett's esophagus, a risk state or "precancer" for a type of esophageal cancer. This diagnosis brought the possibility of both facing and averting cancerous futures into the present. Far from passive recipients, members worked to foreground speculations of "wanted futures" in which prompt surveillance successfully prevented c…
Prejudice and schizophrenia
Objective: Many anti‐stigma programmes use the ‘mental illness is an illness like any other’ approach. This review evaluates the effectiveness of this approach in relation to schizophrenia. Method: The academic literature was searched, via PsycINFO and MEDLINE, to identify peer‐reviewed studies addressing whether public espousal of a biogenetic paradigm has increased over time, and whether biogenetic causal beliefs and diagnostic labelling are as…
All Hazards
Using action research to facilitate change in child protection services
We have been involved over several years in the planning and development of services for child abuse investigation and therapy, including the development of multiagency (“child advocacy”) centers and education for Court programs. Our roles have been in research, program evaluation, group facilitation, advocacy, and planning. The approach taken was that of “action research.” This approach allows for the collaboration of researchers, service provid…
Distribution of Haemoglobin Level in a Group of School Children and its Relation to Height, Weight, and Other Variables
It is generally accepted that differences in the mean haemoglobin level in the two sexes become apparent after puberty, and this is thought to be due mainly to a gradual rise in the mean level in boys, which continues until about the age of 16 or 17 years (Sunderman, MacFate, MacFayden, Stevenson, and Copeland, 1953). However, in addition to age and (after puberty) to sex, many other factors are likely to be associated with haemoglobin level. The…
The Small Landowner, 1780-1832, in the Light of the Land Tax Assessments 1
The Small Landowner, 1780-1832, in the Light of the Land Tax Assessments
Using action research to facilitate change in child protection services
We have been involved over several years in the planning and development of services for child abuse investigation and therapy, including the development of multiagency (“child advocacy”) centers and education for Court programs. Our roles have been in research, program evaluation, group facilitation, advocacy, and planning. The approach taken was that of “action research.” This approach allows for the collaboration of researchers, service provid…
The Small Landowner, 1780-1832, in the Light of the Land Tax Assessments
The Small Landowner, 1780-1832, in the Light of the Land Tax Assessments 1
The Small Landowner, 1780-1832, in the Light of the Land Tax Assessments
Distribution of Haemoglobin Level in a Group of School Children and its Relation to Height, Weight, and Other Variables
It is generally accepted that differences in the mean haemoglobin level in the two sexes become apparent after puberty, and this is thought to be due mainly to a gradual rise in the mean level in boys, which continues until about the age of 16 or 17 years (Sunderman, MacFate, MacFayden, Stevenson, and Copeland, 1953). However, in addition to age and (after puberty) to sex, many other factors are likely to be associated with haemoglobin level. The…
Using action research to facilitate change in child protection services
We have been involved over several years in the planning and development of services for child abuse investigation and therapy, including the development of multiagency (“child advocacy”) centers and education for Court programs. Our roles have been in research, program evaluation, group facilitation, advocacy, and planning. The approach taken was that of “action research.” This approach allows for the collaboration of researchers, service provid…
Prejudice and schizophrenia
Objective: Many anti‐stigma programmes use the ‘mental illness is an illness like any other’ approach. This review evaluates the effectiveness of this approach in relation to schizophrenia. Method: The academic literature was searched, via PsycINFO and MEDLINE, to identify peer‐reviewed studies addressing whether public espousal of a biogenetic paradigm has increased over time, and whether biogenetic causal beliefs and diagnostic labelling are as…
All Hazards
Pluralising Cancer
This Review essay seeks to interrogate the vast category of ‘cancer’. Taken together, the three books explored here pluralise cancer, locating it not just in organs and bodies but also in time and space—in the social, material, and historical specificities in which people become patients. These ethnographies break apart the notion of ‘the C word’, showing the diverse experiences and illnesses that are gathered under this banner. Cancers emerge as…
Ambivalent Speculations
Drawing on fieldwork in Facebook support groups, in this article I explore how people, now patients, learnt to live with Barrett's esophagus, a risk state or "precancer" for a type of esophageal cancer. This diagnosis brought the possibility of both facing and averting cancerous futures into the present. Far from passive recipients, members worked to foreground speculations of "wanted futures" in which prompt surveillance successfully prevented c…
‘This has given me the peace of mind I needed’
In 2021 and 2022, researchers carried out an implementation trial that considered how the capsule sponge test might be used to screen for Barrett’s oesophagus using a mobile clinic in East Anglia. This paper offers insights from 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork studying the trial. It aims to highlight the value of the test in offering reassurance to worried patients, particularly to those with a family history of oesophageal adenocarcinoma. It…
The Ethical Labour of Overdiagnosis Research
Particularly in well-funded healthcare systems, medicine increasingly seeks to detect disease before it causes symptoms. Early detection can prevent suffering and premature death, but it can also diagnose conditions that will never become harmful. Although the existence of overdiagnosis is supported by clinical and epidemiological literature, its implications for practice remain contested. This paper examines how clinicians and researchers decide…
Medicine (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cancer (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (2 works) · Land tenure (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)