Alice Scavarda
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 163867 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alice Scavarda |
| NOMBRES | Alice |
| APELLIDO | Scavarda |
| FIRMA | SCAVARDA A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0972-318X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The creative doctor
Medical education increasingly recognizes the need to prepare future physicians not only with biomedical expertise but also with the professional identities, skills, and reflexive capacities required to navigate uncertainty, complexity, and emotionally demanding clinical encounters. Drawing on scholarship on professional socialization and the emerging field of Graphic Medicine, this qualitative study explores how comics-enhanced education contrib…
Do Health Care Professionals Trust Parents? A Team Ethnography of Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy from Seven European Countries
Social-scientific scholarship on vaccination has often stressed the importance of trust. Vaccine hesitancy has commonly been viewed as determined by the degree of trust that parents have in expert knowledge, health care authorities, and health care professionals (HCPs). Focusing primarily on parents as trustors, the bilateral nature of trust and HCPs’ trust in parents have seldom been considered. This article systematically explores these commonl…
Towards an Embodied and Graphic Based Qualitative Sociology
The aim of this paper is to discuss the comicisation of qualitative sociology, i.e., the use of comics as research methods and analytical tools in sociology, drawing from case studies related to illness and neurodivergence. In the first part, we will pinpoint how comics as qualitative research methods enhance the reflexivity of sociologists themselves in the various phases of their research projects: from the definition of a case study to the cho…
Children should be raised like this
Childhood Studies scholars have increasingly engaged with the concept of neurodiversity, particularly with respect to neurodivergent children's mental well‐being. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the history of the neurodiversity movement in Italy, and the consequences on children's mental health, drawing on eight in‐depth interviews with movement leaders, researchers and members of parent associations. We argue that Italian education and …
Whither sociological theory in the health field
The application of sociological theory to the study of health and health care has a long if chequered career, and there is considerable international variation in the manner of its development and in current practice. In this paper our focus is on the current situation in the UK, although its analysis and arguments clearly have a somewhat broader applicability. We draw loosely on Bourdieu’s notion of a ‘field’ to discuss post-WW2 developments in …
Disability stigma resistance by parents at the intersection of psychosocial and structural levels
In this paper we define and argue for the salience of the concept of 'project stigma' in the context of long-term illness and disability. In the opening section we briefly review the literature on long-term illness and disability as 'personal tragedy' and go on to discuss critiques of this limited and limiting narrative from disability theorists and, belatedly, medical sociologists. This prepares the ground for conceptual innovation around the no…
Pain by proxy
Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy as an Interaction-Based Phenomenon
The paper discusses the role of the interaction between parents and healthcare professionals in overcoming or heightening childhood vaccine hesitancy. Childhood vaccine hesitancy is seen as a set of attitudes and behaviours-that is, dispositions-that are highly dependent on how trust and vulnerability intersect during vaccination appointments. Drawing on a rapid team ethnography conducted in the Northwest of Italy, we discuss how parents' trust i…
Health got graphic! The role of Graphic Medicine in unpacking autism
The paper brings together Graphic Medicine, namely the use of comics and graphic novels in the healthcare field, and Disability Studies to shed light on the contribution of the graphic medium to the social understanding of disability, focusing on the case of autism. Based on 15 in-depth inter- views with healthcare professionals and using graphic novels as a form of knowledge elicitation, the article shows both the strengths and the weaknesses of…
Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses
The shame-blame complex of parents with cognitively disabled children in Italy
This article aims to advance knowledge related to the concept of the 'shame-blame complex' by analysing the accounts and experiences of parents with cognitively disabled children. It draws on 29 interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome and shadowing sessions with one family, carried out in Italy. Results show how the feeling of shame as a consequence of being associated with a disabled child is turned into blame for bad parenting. T…
Disability by association for siblings of adolescents and adults with cognitive disabilities
This paper analyses the impact of disability on the social identities of siblings of young people and adults with cognitive disabilities. The main aim is to empirically support the concept of ‘disability by association’, which refers to the attribution of an associative identity due to the presence of a disabled member in the family. Evidence is drawn from a qualitative study, made up of 32 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with siblings w…
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
Using Photovoice to understand physical and social living environment influence on adherence to diabetes
Within the past several years, a considerable body of research on adherence to diabetes regimen has emerged in public health. However, the focus of the vast majority of these studies has been on the individual traits and attitudes affecting adherence. Still little is known on the role of the social and physical context in supporting or hindering diabetes self-management, particularly from a qualitative standpoint. To address these limitations, th…
Protective and risk factors for social withdrawal in adolescence. A mixed-method study of Italian students’ wellbeing
This research project is aimed at identifying risk and protective factors of social withdrawal, by studying some areas of young people's psychological wellbeing. The study took place in a medium-sized town in the north-west of Italy. A total of 1,102 students participated in the study. An online survey was sent to all the students attending the second year of local high schools, then the results were combined with those from two focus groups invo…
Embracing and rejecting the medicalization of autism in Italy
Stranieri a tavola? Ridefinire i confini identitari attraverso le narrazioni alimentari
Attraverso l'analisi di tre casi di studio che utilizzano tre approcci qualitativi diversi (l'intervista, la photovoice, l'etnografia virtuale), il presente articolo mostra come l'alimentazione nell'esperienza migratoria possa fungere da spazio, sociale e vir-tuale, reale e immaginario, per rivendicare confini simbolici che possono essere costruiti in modo nostalgico o riaffermati in quanto tratto distintivo che differenzia chi migra dall'autocto…
The effects of the economic crisis and managerialism in social work
Introduction. This paper explores some of the recent transformations in social work in Italy, against the backdrop of the economic crisis and the processes of rationalization. Specifically, the aim is to understand the relationship between managerialism and professional autonomy in social work. Methodology. The article presents a qualitative study conducted in Northern Italy through 40 interviews with practitioners and managers from two different…
From housekeeper to status-oriented consumer and hyper-sexual imagery
Advertisements not only mirror ideals of masculinity and femininity that prevail in a specific place and time, but also contribute to influencing them. This article analyses alcohol-related advertisements published in women’s magazines from 1967 to 2008 in Italy. The main aim is to understand cultural processes that underlie gender differences in drinking and more generally in Italian society. The sample consists of 376 direct and indirect advert…
The shame-blame complex of parents with cognitively disabled children in Italy
This article aims to advance knowledge related to the concept of the 'shame-blame complex' by analysing the accounts and experiences of parents with cognitively disabled children. It draws on 29 interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome and shadowing sessions with one family, carried out in Italy. Results show how the feeling of shame as a consequence of being associated with a disabled child is turned into blame for bad parenting. T…
Embracing and rejecting the medicalization of autism in Italy
The effects of the economic crisis and managerialism in social work
Introduction. This paper explores some of the recent transformations in social work in Italy, against the backdrop of the economic crisis and the processes of rationalization. Specifically, the aim is to understand the relationship between managerialism and professional autonomy in social work. Methodology. The article presents a qualitative study conducted in Northern Italy through 40 interviews with practitioners and managers from two different…
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses
Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy as an Interaction-Based Phenomenon
The paper discusses the role of the interaction between parents and healthcare professionals in overcoming or heightening childhood vaccine hesitancy. Childhood vaccine hesitancy is seen as a set of attitudes and behaviours-that is, dispositions-that are highly dependent on how trust and vulnerability intersect during vaccination appointments. Drawing on a rapid team ethnography conducted in the Northwest of Italy, we discuss how parents' trust i…
Disability by association for siblings of adolescents and adults with cognitive disabilities
This paper analyses the impact of disability on the social identities of siblings of young people and adults with cognitive disabilities. The main aim is to empirically support the concept of ‘disability by association’, which refers to the attribution of an associative identity due to the presence of a disabled member in the family. Evidence is drawn from a qualitative study, made up of 32 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with siblings w…
From housekeeper to status-oriented consumer and hyper-sexual imagery
Advertisements not only mirror ideals of masculinity and femininity that prevail in a specific place and time, but also contribute to influencing them. This article analyses alcohol-related advertisements published in women’s magazines from 1967 to 2008 in Italy. The main aim is to understand cultural processes that underlie gender differences in drinking and more generally in Italian society. The sample consists of 376 direct and indirect advert…
The effects of the economic crisis and managerialism in social work
Introduction. This paper explores some of the recent transformations in social work in Italy, against the backdrop of the economic crisis and the processes of rationalization. Specifically, the aim is to understand the relationship between managerialism and professional autonomy in social work. Methodology. The article presents a qualitative study conducted in Northern Italy through 40 interviews with practitioners and managers from two different…
Stranieri a tavola? Ridefinire i confini identitari attraverso le narrazioni alimentari
Attraverso l'analisi di tre casi di studio che utilizzano tre approcci qualitativi diversi (l'intervista, la photovoice, l'etnografia virtuale), il presente articolo mostra come l'alimentazione nell'esperienza migratoria possa fungere da spazio, sociale e vir-tuale, reale e immaginario, per rivendicare confini simbolici che possono essere costruiti in modo nostalgico o riaffermati in quanto tratto distintivo che differenzia chi migra dall'autocto…
Protective and risk factors for social withdrawal in adolescence. A mixed-method study of Italian students’ wellbeing
This research project is aimed at identifying risk and protective factors of social withdrawal, by studying some areas of young people's psychological wellbeing. The study took place in a medium-sized town in the north-west of Italy. A total of 1,102 students participated in the study. An online survey was sent to all the students attending the second year of local high schools, then the results were combined with those from two focus groups invo…
Embracing and rejecting the medicalization of autism in Italy
Disability by association for siblings of adolescents and adults with cognitive disabilities
This paper analyses the impact of disability on the social identities of siblings of young people and adults with cognitive disabilities. The main aim is to empirically support the concept of ‘disability by association’, which refers to the attribution of an associative identity due to the presence of a disabled member in the family. Evidence is drawn from a qualitative study, made up of 32 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with siblings w…
Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant parents were very much related to issues …
Using Photovoice to understand physical and social living environment influence on adherence to diabetes
Within the past several years, a considerable body of research on adherence to diabetes regimen has emerged in public health. However, the focus of the vast majority of these studies has been on the individual traits and attitudes affecting adherence. Still little is known on the role of the social and physical context in supporting or hindering diabetes self-management, particularly from a qualitative standpoint. To address these limitations, th…
Health got graphic! The role of Graphic Medicine in unpacking autism
The paper brings together Graphic Medicine, namely the use of comics and graphic novels in the healthcare field, and Disability Studies to shed light on the contribution of the graphic medium to the social understanding of disability, focusing on the case of autism. Based on 15 in-depth inter- views with healthcare professionals and using graphic novels as a form of knowledge elicitation, the article shows both the strengths and the weaknesses of…
Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses
The shame-blame complex of parents with cognitively disabled children in Italy
This article aims to advance knowledge related to the concept of the 'shame-blame complex' by analysing the accounts and experiences of parents with cognitively disabled children. It draws on 29 interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome and shadowing sessions with one family, carried out in Italy. Results show how the feeling of shame as a consequence of being associated with a disabled child is turned into blame for bad parenting. T…
Towards an Embodied and Graphic Based Qualitative Sociology
The aim of this paper is to discuss the comicisation of qualitative sociology, i.e., the use of comics as research methods and analytical tools in sociology, drawing from case studies related to illness and neurodivergence. In the first part, we will pinpoint how comics as qualitative research methods enhance the reflexivity of sociologists themselves in the various phases of their research projects: from the definition of a case study to the cho…
Children should be raised like this
Childhood Studies scholars have increasingly engaged with the concept of neurodiversity, particularly with respect to neurodivergent children's mental well‐being. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the history of the neurodiversity movement in Italy, and the consequences on children's mental health, drawing on eight in‐depth interviews with movement leaders, researchers and members of parent associations. We argue that Italian education and …
Whither sociological theory in the health field
The application of sociological theory to the study of health and health care has a long if chequered career, and there is considerable international variation in the manner of its development and in current practice. In this paper our focus is on the current situation in the UK, although its analysis and arguments clearly have a somewhat broader applicability. We draw loosely on Bourdieu’s notion of a ‘field’ to discuss post-WW2 developments in …
Disability stigma resistance by parents at the intersection of psychosocial and structural levels
In this paper we define and argue for the salience of the concept of 'project stigma' in the context of long-term illness and disability. In the opening section we briefly review the literature on long-term illness and disability as 'personal tragedy' and go on to discuss critiques of this limited and limiting narrative from disability theorists and, belatedly, medical sociologists. This prepares the ground for conceptual innovation around the no…
Pain by proxy
Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy as an Interaction-Based Phenomenon
The paper discusses the role of the interaction between parents and healthcare professionals in overcoming or heightening childhood vaccine hesitancy. Childhood vaccine hesitancy is seen as a set of attitudes and behaviours-that is, dispositions-that are highly dependent on how trust and vulnerability intersect during vaccination appointments. Drawing on a rapid team ethnography conducted in the Northwest of Italy, we discuss how parents' trust i…
The creative doctor
Medical education increasingly recognizes the need to prepare future physicians not only with biomedical expertise but also with the professional identities, skills, and reflexive capacities required to navigate uncertainty, complexity, and emotionally demanding clinical encounters. Drawing on scholarship on professional socialization and the emerging field of Graphic Medicine, this qualitative study explores how comics-enhanced education contrib…
Do Health Care Professionals Trust Parents? A Team Ethnography of Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy from Seven European Countries
Social-scientific scholarship on vaccination has often stressed the importance of trust. Vaccine hesitancy has commonly been viewed as determined by the degree of trust that parents have in expert knowledge, health care authorities, and health care professionals (HCPs). Focusing primarily on parents as trustors, the bilateral nature of trust and HCPs’ trust in parents have seldom been considered. This article systematically explores these commonl…
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