Sarah Nettleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 172290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Nettleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Nettleton |
| SIGNATURE | NETTLETON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5184-2764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 96 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1336 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 92 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Striving for Presence on a Hospital Ward: Phenomenology and Re-Embodiment for a Nurse-Operated Telepresence Robot
This article examines the phenomenology of nursing care delivered through Välkky, a full-body teleoperated humanoid robot trialed in a Finnish hospital ward in 2023. Bringing science and technology studies into dialogue with phenomenology, we analyze qualitative data from observations, focus groups, and interviews with nurse-operators, managers, roboticists, and one patient involved in the pilot. We argue that Välkky's deployment constituted a “r…
Rethinking ‘Recovery’: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of Experiences of Intensive Care With Covid and Long Covid in the United Kingdom
INTRODUCTION: Interpretations of 'recovery' from illness are complex and influenced by many factors, not least patient expectations and experiences. This paper examines meanings of 'recovery', and how it is strived towards, drawing on the example of COVID-19 infection. METHODS: Drawing on qualitative interviews (n = 93) conducted in the UK between February 2021 and July 2022, we compare adults' accounts of being admitted to an Intensive Care Unit…
Välkky 's voyage on to a hospital ward: Expectations, explorations and emergent robocentric nursing care
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Finland, we report on the trial of a teleoperated care robot named Välkky introduced onto a fully operational hospital neurological ward. Our data revealed a narrative arc where participants' early expectations of the hospital-based trial altered as the project unfolded. Greeted with techno-excitement and experimental enthusiasm about the place of robotics in reshaping roles within clinical care, Välkky became…
Towards a Sociology of Healthcare Robots
We propose a sociological approach to healthcare robots that emphasises the heterogeneous ethics of mutual labour and the complex definitions of care that emerge through robot design/deployment. This argument is the product of a narrative literature review that examined assistive robots deployed in care settings. We found that although the deployment of healthcare robots has redefined the concept of care, as featured in geography, legal studies, …
‘My cousin said to me . . .’ Patients’ use of third-party references to facilitate shared decision-making during naturally occurring primary care consultations
In this paper, we explore the ways in which patients invoke third parties to gain decision-making influence in clinical consultations. The patients’ role in decision-making processes is often overlooked, and this interactional practice has rarely been systematically studied. Through a contextual narrative exploration of 42 naturally occurring consultations between patients (aged 22–84) and general practitioners (GPs) in England, we seek to fill t…
Episodic disability and adjustments for work: The ‘rehabilitative work’ of returning to employment with Long Covid
Long Covid is an activity-limiting condition that causes significant long-term impairment that can last up to one year or longer and impacts labour participation. ‘Episodic disability’ is an apt conceptual framework to comprehend the fluctuating impairments of those with Long Covid and the barriers they encounter when returning to employment. Drawing on 65 narrative interviews, conducted between 2021-2022, from three UK studies involving adults w…
Ways of being’ in the domestic garden for people living with dementia: Doing, sensing and playing
Domestic gardens represent a site for enacting embodied identity and social relationships in later life, and negotiating tensions between continuity and change. In the context of dementia, domestic gardens have significant implications for ‘living well’ at home, and for wider discussions around embodiment, relational selfhood and agency. Yet previous studies exploring dementia and gardens have predominantly focused on care home or community conte…
The double invisibility of Long Covid in children
The Covid-19 pandemic has been dominated by discussions of mild and short-lasting cases or acutely serious or lethal forms of the disease; less attention has been paid to long-term Covid-19 symptoms ('Long Covid'), particularly in children. This analysis of the experiences of children and adolescents with Long Covid, and those of their parents/caregivers, argues that children with Long Covid encounter a 'double invisibility' due to the condition'…
Young adults' experiences of biographical retrogression whilst living with long Covid
During the early years (2020-2021) of the COVID-19 pandemic, relatively little attention focused on experiences of people with long-lasting symptoms, particularly young adults who were commonly understood to be invulnerable to serious effects of the virus. Drawing on narrative interviews with 15 adults in their twenties and living in the UK when they became ill with long COVID, we explore contextual factors which made their long COVID illness exp…
Doing isolation – Caring Citizens. A cross-country comparative analysis of patient experiences with isolation practices during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic
The aim of this article is to investigate isolation experiences of individuals affected by Covid-19 and explore how care practices were enacted or upheld under the particular policies of the pandemic. Conceptually we draw upon Foucault's notion of biopolitics and scholarship on ‘care practices’ and ‘carescapes’. We are interested in how theoretical ideas such as ‘containing the virus’ or ‘flattening the curve,’ as part of policies of ‘pandemic ma…
‘I’d best take out life insurance, then.’ Conceptualisations of risk and uncertainty in primary care consultations, and implications for shared decision-making
The main objective of this study is to gain knowledge about interactional factors that support and obstruct mutual risk-assessments and shared decision-making (SDM) in clinical consultations. Through a narrative analysis of verbatim transcripts of 28 naturally occurring consultations performed in English National Health Service practices, we explore the ways in which patients and general practitioners conceptualise, construct and negotiate risks …
‘It feels like my metabolism has shut down’. Negotiating interactional roles and epistemic positions in a primary care consultation
INTRODUCTION: Our aim is to explore the ways in which a patient and a general practitioner (GP) negotiate knowledge claims stemming from different epistemic domains while dealing with a mismatch between experiential and biomedical knowledge during the clinical consultation. We interpret their interaction in relation to the sociocultural context in which their negotiation is embedded and identify factors facilitating their successful negotiation (…
Assembling atmospheres, encountering care: Risk, affect, and safety in the cystic fibrosis clinic
This paper explores the design of hospital environments, in order to investigate how issues of infection control, spatial layout, and embodied practices intersect in the accomplishment of ‘care-ful’ geographies. Specifically, we trace how the material environments of three UK cystic fibrosis (CF) clinics are assembled in order to orchestrate routines that minimise the risk of cross-infection between patients and safeguard their wellbeing. Our ana…
The coughing body: Etiquettes, techniques, sonographies and spaces
With newfound relevance in the context of Covid-19, we focus on the coughing body, building on an in-depth qualitative study of three UK lung infection clinics treating people with cystic fibrosis. Conceptually we take our cue from Norbert Elias and the way something as physiologically fundamental as coughing becomes the focus of etiquette and technique, touching also on themes central to Mary Douglas’ anthropology of pollution. This is explored …
Modes of Interaction in Naturally Occurring Medical Encounters With General Practitioners: The "One in a Million" Study
In this article, we qualitatively explore the manner and style in which medical encounters between patients and general practitioners (GPs) are mutually conducted, as exhibited in situ in 10 consultations sourced from the One in a Million: Primary Care Consultations Archive in England. Our main objectives are to identify interactional modes, to develop a classification of these modes, and to uncover how modes emerge and shift both within and betw…
Pathways, practices and architectures: Containing antimicrobial resistance in the cystic fibrosis clinic
Antimicrobial resistance and the adaptation of microbial life to antibiotics are recognised as a major healthcare challenge. Whereas most social science engagement with antimicrobial resistance has focussed on aspects of 'behaviour' (prescribing, antibiotic usage, patient 'compliance', etc.), this article instead explores antimicrobial resistance in the context of building design and healthcare architecture, focussing on the layout, design and ri…
Negotiating uncertainty in clinical encounters: A narrative exploration of naturally occurring primary care consultations
Based on a narrative analysis of 20 naturally occurring clinical consultations between general practitioners and patients in England, sourced from the One in a million data archive, we explore how they conceptualize and negotiate medical and existential uncertainty. To capture the interactional element, which is often overlooked, three consultations receive special attention. While exploring the ongoing dynamics of the moment-to-moment realizatio…
Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care
Drawing on scholarship that explores the making of time, this article aims to develop sociological understandings of architecture's relations with temporality. Commentary from within and outside architecture has often suggested that a sensitivity to time is missing from its practices (and indeed, that time is actively excluded from architecture). We argue that, rather than attempting to rectify a perceived absence of engagement with time in archi…
Counting sleep? Critical reflections on a UK national sleep strategy
The United Kingdom Government are planning to issue guidance on sleep duration. Whilst sleep is clearly important for health, offering such guidance is not the answer. Within this commentary we put forward three arguments to support this claim: (i) sleep is liminal and beyond the limits of voluntary agency; (ii) sleep is linked to structural inequality; and (iii) sleep is multiple. The first two points are now well established. However, the third…
Materializing architecture for social care: Brick walls and compromises in design for later life
This article reports on an ethnography of architectural projects for later life social care in the UK. Informed by recent debates in material studies and "materialities of care" we offer an analysis of a care home project that is sensitive to architectural materials that are not normally associated with care and well-being. Although the care home design project we focus on in this article was never built, we found that design discussions relating…
Caring through distancing: Spatial boundaries and proximities in the cystic fibrosis clinic
Drawing Atmosphere: A Case Study of Architectural Design for Care in Later Life
In this article, we use an entry to an international architectural student competition on future care to explore how social norms about older bodies may be challenged by designs that are sensitive to the spatial contexts within which we age. The power of the My Home design by Witham and Wilkins derives from its hand-drawn aesthetic and thus we consider the architects' insistence on drawing as a challenge to the clear and unambiguous image-making …
Air care: An 'Aerography' of Breath, Buildings and Bugs in the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic
With significant relevance to the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper contributes to emerging 'aerographic' research on the socio-materialities of air and breath, based on an in-depth empirical study of three hospital-based lung infection clinics treating people with cystic fibrosis. We begin by outlining the changing place of atmosphere in hospital design from the pre-antibiotic period and into the present. We then turn to the first of three aerograph…
Affecting care: Maggie's Centres and the orchestration of architectural atmospheres
This article presents research on the architecture of Maggie's Centres, a series of buildings for those with cancer, their families and friends. In particular, we explore the way in which their architectural atmospheres are spoken of by architects who have designed individual Maggie's Centres, in interviews with staff members and volunteers in the buildings and in focus groups with visitors to their sites. We bring together qualitative research f…
Materialities of Care: Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture
I just want permission to be ill: Towards a sociology of medically unexplained symptoms
Conceptualising body work in health and social care
Body work is a central activity in the practice of many workers in the field of health and social care. This article provides an introduction to the concept of body work - paid work on the bodies of others - and demonstrates its importance for understanding the activities of health and social care workers. Providing an overview of existing research on body work, it shows the manifold ways in which this can inform the sociology of health and illne…
Towards a sociology of diagnosis: Reflections and opportunities
Conceptualising 'materialities of care: Making Visible Mundane Material Culture in Health and Social Care Contexts
Materialities of care' is outlined as a heuristic device for making visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture within health and social care contexts, and exploring interrelations between materials and care in practice. Three analytic strands inherent to the concept are delineated: spatialities of care, temporalities of care and practices of care. These interconnecting themes span the articles in this special issue. The a…
Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: An Exploratory Analysis
This paper is a direct response to Wilkinson's (1996) call for more research into housing insecurity and health. It explores the consequences of mortgage arrears for both the health of indebted home owners and their use of primary health care services. It is based on the results of a secondary analysis of the British Household Panel Survey. It demonstrates that the experience of mortgage indebtedness has an independent effect on the subjective we…
The mundane realities of the everyday lay use of the internet for health, and their consequences for media convergence
The internet is now a major source of health information for lay people. Within the medical, sociological and popular literatures there have been three main responses to this development. We classify these as 'celebratory', 'concerned' and 'contingent'. This paper falls into the third category and, drawing on techniques of discourse analysis, examines people's accounts of their use of online health resources. It identifies six implicit rules - wh…
Architecture and health care: A Place for Sociology
Sociologists of health and illness have tended to overlook the architecture and buildings used in health care. This contrasts with medical geographers who have yielded a body of work on the significance of places and spaces in the experience of health and illness. A review of sociological studies of the role of the built environment in the performance of medical practice uncovers an important vein of work, worthy of further study. Through the his…
Thinking about changing mobility practices: How a Social Practice Approach Can Help
Policy efforts directed at encouraging physical activity have had minimal success to date. Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice, we suggest that a social practice framing might provide useful ways of thinking about why and how some practices do and could change. This article takes three case studies of transformations in mobility practices to explore conditions of possibility for change, using a secondary analysis of qualitative data from stu…
The Emergence of E-Scaped Medicine
This article asks the question, is it possible to decipher a new 'medical cosmology' that possesses an elective affinity with contemporary socio-technological changes? It tentatively answers in the positive and attempts to identify the parameters of a new medical cosmology that it terms e-scaped medicine.To discern the conceptual underpinnings of e-scaped medicine the article draws on De Mul's theorization of the 'informatization of the worldview…
Regulating medical bodies? The consequences of the 'modernisation' of the NHS and the disembodiment of clinical knowledge
The aim of this paper is to explore the consequences of modernisation and regulatory processes for the everyday lives of doctors working the UK National Health Service. We do this by reporting on interview data generated as part of a qualitative investigation into the working lives of 47 doctors. The analysis of the empirical findings is informed by two literatures: that which has sought to theorise the contemporary thrust of regulation and audit…
E-Scaped Medicine? Information, Reflexivity and Health
This article examines contemporary conceptualizations of the relationship between information, reflexivity and health in the information age. It suggests that the significance of policies that broaden access to the Internet will not fundamentally alter structural relations, nor will it alter the social epidemiology of health and welfare outcomes in the manner suggested by some advocates of policies aimed at constructing `expert' citizens through …
Cementing Relations within a Sporting Field: Fell Running in the English Lake District and the Acquisition of Existential Capital
This article presents findings from an ethnography of fell running in the English Lake District. A provocative concept - existential capital - is proposed to underscore the profits acquired from fell running as an embodied technique, and as a means of defining the shared passions within the field. These gains are acquired through corporeal techniques that require sustained physical effort, embodied vigilance, and knowledge of an environment that …
Enigmatic Illness: Narratives of Patients who Live with Medically Unexplained Symptoms
I knew before I was told: Breaches, cues and clues in the diagnostic assemblage
When a Capital Investment Becomes an Emotional Loss: The Health Consequences of the Experience of Mortgage Possession in England
This paper contributes to current debates on the psycho-social determinants of health by offering a qualitative analysis of the health consequences of the experience of mortgage possession. Previous research has shown that it is possible to decipher a statistical relationship between the onset of mortgage indebtedness and health. This paper extends this work by examining how this statistical patterning is generated at the level of the 'lived expe…
Essentially it's just a lot of bedrooms: Architectural Design, Prescribed Personalisation and the Construction of Care Homes for Later Life
This article draws on ethnographic data from a UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded study called 'Buildings in the Making'. The project aims to open up the black box of architectural work to explore what happens between the commissioning of architectural projects through to the construction of buildings, and seeks to understand how ideas about care for later life are operationalised into designs. Drawing on recent scholarship on …
Fell runners and walking walls: Towards a sociology of living landscapes and aesthetic atmospheres as an alternative to a Lakeland picturesque
This article draws on analysis of data generated by way of an ethnography of fell running in the English Lake District and suggests that participants who have lived and run in the area for many years experience a particular mode of aesthetic. The Lake District has long been valued for its outstanding scenery represented in the aesthetic of the picturesque comprising relatively static landscapes that should be conserved. Established fell runners w…
Families coping with the experience of mortgage repossession in the 'new landscape of precariousness
Households in Britain now confront what has been termed 'a new landscape of precariousness' in relation to their work, welfare and social relationships. Unprecedented levels of mortgage repossession are emblematic of these contemporary insecurities. Informed by the call from Titterton, Williams, Popay, Oakley and others for a 'new paradigm of research' this paper draws on a small qualitative study of 30 families who have experienced mortgage repo…
Affecting care: Maggie's Centres and the orchestration of architectural atmospheres
This article presents research on the architecture of Maggie's Centres, a series of buildings for those with cancer, their families and friends. In particular, we explore the way in which their architectural atmospheres are spoken of by architects who have designed individual Maggie's Centres, in interviews with staff members and volunteers in the buildings and in focus groups with visitors to their sites. We bring together qualitative research f…
A Slice of Life: Food Narratives and Menus from Mass-Observers in 1982 and 1945
This paper reports on an analysis of hitherto unexamined documentary data on food held within the UK Mass Observation Archive (MOA). In particular it discusses responses to the 1982 Winter Directive which asked MOA correspondents about their experiences of food and eating, and the food diaries submitted by MOA panel members in 1945. What is striking about these data is the extent to which memories of food and eating are interwoven with recollecti…
Protecting a vulnerable margin: Towards an Analysis of How the Mouth Came to Be Separated From the Body
The mouth and teeth became the focus of a new body of knowledge in the mid-nineteenth century. Existing approaches to the emergence of the profession of dentistry have assumed that it occurred as a response to dental disease and have offered empirical/pluralistic accounts. This paper argues that such explanations are inadequate, and drawing on Foucault's concept of power/knowledge suggests an alternative explanation. An examination of the contagi…
Wisdom, diligence and teeth: Discursive Practices and the Creation of Mothers
In his paper 'Governmentality' Foucault 1979 has described how the family, which prior to the eighteenth century had formed a model of the state, afterwards became an effective instrument for the art of government. The art of government relies on wisdom and diligence. This paper is concerned with those forms of wisdom and diligence that surrounded the mouth, teeth and the domestic environment. It analyses the moral discourse and practices that su…
Experiencing Food Allergy and Food Intolerance: An Analysis of Lay Accounts
This article offers an analysis of 28 lay accounts of the experience of living with either food allergy or food intolerance in England. We structure the presentation of our data in terms of Mike Bury's three types of narrative form - contingent, moral and core. We suggest that people with food allergies at risk of acute, severe and potentially fatal symptoms on exposure to allergens find their condition to be less socially problematic than do tho…
A diagnostic illusory? The case of distinguishing between "vegetative" and "minimally conscious" states
Throughout affluent societies there are growing numbers of people who survive severe brain injuries only to be left with long-term chronic disorders of consciousness. This patient group who exist betwixt and between life and death are variously diagnosed as in 'comatose', 'vegetative', and, more recently, 'minimally conscious' states. Drawing on a nascent body of sociological work in this field and developments in the sociology of diagnosis in co…
Imagined bodies: Architects and their constructions of later life
This article comprises a sociological analysis of how architects imagine the ageing body when designing residential care homes for later life and the extent to which they engage empathetically with users. Drawing on interviews with architectural professionals based in the United Kingdom, we offer insight into the ways in which architects envisage the bodies of those who they anticipate will populate their buildings. Deploying the notions of ‘body…
Protecting a vulnerable margin: Towards an Analysis of How the Mouth Came to Be Separated From the Body
The mouth and teeth became the focus of a new body of knowledge in the mid-nineteenth century. Existing approaches to the emergence of the profession of dentistry have assumed that it occurred as a response to dental disease and have offered empirical/pluralistic accounts. This paper argues that such explanations are inadequate, and drawing on Foucault's concept of power/knowledge suggests an alternative explanation. An examination of the contagi…
Power and pain: The location of pain and fear in dentistry and the creation of a dental subject
Wisdom, diligence and teeth: Discursive Practices and the Creation of Mothers
In his paper 'Governmentality' Foucault 1979 has described how the family, which prior to the eighteenth century had formed a model of the state, afterwards became an effective instrument for the art of government. The art of government relies on wisdom and diligence. This paper is concerned with those forms of wisdom and diligence that surrounded the mouth, teeth and the domestic environment. It analyses the moral discourse and practices that su…
Protesting patients: A study of complaints submitted to a Family Health Service Authority
The issue of complaints is a topical one. It is of interest to the Government who espouses a consumerist philosophy and to health care consumer groups who are keen to ensure that effective mechanisms for the redress of grievances are in place. The complaints machinery is currently being reviewed and debated by interested parties and the main suggestions for change are set out in this paper. It is suggested that the factors which impede reform are…
Going against the grain: Smoking and 'heavy' drinking amongst the British middle classes
This paper examines the characteristics of those members of the British middle classes who 'go against the grain' of healthy living by both smoking and drinking alcohol over recommended levels. Using logistic regression procedures on GHS data, it concludes that there are significant gender differences, with men being much more likely to adopt such risky health behaviours than women. Further, the social correlates of such behaviours differ for men…
Women and the new paradigm of health and medicine
This paper argues that there is a 'new paradigm in health and medicine'. The biomedical model is being overlain by a psycho-socio-epidemio logical model. Many feminist writers demonstrated that a system of health care which was dominated by the biomedical model was especially damaging for women. However, a system which is underpinned by the psycho-socio-epidemiological model may also have some potentially detrimental consequences for women. Drawi…
What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health (Book)
Knit Your Own Without a Pattern: Health Promotion Specialists in an Internal Market
The reforms of the National Health Service in England have given an emphasis to “strategic” approaches to health and health care, in that, ideally, purchasing decisions will be made on the basis of evidence from various forms of “needs assessment”. Alongside these reforms a strategic approach to the promotion of health has been set out in the “Health of the Nation” (DoH 1992). However, although the promotion of health is high on the policy agenda…
If health promotion is everybody's business what is the fate of the health promotion specialist
Health promotion specialists and health promotion services within the health service have been neglected by policy makers and medical sociologists. This is perhaps surprising, given the high profile of health promotion on the health policy agenda. This paper presents the findings of an exploratory sociological study into the nature and function of health promotion services within the ‘reformed’ British National Health Service. The analysis draws …
Losing homes through mortgage possession: A ‘new’ public health issue
During the last decade there has been an unprecedented growth in mortgage possessions in the UK, with 820 households a week losing their homes in 1996. The signs are that this trend is set to continue. This paper describes the processes involved in losing a home through mortgage possession. A number of features which characterize this experience are identified, these are: living with debt; uncertainty; and lack of control. Drawing on recent devel…
Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: An Exploratory Analysis
This paper is a direct response to Wilkinson's (1996) call for more research into housing insecurity and health. It explores the consequences of mortgage arrears for both the health of indebted home owners and their use of primary health care services. It is based on the results of a secondary analysis of the British Household Panel Survey. It demonstrates that the experience of mortgage indebtedness has an independent effect on the subjective we…
Virtual Community Care? Social Policy and the Emergence of Computer Mediated Social Support
This article argues that the emergence and growth of internet use in Britain has important implications for the analysis of social policy. It attempts to outline a research agenda for social policy in relation to one particular aspect of internet use, that of on-line self-help and social support – what we term here virtual-community care . The article presents data on patterns of home based internet use in Britain and outlines some contemporary d…
Births, deaths, sex and marriage… but very few presents? A case study of social support in cyberspace
This paper examines the functioning of a Usenet newsgroup designed to provide social support for people suffering from depression. Using a commonly used taxonomy of different sorts of social support - social companionship, informational support, esteem support and instrumental support - the paper examines a random sample of ‘postings' made to the group. Detailed illustrative examples of different types of ‘posting’ are provided and an analytic co…
When a Capital Investment Becomes an Emotional Loss: The Health Consequences of the Experience of Mortgage Possession in England
This paper contributes to current debates on the psycho-social determinants of health by offering a qualitative analysis of the health consequences of the experience of mortgage possession. Previous research has shown that it is possible to decipher a statistical relationship between the onset of mortgage indebtedness and health. This paper extends this work by examining how this statistical patterning is generated at the level of the 'lived expe…
On-Line with the Friends of Bill W: Social Support and the Net
The Internet is now being used as a mechanism for the delivery of social support on a global scale, chiefly through the formation of self-help groups. Most of the research that has been undertaken on these groups has focussed on Usenet and the use of newsgroups for social support. This paper examines the use of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) 'room', by a self-help group composed of problem drinkers. The group had an international membership and adv…
Losing a home through mortgage repossession: The views of children
In Britain between 1990 and 1998 454,280 households containing an estimated 1.32 million adults and children experienced mortgage repossession. The majority of households which are repossessed contained dependent children. Drawing on qualitative data derived from interviews with parents and children this paper aims to throw some light on how losing a family home in this way is experienced by children. The process of the repossession is often long…
Modernity, Medicine and Health: Medical Sociology Towards 2000 edited by Graham Scambler and Paul Higgs
Families coping with the experience of mortgage repossession in the 'new landscape of precariousness
Households in Britain now confront what has been termed 'a new landscape of precariousness' in relation to their work, welfare and social relationships. Unprecedented levels of mortgage repossession are emblematic of these contemporary insecurities. Informed by the call from Titterton, Williams, Popay, Oakley and others for a 'new paradigm of research' this paper draws on a small qualitative study of 30 families who have experienced mortgage repo…
Body in Everyday Life
The Body in Everyday Life
The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk
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E-Scaped Medicine? Information, Reflexivity and Health
This article examines contemporary conceptualizations of the relationship between information, reflexivity and health in the information age. It suggests that the significance of policies that broaden access to the Internet will not fundamentally alter structural relations, nor will it alter the social epidemiology of health and welfare outcomes in the manner suggested by some advocates of policies aimed at constructing `expert' citizens through …
Health E-types
This paper presents a simple typology of different forms of engagement with the Internet by families with children with various forms of chronic illness. The analysis is informed by ongoing debates about the nature, distribution and efficacy of reflexivity in contemporary social life, especially as it relates to the changing nature of information and knowledge. Drawing upon qualitative interviews with sixty-nine parents and sixteen children, the …
Enigmatic Illness: Narratives of Patients who Live with Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Enigmatic Illness: Narratives of Patients who Live with Medically Unexplained Symptoms
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