Mirjam Pot
Biographic Data
| ID | 1725205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirjam Pot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mirjam |
| FAMILY NAME | Pot |
| SIGNATURE | POT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9839-8309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caring around and through medical tests in primary care: On the role of care in the diagnostic process
Primary care is characterised by a broad understanding of health and illness. Due to the high degree of diagnostic uncertainty in primary care, medical tests play a lesser role in this domain than in specialist medicine. However, medical testing is also becoming increasingly important in primary care, raising questions about how these technologies are integrated into everyday practice. Drawing on qualitative interviews with Austrian doctors, this…
Gaps in public support for young carers: Policies and young people’s experiences in Austria
Austria has been classified as ‘preliminary’ in terms of policies for young carers. Against this backdrop, we ask how young carers experience their situation, to what extent existing support measures meet their needs and what gaps remain. We demonstrate that the few measures addressing young carers specifically have mainly focused on providing information and counselling. In contrast, young carers underline the need for recognition of the diverse…
Social prescribing for and beyond health: Hyper-Solutionism in Health Policy
Social prescribing is a primary care approach that enables healthcare professionals to refer patients to social activities and services. While social prescribing has gained currency across the Global North, there has been little critical engagement with this health policy from a social science perspective. In this article, drawing on the case of Austria as an example, I present the results of a discourse analysis on social prescribing and show ho…
Precision medicine in primary care: How GPs envision "old" and "new" forms of personalization
Visions of precision or personalized medicine (PM) are gaining currency around the globe. While the potential of PM in specialist medicine has been in focus, primary care is also considered to be a fruitful area for the application of PM. "Low-tech" forms of personalization and attention to individual patients are already central features of primary care practice, and primary care thus constitutes an area in which "old" and "new" forms of persona…
Epistemic solidarity in medicine and healthcare
In this article, I apply the concept of solidarity to collective knowledge practices in healthcare. Generally, solidarity acknowledges that people are dependent on each other in many respects, and it captures those support practices that people engage in out of concern for others in whom they recognise a relevant similarity. Drawing on the rich literature on solidarity in bioethics and beyond, this article specifically discusses the role that epi…
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: Values and practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria
In some countries, far-reaching ‘lockdown’ measures to contain the spread of coronavirus were implemented early in 2020. In Austria, these early measures were met with a high degree of compliance among the country’s population. In this paper, we draw upon qualitative interviews, and ask how people made sense of the restrictions imposed during the first lockdown in April 2020 and what shaped their compliance. Empirical research has so far tried to…
Face Masks During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Simple Protection Tool With Many Meanings
Wearing face masks is recommended as part of personal protective equipment and as a public health measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Their use, however, is deeply connected to social and cultural practices and has acquired a variety of personal and social meanings. This article aims to identify the diversity of sociocultural, ethical, and political meanings attributed to face masks, how they might impac…
Qualitative und interpretative Methoden in der Politikwissenschaft: Mit Gastbeiträgen von Hendrik Wagenaar; Wanda Spahl; Meropi Tzanetakis; Carrie Friese, Adele Clarke und Rachel Washburn; Karin Liebh…
Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt qualitative Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung für das Studium der Politikwissenschaft. Es folgt in seinem Aufbau den verschiedenen Phasen eines empirischen Forschungsprojektes: Im Teil I werden die Spezifika qualitativer und interpretativer Forschung vorgestellt, ethische Aspekte diskutiert und Kompetenzen zur Formulierung hochwertiger Forschungsfragen vermittelt. Im zweiten Teil werden drei wichtige Datenerhebun…
The Gender of Biomedical Data: Challenges for Personalised and Precision Medicine
Biomedical data, both in ‘traditional’, analogue forms as well as in the form of digital, ‘big’ data, are contingent social products. They reflect the categories and practices that structure our societies. We illustrate this by discussing gender biases in data stemming from clinical trials and electronic health records (EHR) and consider how biomedical data are prone to bias in different phases of data work, from data capture and representation t…
Social prescribing for and beyond health: Hyper-Solutionism in Health Policy
Social prescribing is a primary care approach that enables healthcare professionals to refer patients to social activities and services. While social prescribing has gained currency across the Global North, there has been little critical engagement with this health policy from a social science perspective. In this article, drawing on the case of Austria as an example, I present the results of a discourse analysis on social prescribing and show ho…
Precision medicine in primary care: How GPs envision "old" and "new" forms of personalization
Visions of precision or personalized medicine (PM) are gaining currency around the globe. While the potential of PM in specialist medicine has been in focus, primary care is also considered to be a fruitful area for the application of PM. "Low-tech" forms of personalization and attention to individual patients are already central features of primary care practice, and primary care thus constitutes an area in which "old" and "new" forms of persona…
The Gender of Biomedical Data: Challenges for Personalised and Precision Medicine
Biomedical data, both in ‘traditional’, analogue forms as well as in the form of digital, ‘big’ data, are contingent social products. They reflect the categories and practices that structure our societies. We illustrate this by discussing gender biases in data stemming from clinical trials and electronic health records (EHR) and consider how biomedical data are prone to bias in different phases of data work, from data capture and representation t…
The Gender of Biomedical Data: Challenges for Personalised and Precision Medicine
Biomedical data, both in ‘traditional’, analogue forms as well as in the form of digital, ‘big’ data, are contingent social products. They reflect the categories and practices that structure our societies. We illustrate this by discussing gender biases in data stemming from clinical trials and electronic health records (EHR) and consider how biomedical data are prone to bias in different phases of data work, from data capture and representation t…
Face Masks During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Simple Protection Tool With Many Meanings
Wearing face masks is recommended as part of personal protective equipment and as a public health measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Their use, however, is deeply connected to social and cultural practices and has acquired a variety of personal and social meanings. This article aims to identify the diversity of sociocultural, ethical, and political meanings attributed to face masks, how they might impac…
Qualitative und interpretative Methoden in der Politikwissenschaft: Mit Gastbeiträgen von Hendrik Wagenaar; Wanda Spahl; Meropi Tzanetakis; Carrie Friese, Adele Clarke und Rachel Washburn; Karin Liebh…
Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt qualitative Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung für das Studium der Politikwissenschaft. Es folgt in seinem Aufbau den verschiedenen Phasen eines empirischen Forschungsprojektes: Im Teil I werden die Spezifika qualitativer und interpretativer Forschung vorgestellt, ethische Aspekte diskutiert und Kompetenzen zur Formulierung hochwertiger Forschungsfragen vermittelt. Im zweiten Teil werden drei wichtige Datenerhebun…
Epistemic solidarity in medicine and healthcare
In this article, I apply the concept of solidarity to collective knowledge practices in healthcare. Generally, solidarity acknowledges that people are dependent on each other in many respects, and it captures those support practices that people engage in out of concern for others in whom they recognise a relevant similarity. Drawing on the rich literature on solidarity in bioethics and beyond, this article specifically discusses the role that epi…
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
Understanding compliance as multi-faceted: Values and practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria
In some countries, far-reaching ‘lockdown’ measures to contain the spread of coronavirus were implemented early in 2020. In Austria, these early measures were met with a high degree of compliance among the country’s population. In this paper, we draw upon qualitative interviews, and ask how people made sense of the restrictions imposed during the first lockdown in April 2020 and what shaped their compliance. Empirical research has so far tried to…
Gaps in public support for young carers: Policies and young people’s experiences in Austria
Austria has been classified as ‘preliminary’ in terms of policies for young carers. Against this backdrop, we ask how young carers experience their situation, to what extent existing support measures meet their needs and what gaps remain. We demonstrate that the few measures addressing young carers specifically have mainly focused on providing information and counselling. In contrast, young carers underline the need for recognition of the diverse…
Social prescribing for and beyond health: Hyper-Solutionism in Health Policy
Social prescribing is a primary care approach that enables healthcare professionals to refer patients to social activities and services. While social prescribing has gained currency across the Global North, there has been little critical engagement with this health policy from a social science perspective. In this article, drawing on the case of Austria as an example, I present the results of a discourse analysis on social prescribing and show ho…
Precision medicine in primary care: How GPs envision "old" and "new" forms of personalization
Visions of precision or personalized medicine (PM) are gaining currency around the globe. While the potential of PM in specialist medicine has been in focus, primary care is also considered to be a fruitful area for the application of PM. "Low-tech" forms of personalization and attention to individual patients are already central features of primary care practice, and primary care thus constitutes an area in which "old" and "new" forms of persona…
Caring around and through medical tests in primary care: On the role of care in the diagnostic process
Primary care is characterised by a broad understanding of health and illness. Due to the high degree of diagnostic uncertainty in primary care, medical tests play a lesser role in this domain than in specialist medicine. However, medical testing is also becoming increasingly important in primary care, raising questions about how these technologies are integrated into everyday practice. Drawing on qualitative interviews with Austrian doctors, this…
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works)