Miles Little
Biographic Data
| ID | 197629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miles Little |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miles |
| FAMILY NAME | Little |
| SIGNATURE | LITTLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5539-5754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience
Procedural justice and the individual participant in priority setting: Doctors' experiences
Overcoming Entrenched Disagreements: The Case of Misoprostol for Post‐Partum Haemorrhage
The debate about whether misoprostol should be distributed to low resource communities to prevent post‐partum haemorrhage ( PPH ), recognised as a major cause of maternal mortality, is deeply polarised. This is in spite of stakeholders having access to the same evidence about the risks and benefits of misoprostol. To understand the disagreement, we conducted a qualitative analysis of the values underpinning debates surrounding community distribut…
Ethics & Evidence in Medical Debates: The Case of Recombinant Activated Factor VII
While ethics and evidence‐based medicine are often viewed as separate domains of inquiry and practice, what we know influences what we can ethically justify doing, and what we see as our moral obligations shapes the way we interpret evidence. The boundaries between the moral and epistemic spheres become particularly blurred when the health of people is at stake and even more so when no “officially” recommended medical intervention is available to…
Journal peer review in context: A qualitative study of the social and subjective dimensions of manuscript review in biomedical publishing
Cancer as Rubbish: Donation of Tumor Tissue for Research
Tissue banking (or biobanking), thought by many to be an essential form of medical research, has raised a number of ethical issues that highlight a need to understand the beliefs and values of tissue donors, including the motivations underlying consent or refusal to donate. Data from our qualitative study of the legal, social, and ethical issues surrounding tumor banking in New South Wales, Australia, show that participants' attitudes to donation…
How Vulnerability and Trust Interact During Extreme Events: Insights for Human Service Agencies and Organizations
The article discusses a theoretical model developed to predict the motivational dynamics of individuals facing extreme events. The model demonstrates how the imposed vulnerability of unexpected harmful events (e.g., natural disasters, accidents, serious illness) creates a second form of vulnerability for needy individuals when they rely on and cooperate with little-known others offering rescue and care. Trust in the relationship between a care pr…
You Have to Make Something of All That Rubbish, Do You? An Empirical Investigation of the Social Process of Qualitative Research
In this article, we examine participants' talk about qualitative research. We provide empirical support for post-structural theorizations of the interview and propose three distinct but related dimensions of qualitative research: emotional, purposive/relational, and epistemic/ontological. In this study, participants often became upset but constructed participation as enjoyable and cathartic. The purpose of participation was to assist the communit…
Justifying Knowledge, Justifying Method, Taking Action: Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods in Qualitative Research
In this article, the authors clarify a framework for qualitative research, in particular for evaluating its quality, founded on epistemology, methodology, and method. They define these elements and discuss their respective contributions and interrelationships. Epistemology determines and is made visible through method, particularly in the participant— researcher relationship, measures of research quality, and form, voice, and representation in an…
Pragmatic pluralism: Mutual tolerance of contested understandings between orthodox and alternative practitioners in autologous stem cell transplantation
Expressing freedom and taking liberties: The paradoxes of aberrant science
Complete freedom does not exist, despite people's preparedness to die for it. Scientific freedom is much defended and yet much misunderstood. Scientists have limits imposed on their freedom by the disciplines and discourse communities in which they place themselves. Freedom within these socially constructed constraints needs to be distinguished from taking liberties with the rules and practices that make up these constraints, and validate the act…
While there's life
In this scenario, I do this, for these reasons: Narrative, Genre and Ethical Reasoning in the Clinic
Setting limits fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience
Discourse communities are groups of people who share common ideologies, and common ways of speaking about things. They can be sharply or loosely defined. We are each members of multiple discourse communities. Discourse can colonize the members of discourse communities, taking over domains of thought by means of ideology. The development of new discourse communities can serve positive ends, but discourse communities create risks as well. In our ow…
Discourse in different voices: Reconciling N=1 and N=many
Life disruption and generic complexity: A Social Linguistic Analysis of Narratives of Cancer Illness
Face, Honor and Dignity in the Context of Colon Cancer
Vulnerability in the Narratives of Patients and their Carers: Studies of Colorectal Cancer
Vulnerability is susceptibility to any kind of harm, whether physical, moral or spiritual, at the hands of an agent or agency. It is related to disempowerment and loss of autonomy. It is also a relational category that appears repeatedly in the narratives of colorectal cancer patients and their carers. Although one conventionally associates vulnerability with being ill and needing health care, the practice of health care has its own vulnerabiliti…
Approval and Disapproval in the Narratives of Colorectal Cancer Patients and Their Carers
In examining the narratives of colorectal cancer patients and their carers, we have noted that approval and disapproval are expressed in many ways that reflect their importance in the process of medical care. When people construct free narratives that trace important segments of their biographies, they emphasize the approval and disapproval which others express for their choices, actions and moral qualities. They also want their own approval or d…
Liminality: A Major Category of the Experience of Cancer Illness
Assignments of meaning in epidemiology
Liminality: A Major Category of the Experience of Cancer Illness
While there's life
Life disruption and generic complexity: A Social Linguistic Analysis of Narratives of Cancer Illness
Assignments of meaning in epidemiology
Discourse in different voices: Reconciling N=1 and N=many
You Have to Make Something of All That Rubbish, Do You? An Empirical Investigation of the Social Process of Qualitative Research
In this article, we examine participants' talk about qualitative research. We provide empirical support for post-structural theorizations of the interview and propose three distinct but related dimensions of qualitative research: emotional, purposive/relational, and epistemic/ontological. In this study, participants often became upset but constructed participation as enjoyable and cathartic. The purpose of participation was to assist the communit…
How Vulnerability and Trust Interact During Extreme Events: Insights for Human Service Agencies and Organizations
The article discusses a theoretical model developed to predict the motivational dynamics of individuals facing extreme events. The model demonstrates how the imposed vulnerability of unexpected harmful events (e.g., natural disasters, accidents, serious illness) creates a second form of vulnerability for needy individuals when they rely on and cooperate with little-known others offering rescue and care. Trust in the relationship between a care pr…
In this scenario, I do this, for these reasons: Narrative, Genre and Ethical Reasoning in the Clinic
Approval and Disapproval in the Narratives of Colorectal Cancer Patients and Their Carers
In examining the narratives of colorectal cancer patients and their carers, we have noted that approval and disapproval are expressed in many ways that reflect their importance in the process of medical care. When people construct free narratives that trace important segments of their biographies, they emphasize the approval and disapproval which others express for their choices, actions and moral qualities. They also want their own approval or d…
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience
Discourse communities are groups of people who share common ideologies, and common ways of speaking about things. They can be sharply or loosely defined. We are each members of multiple discourse communities. Discourse can colonize the members of discourse communities, taking over domains of thought by means of ideology. The development of new discourse communities can serve positive ends, but discourse communities create risks as well. In our ow…
Journal peer review in context: A qualitative study of the social and subjective dimensions of manuscript review in biomedical publishing
Pragmatic pluralism: Mutual tolerance of contested understandings between orthodox and alternative practitioners in autologous stem cell transplantation
Vulnerability in the Narratives of Patients and their Carers: Studies of Colorectal Cancer
Vulnerability is susceptibility to any kind of harm, whether physical, moral or spiritual, at the hands of an agent or agency. It is related to disempowerment and loss of autonomy. It is also a relational category that appears repeatedly in the narratives of colorectal cancer patients and their carers. Although one conventionally associates vulnerability with being ill and needing health care, the practice of health care has its own vulnerabiliti…
Procedural justice and the individual participant in priority setting: Doctors' experiences
Setting limits fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources
Liminality: A Major Category of the Experience of Cancer Illness
Assignments of meaning in epidemiology
Approval and Disapproval in the Narratives of Colorectal Cancer Patients and Their Carers
In examining the narratives of colorectal cancer patients and their carers, we have noted that approval and disapproval are expressed in many ways that reflect their importance in the process of medical care. When people construct free narratives that trace important segments of their biographies, they emphasize the approval and disapproval which others express for their choices, actions and moral qualities. They also want their own approval or d…
Face, Honor and Dignity in the Context of Colon Cancer
Vulnerability in the Narratives of Patients and their Carers: Studies of Colorectal Cancer
Vulnerability is susceptibility to any kind of harm, whether physical, moral or spiritual, at the hands of an agent or agency. It is related to disempowerment and loss of autonomy. It is also a relational category that appears repeatedly in the narratives of colorectal cancer patients and their carers. Although one conventionally associates vulnerability with being ill and needing health care, the practice of health care has its own vulnerabiliti…
Life disruption and generic complexity: A Social Linguistic Analysis of Narratives of Cancer Illness
Discourse in different voices: Reconciling N=1 and N=many
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience
Discourse communities are groups of people who share common ideologies, and common ways of speaking about things. They can be sharply or loosely defined. We are each members of multiple discourse communities. Discourse can colonize the members of discourse communities, taking over domains of thought by means of ideology. The development of new discourse communities can serve positive ends, but discourse communities create risks as well. In our ow…
While there's life
In this scenario, I do this, for these reasons: Narrative, Genre and Ethical Reasoning in the Clinic
Setting limits fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources
Expressing freedom and taking liberties: The paradoxes of aberrant science
Complete freedom does not exist, despite people's preparedness to die for it. Scientific freedom is much defended and yet much misunderstood. Scientists have limits imposed on their freedom by the disciplines and discourse communities in which they place themselves. Freedom within these socially constructed constraints needs to be distinguished from taking liberties with the rules and practices that make up these constraints, and validate the act…
Justifying Knowledge, Justifying Method, Taking Action: Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods in Qualitative Research
In this article, the authors clarify a framework for qualitative research, in particular for evaluating its quality, founded on epistemology, methodology, and method. They define these elements and discuss their respective contributions and interrelationships. Epistemology determines and is made visible through method, particularly in the participant— researcher relationship, measures of research quality, and form, voice, and representation in an…
Pragmatic pluralism: Mutual tolerance of contested understandings between orthodox and alternative practitioners in autologous stem cell transplantation
How Vulnerability and Trust Interact During Extreme Events: Insights for Human Service Agencies and Organizations
The article discusses a theoretical model developed to predict the motivational dynamics of individuals facing extreme events. The model demonstrates how the imposed vulnerability of unexpected harmful events (e.g., natural disasters, accidents, serious illness) creates a second form of vulnerability for needy individuals when they rely on and cooperate with little-known others offering rescue and care. Trust in the relationship between a care pr…
You Have to Make Something of All That Rubbish, Do You? An Empirical Investigation of the Social Process of Qualitative Research
In this article, we examine participants' talk about qualitative research. We provide empirical support for post-structural theorizations of the interview and propose three distinct but related dimensions of qualitative research: emotional, purposive/relational, and epistemic/ontological. In this study, participants often became upset but constructed participation as enjoyable and cathartic. The purpose of participation was to assist the communit…
Journal peer review in context: A qualitative study of the social and subjective dimensions of manuscript review in biomedical publishing
Cancer as Rubbish: Donation of Tumor Tissue for Research
Tissue banking (or biobanking), thought by many to be an essential form of medical research, has raised a number of ethical issues that highlight a need to understand the beliefs and values of tissue donors, including the motivations underlying consent or refusal to donate. Data from our qualitative study of the legal, social, and ethical issues surrounding tumor banking in New South Wales, Australia, show that participants' attitudes to donation…
Ethics & Evidence in Medical Debates: The Case of Recombinant Activated Factor VII
While ethics and evidence‐based medicine are often viewed as separate domains of inquiry and practice, what we know influences what we can ethically justify doing, and what we see as our moral obligations shapes the way we interpret evidence. The boundaries between the moral and epistemic spheres become particularly blurred when the health of people is at stake and even more so when no “officially” recommended medical intervention is available to…
Overcoming Entrenched Disagreements: The Case of Misoprostol for Post‐Partum Haemorrhage
The debate about whether misoprostol should be distributed to low resource communities to prevent post‐partum haemorrhage ( PPH ), recognised as a major cause of maternal mortality, is deeply polarised. This is in spite of stakeholders having access to the same evidence about the risks and benefits of misoprostol. To understand the disagreement, we conducted a qualitative analysis of the values underpinning debates surrounding community distribut…
Procedural justice and the individual participant in priority setting: Doctors' experiences
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience
Sociology (19 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Narrative (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Public relations (8 works)