Michael Legge
Biographic Data
| ID | 207838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Legge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Legge |
| SIGNATURE | LEGGE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1446-4338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Minute Neighbourhoods, Criticisms, Conspiracy Theories, and Health
There is a significant political divide in 20MN discourse. 20MNs were linked to other conspiracy theories such as anti-vaccine beliefs and climate change denial. Framing of these interventions may be a contributing factor
Worlebury Hillfort, Somerset
Excavations at the Iron Age site of Worlebury hillfort during the mid-late 19th century revealed a large number of human skeletal remains, interpreted as victims of a ‘massacre’. Reanalysis of these remains, combining AMS dating, osteological, aDNA, histotaphonomy, and isotope analysis, has enabled a re-evaluation of this hypothesis. AMS dating lends support to the notion that many of these individuals may have died during a single episode, while…
Hope
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a life-shortening genetic condition involving progressive muscular wasting for which there is no hope of recovery at present. The lives of people with DMD, cherished by their families, are systematically marginalised and undervalued by healthcare bureaucracies while enrolment in clinical trials of new treatments offers possibilities of longer-term biomedical solutions. How is hope preserved under such circumst…
Excluding indigenous bioethical concerns when regulating frozen embryo storage
Fetal genetic difference and a cosmopolitan vernacular of the right to choose
The Predicament of d/Deaf
In our research with d/Deaf people in five families in the North and South Islands of New Zealand, we found that some of the challenges that we as researchers faced in our encounters with participants and within our mixed hearing and d/Deaf research group paralleled broader issues for this community. We use the details of our field research processes to explore the conundrum of d/Deafness, which may or may not be a disability, and use this explor…
Choice, Rights, and Virtue
Using a Foucauldian biopower analytic, this article combines insights from several ethnographic research projects around the moral reasoning styles underpinning debates over selective reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We show that divergent or shared public, private, state, individual, and community moral reasoning styles become highly politicized truth discourses that have the potential to, and at times do, affect one another, m…
Parent peer advocacy, information and refusing disability discourses
Parent peer advocacy is a distinct type of empowering relationship practised in Parent to Parent New Zealand that shares experiential knowledge gained from raising a child with disability, chronic illness or special needs and draws on both partnership and participation ideals of support. This support organisation matches families with impairment, illness and genetic difference in light of issues they encounter as families with disability. In this…
Reproduction, ethics and heritable deafness
Three consenting South Island (New Zealand) families with experience of living with a heritable type of deafness undertook a series of open ended interviews to ascertain their own views on reproductive decision making and genetic testing. All the families had undergone genetic testing however their orientation to testing in general was cautiously negative. They did not regard deafness as a suitable reason for considering the termination of a preg…
Screening criteria
Newborn metabolic screening is the most widespread application of screening technology and provides the most comprehensive application of genetics in health services, where the Guthrie blood spot cards allow screening for metabolic diseases in close to 100 % of all newborn babies. Despite over 40 years of use and significant benefits to well in excess of 100,000 children worldwide, there is remarkably little consensus in what conditions should be…
Negotiating Pku
This paper explores the experience for nine New Zealanders of living with Phenylketonuria (PKU). PKU is an inherited disorder of metabolism, detected by newborn screening and treated primarily through adherence to a strict and rather unpalatable diet which current medical opinion suggests should be lifelong. Our goal is to problematise this biomedical notion of 'adherence' to such a diet, and to do so by drawing on two areas of expert knowledge w…
Choice, Rights, and Virtue
Using a Foucauldian biopower analytic, this article combines insights from several ethnographic research projects around the moral reasoning styles underpinning debates over selective reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We show that divergent or shared public, private, state, individual, and community moral reasoning styles become highly politicized truth discourses that have the potential to, and at times do, affect one another, m…
Parent peer advocacy, information and refusing disability discourses
Parent peer advocacy is a distinct type of empowering relationship practised in Parent to Parent New Zealand that shares experiential knowledge gained from raising a child with disability, chronic illness or special needs and draws on both partnership and participation ideals of support. This support organisation matches families with impairment, illness and genetic difference in light of issues they encounter as families with disability. In this…
Negotiating Pku
This paper explores the experience for nine New Zealanders of living with Phenylketonuria (PKU). PKU is an inherited disorder of metabolism, detected by newborn screening and treated primarily through adherence to a strict and rather unpalatable diet which current medical opinion suggests should be lifelong. Our goal is to problematise this biomedical notion of 'adherence' to such a diet, and to do so by drawing on two areas of expert knowledge w…
Screening criteria
Newborn metabolic screening is the most widespread application of screening technology and provides the most comprehensive application of genetics in health services, where the Guthrie blood spot cards allow screening for metabolic diseases in close to 100 % of all newborn babies. Despite over 40 years of use and significant benefits to well in excess of 100,000 children worldwide, there is remarkably little consensus in what conditions should be…
Parent peer advocacy, information and refusing disability discourses
Parent peer advocacy is a distinct type of empowering relationship practised in Parent to Parent New Zealand that shares experiential knowledge gained from raising a child with disability, chronic illness or special needs and draws on both partnership and participation ideals of support. This support organisation matches families with impairment, illness and genetic difference in light of issues they encounter as families with disability. In this…
Reproduction, ethics and heritable deafness
Three consenting South Island (New Zealand) families with experience of living with a heritable type of deafness undertook a series of open ended interviews to ascertain their own views on reproductive decision making and genetic testing. All the families had undergone genetic testing however their orientation to testing in general was cautiously negative. They did not regard deafness as a suitable reason for considering the termination of a preg…
The Predicament of d/Deaf
In our research with d/Deaf people in five families in the North and South Islands of New Zealand, we found that some of the challenges that we as researchers faced in our encounters with participants and within our mixed hearing and d/Deaf research group paralleled broader issues for this community. We use the details of our field research processes to explore the conundrum of d/Deafness, which may or may not be a disability, and use this explor…
Choice, Rights, and Virtue
Using a Foucauldian biopower analytic, this article combines insights from several ethnographic research projects around the moral reasoning styles underpinning debates over selective reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We show that divergent or shared public, private, state, individual, and community moral reasoning styles become highly politicized truth discourses that have the potential to, and at times do, affect one another, m…
Fetal genetic difference and a cosmopolitan vernacular of the right to choose
Excluding indigenous bioethical concerns when regulating frozen embryo storage
Hope
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a life-shortening genetic condition involving progressive muscular wasting for which there is no hope of recovery at present. The lives of people with DMD, cherished by their families, are systematically marginalised and undervalued by healthcare bureaucracies while enrolment in clinical trials of new treatments offers possibilities of longer-term biomedical solutions. How is hope preserved under such circumst…
Minute Neighbourhoods, Criticisms, Conspiracy Theories, and Health
There is a significant political divide in 20MN discourse. 20MNs were linked to other conspiracy theories such as anti-vaccine beliefs and climate change denial. Framing of these interventions may be a contributing factor
Worlebury Hillfort, Somerset
Excavations at the Iron Age site of Worlebury hillfort during the mid-late 19th century revealed a large number of human skeletal remains, interpreted as victims of a ‘massacre’. Reanalysis of these remains, combining AMS dating, osteological, aDNA, histotaphonomy, and isotope analysis, has enabled a re-evaluation of this hypothesis. AMS dating lends support to the notion that many of these individuals may have died during a single episode, while…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aotearoa (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works)