Gareth H Williams
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 214492 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gareth H Williams |
| PRENOMES | Gareth H |
| SOBRENOME | Williams |
| ASSINATURA | WILLIAMS G H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 178 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Making sense
Originally home meant the centre of the world – not in a geographical but in an ontological sense ... Home was the centre of the world because it was the place where a vertical line crossed a horizontal one. The vertical line was a path leading upwards to the sky and downwards to the underworld. The horizontal line represented the traffic of the world, all the possible roads leading across the earth to other places (Berger, 1984: 55–6). The late …
Divergence or convergence? Health inequalities and policy in a devolved Britain
Since the advent of political devolution in the UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most of these analyses are based on a comparison of health care policies and, as such, only tell part of a complex and evolving story. This paper considers official responses to a shared public health policy aim, the reduction of health inequalities, through an examination of national policy statements pro…
The determinants of health
The concept of social structure is one of the main building blocks of the social sciences, but it lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews the way in which the concept has been deployed within medical sociology, arguing that in recent times it has been used primarily as a frame for the sociological interpretation of health inequalities and their social determinants. It goes on to examine the co…
Knowledgeable narratives
This personal reflection on the development of 'narrative analysis' in studies of health and illness describes its emergence from medical sociologists' attempts to develop qualitative studies of the everyday experience of symptoms that accomplished more than the classification and enumeration of the contents of interview transcripts. The paper argues that lay narratives of illness are often marvellous stories which weave together a picture of the…
Disablement and the ideological crisis in health care
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access Lynn Payer, Medicine and Culture Notions of Health and Sickness in Britain, the US, France and West Germany, London: Victor Gollancz, 1989. Pp. 204. £12.95. ISBN 0-575-04532-9. GARETH H. WILLIAMS GARETH H. WILLIAMS ARC Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 2, August 1990, Page 330, htt…
Biomedicine Examined (Book)
Hope for the humblest? The role of self-help in chronic illness
This paper puts forward the proposition that modern self-help organizations are the progeny of an uneasy relationship between two ideologies: individualism and collectivism. Within this relationship individualism is the dominant partner. Using a case-study I examine the way in which these ideological influences can be seen to take concrete form in the history and activities of the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society. I argue that certain char…
Borrowed time
Disability and Disadvantage
Activity, health and fitness in old age
Having Epilepsy
Research highlights. No. 3
The movement for independent living
The determinants of health
The concept of social structure is one of the main building blocks of the social sciences, but it lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews the way in which the concept has been deployed within medical sociology, arguing that in recent times it has been used primarily as a frame for the sociological interpretation of health inequalities and their social determinants. It goes on to examine the co…
The movement for independent living
Knowledgeable narratives
This personal reflection on the development of 'narrative analysis' in studies of health and illness describes its emergence from medical sociologists' attempts to develop qualitative studies of the everyday experience of symptoms that accomplished more than the classification and enumeration of the contents of interview transcripts. The paper argues that lay narratives of illness are often marvellous stories which weave together a picture of the…
Hope for the humblest? The role of self-help in chronic illness
This paper puts forward the proposition that modern self-help organizations are the progeny of an uneasy relationship between two ideologies: individualism and collectivism. Within this relationship individualism is the dominant partner. Using a case-study I examine the way in which these ideological influences can be seen to take concrete form in the history and activities of the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society. I argue that certain char…
Divergence or convergence? Health inequalities and policy in a devolved Britain
Since the advent of political devolution in the UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most of these analyses are based on a comparison of health care policies and, as such, only tell part of a complex and evolving story. This paper considers official responses to a shared public health policy aim, the reduction of health inequalities, through an examination of national policy statements pro…
Making sense
Originally home meant the centre of the world – not in a geographical but in an ontological sense ... Home was the centre of the world because it was the place where a vertical line crossed a horizontal one. The vertical line was a path leading upwards to the sky and downwards to the underworld. The horizontal line represented the traffic of the world, all the possible roads leading across the earth to other places (Berger, 1984: 55–6). The late …
Disablement and the ideological crisis in health care
Biomedicine Examined (Book)
Research highlights. No. 3
Research highlights. No. 3
The movement for independent living
Activity, health and fitness in old age
Having Epilepsy
Disability and Disadvantage
Borrowed time
Biomedicine Examined (Book)
Hope for the humblest? The role of self-help in chronic illness
This paper puts forward the proposition that modern self-help organizations are the progeny of an uneasy relationship between two ideologies: individualism and collectivism. Within this relationship individualism is the dominant partner. Using a case-study I examine the way in which these ideological influences can be seen to take concrete form in the history and activities of the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society. I argue that certain char…
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access Lynn Payer, Medicine and Culture Notions of Health and Sickness in Britain, the US, France and West Germany, London: Victor Gollancz, 1989. Pp. 204. £12.95. ISBN 0-575-04532-9. GARETH H. WILLIAMS GARETH H. WILLIAMS ARC Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 2, August 1990, Page 330, htt…
Disablement and the ideological crisis in health care
Knowledgeable narratives
This personal reflection on the development of 'narrative analysis' in studies of health and illness describes its emergence from medical sociologists' attempts to develop qualitative studies of the everyday experience of symptoms that accomplished more than the classification and enumeration of the contents of interview transcripts. The paper argues that lay narratives of illness are often marvellous stories which weave together a picture of the…
The determinants of health
The concept of social structure is one of the main building blocks of the social sciences, but it lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews the way in which the concept has been deployed within medical sociology, arguing that in recent times it has been used primarily as a frame for the sociological interpretation of health inequalities and their social determinants. It goes on to examine the co…
Divergence or convergence? Health inequalities and policy in a devolved Britain
Since the advent of political devolution in the UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most of these analyses are based on a comparison of health care policies and, as such, only tell part of a complex and evolving story. This paper considers official responses to a shared public health policy aim, the reduction of health inequalities, through an examination of national policy statements pro…
Making sense
Originally home meant the centre of the world – not in a geographical but in an ontological sense ... Home was the centre of the world because it was the place where a vertical line crossed a horizontal one. The vertical line was a path leading upwards to the sky and downwards to the underworld. The horizontal line represented the traffic of the world, all the possible roads leading across the earth to other places (Berger, 1984: 55–6). The late …
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