Elizabeth A Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 215074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7241-8711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Taking the history: Questioning during comprehensive history-taking
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Subverting criteria: The Role of Precedent in Decisions to Finance Surgery
This paper investigates prospective utilisation review for tympanostomy. In the studied procedure, a medical corporation reviews cases for third-party payers (insurance companies), and used explicit criteria to determine whether a case is appropriate for surgery. Earlier findings that inappropriate decisions to approve surgery are strongly related to previous surgeries for the same condition are investigated to trace the emergence of this theme w…
Science in the News: Journalists' Constructions of Passive Smoking as a Social Problem
News media play critical rôles in public understandings of health issues. Media presentation of scientific evidence seems to involve the `facts', which are then discussed and interpreted by various `experts'. From an ethnomethodological or social constructionist perspective, however, news `facts' themselves are socially constituted. Examining how health science is reported thus offers important insight into the social construction of health polic…
"Bureaucratic Authority in the "Company of Equals: The Interactional Management of Medical Peer Review
The author examines the negotiation of treatment decisions and the management of professional relationships during medical peer review. Using audio recordings of reviews conducted by telephone, he examines three recurrent interactional junctures in the review : (1) the reviewer's formulation of an initial request for information about the patient; (2) the doctor's immediately subsequent description of the patient; and (3) the reviewer's announcem…
Motivated by Hatred or Prejudice: Categorization of Hate-motivated Crimes in Two Police Divisions
Recent legislative responses to a perceived increase in hate crimes have resulted in efforts to quantify the rates of occurrence of such crimes. However, there remains little understanding of the processes by which statutory requirements are implemented at the level of front-line personnel like the police. This article examines the situated decisionmaking practices of police detectives in two divisions of a large urban police department charged w…
Motivated by Hatred or Prejudice: Categorization of Hate-motivated Crimes in Two Police Divisions
Recent legislative responses to a perceived increase in hate crimes have resulted in efforts to quantify the rates of occurrence of such crimes. However, there remains little understanding of the processes by which statutory requirements are implemented at the level of front-line personnel like the police. This article examines the situated decisionmaking practices of police detectives in two divisions of a large urban police department charged w…
Subverting criteria: The Role of Precedent in Decisions to Finance Surgery
This paper investigates prospective utilisation review for tympanostomy. In the studied procedure, a medical corporation reviews cases for third-party payers (insurance companies), and used explicit criteria to determine whether a case is appropriate for surgery. Earlier findings that inappropriate decisions to approve surgery are strongly related to previous surgeries for the same condition are investigated to trace the emergence of this theme w…
"Bureaucratic Authority in the "Company of Equals: The Interactional Management of Medical Peer Review
The author examines the negotiation of treatment decisions and the management of professional relationships during medical peer review. Using audio recordings of reviews conducted by telephone, he examines three recurrent interactional junctures in the review : (1) the reviewer's formulation of an initial request for information about the patient; (2) the doctor's immediately subsequent description of the patient; and (3) the reviewer's announcem…
Science in the News: Journalists' Constructions of Passive Smoking as a Social Problem
News media play critical rôles in public understandings of health issues. Media presentation of scientific evidence seems to involve the `facts', which are then discussed and interpreted by various `experts'. From an ethnomethodological or social constructionist perspective, however, news `facts' themselves are socially constituted. Examining how health science is reported thus offers important insight into the social construction of health polic…
Motivated by Hatred or Prejudice: Categorization of Hate-motivated Crimes in Two Police Divisions
Recent legislative responses to a perceived increase in hate crimes have resulted in efforts to quantify the rates of occurrence of such crimes. However, there remains little understanding of the processes by which statutory requirements are implemented at the level of front-line personnel like the police. This article examines the situated decisionmaking practices of police detectives in two divisions of a large urban police department charged w…
"Bureaucratic Authority in the "Company of Equals: The Interactional Management of Medical Peer Review
The author examines the negotiation of treatment decisions and the management of professional relationships during medical peer review. Using audio recordings of reviews conducted by telephone, he examines three recurrent interactional junctures in the review : (1) the reviewer's formulation of an initial request for information about the patient; (2) the doctor's immediately subsequent description of the patient; and (3) the reviewer's announcem…
Science in the News: Journalists' Constructions of Passive Smoking as a Social Problem
News media play critical rôles in public understandings of health issues. Media presentation of scientific evidence seems to involve the `facts', which are then discussed and interpreted by various `experts'. From an ethnomethodological or social constructionist perspective, however, news `facts' themselves are socially constituted. Examining how health science is reported thus offers important insight into the social construction of health polic…
Subverting criteria: The Role of Precedent in Decisions to Finance Surgery
This paper investigates prospective utilisation review for tympanostomy. In the studied procedure, a medical corporation reviews cases for third-party payers (insurance companies), and used explicit criteria to determine whether a case is appropriate for surgery. Earlier findings that inappropriate decisions to approve surgery are strongly related to previous surgeries for the same condition are investigated to trace the emergence of this theme w…
Taking the history: Questioning during comprehensive history-taking
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
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