Waqar I U Ahmad
Biographic Data
| ID | 238749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waqar I U Ahmad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waqar I U |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmad |
| SIGNATURE | AHMAD W I U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Research in Primary Care University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 302 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The making and representation of Muslim identity in Britain: Conversations with British Muslim 'elites
n The common nomenclature of ethnicity, race and colour has been found wanting in theorising and dealing with the Muslim presence in Britain. This study of 24 prominent British Muslims - including political, policy and academic/intellectual `elite? ? explores the making and representation of Muslim identity in Britain. We explore this through three considerations: Muslimness as a `master status?; leadership and representation in relation to Briti…
The moral economy of selfhood and caring: Negotiating Boundaries of Personal Care as Embodied Moral Practice
This paper engages with the dichotomous notions of caring underpinning social policy and practice in Britain, that splits up the 'carer' and 'cared for' into autonomous, unitary subjects, by locating personal care as an embodied, moral practice within a theoretical framework of relational ontology. Drawing on empirical accounts and narratives related to personal care within the context of advanced cancer, we argue that personal care involves nego…
Locating ethnicity and health: Exploring Concepts and Contexts
With the rapid development of ethnicity and health as a field of sociological research, this paper seeks to re-evaluate the development of ideas around ethnicity, 'race' and culture and consider how they have been applied to the question of health. Ethnicity as a social characteristic is contingent on the situation in which it is manifest. The process of marking 'other' ethnic groups includes stereotyping and racialisation, a process through whic…
Being deaf and being other things: Young Asian people negotiating identities
Young South Asian deaf people and their families: Negotiating Relationships and Identities1
This paper explores how various and competing identity claims are negotiated by young deaf people and their families. Our findings, based on group and individual interviews with young South Asian deaf people and individual interviews with their families, illustrate the complex realities of identity negotiation and how this process occurs against the backdrop of ethnicity, religion, gender, racism and deafness. More generally, the structures again…
Supporting Asian Deaf Young People and their Families: The role of professionals and services
This paper discusses how Asian deaf young people and their families engage with welfare provision. Our findings, based on group and individual interviews with young deaf people and individual interviews with their parents, explore the assumptions underlying current provision and how they influence the options available to young people and their families. The paper suggests that the welfare state exerts a form of social control where professional …
Living a 'normal' life: Young People Coping With Thalassaemia Major or Sickle Cell Disorder
Family care-giving and chronic illness: How parents cope with a child with a sickle cell disorder or thalassaemia
There has been increasing interest in the way parents cope with childhood chronic illness and a shift away from merely describing the 'burdens' of care. An emphasis on coping by introducing ideas such as co-ordinated, accessible and appropriate service delivery as well as empowerment raises important policy and practice issues for public health. This paper, by drawing on qualitative material from a project evaluating service support to families c…
Medical Autonomy and the UK State 1975 to 2025
Medical autonomy in the United Kingdom has declined over the last twenty-five years, whether considered at the micro level (such as control over treatment and work patterns), the meso level (in terms of corporatist relations with the state) or the macro level (in terms of the `biomedical model'). After a period in the early 1990s when the National Health Service displayed a mix of Fordist and post-Fordist controls, the emphasis has swung sharply …
Genetic screening and haemoglobinopathies: Ethics, politics and practice
Screening and counselling for sickle cell disorders and thalassaemia: The experience of parents and health professionals
Asian Older People: Housing, Health and Access to Services
We report the findings of a survey of 104 Asian older people in Bradford. For a high proportion, their condition was characterised by poverty, limited entitlements, inadequate housing, low levels of knowledge of health and social services, and problems of access to welfare benefits, health and social care. The situation of women was of particular concern. The study also highlights the problems of divided families, caused by restrictive immigratio…
Asian and black elders and community care: A survey of care providers
For the increasing number of Asian and black people who are in the older age groups, a factor in multiple disadvantage is marginalisation in community care planning and provision. Asian and black elders are regarded as numerically insignificant, and the stereotype that Asian and black communities have a special capacity to ‘look after their own’ facilitates an expectation that they will make up for deficits in health and social services provision…
Improving Mental Health Practice: A Training Manual (Book)
An exploration of white, Asian and Afro‐Caribbean peoples’ concepts of health and illness causation
This article is based on secondary analysis of the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Matched controls from the white respondents were selected for the 129 Asians and 94 Afro‐Caribbeans. The analysis concentrates on concepts of health and illness; lay concepts of illness causation; aetiological notions in relation to specific disease categories; and a look at smoking behaviour. Because of the quality of the ethnicity variable on the Health and Lifestyl…
The maligned healer: The ‘hakim’ and western medicine
Over the past decade Britain has seen an unprecedented increase in ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ therapies and yet concern has been expressed in particular about the practices of one type of healer, the hakim. Here I assess these concerns about ‘Eastern medicine’ by examining issues such as the hakim's education and training, treatment regimens and client groups; concepts of health and illness prevalent in the Asian communities, their relevanc…
Medical Autonomy and the UK State 1975 to 2025
Medical autonomy in the United Kingdom has declined over the last twenty-five years, whether considered at the micro level (such as control over treatment and work patterns), the meso level (in terms of corporatist relations with the state) or the macro level (in terms of the `biomedical model'). After a period in the early 1990s when the National Health Service displayed a mix of Fordist and post-Fordist controls, the emphasis has swung sharply …
Locating ethnicity and health: Exploring Concepts and Contexts
With the rapid development of ethnicity and health as a field of sociological research, this paper seeks to re-evaluate the development of ideas around ethnicity, 'race' and culture and consider how they have been applied to the question of health. Ethnicity as a social characteristic is contingent on the situation in which it is manifest. The process of marking 'other' ethnic groups includes stereotyping and racialisation, a process through whic…
The moral economy of selfhood and caring: Negotiating Boundaries of Personal Care as Embodied Moral Practice
This paper engages with the dichotomous notions of caring underpinning social policy and practice in Britain, that splits up the 'carer' and 'cared for' into autonomous, unitary subjects, by locating personal care as an embodied, moral practice within a theoretical framework of relational ontology. Drawing on empirical accounts and narratives related to personal care within the context of advanced cancer, we argue that personal care involves nego…
Living a 'normal' life: Young People Coping With Thalassaemia Major or Sickle Cell Disorder
The making and representation of Muslim identity in Britain: Conversations with British Muslim 'elites
n The common nomenclature of ethnicity, race and colour has been found wanting in theorising and dealing with the Muslim presence in Britain. This study of 24 prominent British Muslims - including political, policy and academic/intellectual `elite? ? explores the making and representation of Muslim identity in Britain. We explore this through three considerations: Muslimness as a `master status?; leadership and representation in relation to Briti…
Young South Asian deaf people and their families: Negotiating Relationships and Identities1
This paper explores how various and competing identity claims are negotiated by young deaf people and their families. Our findings, based on group and individual interviews with young South Asian deaf people and individual interviews with their families, illustrate the complex realities of identity negotiation and how this process occurs against the backdrop of ethnicity, religion, gender, racism and deafness. More generally, the structures again…
Family care-giving and chronic illness: How parents cope with a child with a sickle cell disorder or thalassaemia
There has been increasing interest in the way parents cope with childhood chronic illness and a shift away from merely describing the 'burdens' of care. An emphasis on coping by introducing ideas such as co-ordinated, accessible and appropriate service delivery as well as empowerment raises important policy and practice issues for public health. This paper, by drawing on qualitative material from a project evaluating service support to families c…
Screening and counselling for sickle cell disorders and thalassaemia: The experience of parents and health professionals
Genetic screening and haemoglobinopathies: Ethics, politics and practice
Being deaf and being other things: Young Asian people negotiating identities
Asian Older People: Housing, Health and Access to Services
We report the findings of a survey of 104 Asian older people in Bradford. For a high proportion, their condition was characterised by poverty, limited entitlements, inadequate housing, low levels of knowledge of health and social services, and problems of access to welfare benefits, health and social care. The situation of women was of particular concern. The study also highlights the problems of divided families, caused by restrictive immigratio…
Supporting Asian Deaf Young People and their Families: The role of professionals and services
This paper discusses how Asian deaf young people and their families engage with welfare provision. Our findings, based on group and individual interviews with young deaf people and individual interviews with their parents, explore the assumptions underlying current provision and how they influence the options available to young people and their families. The paper suggests that the welfare state exerts a form of social control where professional …
An exploration of white, Asian and Afro‐Caribbean peoples’ concepts of health and illness causation
This article is based on secondary analysis of the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Matched controls from the white respondents were selected for the 129 Asians and 94 Afro‐Caribbeans. The analysis concentrates on concepts of health and illness; lay concepts of illness causation; aetiological notions in relation to specific disease categories; and a look at smoking behaviour. Because of the quality of the ethnicity variable on the Health and Lifestyl…
The maligned healer: The ‘hakim’ and western medicine
Over the past decade Britain has seen an unprecedented increase in ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ therapies and yet concern has been expressed in particular about the practices of one type of healer, the hakim. Here I assess these concerns about ‘Eastern medicine’ by examining issues such as the hakim's education and training, treatment regimens and client groups; concepts of health and illness prevalent in the Asian communities, their relevanc…
Asian and black elders and community care: A survey of care providers
For the increasing number of Asian and black people who are in the older age groups, a factor in multiple disadvantage is marginalisation in community care planning and provision. Asian and black elders are regarded as numerically insignificant, and the stereotype that Asian and black communities have a special capacity to ‘look after their own’ facilitates an expectation that they will make up for deficits in health and social services provision…
An exploration of white, Asian and Afro‐Caribbean peoples’ concepts of health and illness causation
This article is based on secondary analysis of the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Matched controls from the white respondents were selected for the 129 Asians and 94 Afro‐Caribbeans. The analysis concentrates on concepts of health and illness; lay concepts of illness causation; aetiological notions in relation to specific disease categories; and a look at smoking behaviour. Because of the quality of the ethnicity variable on the Health and Lifestyl…
The maligned healer: The ‘hakim’ and western medicine
Over the past decade Britain has seen an unprecedented increase in ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ therapies and yet concern has been expressed in particular about the practices of one type of healer, the hakim. Here I assess these concerns about ‘Eastern medicine’ by examining issues such as the hakim's education and training, treatment regimens and client groups; concepts of health and illness prevalent in the Asian communities, their relevanc…
Asian and black elders and community care: A survey of care providers
For the increasing number of Asian and black people who are in the older age groups, a factor in multiple disadvantage is marginalisation in community care planning and provision. Asian and black elders are regarded as numerically insignificant, and the stereotype that Asian and black communities have a special capacity to ‘look after their own’ facilitates an expectation that they will make up for deficits in health and social services provision…
Improving Mental Health Practice: A Training Manual (Book)
Asian Older People: Housing, Health and Access to Services
We report the findings of a survey of 104 Asian older people in Bradford. For a high proportion, their condition was characterised by poverty, limited entitlements, inadequate housing, low levels of knowledge of health and social services, and problems of access to welfare benefits, health and social care. The situation of women was of particular concern. The study also highlights the problems of divided families, caused by restrictive immigratio…
Genetic screening and haemoglobinopathies: Ethics, politics and practice
Screening and counselling for sickle cell disorders and thalassaemia: The experience of parents and health professionals
Family care-giving and chronic illness: How parents cope with a child with a sickle cell disorder or thalassaemia
There has been increasing interest in the way parents cope with childhood chronic illness and a shift away from merely describing the 'burdens' of care. An emphasis on coping by introducing ideas such as co-ordinated, accessible and appropriate service delivery as well as empowerment raises important policy and practice issues for public health. This paper, by drawing on qualitative material from a project evaluating service support to families c…
Medical Autonomy and the UK State 1975 to 2025
Medical autonomy in the United Kingdom has declined over the last twenty-five years, whether considered at the micro level (such as control over treatment and work patterns), the meso level (in terms of corporatist relations with the state) or the macro level (in terms of the `biomedical model'). After a period in the early 1990s when the National Health Service displayed a mix of Fordist and post-Fordist controls, the emphasis has swung sharply …
Supporting Asian Deaf Young People and their Families: The role of professionals and services
This paper discusses how Asian deaf young people and their families engage with welfare provision. Our findings, based on group and individual interviews with young deaf people and individual interviews with their parents, explore the assumptions underlying current provision and how they influence the options available to young people and their families. The paper suggests that the welfare state exerts a form of social control where professional …
Living a 'normal' life: Young People Coping With Thalassaemia Major or Sickle Cell Disorder
Being deaf and being other things: Young Asian people negotiating identities
Young South Asian deaf people and their families: Negotiating Relationships and Identities1
This paper explores how various and competing identity claims are negotiated by young deaf people and their families. Our findings, based on group and individual interviews with young South Asian deaf people and individual interviews with their families, illustrate the complex realities of identity negotiation and how this process occurs against the backdrop of ethnicity, religion, gender, racism and deafness. More generally, the structures again…
Locating ethnicity and health: Exploring Concepts and Contexts
With the rapid development of ethnicity and health as a field of sociological research, this paper seeks to re-evaluate the development of ideas around ethnicity, 'race' and culture and consider how they have been applied to the question of health. Ethnicity as a social characteristic is contingent on the situation in which it is manifest. The process of marking 'other' ethnic groups includes stereotyping and racialisation, a process through whic…
The moral economy of selfhood and caring: Negotiating Boundaries of Personal Care as Embodied Moral Practice
This paper engages with the dichotomous notions of caring underpinning social policy and practice in Britain, that splits up the 'carer' and 'cared for' into autonomous, unitary subjects, by locating personal care as an embodied, moral practice within a theoretical framework of relational ontology. Drawing on empirical accounts and narratives related to personal care within the context of advanced cancer, we argue that personal care involves nego…
The making and representation of Muslim identity in Britain: Conversations with British Muslim 'elites
n The common nomenclature of ethnicity, race and colour has been found wanting in theorising and dealing with the Muslim presence in Britain. This study of 24 prominent British Muslims - including political, policy and academic/intellectual `elite? ? explores the making and representation of Muslim identity in Britain. We explore this through three considerations: Muslimness as a `master status?; leadership and representation in relation to Briti…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Ethnic group (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Law (5 works)