Gill Bendelow
Biographic Data
| ID | 245724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gill Bendelow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gill |
| FAMILY NAME | Bendelow |
| SIGNATURE | BENDELOW G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9293-5297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Processing the pandemic
The worldwide COVID-19 crisis has highlighted perhaps more than ever before in the history of SHI the need for a critical sociological lens alongside the clinical, public health and organisational discussion of the current pandemic as it continues through 2020. In particular, debates around social inequalities in health and medicine have received new attention globally. A research note by one of us (Will, 1) suggested in the spring that sociologi…
Designing ‘Healthy’ Prisons for Women
This means that not only healthcare services and psychology programmes must be sensitive to individuals' trauma histories but that the architecture and design of prisons should also be sympathetic, facilitating and encouraging trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive practices within. This article problematises the Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) initiatives recently rolled out across the female prison estate, arguing that attempts to introd…
Diagnosing vulnerability and “dangerousness”
Purpose – Police in England and Wales are empowered, under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (s136), to detain individuals thought to be a danger to themselves or to others. Use of this authority is widespread, but varies across districts and attracts controversy because of inconsistent application and the fact that it requires police to make judgements about mental health. The purpose of this paper is to examine police attitudes to and c…
Chronic Pain Patients and the Biomedical Model of Pain
Treating or alleviating pain is a primary role of medicine. What actually constitutes pain is subjective, value-laden, and difficult to define objectively and empirically, relying as the definition does on bodily signs and language, both of which are culturally embedded and subject to multiple interpretations. Biomedical theories of pain concentrate upon its neurophysiological aspects in both diagnosis and treatment. Hence, scientific medicine re…
Depression
The diagnosis of depression in the clinical context is extremely controversial and is subject to criticism of over-medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Depression can be conceptualised across the entire spectrum of lay and medical belief, from the 'normal' highs and lows of the human condition to its inclusion in the dominant Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classificatory system, as a form of serious mental illness. In …
The slide to pragmatism
This paper reports on a qualitative study of UK mental health practitioners’ experiences of working with the contested condition, dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD). Our interviews focused on the issues of treatability, risk assessment and decision-making in multi-disciplinary teams. We discuss the approach of values-based medicine (VBM) as a useful framework for interpreting the data: respondents cited both explicit values (based o…
Emotions, pain and gender
Emotional health
In general practice in the UK, the term emotional health is increasingly being used to address an ever-increasing range of consultations which involve distressing symptoms which combine mental, physical and social aspects of health and wellbeing. Practitioners often despair of being able to treat these complex conditions with traditional biomedicine, as they are often manifested through medically unexplained symptoms, hence the turn to more holis…
Screening for breast cancer
Women's perspectives on breast screening (mammography and breast awareness) were explored in interviews with midlife women sampled for diversity of background and health experience. Attending mammography screening was considered a social obligation despite women's fears and experiences of discomfort. Women gave considerable legitimacy to mammography visualizations of the breast, and the expert interpretation of these. In comparison, women lacked …
Pain, suffering and risk
A primary role of medicine is often perceived as treating or alleviating pain, but what actually constitutes pain can be defined in many ways. A major impediment to a more adequate conceptualization of pain is thought to be the manner in which it has been 'medicalized,' over the course of the twentieth century resulting in the inevitable Cartesian split between body and mind. Consequently, the dominant conceptualization of pain has focused almost…
Health professionals, their medical interventions and uncertainty
Evaluating the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of shared decision making within community-based multi-disciplinary teams
Recalcitrant Bodies'? Children, Cancer and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries
Located within the context of recent debates about the body as both a material and socially constructed entity, this article takes up these corporeal issues through a focus on children's images and depictions of cancer. Key themes here include monstrous/demonic bodies, dys-figured/absent bodies, the combustible body, pathological bodies and mortal bodies. Under-pinning these representations, it is suggested, is a view of the primordial body as a …
The Lived Body
The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body. The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas of a range of key thinkers, from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, …
The Lived Body
Health and Disease. A Reader (Book)
The end of the road? Lay views on a pain-relief clinic
The `Emotional' Body
Emotions and 'Sociological Imperialism
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
Transcending the dualisms
Theories of pain have traditionally been dominated by biomedicine and concentrate upon its neurophysiological aspects, both in diagnosis and treatment. Hence, scientific medicine reduces the experience of pain to an elaborate broadcasting system of signals, rather than seeing it as moulded and shaped both by the individual and their particular socio‐cultural context. Although pain lies at the intersection between biology and culture, making it an…
Hardship and Health in Women's Lives
Information on women's lives settling down finding a home being a mother caring for children working for pay finding the money making ends meet keeping going children's health concluding comments
Children, Teenagers and Health
Pain perceptions, emotions and gender
This research explores the relationship between perceptions of pain and the social characteristics of the individual, with a focus on the role of gender in the process, with an emphasis on the meaning of 'lay' understanding of the phenomena of pain. In order to broaden the definition of pain a multi-method form of enquiry was adopted and significant gender differences were found in the emphasis on the role of the emotions and the social expectati…
Intimate Adversaries
Transcending the dualisms
Theories of pain have traditionally been dominated by biomedicine and concentrate upon its neurophysiological aspects, both in diagnosis and treatment. Hence, scientific medicine reduces the experience of pain to an elaborate broadcasting system of signals, rather than seeing it as moulded and shaped both by the individual and their particular socio‐cultural context. Although pain lies at the intersection between biology and culture, making it an…
Pain perceptions, emotions and gender
This research explores the relationship between perceptions of pain and the social characteristics of the individual, with a focus on the role of gender in the process, with an emphasis on the meaning of 'lay' understanding of the phenomena of pain. In order to broaden the definition of pain a multi-method form of enquiry was adopted and significant gender differences were found in the emphasis on the role of the emotions and the social expectati…
Depression
The diagnosis of depression in the clinical context is extremely controversial and is subject to criticism of over-medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Depression can be conceptualised across the entire spectrum of lay and medical belief, from the 'normal' highs and lows of the human condition to its inclusion in the dominant Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classificatory system, as a form of serious mental illness. In …
Evaluating the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of shared decision making within community-based multi-disciplinary teams
Health professionals, their medical interventions and uncertainty
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
Recalcitrant Bodies'? Children, Cancer and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries
Located within the context of recent debates about the body as both a material and socially constructed entity, this article takes up these corporeal issues through a focus on children's images and depictions of cancer. Key themes here include monstrous/demonic bodies, dys-figured/absent bodies, the combustible body, pathological bodies and mortal bodies. Under-pinning these representations, it is suggested, is a view of the primordial body as a …
Screening for breast cancer
Women's perspectives on breast screening (mammography and breast awareness) were explored in interviews with midlife women sampled for diversity of background and health experience. Attending mammography screening was considered a social obligation despite women's fears and experiences of discomfort. Women gave considerable legitimacy to mammography visualizations of the breast, and the expert interpretation of these. In comparison, women lacked …
The end of the road? Lay views on a pain-relief clinic
Emotions and 'Sociological Imperialism
The `Emotional' Body
The slide to pragmatism
This paper reports on a qualitative study of UK mental health practitioners’ experiences of working with the contested condition, dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD). Our interviews focused on the issues of treatability, risk assessment and decision-making in multi-disciplinary teams. We discuss the approach of values-based medicine (VBM) as a useful framework for interpreting the data: respondents cited both explicit values (based o…
Intimate Adversaries
Pain perceptions, emotions and gender
This research explores the relationship between perceptions of pain and the social characteristics of the individual, with a focus on the role of gender in the process, with an emphasis on the meaning of 'lay' understanding of the phenomena of pain. In order to broaden the definition of pain a multi-method form of enquiry was adopted and significant gender differences were found in the emphasis on the role of the emotions and the social expectati…
Hardship and Health in Women's Lives
Information on women's lives settling down finding a home being a mother caring for children working for pay finding the money making ends meet keeping going children's health concluding comments
Children, Teenagers and Health
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
Transcending the dualisms
Theories of pain have traditionally been dominated by biomedicine and concentrate upon its neurophysiological aspects, both in diagnosis and treatment. Hence, scientific medicine reduces the experience of pain to an elaborate broadcasting system of signals, rather than seeing it as moulded and shaped both by the individual and their particular socio‐cultural context. Although pain lies at the intersection between biology and culture, making it an…
Health and Disease. A Reader (Book)
The end of the road? Lay views on a pain-relief clinic
The `Emotional' Body
Emotions and 'Sociological Imperialism
The Lived Body
The Lived Body
The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body. The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas of a range of key thinkers, from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, …
Recalcitrant Bodies'? Children, Cancer and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries
Located within the context of recent debates about the body as both a material and socially constructed entity, this article takes up these corporeal issues through a focus on children's images and depictions of cancer. Key themes here include monstrous/demonic bodies, dys-figured/absent bodies, the combustible body, pathological bodies and mortal bodies. Under-pinning these representations, it is suggested, is a view of the primordial body as a …
Evaluating the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of shared decision making within community-based multi-disciplinary teams
Pain, suffering and risk
A primary role of medicine is often perceived as treating or alleviating pain, but what actually constitutes pain can be defined in many ways. A major impediment to a more adequate conceptualization of pain is thought to be the manner in which it has been 'medicalized,' over the course of the twentieth century resulting in the inevitable Cartesian split between body and mind. Consequently, the dominant conceptualization of pain has focused almost…
Health professionals, their medical interventions and uncertainty
Emotions, pain and gender
Emotional health
In general practice in the UK, the term emotional health is increasingly being used to address an ever-increasing range of consultations which involve distressing symptoms which combine mental, physical and social aspects of health and wellbeing. Practitioners often despair of being able to treat these complex conditions with traditional biomedicine, as they are often manifested through medically unexplained symptoms, hence the turn to more holis…
Screening for breast cancer
Women's perspectives on breast screening (mammography and breast awareness) were explored in interviews with midlife women sampled for diversity of background and health experience. Attending mammography screening was considered a social obligation despite women's fears and experiences of discomfort. Women gave considerable legitimacy to mammography visualizations of the breast, and the expert interpretation of these. In comparison, women lacked …
The slide to pragmatism
This paper reports on a qualitative study of UK mental health practitioners’ experiences of working with the contested condition, dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD). Our interviews focused on the issues of treatability, risk assessment and decision-making in multi-disciplinary teams. We discuss the approach of values-based medicine (VBM) as a useful framework for interpreting the data: respondents cited both explicit values (based o…
Chronic Pain Patients and the Biomedical Model of Pain
Treating or alleviating pain is a primary role of medicine. What actually constitutes pain is subjective, value-laden, and difficult to define objectively and empirically, relying as the definition does on bodily signs and language, both of which are culturally embedded and subject to multiple interpretations. Biomedical theories of pain concentrate upon its neurophysiological aspects in both diagnosis and treatment. Hence, scientific medicine re…
Depression
The diagnosis of depression in the clinical context is extremely controversial and is subject to criticism of over-medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Depression can be conceptualised across the entire spectrum of lay and medical belief, from the 'normal' highs and lows of the human condition to its inclusion in the dominant Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classificatory system, as a form of serious mental illness. In …
Diagnosing vulnerability and “dangerousness”
Purpose – Police in England and Wales are empowered, under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (s136), to detain individuals thought to be a danger to themselves or to others. Use of this authority is widespread, but varies across districts and attracts controversy because of inconsistent application and the fact that it requires police to make judgements about mental health. The purpose of this paper is to examine police attitudes to and c…
Designing ‘Healthy’ Prisons for Women
This means that not only healthcare services and psychology programmes must be sensitive to individuals' trauma histories but that the architecture and design of prisons should also be sympathetic, facilitating and encouraging trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive practices within. This article problematises the Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) initiatives recently rolled out across the female prison estate, arguing that attempts to introd…
Processing the pandemic
The worldwide COVID-19 crisis has highlighted perhaps more than ever before in the history of SHI the need for a critical sociological lens alongside the clinical, public health and organisational discussion of the current pandemic as it continues through 2020. In particular, debates around social inequalities in health and medicine have received new attention globally. A research note by one of us (Will, 1) suggested in the spring that sociologi…
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 works) · Pain Management and Placebo Effect (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)