D Wainwright
Biographic Data
| ID | 250517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Wainwright |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Wainwright |
| SIGNATURE | WAINWRIGHT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5818-4952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making sense of street chaos
An explanatory critical realist model integrating the identified generative mechanisms, external and internalised barriers was developed to explain why the Health service Utilization of homeless people differs from the domiciled populations. This new model has implications for health service policy makers and providers in how they design and deliver accessible health services to homeless people
Extending working life and the management of change. Is the workplace ready for the ageing worker
Increasing longevity and the strain on state and occupational pensions have brought into question long-held assumptions about the age of retirement, and raised the prospect of a workplace populated by ageing workers. In the United Kingdom the default retirement age has gone, incremental increases in state pension age are being implemented and ageism has been added to workplace anti-discrimination laws. These changes are yet to bring about the ant…
An investigation of coastal climate change risk assessment practice in Australia
The social negotiation of fitness for work
The UK government is promoting the health benefits of work, in order to change doctors' and patients' behaviour and reduce sickness absence. The rationale is that many people 'off sick' would have better outcomes by staying at work; but reducing the costs of health care and benefits is also an imperative. Replacement of the 'sick note' with the 'fit note' and a national educational programme are intended to reduce sickness-certification rates, bu…
Remapping the Body
Surgery for esophageal cancer offers the hope of cure but might impair quality of life. The operation removes tumors obstructing the esophagus but frequently leaves patients with eating difficulties, leading to weight loss. Maintaining or increasing body weight is important to many patients, both as a means of returning to “normal” and as a means of rejecting the identity of the terminal cancer patient, but surgery radically alters embodied sensa…
Illness action rediscovered
Theoretical frameworks provide generalised accounts of illness action although empirical studies of the process are still in short supply. This study of upper limb pain provided a case study of illness action; as it is a common condition, there is uncertainty about its treatment and management, orthodox and non‐orthodox care are seen as legitimate sources of help and it is linked with a range of causes. Face‐to‐face informal interviews were carri…
When pain in the arm is ‘all in the head’
Cases of medically unexplained arm pain pose a dilemma for general practitioners. The absence of observable physical pathology implies a psychosocial problem, but patients often insist that their illness is bio-mechanical. Should the doctor risk invalidating the patient's claims and damaging the doctor – patient relationship, by insisting on a psycho-social explanation, or follow the patient's wishes and prescribe treatments which are likely to b…
Evaluating health‐care
Background and aims There is considerable uncertainty over the diagnosis, treatment and management of upper limb pain, which has implications for patient care. Research into patient experiences and evaluation of health‐care has been neglected and the study presented here aims to fill this gap. Methods A two‐staged, mixed methodology was adopted. Phase 1 involved a postal survey of a random sample ( n = 2781) of the working age population (25–64) …
Mental health and stress in the workplace
Can Sociological Research Be Qualitative, Critical and Valid
Qualitative Research is enjoying a new found respectability in medical sociology, derived in part from an increasing willingness to submit to positivist criteria of reliability and validity. Whilst such claims to 'scientific' credibility have raised the status of the approach, this has only been achieved by driving a wedge between ethnographic methods of data-collection and their origins in the phenomenological strands of sociological thought. On…
The political transformation of the health inequalities debate
Class variations in health were a government taboo during the 1980s, but are now being rehabilitated. This 'conversion' is possible because socialist alternatives to capitalism are increasingly perceived to be intel lectually and organizationally defunct. Rather than an imperative to wards the re-distribution of wealth and extensive welfare provision, 'health inequalities' can therefore be appropriated to legitimate policies which have more to do…
John Broadwood, the Harpsichord and the Piano
Extending working life and the management of change. Is the workplace ready for the ageing worker
Increasing longevity and the strain on state and occupational pensions have brought into question long-held assumptions about the age of retirement, and raised the prospect of a workplace populated by ageing workers. In the United Kingdom the default retirement age has gone, incremental increases in state pension age are being implemented and ageism has been added to workplace anti-discrimination laws. These changes are yet to bring about the ant…
Mental health and stress in the workplace
Can Sociological Research Be Qualitative, Critical and Valid
Qualitative Research is enjoying a new found respectability in medical sociology, derived in part from an increasing willingness to submit to positivist criteria of reliability and validity. Whilst such claims to 'scientific' credibility have raised the status of the approach, this has only been achieved by driving a wedge between ethnographic methods of data-collection and their origins in the phenomenological strands of sociological thought. On…
Illness action rediscovered
Theoretical frameworks provide generalised accounts of illness action although empirical studies of the process are still in short supply. This study of upper limb pain provided a case study of illness action; as it is a common condition, there is uncertainty about its treatment and management, orthodox and non‐orthodox care are seen as legitimate sources of help and it is linked with a range of causes. Face‐to‐face informal interviews were carri…
The social negotiation of fitness for work
The UK government is promoting the health benefits of work, in order to change doctors' and patients' behaviour and reduce sickness absence. The rationale is that many people 'off sick' would have better outcomes by staying at work; but reducing the costs of health care and benefits is also an imperative. Replacement of the 'sick note' with the 'fit note' and a national educational programme are intended to reduce sickness-certification rates, bu…
John Broadwood, the Harpsichord and the Piano
The political transformation of the health inequalities debate
Class variations in health were a government taboo during the 1980s, but are now being rehabilitated. This 'conversion' is possible because socialist alternatives to capitalism are increasingly perceived to be intel lectually and organizationally defunct. Rather than an imperative to wards the re-distribution of wealth and extensive welfare provision, 'health inequalities' can therefore be appropriated to legitimate policies which have more to do…
Can Sociological Research Be Qualitative, Critical and Valid
Qualitative Research is enjoying a new found respectability in medical sociology, derived in part from an increasing willingness to submit to positivist criteria of reliability and validity. Whilst such claims to 'scientific' credibility have raised the status of the approach, this has only been achieved by driving a wedge between ethnographic methods of data-collection and their origins in the phenomenological strands of sociological thought. On…
Mental health and stress in the workplace
Evaluating health‐care
Background and aims There is considerable uncertainty over the diagnosis, treatment and management of upper limb pain, which has implications for patient care. Research into patient experiences and evaluation of health‐care has been neglected and the study presented here aims to fill this gap. Methods A two‐staged, mixed methodology was adopted. Phase 1 involved a postal survey of a random sample ( n = 2781) of the working age population (25–64) …
When pain in the arm is ‘all in the head’
Cases of medically unexplained arm pain pose a dilemma for general practitioners. The absence of observable physical pathology implies a psychosocial problem, but patients often insist that their illness is bio-mechanical. Should the doctor risk invalidating the patient's claims and damaging the doctor – patient relationship, by insisting on a psycho-social explanation, or follow the patient's wishes and prescribe treatments which are likely to b…
Remapping the Body
Surgery for esophageal cancer offers the hope of cure but might impair quality of life. The operation removes tumors obstructing the esophagus but frequently leaves patients with eating difficulties, leading to weight loss. Maintaining or increasing body weight is important to many patients, both as a means of returning to “normal” and as a means of rejecting the identity of the terminal cancer patient, but surgery radically alters embodied sensa…
Illness action rediscovered
Theoretical frameworks provide generalised accounts of illness action although empirical studies of the process are still in short supply. This study of upper limb pain provided a case study of illness action; as it is a common condition, there is uncertainty about its treatment and management, orthodox and non‐orthodox care are seen as legitimate sources of help and it is linked with a range of causes. Face‐to‐face informal interviews were carri…
The social negotiation of fitness for work
The UK government is promoting the health benefits of work, in order to change doctors' and patients' behaviour and reduce sickness absence. The rationale is that many people 'off sick' would have better outcomes by staying at work; but reducing the costs of health care and benefits is also an imperative. Replacement of the 'sick note' with the 'fit note' and a national educational programme are intended to reduce sickness-certification rates, bu…
An investigation of coastal climate change risk assessment practice in Australia
Making sense of street chaos
An explanatory critical realist model integrating the identified generative mechanisms, external and internalised barriers was developed to explain why the Health service Utilization of homeless people differs from the domiciled populations. This new model has implications for health service policy makers and providers in how they design and deliver accessible health services to homeless people
Extending working life and the management of change. Is the workplace ready for the ageing worker
Increasing longevity and the strain on state and occupational pensions have brought into question long-held assumptions about the age of retirement, and raised the prospect of a workplace populated by ageing workers. In the United Kingdom the default retirement age has gone, incremental increases in state pension age are being implemented and ageism has been added to workplace anti-discrimination laws. These changes are yet to bring about the ant…
Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (3 works) · Population (3 works)