Karen Lowton
Biographic Data
| ID | 257865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Lowton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowton |
| SIGNATURE | LOWTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8453-0196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Understanding grief and care at end of life
Multimorbidity: Inequalities, lived experience and the need for service redesign
The transformation of health and social care: Insights from sociology
Understanding the role of scars in adults' narratives of childhood liver transplantation: A sociological perspective
For sociological and anthropological scholars alike, the body is both a physical and social entity as well as a project to be worked on by the self and by others (Tamari, 2020). However, scholars' conceptual work in organ transplantation and the body has tended to overlook the resultant surgical scars, yet these are borne by all transplantation recipients. For example, in understanding biomedicine's intervention in the body through the skin Shild…
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health
Understanding advances in treatment and care of people living with and alongside HIV: Contributions from the Sociology of Health and Illness
Academic developments and publishing changes – an update from the editors
Threats to embodied well-being: An exploration of how disabled people negotiate barriers in hospital settings
Taking a social model of disability approach, this article explores how disabled people negotiate barriers in the large, modern hospital settings typically found in complex healthcare systems. While there is evidence of intractable barriers in the United Kingdom's National Health Service, little is known about the actions disabled people take in the face of barriers and the immediate effects of doing so. Analysis of data from a qualitative study …
Constructing embodied identity in a 'new' ageing population: A qualitative study of the pioneer cohort of childhood liver transplant recipients in the UK
Accomplishing professional jurisdiction in intensive care: An ethnographic study of three units
This paper reports an ethnographic study examining health professional jurisdictions within three intensive care units (ICUs) in order to draw out the social processes through which ICU clinicians organised and delivered life-saving care to critically ill patients. Data collection consisted of 240 h observation of actual practice and 27 interviews with health professionals. The research was conducted against a backdrop of international political …
Retracing the Historical Social Care Context of Autism: A Narrative Overview
Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder requiring various levels of social support across the life course. Early cohorts of children first diagnosed as having autism are now middle-aged or older. Needs for support and services, meaningful and accurate information, and acceptance are substantial among both families supporting a person with autism and people with autism themselves. Social awareness and services for people with autism have …
Do those over 80 years of age seek more or less medical help? A qualitative study of health and illness beliefs and behaviour of the oldest old
Increasing longevity and prevalence of long-term conditions contribute to older adults being the greatest users of health services. However, relatively little is known about the health and illness beliefs of the oldest old or how they decide to seek help in response to symptoms. Through analysis of in-depth interviews with day centre attendees aged 80-93, we find that a moral, hierarchical approach to health problems and help-seeking exists; simi…
Co-construction of chronic illness narratives by older stroke survivors and their spouses
Illness narratives have mainly focused on individual patients' accounts, and particularly those of people experiencing the onset of chronic illness in mid-life. However, a growing number of older people are spending their later life with their partner, with both experiencing complex morbidities. We examine the shared creation of meanings among older stroke survivors and their spouses and the implications for individual and couple identity. Joint …
Living on the margin: Understanding the experience of living and dying with frailty in old age
What is the perceived nature of parental care and support for young people with cystic fibrosis as they enter adult health services
The majority of those diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) now live to adulthood. In response to increased survival age, transition services have been developed to ensure smooth transfer from paediatric to adult specialist healthcare, although the majority of treatment and care continues to be delivered in the home. However, little is known about how young adults and staff conceptualise the nature of the parental role after young people have left …
A bed in the middle of nowhere: Parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis
Compassionate Cities. Public Health and End of Life Care- by Kellehear, A
Kellehear, A. Compassionate Cities. Public Health and End of Life Care . London : Routledge . 2005 xi+179pp . £20.99 ISBN 0 415 36773 5 (pbk) This thought-provoking book focuses on our communities' lack of compassion for those who experience loss in their midst, and suggests, rather ambitiously, how we could put things right. More specifically, Kellehear argues that the two disciplines of Public Health and Palliative Care are currently too narrow…
Cystic fibrosis adults' perception and management of the risk of infection with Burkholderia cepacia complex
The risk of infection for cystic fibrosis patients from Burkholderia cepacia complex pathogens is of increasing concern to doctors and scientists. This paper reports on how these patients perceive and manage the risk of cepacia infection using Douglas and Calvez's (1990 Douglas, M. and Calvez, M. 1990. The self as a risk taker: A cultural theory of contagion in relation to AIDS. The Sociological Review, 38: 445–464. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®]…
Trials and tribulations: Understanding motivations for clinical research participation amongst adults with cystic fibrosis
Only when I Cough? Adults' Disclosure of Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis has traditionally been conceptualized as a fatal childhood disease. In contrast, survival age has been increasing steadily such that adults now routinely seek to gain employment and form close relationships, situations that might require telling others about the disease. Here, the author examines three situations of disclosure based on interviews with 31 adults with the disease. First, in a low-risk situation, for example a short …
Managing Bereavement in the Classroom: A Conspiracy of Silence
The ways in which teachers in British schools manage bereaved children are underreported. This article reports the impact of students' bereavement and their subsequent management in primary and secondary school classrooms in Southeast London. Thirteen school staff working in inner-city schools took part in in-depth interviews that focused on the impact of bereaved children on the school and how teachers responded to these children.All respondents…
Double or quits: Perceptions and Management of Organ Transplantation by Adults With Cystic Fibrosis
Life on a slippery slope: Perceptions of Health in Adults With Cystic Fibrosis
This paper focuses on how adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) attending a specialist CF centre in the UK perceive their health. In common with many other genetic diseases, CF is traditionally conceptualised as a fatal childhood disease, yet the average survival age for those with CF has been steadily rising over the past half century. Thus it is now predicted that those born in 1990 will live on average for 40 years. To date, however, most sociologi…
Living on the margin: Understanding the experience of living and dying with frailty in old age
Life on a slippery slope: Perceptions of Health in Adults With Cystic Fibrosis
This paper focuses on how adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) attending a specialist CF centre in the UK perceive their health. In common with many other genetic diseases, CF is traditionally conceptualised as a fatal childhood disease, yet the average survival age for those with CF has been steadily rising over the past half century. Thus it is now predicted that those born in 1990 will live on average for 40 years. To date, however, most sociologi…
Co-construction of chronic illness narratives by older stroke survivors and their spouses
Illness narratives have mainly focused on individual patients' accounts, and particularly those of people experiencing the onset of chronic illness in mid-life. However, a growing number of older people are spending their later life with their partner, with both experiencing complex morbidities. We examine the shared creation of meanings among older stroke survivors and their spouses and the implications for individual and couple identity. Joint …
Trials and tribulations: Understanding motivations for clinical research participation amongst adults with cystic fibrosis
Accomplishing professional jurisdiction in intensive care: An ethnographic study of three units
This paper reports an ethnographic study examining health professional jurisdictions within three intensive care units (ICUs) in order to draw out the social processes through which ICU clinicians organised and delivered life-saving care to critically ill patients. Data collection consisted of 240 h observation of actual practice and 27 interviews with health professionals. The research was conducted against a backdrop of international political …
Do those over 80 years of age seek more or less medical help? A qualitative study of health and illness beliefs and behaviour of the oldest old
Increasing longevity and prevalence of long-term conditions contribute to older adults being the greatest users of health services. However, relatively little is known about the health and illness beliefs of the oldest old or how they decide to seek help in response to symptoms. Through analysis of in-depth interviews with day centre attendees aged 80-93, we find that a moral, hierarchical approach to health problems and help-seeking exists; simi…
Only when I Cough? Adults' Disclosure of Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis has traditionally been conceptualized as a fatal childhood disease. In contrast, survival age has been increasing steadily such that adults now routinely seek to gain employment and form close relationships, situations that might require telling others about the disease. Here, the author examines three situations of disclosure based on interviews with 31 adults with the disease. First, in a low-risk situation, for example a short …
Double or quits: Perceptions and Management of Organ Transplantation by Adults With Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis adults' perception and management of the risk of infection with Burkholderia cepacia complex
The risk of infection for cystic fibrosis patients from Burkholderia cepacia complex pathogens is of increasing concern to doctors and scientists. This paper reports on how these patients perceive and manage the risk of cepacia infection using Douglas and Calvez's (1990 Douglas, M. and Calvez, M. 1990. The self as a risk taker: A cultural theory of contagion in relation to AIDS. The Sociological Review, 38: 445–464. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®]…
Constructing embodied identity in a 'new' ageing population: A qualitative study of the pioneer cohort of childhood liver transplant recipients in the UK
A bed in the middle of nowhere: Parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis
Managing Bereavement in the Classroom: A Conspiracy of Silence
The ways in which teachers in British schools manage bereaved children are underreported. This article reports the impact of students' bereavement and their subsequent management in primary and secondary school classrooms in Southeast London. Thirteen school staff working in inner-city schools took part in in-depth interviews that focused on the impact of bereaved children on the school and how teachers responded to these children.All respondents…
Understanding the role of scars in adults' narratives of childhood liver transplantation: A sociological perspective
For sociological and anthropological scholars alike, the body is both a physical and social entity as well as a project to be worked on by the self and by others (Tamari, 2020). However, scholars' conceptual work in organ transplantation and the body has tended to overlook the resultant surgical scars, yet these are borne by all transplantation recipients. For example, in understanding biomedicine's intervention in the body through the skin Shild…
Retracing the Historical Social Care Context of Autism: A Narrative Overview
Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder requiring various levels of social support across the life course. Early cohorts of children first diagnosed as having autism are now middle-aged or older. Needs for support and services, meaningful and accurate information, and acceptance are substantial among both families supporting a person with autism and people with autism themselves. Social awareness and services for people with autism have …
What is the perceived nature of parental care and support for young people with cystic fibrosis as they enter adult health services
The majority of those diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) now live to adulthood. In response to increased survival age, transition services have been developed to ensure smooth transfer from paediatric to adult specialist healthcare, although the majority of treatment and care continues to be delivered in the home. However, little is known about how young adults and staff conceptualise the nature of the parental role after young people have left …
Managing Bereavement in the Classroom: A Conspiracy of Silence
The ways in which teachers in British schools manage bereaved children are underreported. This article reports the impact of students' bereavement and their subsequent management in primary and secondary school classrooms in Southeast London. Thirteen school staff working in inner-city schools took part in in-depth interviews that focused on the impact of bereaved children on the school and how teachers responded to these children.All respondents…
Double or quits: Perceptions and Management of Organ Transplantation by Adults With Cystic Fibrosis
Life on a slippery slope: Perceptions of Health in Adults With Cystic Fibrosis
This paper focuses on how adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) attending a specialist CF centre in the UK perceive their health. In common with many other genetic diseases, CF is traditionally conceptualised as a fatal childhood disease, yet the average survival age for those with CF has been steadily rising over the past half century. Thus it is now predicted that those born in 1990 will live on average for 40 years. To date, however, most sociologi…
Only when I Cough? Adults' Disclosure of Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis has traditionally been conceptualized as a fatal childhood disease. In contrast, survival age has been increasing steadily such that adults now routinely seek to gain employment and form close relationships, situations that might require telling others about the disease. Here, the author examines three situations of disclosure based on interviews with 31 adults with the disease. First, in a low-risk situation, for example a short …
Trials and tribulations: Understanding motivations for clinical research participation amongst adults with cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis adults' perception and management of the risk of infection with Burkholderia cepacia complex
The risk of infection for cystic fibrosis patients from Burkholderia cepacia complex pathogens is of increasing concern to doctors and scientists. This paper reports on how these patients perceive and manage the risk of cepacia infection using Douglas and Calvez's (1990 Douglas, M. and Calvez, M. 1990. The self as a risk taker: A cultural theory of contagion in relation to AIDS. The Sociological Review, 38: 445–464. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®]…
Compassionate Cities. Public Health and End of Life Care- by Kellehear, A
Kellehear, A. Compassionate Cities. Public Health and End of Life Care . London : Routledge . 2005 xi+179pp . £20.99 ISBN 0 415 36773 5 (pbk) This thought-provoking book focuses on our communities' lack of compassion for those who experience loss in their midst, and suggests, rather ambitiously, how we could put things right. More specifically, Kellehear argues that the two disciplines of Public Health and Palliative Care are currently too narrow…
What is the perceived nature of parental care and support for young people with cystic fibrosis as they enter adult health services
The majority of those diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) now live to adulthood. In response to increased survival age, transition services have been developed to ensure smooth transfer from paediatric to adult specialist healthcare, although the majority of treatment and care continues to be delivered in the home. However, little is known about how young adults and staff conceptualise the nature of the parental role after young people have left …
A bed in the middle of nowhere: Parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis
Living on the margin: Understanding the experience of living and dying with frailty in old age
Co-construction of chronic illness narratives by older stroke survivors and their spouses
Illness narratives have mainly focused on individual patients' accounts, and particularly those of people experiencing the onset of chronic illness in mid-life. However, a growing number of older people are spending their later life with their partner, with both experiencing complex morbidities. We examine the shared creation of meanings among older stroke survivors and their spouses and the implications for individual and couple identity. Joint …
Do those over 80 years of age seek more or less medical help? A qualitative study of health and illness beliefs and behaviour of the oldest old
Increasing longevity and prevalence of long-term conditions contribute to older adults being the greatest users of health services. However, relatively little is known about the health and illness beliefs of the oldest old or how they decide to seek help in response to symptoms. Through analysis of in-depth interviews with day centre attendees aged 80-93, we find that a moral, hierarchical approach to health problems and help-seeking exists; simi…
Retracing the Historical Social Care Context of Autism: A Narrative Overview
Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder requiring various levels of social support across the life course. Early cohorts of children first diagnosed as having autism are now middle-aged or older. Needs for support and services, meaningful and accurate information, and acceptance are substantial among both families supporting a person with autism and people with autism themselves. Social awareness and services for people with autism have …
Constructing embodied identity in a 'new' ageing population: A qualitative study of the pioneer cohort of childhood liver transplant recipients in the UK
Accomplishing professional jurisdiction in intensive care: An ethnographic study of three units
This paper reports an ethnographic study examining health professional jurisdictions within three intensive care units (ICUs) in order to draw out the social processes through which ICU clinicians organised and delivered life-saving care to critically ill patients. Data collection consisted of 240 h observation of actual practice and 27 interviews with health professionals. The research was conducted against a backdrop of international political …
Academic developments and publishing changes – an update from the editors
Threats to embodied well-being: An exploration of how disabled people negotiate barriers in hospital settings
Taking a social model of disability approach, this article explores how disabled people negotiate barriers in the large, modern hospital settings typically found in complex healthcare systems. While there is evidence of intractable barriers in the United Kingdom's National Health Service, little is known about the actions disabled people take in the face of barriers and the immediate effects of doing so. Analysis of data from a qualitative study …
Understanding advances in treatment and care of people living with and alongside HIV: Contributions from the Sociology of Health and Illness
Understanding the role of scars in adults' narratives of childhood liver transplantation: A sociological perspective
For sociological and anthropological scholars alike, the body is both a physical and social entity as well as a project to be worked on by the self and by others (Tamari, 2020). However, scholars' conceptual work in organ transplantation and the body has tended to overlook the resultant surgical scars, yet these are borne by all transplantation recipients. For example, in understanding biomedicine's intervention in the body through the skin Shild…
The effects of disappearing social safety nets on inequalities in health
The transformation of health and social care: Insights from sociology
Understanding grief and care at end of life
Multimorbidity: Inequalities, lived experience and the need for service redesign
Medicine (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works)