Mary Boulton
Biographic Data
| ID | 283256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Boulton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Boulton |
| SIGNATURE | BOULTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Mary's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2247-8318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Changing constructions of informed consent: Qualitative research and complex social worlds
Informed consent in a changing environment
Patients' attitudes to medicines and expectations for prescriptions
Background Recent research has shown that patients' expectations for prescriptions influence doctors' prescribing decisions, but little is known of the antecedents of these expectations. Objectives To test earlier qualitative research about patients' views of medicines; to describe the demographic characteristics of those holding orthodox and unorthodox views of medicines; to investigate the relationship between patients' ideal and predicted expe…
Investigating women’s preferences for intrapartum care: Home versus hospital births
There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that the clinical outcomes associated with a home birth for low risk women are at least as good, if not better than, the clinical outcomes associated with giving birth in hospital. If it is the case that there is little or no difference in clinical outcomes between the two modes of delivery, then traditional measures of benefit used in health economics, e.g. quality adjusted life years (QALYs),…
General practice and new genetics: What do general practitioners know about community carrier screening for cystic fibrosis?
As one of the first genetic conditions for which community carrier screening is possible, cystic fibrosis provides an opportunity to examine the way in which health professionals understand and assess issues associated with the clinical applications of the `new genetics'. This paper presents the results of a postal survey of general practitioners in the UK. Completed questionnaires were returned by 388 GPs (64%). The majority had a limited unders…
Gay men's accounts of unsafe sex
This paper provides a qualitative analysis of the explanations given by a sample of 78 gay men in England of the most recent occasion on which they engaged in anal intercourse without a condom. Explanations are analysed and interpreted from the sociological perspective of 'accounts': that is, they are not viewed as exact descriptions of the 'real' motives for behaviour but are seen as a powerful resource that can illuminate the knowledge, assumpt…
Regular partners and risky behaviour: Why do gay men have unprotected intercourse
Studies in both the UK and the USA continue to show that gay and bisexual men put themselves at risk of exposure to HIV through unprotected intercourse, most often with regular partners. As part of a larger study of homosexually active men, 310 men who had had unprotected anal intercourse with a man in the previous year were asked to describe the last occasion on which this had happened. The majority of men had had unprotected intercourse with a …
Quality' in qualitative research
(1994). 'Quality' in qualitative research. Critical Public Health: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 19-26
The sexual behaviour of bisexual men in relation to HIV transmission
Relatively little is known about the behaviour of bisexual men which may help in assessing their role in HIV transmission. A sample of 60 behaviourally bisexual men were asked about their sexual behaviour with male and female partners and their perceptions of risk of HIV infection. Only a minority of men engaged in unprotected anal sex with their male partners while two thirds had unprotected vaginal sex with their female partners. This asymmetri…
Relapse' to unsafe sexual behaviour among gay men: A critique of recent behavioural HIV/Aids research
Recent studies of gay male sexual behaviour have employed a concept new to the literature in the area. Men who appeared to have adopted safer sex behaviours and are now having 'unsafe' sex in relation to possible infection with HIV are described as having 'relapsed'. In this paper we critically evaluate this concept. Firstly we undertake a methodological critique, looking in some detail at studies which have used 'relapse'. We then provide a conc…
The HIV test and sexual behaviour in a sample of homosexually active men
Gay men, social support and HIV disease: A study of social integration in the gay community
As part of a large study of the effects of HIV and AIDS on gay male sexual behaviour, we investigated the extent to which gay men in the UK have access to social support and informal care at times of illness. The study sample (n = 502) demonstrated high levels of willingness to disclose sexuality to others, sociability and social integration. Over 90% reported that they had access to people whom they could turn for practical help at times of temp…
Encounters between Patients and Doctors: An Anthology (Book)
Meetings Between Experts: An Approach to Sharing Ideas in Medical Consultations
Social class and the general practice consultation
After assessing the evidence on social class differences in the rates and nature of general practice consultations, the Black Report proposed that middle-class patients receive a better service from GPs than do their working-class contemporaries. This paper reviews the literature on which this suggestion is based and presents further evidence from a study of communication in general practice, as to the extent and nature of social class difference…
Negative Parental Messages Masquerading as Positive Parental Messages
No abstract available for this article
On Being a Mother: A Study of Women with Pre-School Children
On Being a Mother
A New Approach to the Measurement of Patients' Understanding of What They Are Told in Medical Consultations
David A. Tuckett, Mary Boulton, Coral Olson, A New Approach to the Measurement of Patients' Understanding of What They Are Told in Medical Consultations, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 27-38
The Nurturing Parent and Social Issues
The Nurturing Parent deserves more emphasis in TA literature. The deprived Child needs to learn to have confidence in the NP, because moral and ethical values. originate there. It is not possible to act as NP in the broad social and ethical areas until one's own Child needs are met from one's own NP, or the NP of others. Only the NP is strong enough to stand up to the Critical Parent
Changing constructions of informed consent: Qualitative research and complex social worlds
Informed consent in a changing environment
Relapse' to unsafe sexual behaviour among gay men: A critique of recent behavioural HIV/Aids research
Recent studies of gay male sexual behaviour have employed a concept new to the literature in the area. Men who appeared to have adopted safer sex behaviours and are now having 'unsafe' sex in relation to possible infection with HIV are described as having 'relapsed'. In this paper we critically evaluate this concept. Firstly we undertake a methodological critique, looking in some detail at studies which have used 'relapse'. We then provide a conc…
Social class and the general practice consultation
After assessing the evidence on social class differences in the rates and nature of general practice consultations, the Black Report proposed that middle-class patients receive a better service from GPs than do their working-class contemporaries. This paper reviews the literature on which this suggestion is based and presents further evidence from a study of communication in general practice, as to the extent and nature of social class difference…
The HIV test and sexual behaviour in a sample of homosexually active men
A New Approach to the Measurement of Patients' Understanding of What They Are Told in Medical Consultations
David A. Tuckett, Mary Boulton, Coral Olson, A New Approach to the Measurement of Patients' Understanding of What They Are Told in Medical Consultations, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 27-38
Investigating women’s preferences for intrapartum care: Home versus hospital births
There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that the clinical outcomes associated with a home birth for low risk women are at least as good, if not better than, the clinical outcomes associated with giving birth in hospital. If it is the case that there is little or no difference in clinical outcomes between the two modes of delivery, then traditional measures of benefit used in health economics, e.g. quality adjusted life years (QALYs),…
Meetings Between Experts: An Approach to Sharing Ideas in Medical Consultations
The Nurturing Parent and Social Issues
The Nurturing Parent deserves more emphasis in TA literature. The deprived Child needs to learn to have confidence in the NP, because moral and ethical values. originate there. It is not possible to act as NP in the broad social and ethical areas until one's own Child needs are met from one's own NP, or the NP of others. Only the NP is strong enough to stand up to the Critical Parent
Negative Parental Messages Masquerading as Positive Parental Messages
No abstract available for this article
On Being a Mother: A Study of Women with Pre-School Children
On Being a Mother
A New Approach to the Measurement of Patients' Understanding of What They Are Told in Medical Consultations
David A. Tuckett, Mary Boulton, Coral Olson, A New Approach to the Measurement of Patients' Understanding of What They Are Told in Medical Consultations, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 27-38
Social class and the general practice consultation
After assessing the evidence on social class differences in the rates and nature of general practice consultations, the Black Report proposed that middle-class patients receive a better service from GPs than do their working-class contemporaries. This paper reviews the literature on which this suggestion is based and presents further evidence from a study of communication in general practice, as to the extent and nature of social class difference…
Meetings Between Experts: An Approach to Sharing Ideas in Medical Consultations
Encounters between Patients and Doctors: An Anthology (Book)
Gay men, social support and HIV disease: A study of social integration in the gay community
As part of a large study of the effects of HIV and AIDS on gay male sexual behaviour, we investigated the extent to which gay men in the UK have access to social support and informal care at times of illness. The study sample (n = 502) demonstrated high levels of willingness to disclose sexuality to others, sociability and social integration. Over 90% reported that they had access to people whom they could turn for practical help at times of temp…
The HIV test and sexual behaviour in a sample of homosexually active men
The sexual behaviour of bisexual men in relation to HIV transmission
Relatively little is known about the behaviour of bisexual men which may help in assessing their role in HIV transmission. A sample of 60 behaviourally bisexual men were asked about their sexual behaviour with male and female partners and their perceptions of risk of HIV infection. Only a minority of men engaged in unprotected anal sex with their male partners while two thirds had unprotected vaginal sex with their female partners. This asymmetri…
Relapse' to unsafe sexual behaviour among gay men: A critique of recent behavioural HIV/Aids research
Recent studies of gay male sexual behaviour have employed a concept new to the literature in the area. Men who appeared to have adopted safer sex behaviours and are now having 'unsafe' sex in relation to possible infection with HIV are described as having 'relapsed'. In this paper we critically evaluate this concept. Firstly we undertake a methodological critique, looking in some detail at studies which have used 'relapse'. We then provide a conc…
Regular partners and risky behaviour: Why do gay men have unprotected intercourse
Studies in both the UK and the USA continue to show that gay and bisexual men put themselves at risk of exposure to HIV through unprotected intercourse, most often with regular partners. As part of a larger study of homosexually active men, 310 men who had had unprotected anal intercourse with a man in the previous year were asked to describe the last occasion on which this had happened. The majority of men had had unprotected intercourse with a …
Quality' in qualitative research
(1994). 'Quality' in qualitative research. Critical Public Health: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 19-26
General practice and new genetics: What do general practitioners know about community carrier screening for cystic fibrosis?
As one of the first genetic conditions for which community carrier screening is possible, cystic fibrosis provides an opportunity to examine the way in which health professionals understand and assess issues associated with the clinical applications of the `new genetics'. This paper presents the results of a postal survey of general practitioners in the UK. Completed questionnaires were returned by 388 GPs (64%). The majority had a limited unders…
Gay men's accounts of unsafe sex
This paper provides a qualitative analysis of the explanations given by a sample of 78 gay men in England of the most recent occasion on which they engaged in anal intercourse without a condom. Explanations are analysed and interpreted from the sociological perspective of 'accounts': that is, they are not viewed as exact descriptions of the 'real' motives for behaviour but are seen as a powerful resource that can illuminate the knowledge, assumpt…
Investigating women’s preferences for intrapartum care: Home versus hospital births
There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that the clinical outcomes associated with a home birth for low risk women are at least as good, if not better than, the clinical outcomes associated with giving birth in hospital. If it is the case that there is little or no difference in clinical outcomes between the two modes of delivery, then traditional measures of benefit used in health economics, e.g. quality adjusted life years (QALYs),…
Patients' attitudes to medicines and expectations for prescriptions
Background Recent research has shown that patients' expectations for prescriptions influence doctors' prescribing decisions, but little is known of the antecedents of these expectations. Objectives To test earlier qualitative research about patients' views of medicines; to describe the demographic characteristics of those holding orthodox and unorthodox views of medicines; to investigate the relationship between patients' ideal and predicted expe…
Changing constructions of informed consent: Qualitative research and complex social worlds
Informed consent in a changing environment
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