J Allison
Biographic Data
| ID | 29981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Allison |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Allison |
| SIGNATURE | ALLISON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0787-4555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Integrating the Arts in Socially Accountable Health Professional Education With a Case Study at James Cook University
This research examines how Socially Accountable Health Professional Education (SAHPE) fosters transformative learning and professional identity formation, focusing on the multi-site Stories and Art of Local Transformation in Health Education project. SAHPE aligns education, research, and service with the needs of underserved communities. Using arts integrated methods and the parallaxic praxis framework, the project engaged students and faculty in…
A Cross-Sectional Survey Investigating Māori and Non-Māori Cancer Patients’ Views on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in Aotearoa New Zealand
People with cancer experience higher rates of psychological dysfunction than the general population, with extreme inequity among indigenous people. Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) is a reemerging area with promising evidence as a treatment for mental health difficulties. The current study aimed to investigate the perceptions of PAT in indigenous (Māori) and non-indigenous cancer patients in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Eighty-five cancer patients (M…
Teaching compassion for social accountability: A parallaxic investigation
BACKGROUND: In an arts integrated interdisciplinary study set to investigate ways to improve social accountability (SA) in medical education, our research team has established a renewed understanding of compassion in the current SA movement. AIM: This paper explores the co-evolution of compassion and SA. METHODS: The study used an arts integrated approach to investigate people's perceptions of SA in four medical schools across Australia, Canada, …
Transformed through the Carta experience: Changes reported by Carta fellows about their PhD journey
Transformative learning occurs when a person, group, or larger social unit encounters ideas that are at odds with their prevailing perspective. This discrepant perspective can lead to an examination of previously held beliefs, values, and assumptions. The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) has since 2011 been training and supporting faculty from different African universities, to become more reflective and productive rese…
Community engagement by faculties of medicine: A scoping review of current practices and practical recommendations
PURPOSE: Social accountability (SA) is the responsibility of faculties of medicine (FoMs) to address the health priorities of the communities they serve. Community engagement (CE) is a vital, but often ambiguous, component of SA. Practical guidance on how to engage community partners (CPs) is key for meaningful CE. We conducted a systematic scoping review of CE involving FoMs to map out how FoMs engage their communities, to provide practical reco…
Effective supervision of doctoral students in public and population health in Africa: Carta supervisors’ experiences, challenges and perceived opportunities
The quality and success of postgraduate education largely rely on effective supervision. Since its inception in 2008, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) has been at the forefront of providing training to both students and supervisors in the field of public and population health. However, there are few studies on supervisors' perceptions on effective doctoral supervision. We used a mostly descriptive study design to re…
Chapter 1. Bending the Curve: Ten Scalable Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability
We are living in a world of over seven billion people, with annual greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 50 billion tons a year and rising steadily. If continued unabated, the world is on target to warm by about 2 °C in less than 40 years, pushing the climate to a regime unlike any that has been witnessed in the last million years. Nonetheless, we still have time to avert such a catastrophic scenario, or delay its occurrence by several decade…
Wombs at risk, wombs as risk: Fat women’s experiences of reproductive care
Using the Foucaultian concepts of biopower and biocitizenship, critical scholars of childhood “obesity” have shown how fat mothers are labeled as “risks” not only to their children, but also to the State. Such discourses are salient even for fat women who have yet to birth children, as fat women’s “poor utero environments” are now imagined as “at-risk” spaces for babies particularly by the medical community. Critical theorists are only beginning …
Enduring politics: The culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland
Conceiving Silence: Infertility as Discursive Contradiction in Ireland
This article examines the production and reproduction of silence around infertility in Ireland. Based on narratives collected during 18 months of fieldwork, this article locates the contradictory role of silence in both the private experiences of individuals faced with a difficulty conceiving and in institutions constituted as mechanisms of public support. For many people who experience infertility, silence is rooted in the social stigma associat…
Contested Change and Choice: Infertility in Ireland
Fertility has long been part of a complex analysis of economics, social values, family formation and community in Ireland; yet little attention has been focused on the meaning of childlessness and infertility in relation to those same values and social institutions. Couples struggling to conceive are widely assumed to have chosen their childlessness. This paper argues that such assumptions in Ireland are now part of a wider social narrative in wh…
From biopolitics to bioethics: Church, state, medicine and assisted reproductive technology in Ireland
This paper examines the emerging bioethical debate on assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Ireland, which is shaped by the long-standing contentious issue of abortion and the constitutional protection afforded to the 'unborn'. The focus of the paper is on the way in which the terms of this debate are shaped and constrained by the historical relations of power between church, state and medicine. Since the representation of Ireland as a post-C…
Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for the Analysis of Colorants: The Identification of Pigments Used in Illuminated Manuscripts
Laser desorption mass spectrometry (LDMS) is demonstrated as a versatile analytical tool for the identification of pigments used in items of historical and archaeological interest. To demonstrate the LDMS technique, two illuminated manuscripts, reported to be 17th‐century and 19th‐century documents, were analysed. Using isotopic pattern analysis of peaks in the resulting LD mass spectra, multiple colour components were positively identified. The …
Can data-driven benchmarks be used to set the goals of healthy people 2010
OBJECTIVES: Expert panels determined the public health goals of Healthy People 2000 subjectively. The present study examined whether data-driven benchmarks provide a better alternative. METHODS: We developed the "pared-mean" method to define from data the best achievable health care practices. We calculated the pared-mean benchmark for screening mammography from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey, using the metropolitan statistical area as…
Fruchte und Samen. Ein Bestimmungsbuch zur Pflanzenkunde der Vorgeschichtlichen Zeit.
From biopolitics to bioethics: Church, state, medicine and assisted reproductive technology in Ireland
This paper examines the emerging bioethical debate on assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Ireland, which is shaped by the long-standing contentious issue of abortion and the constitutional protection afforded to the 'unborn'. The focus of the paper is on the way in which the terms of this debate are shaped and constrained by the historical relations of power between church, state and medicine. Since the representation of Ireland as a post-C…
Conceiving Silence: Infertility as Discursive Contradiction in Ireland
This article examines the production and reproduction of silence around infertility in Ireland. Based on narratives collected during 18 months of fieldwork, this article locates the contradictory role of silence in both the private experiences of individuals faced with a difficulty conceiving and in institutions constituted as mechanisms of public support. For many people who experience infertility, silence is rooted in the social stigma associat…
Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for the Analysis of Colorants: The Identification of Pigments Used in Illuminated Manuscripts
Laser desorption mass spectrometry (LDMS) is demonstrated as a versatile analytical tool for the identification of pigments used in items of historical and archaeological interest. To demonstrate the LDMS technique, two illuminated manuscripts, reported to be 17th‐century and 19th‐century documents, were analysed. Using isotopic pattern analysis of peaks in the resulting LD mass spectra, multiple colour components were positively identified. The …
Enduring politics: The culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland
Fruchte und Samen. Ein Bestimmungsbuch zur Pflanzenkunde der Vorgeschichtlichen Zeit.
Can data-driven benchmarks be used to set the goals of healthy people 2010
OBJECTIVES: Expert panels determined the public health goals of Healthy People 2000 subjectively. The present study examined whether data-driven benchmarks provide a better alternative. METHODS: We developed the "pared-mean" method to define from data the best achievable health care practices. We calculated the pared-mean benchmark for screening mammography from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey, using the metropolitan statistical area as…
Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for the Analysis of Colorants: The Identification of Pigments Used in Illuminated Manuscripts
Laser desorption mass spectrometry (LDMS) is demonstrated as a versatile analytical tool for the identification of pigments used in items of historical and archaeological interest. To demonstrate the LDMS technique, two illuminated manuscripts, reported to be 17th‐century and 19th‐century documents, were analysed. Using isotopic pattern analysis of peaks in the resulting LD mass spectra, multiple colour components were positively identified. The …
From biopolitics to bioethics: Church, state, medicine and assisted reproductive technology in Ireland
This paper examines the emerging bioethical debate on assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Ireland, which is shaped by the long-standing contentious issue of abortion and the constitutional protection afforded to the 'unborn'. The focus of the paper is on the way in which the terms of this debate are shaped and constrained by the historical relations of power between church, state and medicine. Since the representation of Ireland as a post-C…
Contested Change and Choice: Infertility in Ireland
Fertility has long been part of a complex analysis of economics, social values, family formation and community in Ireland; yet little attention has been focused on the meaning of childlessness and infertility in relation to those same values and social institutions. Couples struggling to conceive are widely assumed to have chosen their childlessness. This paper argues that such assumptions in Ireland are now part of a wider social narrative in wh…
Conceiving Silence: Infertility as Discursive Contradiction in Ireland
This article examines the production and reproduction of silence around infertility in Ireland. Based on narratives collected during 18 months of fieldwork, this article locates the contradictory role of silence in both the private experiences of individuals faced with a difficulty conceiving and in institutions constituted as mechanisms of public support. For many people who experience infertility, silence is rooted in the social stigma associat…
Chapter 1. Bending the Curve: Ten Scalable Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability
We are living in a world of over seven billion people, with annual greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 50 billion tons a year and rising steadily. If continued unabated, the world is on target to warm by about 2 °C in less than 40 years, pushing the climate to a regime unlike any that has been witnessed in the last million years. Nonetheless, we still have time to avert such a catastrophic scenario, or delay its occurrence by several decade…
Wombs at risk, wombs as risk: Fat women’s experiences of reproductive care
Using the Foucaultian concepts of biopower and biocitizenship, critical scholars of childhood “obesity” have shown how fat mothers are labeled as “risks” not only to their children, but also to the State. Such discourses are salient even for fat women who have yet to birth children, as fat women’s “poor utero environments” are now imagined as “at-risk” spaces for babies particularly by the medical community. Critical theorists are only beginning …
Enduring politics: The culture of obstacles in legislating for assisted reproduction technologies in Ireland
Effective supervision of doctoral students in public and population health in Africa: Carta supervisors’ experiences, challenges and perceived opportunities
The quality and success of postgraduate education largely rely on effective supervision. Since its inception in 2008, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) has been at the forefront of providing training to both students and supervisors in the field of public and population health. However, there are few studies on supervisors' perceptions on effective doctoral supervision. We used a mostly descriptive study design to re…
Community engagement by faculties of medicine: A scoping review of current practices and practical recommendations
PURPOSE: Social accountability (SA) is the responsibility of faculties of medicine (FoMs) to address the health priorities of the communities they serve. Community engagement (CE) is a vital, but often ambiguous, component of SA. Practical guidance on how to engage community partners (CPs) is key for meaningful CE. We conducted a systematic scoping review of CE involving FoMs to map out how FoMs engage their communities, to provide practical reco…
Teaching compassion for social accountability: A parallaxic investigation
BACKGROUND: In an arts integrated interdisciplinary study set to investigate ways to improve social accountability (SA) in medical education, our research team has established a renewed understanding of compassion in the current SA movement. AIM: This paper explores the co-evolution of compassion and SA. METHODS: The study used an arts integrated approach to investigate people's perceptions of SA in four medical schools across Australia, Canada, …
Transformed through the Carta experience: Changes reported by Carta fellows about their PhD journey
Transformative learning occurs when a person, group, or larger social unit encounters ideas that are at odds with their prevailing perspective. This discrepant perspective can lead to an examination of previously held beliefs, values, and assumptions. The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) has since 2011 been training and supporting faculty from different African universities, to become more reflective and productive rese…
A Cross-Sectional Survey Investigating Māori and Non-Māori Cancer Patients’ Views on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in Aotearoa New Zealand
People with cancer experience higher rates of psychological dysfunction than the general population, with extreme inequity among indigenous people. Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) is a reemerging area with promising evidence as a treatment for mental health difficulties. The current study aimed to investigate the perceptions of PAT in indigenous (Māori) and non-indigenous cancer patients in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Eighty-five cancer patients (M…
Integrating the Arts in Socially Accountable Health Professional Education With a Case Study at James Cook University
This research examines how Socially Accountable Health Professional Education (SAHPE) fosters transformative learning and professional identity formation, focusing on the multi-site Stories and Art of Local Transformation in Health Education project. SAHPE aligns education, research, and service with the needs of underserved communities. Using arts integrated methods and the parallaxic praxis framework, the project engaged students and faculty in…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (4 works)