Dorothy Broom
Biographic Data
| ID | 328618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Broom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Broom |
| SIGNATURE | BROOM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Not all hours are equal: Could Time Be a Social Determinant of Health
Time can be thought of as a resource that people need for good health. Healthy behaviour, accessing health services, working, resting and caring all require time. Like other resources, time is socially shaped, but its relevance to health and health inequality is yet to be established. Drawing from sociology and political economy, we set out the theoretical basis for two measures of time relevant to contemporary, market-based societies. We measure…
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment poli…
Age, Gender, Social Contacts, and Psychological Distress: Findings From the 45 and Up Study
Social contacts have age and gender differential effects on psychological distress of mid-older Australian adults. Interventions addressing social interaction need to be sensitive to gender and age differences
Habits of a lifetime: Family dining patterns over the lifecourse of older Australians
Here we examine how older Australians' accounts of family meals mirror shifts in the Australian way of life over the second half of the twentieth century coupled with their changing personal circumstances as they age. We provide qualitative accounts of these changes drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 111 men and women resident in greater Melbourne and born in the 1920s and 1930s. Mostly, study participants have retained many of …
Gender in/and/of Health Inequalities
The relationship between gender and health inequalities is potentially complicated, raising questions for health and social research, practice and policy. In this paper, I use two population health case studies – obesity and smoking – to explore the interplay between gender and socioeconomic position. The cases show that, on its own, neither dimension of inequality affords a comprehensive picture of these significant risks to public health. Furth…
Hazardous good intentions? Unintended consequences of the project of prevention
Preventing disease is by definition a valuable objective, and most debates have revolved around improving the effectiveness of prevention. In this discussion, I explore the latent functions - the unintended consequences - of what I call the 'project of prevention'. Although many latent functions are welcome, some have undesirable effects, and it is therefore important to instigate a rich exchange between innovative theory and rigorous research to…
Talking with Angel About Illness, Death and Survival
"Talking with Angel About Illness, Death and Survival." Health Sociology Review, 16(5), pp. 447–448
Controlling diabetes, controlling diabetics: Moral Language in the Management of Diabetes Type 2
Consulting about consulting: Challenges to effective consulting about public health research
Objective To understand barriers to obtaining input from consumers in developing public health research. Methods Documentation of a failed attempt at consumer consultation supplies information on barriers to effective involvement and conditions that must prevail to improve consultation. Results People are keen to be heard in the formulation of health research. However, competing demands and limited resources make it difficult for community groups…
Reading Breast Cancer: Reflections on a Dangerous Intersection
Because breast is the most common female cancer, it is no surprise that it has prompted lobbying and extensive clinical research. Many women have written autobiographical accounts of their diagnosis and treatment, but there has been little effort to apply the perspectives of feminist or other social theory to our understandings of breast cancer. I propose that breast cancer is located at a meeting point between (at least) four sets of discourses …
XIII. Good Mother and Feminist: A Contradiction in Terms
Damned if We Do: Contradictions in Women's Health Care
Doing it for ourselves: Australian women's health centres
A feeling for the enterprise: A new unit on gender and science
Teaching woman
Robyn Rowland, Woman Herself: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Women's Identity (Oxford University Press), Melbourne, 1988; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz, and Marie de Lepervanche (eds), Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin), Sydney, 1988
Controlling diabetes, controlling diabetics: Moral Language in the Management of Diabetes Type 2
Not all hours are equal: Could Time Be a Social Determinant of Health
Time can be thought of as a resource that people need for good health. Healthy behaviour, accessing health services, working, resting and caring all require time. Like other resources, time is socially shaped, but its relevance to health and health inequality is yet to be established. Drawing from sociology and political economy, we set out the theoretical basis for two measures of time relevant to contemporary, market-based societies. We measure…
Reading Breast Cancer: Reflections on a Dangerous Intersection
Because breast is the most common female cancer, it is no surprise that it has prompted lobbying and extensive clinical research. Many women have written autobiographical accounts of their diagnosis and treatment, but there has been little effort to apply the perspectives of feminist or other social theory to our understandings of breast cancer. I propose that breast cancer is located at a meeting point between (at least) four sets of discourses …
Hazardous good intentions? Unintended consequences of the project of prevention
Preventing disease is by definition a valuable objective, and most debates have revolved around improving the effectiveness of prevention. In this discussion, I explore the latent functions - the unintended consequences - of what I call the 'project of prevention'. Although many latent functions are welcome, some have undesirable effects, and it is therefore important to instigate a rich exchange between innovative theory and rigorous research to…
Habits of a lifetime: Family dining patterns over the lifecourse of older Australians
Here we examine how older Australians' accounts of family meals mirror shifts in the Australian way of life over the second half of the twentieth century coupled with their changing personal circumstances as they age. We provide qualitative accounts of these changes drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 111 men and women resident in greater Melbourne and born in the 1920s and 1930s. Mostly, study participants have retained many of …
Gender in/and/of Health Inequalities
The relationship between gender and health inequalities is potentially complicated, raising questions for health and social research, practice and policy. In this paper, I use two population health case studies – obesity and smoking – to explore the interplay between gender and socioeconomic position. The cases show that, on its own, neither dimension of inequality affords a comprehensive picture of these significant risks to public health. Furth…
Age, Gender, Social Contacts, and Psychological Distress: Findings From the 45 and Up Study
Social contacts have age and gender differential effects on psychological distress of mid-older Australian adults. Interventions addressing social interaction need to be sensitive to gender and age differences
A feeling for the enterprise: A new unit on gender and science
Teaching woman
Robyn Rowland, Woman Herself: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Women's Identity (Oxford University Press), Melbourne, 1988; Barbara Caine, E.A. Grosz, and Marie de Lepervanche (eds), Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Allen & Unwin), Sydney, 1988
Doing it for ourselves: Australian women's health centres
Damned if We Do: Contradictions in Women's Health Care
XIII. Good Mother and Feminist: A Contradiction in Terms
Consulting about consulting: Challenges to effective consulting about public health research
Objective To understand barriers to obtaining input from consumers in developing public health research. Methods Documentation of a failed attempt at consumer consultation supplies information on barriers to effective involvement and conditions that must prevail to improve consultation. Results People are keen to be heard in the formulation of health research. However, competing demands and limited resources make it difficult for community groups…
Reading Breast Cancer: Reflections on a Dangerous Intersection
Because breast is the most common female cancer, it is no surprise that it has prompted lobbying and extensive clinical research. Many women have written autobiographical accounts of their diagnosis and treatment, but there has been little effort to apply the perspectives of feminist or other social theory to our understandings of breast cancer. I propose that breast cancer is located at a meeting point between (at least) four sets of discourses …
Controlling diabetes, controlling diabetics: Moral Language in the Management of Diabetes Type 2
Talking with Angel About Illness, Death and Survival
"Talking with Angel About Illness, Death and Survival." Health Sociology Review, 16(5), pp. 447–448
Gender in/and/of Health Inequalities
The relationship between gender and health inequalities is potentially complicated, raising questions for health and social research, practice and policy. In this paper, I use two population health case studies – obesity and smoking – to explore the interplay between gender and socioeconomic position. The cases show that, on its own, neither dimension of inequality affords a comprehensive picture of these significant risks to public health. Furth…
Hazardous good intentions? Unintended consequences of the project of prevention
Preventing disease is by definition a valuable objective, and most debates have revolved around improving the effectiveness of prevention. In this discussion, I explore the latent functions - the unintended consequences - of what I call the 'project of prevention'. Although many latent functions are welcome, some have undesirable effects, and it is therefore important to instigate a rich exchange between innovative theory and rigorous research to…
Habits of a lifetime: Family dining patterns over the lifecourse of older Australians
Here we examine how older Australians' accounts of family meals mirror shifts in the Australian way of life over the second half of the twentieth century coupled with their changing personal circumstances as they age. We provide qualitative accounts of these changes drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 111 men and women resident in greater Melbourne and born in the 1920s and 1930s. Mostly, study participants have retained many of …
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment poli…
Age, Gender, Social Contacts, and Psychological Distress: Findings From the 45 and Up Study
Social contacts have age and gender differential effects on psychological distress of mid-older Australian adults. Interventions addressing social interaction need to be sensitive to gender and age differences
Not all hours are equal: Could Time Be a Social Determinant of Health
Time can be thought of as a resource that people need for good health. Healthy behaviour, accessing health services, working, resting and caring all require time. Like other resources, time is socially shaped, but its relevance to health and health inequality is yet to be established. Drawing from sociology and political economy, we set out the theoretical basis for two measures of time relevant to contemporary, market-based societies. We measure…
Sociology (12 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)