Michael Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7054-4711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 93 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 88 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Adversarial cooperation: Some reflections prompted by commentaries
Bioethics and the value of disagreement
What does it mean to be a bioethicist? How should the role(s) of bioethics be understood in the context of a world of intense value conflict and polarisation? Bioethics is—in all its various forms and traditions—potentially well-positioned to contribute to addressing many of the most pressing challenges of value polarisation and conflict in diverse societies. However, realising this potential is going to require moving beyond currently foreground…
Public engagement professionals: Exploring ethical tensions in communication, engagement and co-creation
Recent decades have seen the rising establishment of public engagement professionals supporting communication and engagement in the contexts of science and health research. This article explores how public engagement professionals consider the ethical dimensions of their work. Based on analysis of 17 interviews with science communication and public engagement specialists at UK academic institutions and in practice settings, we examine the ways in…
Life from death: Ethical implications of uterus transplantation from deceased donors in global health
BOX Uterus transplantation (UTx) from deceased donors is a novel reproductive technology that has led to successful births globally
Getting rights right: Implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’
The UK government has recently committed to adopting a new policy—dubbed ‘Martha’s Rule’—which has been characterised as providing patients the right to rapidly access a second clinical opinion in urgent or contested cases. Support for the rule emerged following the death of Martha Mills in 2021, after doctors failed to admit her to intensive care despite concerns raised by her parents. We argue that framing this issue in terms of patient rights …
Germline genomic testing to assess the suitability of stem cell donors in the treatment of haematological malignancy: Clinical ethics commentary
The increasing integration of genomic medicine into routine medical care brings to light issues of complexity and uncertainty in the interpretation of genetic variation. We describe a fictional case study based on our experiences in the haematological malignancy setting to illustrate the complexities in using genomic testing to evaluate the suitability of relatives to act as stem cell donors. In particular, we demonstrate the ethical issues arisi…
Factors associated with childhood out-of-home care entry and re-entry in high income countries: A systematic review of reviews
Looking at the Big Picture”: A Qualitative Study of Ethics in Science Communication and Engagement
Ethical issues arise in many communication and engagement settings. Such issues can, however, fall into the gaps between what is seen as “research” and what is seen as “dissemination.” Semi-structured interviews ( n = 17) and focus groups ( n = 2) with researchers and science communication and public engagement specialists at U.K. academic institutions and in practice settings suggest that while normative principles for ethical science communicat…
Ethical preparedness in genomic medicine: How NHS clinical scientists navigate ethical issues
Much has been published about the ethical issues encountered by clinicians in genetics/genomics, but those experienced by clinical laboratory scientists are less well described. Clinical laboratory scientists now frequently face navigating ethical problems in their work, but how they should be best supported to do this is underexplored. This lack of attention is also reflected in the ethics tools available to clinical laboratory scientists such a…
Ethical implications of disparities in translation genomic medicine: From research to practice
Genomic medicine has the potential to contribute to the development of an array of novel technologies within the clinical armoury, making possible early detection and management of high-risk conditions such as cancer.Whilst significant impact has already been felt in the context of rare inherited single gene disorders, much of the advancement in patient care through genomic medicine more broadly is going to be made possible by research involving …
Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research: Addressing a neglected disease
Nipah virus is a priority pathogen that is receiving increasing attention among scientists and in work on epidemic preparedness. Despite this trend, there has been almost no bioethical work examining ethical considerations surrounding the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of Nipah virus or research that has already begun into animal and human vaccines. In this paper, we advance the case for further work on Nipah virus disease in public heal…
Assembling a global health image: Ethical and pragmatic tensions through the lenses of photographers
Background Recently, global health has been confronting its visual culture, historically modulated by colonialism, racism and abusive representation. There have been international calls to promote ethicality of visual practices. However, despite this focus on the history and the institutional use of global health images, little is known about how in practice contemporary images are created in communities, and how consent to be in photographs is o…
Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation
Global health photography has historically been commissioned and, therefore, dominated by the gaze of Western photographers on assignments in the Global South. This is changing as part of international calls to decolonise global health and stimulate 'empowerment', spawning a growing initiative to hire local photographers. This article, based on interviews with global health photographers, reflects on this paradigm shift. It highlights how behind …
Public health use of HIV phylogenetic data in sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical issues
Phylogenetic analyses of HIV are an increasingly accurate method of clarifying population-level patterns of transmission and linking individuals or groups with transmission events. Viral genetic data may be used by public health agencies to guide policy interventions focused on clusters of transmission or segments of the population in which transmission is concentrated. Analyses of HIV phylogenetics in high-income countries have often found that …
Culturally responsive research ethics: How the socio-ethical norms of Arr-nar/Kreng-jai inform research participation at the Thai-Myanmar border
Despite advances, international research ethics guidelines still tend to consist of high-level ethical principles reflecting residual influence from North American and European traditions of ethics. Local ethics committees and community advisory boards can offer more culturally-sensitive approaches to training but most institutions lack substantive practical ethics guidance to engage rich moral understandings in day-to-day research practice in di…
Navigating uncertainties of death: Minimally Invasive Autopsy Technology in global health
Global health practitioners and policymakers have become increasingly vocal about the complex challenges of identifying and quantifying the causes of death of the world's poorest people. To address this cause-of-death uncertainty and to minimise longstanding sensitivities about full autopsies, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been one of the foremost advocates of minimally invasive autopsy technology (MIA). MIA involves using biopsy nee…
Power and Powerlessness in a Group Based Digital Story Telling Project-An Exploration of Community Perceptions of Health Concerns in Urban Malawi
Digital Story Telling (DST) is an art-based research method used to explore embodied experience of health and initiate dialogue with under-represented groups on issues affecting them. It involves engaging participants to create and share their stories using photos, drawings, and audio recordings in short videos. Benefits of DST include enhancing co-creation of knowledge, empowering participants to confront dominant narratives and revise inaccurat…
A Mixed-Methods Approach to Identify Farmers’ Perception and Practices Regarding Antibiotic Use in Vietnam
Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is one of the greatest global health concerns. The growth of food animal farming has challenged efforts to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use (ABU) and is linked to the rapid increases in ABR. This mixed-methods sociological study was conducted between 2016 and 2017, in a sample of 100 animal farmers in southern Vietnam, aiming to characterize their perception of ABU and identify factors influencing their practice. Data…
Equitable Design and Use of Digital Surveillance Technologies During Covid-19: Norms and Concerns
Given the unprecedented scale of digital surveillance in the COVID-19 pandemic, designing and implementing digital technologies in ways that are equitable is critical now and in future epidemics and pandemics. Yet to date there has been very limited consideration about what is necessary to promote their equitable design and implementation. In this study, literature relating to the use of digital surveillance technologies during epidemics and pand…
An intersectional human rights approach to prioritising access to Covid-19 vaccines
We finally have a vaccine for the COVID-19 crisis. However, due to the limited numbers of the vaccine, states will have to consider how to prioritise groups who receive the vaccine. In this paper, we argue that the practical implementation of human rights law requires broader consideration of intersectional needs in society and the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 is having on population groups with pre-existing social and medical vulnerabil…
Public involvement in the governance of population-level biomedical research: Unresolved questions and future directions
Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly in response to these challenges, various models of public involvement in research are being introduced. Yet, the ways in which public involvement should meet governance challenges are not well understood. We conducted a qualitative study with 36 exper…
Sars-CoV-2 challenge studies: Ethics and risk minimisation
COVID-19 poses an exceptional threat to global public health and well-being. Recognition of the need to develop effective vaccines at unprecedented speed has led to calls to accelerate research pathways ethically, including by conducting challenge studies (also known as controlled human infection studies (CHIs)) with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19). Such research is controversial, with concerns being raised about the social, legal, e…
Ethical issues in genetics and infectious diseases research: An interdisciplinary expert review
Grandparent caregiving in Cambodian skip‐generation households: Roles and impact on child nutrition
This study aims to understand nutrition-related roles, responsibilities and ethical issues of grandparents caring for their grandchildren in skip-generation households in rural Cambodia. Over the past decade, Cambodia has experienced a rise in economic migration of working age populations. This has resulted in increasing numbers of 'skip-generation' households, in which grandparents and grandchildren co-reside without parents, reflecting potentia…
Quantifying Sars-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing
Instantaneous contact tracing New analyses indicate that severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is more infectious and less virulent than the earlier SARS-CoV-1, which emerged in China in 2002. Unfortunately, the current virus has greater epidemic potential because it is difficult to trace mild or presymptomatic infections. As no treatment is currently available, the only tools that we can currently deploy to stop the epidem…
Ethnography/ethics
Informed consent in a changing environment
Distinguishing research from clinical care in cancer genetics: Theoretical justifications and practical strategies
What is the role of individual accountability in patient safety? A multi-site ethnographic study
An enduring debate concerns how responsibility for patient safety should be distributed between organisational systems and individual professionals. Though rule-based, calculus-like approaches intended to support a 'just culture' have become popular, they perpetuate an asocial and atomised account. In this article, we use insights from practice theory - which sees organisational phenomena as accomplished in everyday actions, with individual agenc…
Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
Provides an account of Seamus Heaney's early life, and the experiences, influences and relationships - personal, literary and political - that shaped his poetic development. The book includes photogra
Family-centred music therapy with preterm infants and their parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Nicu) in Colombia - A mixed-methods study
This article reports a mixed-methods study of Music Therapy (MT) with preterm infants and their parents in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Colombia. The aim was to find out whether live MT during kangaroo care had an effect on the physiological outcomes of the neonates and would help parents to decrease their anxiety levels and improve parent–infant bonding. The participants were 36 medically stable neonates born between the 28th and 34t…
Views of Ethical Best Practices in Sharing Individual-Level Data From Medical and Public Health Research: A Systematic Scoping Review
There is increasing support for sharing individual-level data generated by medical and public health research. This scoping review of empirical research and conceptual literature examined stakeholders' perspectives of ethical best practices in data sharing, particularly in low- and middle-income settings. Sixty-nine empirical and conceptual articles were reviewed, of which, only five were empirical studies and eight were conceptual articles focus…
Developing Ethical Practices for Public Health Research Data Sharing in South Africa: The Views and Experiences From a Diverse Sample of Research Stakeholders
The abundance of South African clinical and public health research data has the potential to unlock important and valuable future advances in biomedical science. Amid increasing calls for more effective sharing of individual-level data, commitment to promote access to research data is evident within South Africa's public research sector, but national guidance and regulation are absent. This qualitative study examined the perceptions, experiences …
It'd be useful, but I wouldn't use it: Barriers to University Students' Feedback Seeking and Recipience
For feedback to be effective, it must be used by the receiver. Prior research has outlined numerous reasons why students’ use of feedback is sometimes limited, but there has been little systematic exploration of these barriers. In 11 activity-oriented focus groups, 31 undergraduate Psychology students discussed how they use assessment feedback. The data revealed many barriers that inhibit use of feedback, ranging from students’ difficulties with …
Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
In the nearly thirty years of his writing career the Irish poet Seamus Heaney has established himself as an enduring world writer. This book provides the fullest account yet of his early life as an Ulster Catholic and the experiences, influences, and relationships - personal, literary, and political - that shaped his poetic development and awareness in the midst of the complex and violent history that has formed modern Ireland. Michael Parker's e…
Perceived Benefits, Harms, and Views About How to Share Data Responsibly: A Qualitative Study of Experiences With and Attitudes Toward Data Sharing Among Research Staff and Community Representatives i…
The Thailand Major Overseas Programme coordinates large multi-center studies in tropical medicine and generates vast amounts of data. As the data sharing movement gains momentum, we wanted to understand attitudes and experiences of relevant stakeholders about what constitutes good data sharing practice. We conducted 15 interviews and three focus groups discussions involving 25 participants and found that they generally saw data sharing as somethi…
Involving Research Stakeholders in Developing Policy on Sharing Public Health Research Data in Kenya: Views on Fair Process for Informed Consent, Access Oversight, and Community Engagement
Increased global sharing of public health research data has potential to advance scientific progress but may present challenges to the interests of research stakeholders, particularly in low-to-middle income countries. Policies for data sharing should be responsive to public views, but there is little evidence of the systematic study of these from low-income countries. This qualitative study explored views on fair data-sharing processes among 60 …
Investigating the potential for ethnic group harm in collaborative genomics research in Africa: Is ethnic stigmatisation likely
Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories
Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the richness and diversity of Irish fiction, with the publication of highly original and often challenging work by both new and established write
Managing misaligned paternity findings in research including sickle cell disease screening in Kenya: Consulting communities' to inform policy
Northern Irish Literature, 1956–1975
Governing Genetic Databases: Challenges Facing Research Regulation and Practice
This paper reports on the initial findings of an interdisciplinary research project on the governance of human genetic databases in England and Wales. The number of biosample and information collections has expanded, yet considerable legal uncertainty surrounds their definition, collection, storage, management, and use which could inhibit research and clinical practice, while failing to protect the rights and interests of all stakeholders. We rep…
Trust, Respect, and Reciprocity: Informing Culturally Appropriate Data-Sharing Practice in Vietnam
International science funders and publishers are driving a growing trend in data sharing. There is mounting pressure on researchers in low- and middle-income settings to conform to new sharing policies, despite minimal empirically grounded accounts of the ethical challenges of implementing the policies in these settings. This study used in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 48 stakeholders in Vietnam to explore the experiences, att…
Sharing Public Health Research Data: Toward the Development of Ethical Data-Sharing Practice in Low- and Middle-Income Settings
It is increasingly recognized that effective and appropriate data sharing requires the development of models of good data-sharing practice capable of taking seriously both the potential benefits to be gained and the importance of ensuring that the rights and interests of participants are respected and that risk of harms is minimized. Calls for the greater sharing of individual-level data from biomedical and public health research are receiving su…
The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice
The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926
Journal Article The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886–1926. By Michael Parker. (Lanham: University Press of America and American Society of Missiology 1998. xiv, 250 pp. Cloth, $57.00, ISBN 0-7618-1012-9. Paper, $32.50, ISBN 0-7618-1013-7.) Get access Jacob H. Dorn Jacob H. Dorn Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Sweat, Skepticism, and Uncharted Territory: A Qualitative Study of Opinions on Data Sharing Among Public Health Researchers and Research Participants in Mumbai, India
Efforts to internalize data sharing in research practice have been driven largely by developing international norms that have not incorporated opinions from researchers in low- and middle-income countries. We sought to identify the issues around ethical data sharing in the context of research involving women and children in urban India. We interviewed researchers, managers, and research participants associated with a Mumbai non-governmental organ…
Back in the heartland”: Seamus Heaney's “Route 110” sequence in Human Chain
This essay foregrounds the increasingly significant role translation has played in Seamus Heaney's compositional and creative practices since the 1970s, and how it functions as a means of displacement and route into imagined homecomings. It offers a detailed analysis of the sequence which occupies a central position within Human Chain, in which Heaney HeaneySeamusStations. Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1975. [Google Scholar] attends to and see…
Reckonings: The Political Contexts for Northern Irish Literature 1965-68
Pioneer, 1966–69
1. Mil. One of a body of footsoldiers who march with or in advance of an army or regiment, having spades, pickaxes, etc, to dig trenches, and clear and prepare the way for the main body. 2. gen. A digger, an excavator: a miner -1640. 3. fig. One who goes before to prepare the way: one who begins some enterprise, course of action, etc.: an original investigator, explorer or worker; an initiator (of) 1605.2
Quickenings, 1975–84
At the core of Heaney’s fifth collection, Field Work , is a sequence of sonnets and lyrics celebrating his wife, Marie, and their home, the cottage at Glanmore. The experience of living together there — as husband, father, poet — was the ‘makings of my adult self, he has said, an experience which left him renewed and fortified physically, spiritually, imaginatively. 2 His aim had been to change the rhythms of his life and verse, to ‘displace’ him…
A Good Anchor: Home and Education, 1939–61
Whatever poetic success I’ve had has come from staying within the realm of my own imaginative country and my own voice. 2 Seamus Justin Heaney was born on 13 April 1939, at Mossbawn, near Castledawson, County Derry. His father, Patrick, born at the end of the first decade of this century, was a cattle dealer, owning a forty-acre farm, an average size holding by Northern Irish standards. A yeoman farmer, who served as a member of the rural council…
Space, 1984–91
Although the period from 1984–91 was an intensely creative one for Seamus Heaney, resulting in three poetry collections, The Haw Lantern (1987), New Selected Poems 1966–1987 (1990), Seeing Things (1991), a collection of critical essays, The Government of the Tongue (1988), and a play, The Cure at Troy (1990), and saw his elevation in 1988 to Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, loss shadowed success. “The most important tiling that has happe…
Affinities, 1961–66
References to ‘home’ and ‘exile’ abound in discussions of Heaney’s work, and when the poet talks about his own writing. Although he broke with familial tradition in becoming a writer, a city-dweller, a member of the middle class, his poetry to the present bears witness to a continuity of spirit with his parents and a fidelity to his origins, of race and place. In a 1979 interview with John Haffenden, he suggests that reports that he has become a …
Exposure, 1969–75
The seven years from 1961–68 were years of plenty for Seamus Heaney in both his personal and his literary life. The next seven would prove to be years of pain and adjustment to pain, years in which the ‘larger drama of our politics’ 3 would preoccupy the private imagination. Though at times geographically distant from the bombs and bullets, for Heaney they were always close at hand. Hearing the reports of guns and of each new ‘neighbourly murder’…
Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
Provides an account of Seamus Heaney's early life, and the experiences, influences and relationships - personal, literary and political - that shaped his poetic development. The book includes photogra
Delivering affordable housing
Use of Adventure Experiences in Traditional Counseling Interventions
Use of adventure as an intervention in traditional counseling was explored with 84 adolescent clients from two community-based counseling agencies and residents from two boys' homes. The adolescents were assigned to conditions of counseling plus adventure experiences, counseling only, adventure only, or a control. Analysis indicated limited support for increasing self-esteem and social skills by adding adventure experiences to on-going counseling
Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
In the nearly thirty years of his writing career the Irish poet Seamus Heaney has established himself as an enduring world writer. This book provides the fullest account yet of his early life as an Ulster Catholic and the experiences, influences, and relationships - personal, literary, and political - that shaped his poetic development and awareness in the midst of the complex and violent history that has formed modern Ireland. Michael Parker's e…
The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926
Journal Article The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886–1926. By Michael Parker. (Lanham: University Press of America and American Society of Missiology 1998. xiv, 250 pp. Cloth, $57.00, ISBN 0-7618-1012-9. Paper, $32.50, ISBN 0-7618-1013-7.) Get access Jacob H. Dorn Jacob H. Dorn Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
Reconfiguring Identities: Recent Northern Irish Fiction
The Northern Ireland peace process, which began to gather fragile momentum in the summer of 1993, opened up new artistic as well as political perspectives on the sectarian violence and religious bigotry which had plagued the province for a quarter of a century.1 The readiness of writers to anticipate and respond to the possibilities of peace was exemplified by Seamus Heaney’s play The Cure at Troy (1990), the final Chorus of which envisioned a ‘g…
Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories
Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories
Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the richness and diversity of Irish fiction, with the publication of highly original and often challenging work by both new and established write
The ethics of evidence‐based patient choice
In this paper I analyse the ethical implications of the concept of ‘evidence‐based patient choice’ in the light of criticism of the ‘individualism’ of patient‐centred medicine. I argue that individualism in the sense used by the critics of patient centred medicine is not an inevitable consequence of an emphasis on patient choice and that a concern with the promotion of individual choices is not incompatible with ‘communitarian’ values. Indeed, I …
Reckonings: The Political Contexts for Northern Irish Literature 1965-68
An excavation at the Bishop's House, Stow, Scottish Borders
During late 1984 and 1985, the Border Burghs Archaeology Project (BBAP) carried out an investigation of the ruins of the Bishop's House at Stow, in the Scottish Borders (formerly Berwickshire), a site with historical associations with the bishops and archbishops of St Andrews and part of a long-established estate centre.The investigation revealed the layout of a 16th-century building, which was altered on at least two occasions.There is evidence …
Doing Time: A Group-Analytic Perspective on the Emotional Experience of Time in a Men's Prison
A group-analytic approach is described within the context of a therapeutic community setting in a high security prison. In group therapy inmates are described gradually unfreezing and speaking about the locked and secret internal world experiences that have been sources of pain and trauma to them. The concept of trauma being frozen in time and undisclosed unless appropriate therapeutic space is available for its unfolding is contrasted with the p…
Alpha and beta radioactivity in groundwater of the hickory, mid‐cambrian and ellenburger‐san saba aquifers, central texas, USA
Gross alpha and beta activity in sandstone and limestone aquifers of central Texas locally exceed drinking water standards. The Hickory (sandstone), Mid‐Cambrian (sandstone) and Ellenburger‐San Saba (ESS) (limestone) Aquifers registered median alpha levels of 13, 17 and 4 pCi/l, and median beta levels of 18, 17 and 4.5 pCi/l, respectively. Several observations, 46% (Hickory), 67% (Mid‐Cambrian) and 16% (ESS), exceeded the 15 pCi/l maximum contami…
Depression and Religiosity in African American and White Community-Dwelling Older Adults
This research examined the extent to which religiosity was predictive of level of depression, even after controlling for race, gender, social support, income sufficiency, and physical health. Data were collected using in-home interviews conducted from 1999 to 2001 with 1,000 adults age 65 to 106. Subjects were recruited from a stratified, random sample of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older in five central Alabama counties (three rural and tw…
The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice
Governing Genetic Databases: Challenges Facing Research Regulation and Practice
This paper reports on the initial findings of an interdisciplinary research project on the governance of human genetic databases in England and Wales. The number of biosample and information collections has expanded, yet considerable legal uncertainty surrounds their definition, collection, storage, management, and use which could inhibit research and clinical practice, while failing to protect the rights and interests of all stakeholders. We rep…
Northern Irish Literature, 1956–1975
Ethnography/ethics
Informed consent in a changing environment
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