Shirley Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirley Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirley |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0624-0112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Doctors’ perception on the ethical use of AI-enabled clinical decision support systems for antibiotic prescribing recommendations in Singapore
Objectives: The increased utilization of Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare changes practice and introduces ethical implications for AI adoption in medicine. We assess medical doctors' ethical stance in situations that arise in adopting an AI-enabled Clinical Decision Support System (AI-CDSS) for antibiotic prescribing decision support in a healthcare institution in Singapore. Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews with 30 doctors of v…
Social Systems Matter: Precision Medicine, Public Health, and the Medical Model
Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews conducted in Singapore, Canada, and the United States, this paper shows that biomedical experts are deeply concerned about the shortcomings of the biomedical model of health. Precision public health, when anchored in genomics, can be considered a twenty-first century version of the medical model of health, which originated from nineteenth century germ theory. First, concerns regarding the adoption o…
Navigating conflicts of justice in the use of race and ethnicity in precision medicine
Given the sordid history of injustices linking genetics to race and ethnicity, considerations of justice are central to ensuring the responsible development of precision medicine programmes around the world. While considerations of justice may be in tension with other areas of concern, such as scientific value or privacy, there are also tensions between different aspects of justice. This paper focuses on three particular aspects of justice releva…
Perspectives on public involvement in health research from Singapore: The potential of a supported group model of involvement
BACKGROUND: Singapore is an international research hub, with an emphasis on translational clinical research. Despite growing evidence of the positive impact of public involvement (PPI) in research, it remains rare in Singapore. AIMS: To investigate Singaporean public perspectives around the rationale, role and scope for being involved in health research To identify the potential, challenges, facilitators and strategies for implementing PPI in Sin…
Clinical usefulness of genetic testing for drug toxicity in cancer care: Decision-makers’ framing, knowledge and perceptions
To explore the clinical uptake of pharmacogenetic/pharmacogenomic toxicity testing to reduce adverse drug reaction incidences, this paper analyzes data collected through semi-structured face-to-face interviews with clinicians and/or clinician-scientists, primarily in the context of cancer treatment in multi-ethnic California (US), Vancouver (Canada) and Singapore. Recurrent themes in the data include the following: first, the scientific evidence …
Factors shaping at‐risk individuals’ decisions to undergo genetic testing for cancer in Asia
This study aims to enrich our understanding of factors influencing medically indicated at-risk individuals' decisions to take genetic tests (or not) in the context of cancer treatment and prevention. While previous studies have explored this topic in communities in Europe and the United States, we know relatively little about the situation in Asia. In this study, we conducted in-depth interviews with 24 women who underwent genetic testing for her…
Between personalized and racialized precision medicine: A relative resources perspective
Since the completion of the first human genome sequencing project in 2003, the potential for incorporating genomics into clinical practice in the pursuit of precision medicine has garnered a great amount of attention and interest. Existing literature presents a dichotomous view of the future of medicine: either precision medicine will replace race-based medicine or race-based medicine will persist despite developments in genetic research and geno…
Beng shidai: Caituan hua, pinqiong hua, yu shao zinu hua de weiji 崩世代:財團化、貧窮化與少子女化的危機 [ Generation of Collapse: Crises of Capital Monopoly, Poverty, and the Lowest Fertility in Taiwan ]
Gender and Divorce in Contemporary Singapore
How do individuals perceive and experience divorce in a self-proclaimed Confucian state, but with a legal system based on the English common law system? Moreover, are there differences in the experiences between divorced women with professional careers and divorced men whose ex-wives are professional women? This paper attempts to address these questions in the context of Singapore, a city-state in Southeast Asia, where more than 70% of the citize…
Care expectations, mismatched: State and family in contemporary Singapore
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate in the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family in caring for children? Design/methodology/approach This paper aims to address this research question by drawing on the conceptual framework of “social care” (Daly and Lewis), and on data collected through a qualitative study concerning the state's population…
Social reproduction and the limits of a neoliberal approach: The case of Singapore
Should citizenship status confer social rights independent of an individual's economic contribution? This study approaches this question through looking at social settings in which answers are contested. Specifically, it documents and analyzes qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews with 221 Singaporean citizens. As such, it complements existing critical policy studies on shifting conceptualizations of social citizenship…
Not Just a Business Transaction: The logic and limits of grandparental childcare assistance in Taiwan
How does the presence of grandparents in the household impact the gendered division of childcare responsibilities between spouses? How does it compare with market-based care? Drawing on in-depth interview data, this study finds that Taiwanese grandparents treat childcare assistance as their moral responsibility. Mothers express more appreciation for assistance from their own mothers than their mothers-in-law. Fathers appreciate the role of both t…
Housework and Gender in Nuclear Versus Extended Family Households: Experiences of Taiwanese Immigrants in Canada
This paper examines intergenerational and gender relations in the Chinese family system by comparing the division of household labor in nuclear and extended family households. Indepth interview data with thirty-seven new Taiwanese immigrants in Canada show that, in their household practices in Taiwan, the presence of the older generation intensifies the gendered division of labor between spouses, even in matrilocal residences . Husbands do not pa…
Not Just a Business Transaction: The logic and limits of grandparental childcare assistance in Taiwan
How does the presence of grandparents in the household impact the gendered division of childcare responsibilities between spouses? How does it compare with market-based care? Drawing on in-depth interview data, this study finds that Taiwanese grandparents treat childcare assistance as their moral responsibility. Mothers express more appreciation for assistance from their own mothers than their mothers-in-law. Fathers appreciate the role of both t…
Social reproduction and the limits of a neoliberal approach: The case of Singapore
Should citizenship status confer social rights independent of an individual's economic contribution? This study approaches this question through looking at social settings in which answers are contested. Specifically, it documents and analyzes qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews with 221 Singaporean citizens. As such, it complements existing critical policy studies on shifting conceptualizations of social citizenship…
Housework and Gender in Nuclear Versus Extended Family Households: Experiences of Taiwanese Immigrants in Canada
This paper examines intergenerational and gender relations in the Chinese family system by comparing the division of household labor in nuclear and extended family households. Indepth interview data with thirty-seven new Taiwanese immigrants in Canada show that, in their household practices in Taiwan, the presence of the older generation intensifies the gendered division of labor between spouses, even in matrilocal residences . Husbands do not pa…
Gender and Divorce in Contemporary Singapore
How do individuals perceive and experience divorce in a self-proclaimed Confucian state, but with a legal system based on the English common law system? Moreover, are there differences in the experiences between divorced women with professional careers and divorced men whose ex-wives are professional women? This paper attempts to address these questions in the context of Singapore, a city-state in Southeast Asia, where more than 70% of the citize…
Care expectations, mismatched: State and family in contemporary Singapore
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate in the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family in caring for children? Design/methodology/approach This paper aims to address this research question by drawing on the conceptual framework of “social care” (Daly and Lewis), and on data collected through a qualitative study concerning the state's population…
Between personalized and racialized precision medicine: A relative resources perspective
Since the completion of the first human genome sequencing project in 2003, the potential for incorporating genomics into clinical practice in the pursuit of precision medicine has garnered a great amount of attention and interest. Existing literature presents a dichotomous view of the future of medicine: either precision medicine will replace race-based medicine or race-based medicine will persist despite developments in genetic research and geno…
Not Just a Business Transaction: The logic and limits of grandparental childcare assistance in Taiwan
How does the presence of grandparents in the household impact the gendered division of childcare responsibilities between spouses? How does it compare with market-based care? Drawing on in-depth interview data, this study finds that Taiwanese grandparents treat childcare assistance as their moral responsibility. Mothers express more appreciation for assistance from their own mothers than their mothers-in-law. Fathers appreciate the role of both t…
Housework and Gender in Nuclear Versus Extended Family Households: Experiences of Taiwanese Immigrants in Canada
This paper examines intergenerational and gender relations in the Chinese family system by comparing the division of household labor in nuclear and extended family households. Indepth interview data with thirty-seven new Taiwanese immigrants in Canada show that, in their household practices in Taiwan, the presence of the older generation intensifies the gendered division of labor between spouses, even in matrilocal residences . Husbands do not pa…
Care expectations, mismatched: State and family in contemporary Singapore
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate in the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family in caring for children? Design/methodology/approach This paper aims to address this research question by drawing on the conceptual framework of “social care” (Daly and Lewis), and on data collected through a qualitative study concerning the state's population…
Social reproduction and the limits of a neoliberal approach: The case of Singapore
Should citizenship status confer social rights independent of an individual's economic contribution? This study approaches this question through looking at social settings in which answers are contested. Specifically, it documents and analyzes qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews with 221 Singaporean citizens. As such, it complements existing critical policy studies on shifting conceptualizations of social citizenship…
Beng shidai: Caituan hua, pinqiong hua, yu shao zinu hua de weiji 崩世代:財團化、貧窮化與少子女化的危機 [ Generation of Collapse: Crises of Capital Monopoly, Poverty, and the Lowest Fertility in Taiwan ]
Gender and Divorce in Contemporary Singapore
How do individuals perceive and experience divorce in a self-proclaimed Confucian state, but with a legal system based on the English common law system? Moreover, are there differences in the experiences between divorced women with professional careers and divorced men whose ex-wives are professional women? This paper attempts to address these questions in the context of Singapore, a city-state in Southeast Asia, where more than 70% of the citize…
Navigating conflicts of justice in the use of race and ethnicity in precision medicine
Given the sordid history of injustices linking genetics to race and ethnicity, considerations of justice are central to ensuring the responsible development of precision medicine programmes around the world. While considerations of justice may be in tension with other areas of concern, such as scientific value or privacy, there are also tensions between different aspects of justice. This paper focuses on three particular aspects of justice releva…
Perspectives on public involvement in health research from Singapore: The potential of a supported group model of involvement
BACKGROUND: Singapore is an international research hub, with an emphasis on translational clinical research. Despite growing evidence of the positive impact of public involvement (PPI) in research, it remains rare in Singapore. AIMS: To investigate Singaporean public perspectives around the rationale, role and scope for being involved in health research To identify the potential, challenges, facilitators and strategies for implementing PPI in Sin…
Clinical usefulness of genetic testing for drug toxicity in cancer care: Decision-makers’ framing, knowledge and perceptions
To explore the clinical uptake of pharmacogenetic/pharmacogenomic toxicity testing to reduce adverse drug reaction incidences, this paper analyzes data collected through semi-structured face-to-face interviews with clinicians and/or clinician-scientists, primarily in the context of cancer treatment in multi-ethnic California (US), Vancouver (Canada) and Singapore. Recurrent themes in the data include the following: first, the scientific evidence …
Factors shaping at‐risk individuals’ decisions to undergo genetic testing for cancer in Asia
This study aims to enrich our understanding of factors influencing medically indicated at-risk individuals' decisions to take genetic tests (or not) in the context of cancer treatment and prevention. While previous studies have explored this topic in communities in Europe and the United States, we know relatively little about the situation in Asia. In this study, we conducted in-depth interviews with 24 women who underwent genetic testing for her…
Between personalized and racialized precision medicine: A relative resources perspective
Since the completion of the first human genome sequencing project in 2003, the potential for incorporating genomics into clinical practice in the pursuit of precision medicine has garnered a great amount of attention and interest. Existing literature presents a dichotomous view of the future of medicine: either precision medicine will replace race-based medicine or race-based medicine will persist despite developments in genetic research and geno…
Social Systems Matter: Precision Medicine, Public Health, and the Medical Model
Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews conducted in Singapore, Canada, and the United States, this paper shows that biomedical experts are deeply concerned about the shortcomings of the biomedical model of health. Precision public health, when anchored in genomics, can be considered a twenty-first century version of the medical model of health, which originated from nineteenth century germ theory. First, concerns regarding the adoption o…
Doctors’ perception on the ethical use of AI-enabled clinical decision support systems for antibiotic prescribing recommendations in Singapore
Objectives: The increased utilization of Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare changes practice and introduces ethical implications for AI adoption in medicine. We assess medical doctors' ethical stance in situations that arise in adopting an AI-enabled Clinical Decision Support System (AI-CDSS) for antibiotic prescribing decision support in a healthcare institution in Singapore. Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews with 30 doctors of v…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Context (archaeology (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · BRCA gene mutations in cancer (4 works)