Kenneth Mullen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Mullen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mullen |
| SIGNATURE | MULLEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3282-6734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding and improving the experience of claiming social security for mental health problems in the west of Scotland: A participatory social welfare study
A growing body of literature links claimant interactions with the UK social security system and negative psychological consequences. Psychologists for social change developed a framework to outline proposed mechanisms of psychological impact from austerity. This codesigned study aimed to make an informed comment on areas of dis(agreement) between the Austerity Ailments framework and how people claiming for mental health problems describe their ow…
‘A chronic disease is a disease which keeps coming back … it is like the flu’: Chronic disease risk perception and explanatory models among French- and Swahili-speaking African migrants
This study suggests a need to improve chronic disease health literacy among African migrants to promote engagement with preventive behaviours. This should build on not only participants' existing knowledge of disease causation and risk factors but also their self-reliance in the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle and desire to retain cultural knowledge and practice
Pleasing to behold: Healing and the visualized body
Techniques of mental visualization, and the visualization of the body of the Buddha in particular, are central to many Buddhist meditational practices. The paper begins with a description of a Tibetan healing ritual centred on the visualization of the Buddha in his healing form. This is followed by two accounts of the meaning of this practice: first as elucidated within the Buddhist philosophical framework, and second, from a sociological standpo…
Pleasing to behold: Healing and the visualized body
Techniques of mental visualization, and the visualization of the body of the Buddha in particular, are central to many Buddhist meditational practices. The paper begins with a description of a Tibetan healing ritual centred on the visualization of the Buddha in his healing form. This is followed by two accounts of the meaning of this practice: first as elucidated within the Buddhist philosophical framework, and second, from a sociological standpo…
Crime on Campus: A Survey of Space Users
Irish descent, religion and food consumption in the west of Scotland
Smoking in Adolescence: Images and Identities
Theological and Sociological Accounts of a Buddhist Meditation Practice: Illusory bodies
Techniques of mental visualisation, and the visualisation of the body of the Buddha in particular, are central to many Buddhist meditation practices. The article begins with a description of a Tibetan meditation centred on the visualisation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. This is followed by two accounts of the meaning of this practice: first as elucidated within the Buddhist theological/philosophical framework, and second, from a sociological …
Marital Status and Men's Health
The literature on the relationship between health and marital status has considered both mortality and morbidity. The work which has been done on mortality is reasonably conclusive. Researchers have found a graduation in mortality rates over marital status with the divorced faring worst for almost every cause of death, with the single occupying the mid position, and the married being best off (Morgan 1980; Macintyre 1986, 1992)
Through a Glass Darkly: Western Views of Buddhism
(1994). THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: WESTERN VIEWS OF BUDDHISM. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 15-18
Control and Responsibility: Moral and Religious Issues in Lay Health Accounts
In sociological work of an empirical nature the concept of control tends to have a taken-for-granted quality. Similarly in the field of medical sociology when control is mentioned in relation to health and illness it is often presented in a unidimensional manner. This article analyses the relationship between control and responsibility for health in the lay accounts of male Glaswegians. Activist and fatalist dimensions were found in their thinkin…
Probabilistic psychophysics with noisy stimuli
A question of balance: Health behaviour and work context among male Glaswegians
Discussion of the persistence of social class inequalities in health has led to greater interest being paid to differences between the classes in lay health beliefs. Recent work on lay health beliefs, however, has mainly viewed social class as a proxy for wider aspects of lifestyle and paid less attention to its occupational component. Part of this can be explained by its predominant focus on the health beliefs of women. This paper remedies this …
Religion and Health: A Review of the Literature
There has been a recent tendency for medical sociology to ignore the possible influence that religion may have on health. For example, religion as a social variable is now no longer routinely collected in large scale social surveys dealing with health or mortality. As Vaux speaking of America stated: “The U.S. Public Health Service, in its extensive and comprehensive analysis of health in its etiological and epidemiological dimensions, has chosen…
Area and Health in Cities: A Review of the Literature
In this paper I will analyse the nature of the relationship between area and health in cities. Although it has long been known that mortality and morbidity are unevenly distributed within urban environments (Stamp, 1964; Learmonth, 1988) it remains problematic as to how these differences should be explained. In the present paper I will present detailed information on the spatial distibution of mortality, morbidity, and health services in cities a…
Control and Responsibility: Some Implications of the New Models of Problem Drinking
At the present time there is a general dissatisfaction among both theoreticians and practitioners with the disease model of alcoholism. It is often felt that it has served its usefulness. This can be witnessed in the literature in the increased questioning of the central components of the alcohol addiction model. Such dissatisfaction is not new but the present unease has resulted in the creation of new models of problem drinking. New theories of …
Audience orientation and the occupational rhetoric of public house performers
A question of balance: Health behaviour and work context among male Glaswegians
Discussion of the persistence of social class inequalities in health has led to greater interest being paid to differences between the classes in lay health beliefs. Recent work on lay health beliefs, however, has mainly viewed social class as a proxy for wider aspects of lifestyle and paid less attention to its occupational component. Part of this can be explained by its predominant focus on the health beliefs of women. This paper remedies this …
Irish descent, religion and food consumption in the west of Scotland
Audience orientation and the occupational rhetoric of public house performers
Control and Responsibility: Moral and Religious Issues in Lay Health Accounts
In sociological work of an empirical nature the concept of control tends to have a taken-for-granted quality. Similarly in the field of medical sociology when control is mentioned in relation to health and illness it is often presented in a unidimensional manner. This article analyses the relationship between control and responsibility for health in the lay accounts of male Glaswegians. Activist and fatalist dimensions were found in their thinkin…
Understanding and improving the experience of claiming social security for mental health problems in the west of Scotland: A participatory social welfare study
A growing body of literature links claimant interactions with the UK social security system and negative psychological consequences. Psychologists for social change developed a framework to outline proposed mechanisms of psychological impact from austerity. This codesigned study aimed to make an informed comment on areas of dis(agreement) between the Austerity Ailments framework and how people claiming for mental health problems describe their ow…
Crime on Campus: A Survey of Space Users
Smoking in Adolescence: Images and Identities
Control and Responsibility: Some Implications of the New Models of Problem Drinking
At the present time there is a general dissatisfaction among both theoreticians and practitioners with the disease model of alcoholism. It is often felt that it has served its usefulness. This can be witnessed in the literature in the increased questioning of the central components of the alcohol addiction model. Such dissatisfaction is not new but the present unease has resulted in the creation of new models of problem drinking. New theories of …
Audience orientation and the occupational rhetoric of public house performers
Control and Responsibility: Some Implications of the New Models of Problem Drinking
At the present time there is a general dissatisfaction among both theoreticians and practitioners with the disease model of alcoholism. It is often felt that it has served its usefulness. This can be witnessed in the literature in the increased questioning of the central components of the alcohol addiction model. Such dissatisfaction is not new but the present unease has resulted in the creation of new models of problem drinking. New theories of …
Religion and Health: A Review of the Literature
There has been a recent tendency for medical sociology to ignore the possible influence that religion may have on health. For example, religion as a social variable is now no longer routinely collected in large scale social surveys dealing with health or mortality. As Vaux speaking of America stated: “The U.S. Public Health Service, in its extensive and comprehensive analysis of health in its etiological and epidemiological dimensions, has chosen…
Area and Health in Cities: A Review of the Literature
In this paper I will analyse the nature of the relationship between area and health in cities. Although it has long been known that mortality and morbidity are unevenly distributed within urban environments (Stamp, 1964; Learmonth, 1988) it remains problematic as to how these differences should be explained. In the present paper I will present detailed information on the spatial distibution of mortality, morbidity, and health services in cities a…
Probabilistic psychophysics with noisy stimuli
A question of balance: Health behaviour and work context among male Glaswegians
Discussion of the persistence of social class inequalities in health has led to greater interest being paid to differences between the classes in lay health beliefs. Recent work on lay health beliefs, however, has mainly viewed social class as a proxy for wider aspects of lifestyle and paid less attention to its occupational component. Part of this can be explained by its predominant focus on the health beliefs of women. This paper remedies this …
Through a Glass Darkly: Western Views of Buddhism
(1994). THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: WESTERN VIEWS OF BUDDHISM. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 15-18
Control and Responsibility: Moral and Religious Issues in Lay Health Accounts
In sociological work of an empirical nature the concept of control tends to have a taken-for-granted quality. Similarly in the field of medical sociology when control is mentioned in relation to health and illness it is often presented in a unidimensional manner. This article analyses the relationship between control and responsibility for health in the lay accounts of male Glaswegians. Activist and fatalist dimensions were found in their thinkin…
Marital Status and Men's Health
The literature on the relationship between health and marital status has considered both mortality and morbidity. The work which has been done on mortality is reasonably conclusive. Researchers have found a graduation in mortality rates over marital status with the divorced faring worst for almost every cause of death, with the single occupying the mid position, and the married being best off (Morgan 1980; Macintyre 1986, 1992)
Theological and Sociological Accounts of a Buddhist Meditation Practice: Illusory bodies
Techniques of mental visualisation, and the visualisation of the body of the Buddha in particular, are central to many Buddhist meditation practices. The article begins with a description of a Tibetan meditation centred on the visualisation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. This is followed by two accounts of the meaning of this practice: first as elucidated within the Buddhist theological/philosophical framework, and second, from a sociological …
Irish descent, religion and food consumption in the west of Scotland
Smoking in Adolescence: Images and Identities
Pleasing to behold: Healing and the visualized body
Techniques of mental visualization, and the visualization of the body of the Buddha in particular, are central to many Buddhist meditational practices. The paper begins with a description of a Tibetan healing ritual centred on the visualization of the Buddha in his healing form. This is followed by two accounts of the meaning of this practice: first as elucidated within the Buddhist philosophical framework, and second, from a sociological standpo…
Pleasing to behold: Healing and the visualized body
Techniques of mental visualization, and the visualization of the body of the Buddha in particular, are central to many Buddhist meditational practices. The paper begins with a description of a Tibetan healing ritual centred on the visualization of the Buddha in his healing form. This is followed by two accounts of the meaning of this practice: first as elucidated within the Buddhist philosophical framework, and second, from a sociological standpo…
Crime on Campus: A Survey of Space Users
‘A chronic disease is a disease which keeps coming back … it is like the flu’: Chronic disease risk perception and explanatory models among French- and Swahili-speaking African migrants
This study suggests a need to improve chronic disease health literacy among African migrants to promote engagement with preventive behaviours. This should build on not only participants' existing knowledge of disease causation and risk factors but also their self-reliance in the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle and desire to retain cultural knowledge and practice
Understanding and improving the experience of claiming social security for mental health problems in the west of Scotland: A participatory social welfare study
A growing body of literature links claimant interactions with the UK social security system and negative psychological consequences. Psychologists for social change developed a framework to outline proposed mechanisms of psychological impact from austerity. This codesigned study aimed to make an informed comment on areas of dis(agreement) between the Austerity Ailments framework and how people claiming for mental health problems describe their ow…
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