Shirley Mciver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirley Mciver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirley |
| FAMILY NAME | Mciver |
| SIGNATURE | MCIVER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding and Improving Older People's Experiences of Service Transitions
This paper examines the concept of transition and its centrality to later life experiences. It considers how an enhanced and more user-centred understanding of transitions can be harnessed to improve older people's experiences of moving into and between health and social care services. It focuses, in particular, on the neglected dimension of subjective experiences of transition and considers how social workers can engage with older people's emoti…
Five cases, four actors and a moral
The case of Jaymee Bowen (child B) illustrated the conflict that may arise over treatment decisions in the National Health Service (NHS). This article reviews four further cases involving disagreement between patients and families on the one hand, and health authorities on the other, and a fifth case in which a health authority questioned the treatment decision of a medical specialist. The cases illustrate the rise of consumerism in health care a…
Counting customers or making customers count
Cultural Sources of Support for Contemporary Occultism
Certaines conceptions de l'occultisme le réduisent à n'être qu'une expression déviante et séparée du consensus culturel con ventionnel. Cette perception des choses a l'inconvénient de rendre particulièrement difficile la compréhension de la raison pour laquelle certaines personnes en viennent à adopter une vision occultiste du réel. Elle encourage aussi les sociologues à ne consi dérer ces personnes que comme des cas marginaux, expressifs d'un ha…
Cultural Sources of Support for Contemporary Occultism
Certaines conceptions de l'occultisme le réduisent à n'être qu'une expression déviante et séparée du consensus culturel con ventionnel. Cette perception des choses a l'inconvénient de rendre particulièrement difficile la compréhension de la raison pour laquelle certaines personnes en viennent à adopter une vision occultiste du réel. Elle encourage aussi les sociologues à ne consi dérer ces personnes que comme des cas marginaux, expressifs d'un ha…
Understanding and Improving Older People's Experiences of Service Transitions
This paper examines the concept of transition and its centrality to later life experiences. It considers how an enhanced and more user-centred understanding of transitions can be harnessed to improve older people's experiences of moving into and between health and social care services. It focuses, in particular, on the neglected dimension of subjective experiences of transition and considers how social workers can engage with older people's emoti…
Cultural Sources of Support for Contemporary Occultism
Certaines conceptions de l'occultisme le réduisent à n'être qu'une expression déviante et séparée du consensus culturel con ventionnel. Cette perception des choses a l'inconvénient de rendre particulièrement difficile la compréhension de la raison pour laquelle certaines personnes en viennent à adopter une vision occultiste du réel. Elle encourage aussi les sociologues à ne consi dérer ces personnes que comme des cas marginaux, expressifs d'un ha…
Counting customers or making customers count
Five cases, four actors and a moral
The case of Jaymee Bowen (child B) illustrated the conflict that may arise over treatment decisions in the National Health Service (NHS). This article reviews four further cases involving disagreement between patients and families on the one hand, and health authorities on the other, and a fifth case in which a health authority questioned the treatment decision of a medical specialist. The cases illustrate the rise of consumerism in health care a…
Understanding and Improving Older People's Experiences of Service Transitions
This paper examines the concept of transition and its centrality to later life experiences. It considers how an enhanced and more user-centred understanding of transitions can be harnessed to improve older people's experiences of moving into and between health and social care services. It focuses, in particular, on the neglected dimension of subjective experiences of transition and considers how social workers can engage with older people's emoti…
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