Hilary Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2072-7827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Institutional thoughtlessness and the incarcerated pregnancy
This article examines the unique experiences of pregnant women in prison, building on Sykes’ concept of the pains of imprisonment and Crawley’s notion of institutional thoughtlessness. Based on qualitative data from an ethnographic study of three English prisons, including interviews with 28 pregnant prisoners and 10 staff members and field observations, the study highlights the lack of basic provisions for pregnant women, such as adequate nutrit…
Compulsory separation of women prisoners from their babies following childbirth: Uncertainty, loss and disenfranchised grief
There is growing evidence to show increased mental ill health in women compulsorily separated from their babies at birth (Cantwell et al., MBRRACE-UK, 2018:56). For imprisoned women, the risk of self-harm and suicide may be exacerbated. This article draws on in-depth interviews with a sample of 28 imprisoned pregnant women/new mothers, 10 prison staff and observations to discuss the experience of separation from or anticipation of separation of w…
Pregnancy and childbirth in English prisons: Institutional Ignominy and the Pains of Imprisonment
With a prison population of approximately 9000 women in England, it is estimated that approximately 600 pregnancies and 100 births occur annually. Despite an extensive literature on the sociology of reproduction, pregnancy and childbirth among women prisoners is under-researched. This article reports an ethnographic study in three English prisons undertaken in 2015-2016, including interviews with 22 prisoners, six women released from prison and 1…
Private Risks and Public Dangers
Contains papers selected from the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society. Most of the papers fall into the broad theme of risk and danger, and the public response to these in a multiplicity of modes of regulation and surveillance
Resilience and Survival: Black Teenage Mothers ‘Looked After’ by the State Tell their Stories About their Experience of Care
‘Looked after’ young people are among the most disadvantaged members of our society. While their disadvantaged status should not be ignored, poor outcomes are often emphasised at the expense of good ones. This article reports a study that adopts the concept of resilience to understand the narratives of the participants’ experience of care and foster care. A total of 15 young mothers, aged 16–19 and mainly from black African backgrounds, were inte…
Case studies for integrated Care development in US Children’s Hospitals, acute, primary and community services in NE Netherlands, and whole of state services in Jersey, UK
Stigma, intersectionality and motherhood: Exploring the relations of stigma in the accounts of black teenage mothers ‘looked after’ by the State
Stillbirth and Loss: Family Practices and Display
This paper explores how parents respond to their memories of their stillborn child over the years following their loss. When people die after living for several years or more, their family and friends have the residual traces of a life lived as a basis for an identity that may be remembered over a sustained period of time. For the parent of a stillborn child there is no such basis and the claim for a continuing social identity for their son or da…
Community-based resilience building: Normative meets narrative in Mbale, 2010/2011
This article provides a comparative analysis of normative and community-to-community-based approaches to resilience building. A narrative rendering of events in Bududa in 2010 is provided through the lens of a community-to-community partnership. The comparison is then achieved through a picture of a normative model for low-impact (cyclical), high-frequency disasters drawn from documentary resources. The narrative element is provided through a cas…
Dilemmas in decision-making about resuscitation-a focus group study of older people
Triangulation and integration: Processes, Claims and Implications
Researchers who advocate the use of multiple methods often write interchangeably about 'integrating', 'combining' and 'mixing' methods, sometimes eliding these descriptors with 'triangulation', which itself encompasses several meanings. In this article we argue that such an elision is problematic since it obscures the difference between (a) the processes by which methods (or data) are brought into relationship with each other (combined, integrate…
Women's Postnatal Experience Following a Medically Complicated Pregnancy
Within the social science literature on reproduction, relatively little attention has been paid to the areas of major illness during pregnancy and postnatal physical health. In this paper I present the results of a qualitative study of the postnatal health experiences of 15 women who had suffered a serious illness during pregnancy, the onset of which either predated or developed during pregnancy. Recently delivered women with continuing health pr…
Pregnancy, illness and the concept of career
This paper explores a neglected area of women's reproductive experience, namely major illness during pregnancy. It draws on a qualitative study of 15 women who had either a pre-existing illness or developed a major health problem during pregnancy, and explores in detail the accounts of four contrasting case histories. Analysis is framed by the concept of career. It is argued, however, that an understanding of the women's experiences requires that…
Private Risks and Public Dangers
Triangulation and integration: Processes, Claims and Implications
Researchers who advocate the use of multiple methods often write interchangeably about 'integrating', 'combining' and 'mixing' methods, sometimes eliding these descriptors with 'triangulation', which itself encompasses several meanings. In this article we argue that such an elision is problematic since it obscures the difference between (a) the processes by which methods (or data) are brought into relationship with each other (combined, integrate…
Pregnancy and childbirth in English prisons: Institutional Ignominy and the Pains of Imprisonment
With a prison population of approximately 9000 women in England, it is estimated that approximately 600 pregnancies and 100 births occur annually. Despite an extensive literature on the sociology of reproduction, pregnancy and childbirth among women prisoners is under-researched. This article reports an ethnographic study in three English prisons undertaken in 2015-2016, including interviews with 22 prisoners, six women released from prison and 1…
Dilemmas in decision-making about resuscitation-a focus group study of older people
Stigma, intersectionality and motherhood: Exploring the relations of stigma in the accounts of black teenage mothers ‘looked after’ by the State
Stillbirth and Loss: Family Practices and Display
This paper explores how parents respond to their memories of their stillborn child over the years following their loss. When people die after living for several years or more, their family and friends have the residual traces of a life lived as a basis for an identity that may be remembered over a sustained period of time. For the parent of a stillborn child there is no such basis and the claim for a continuing social identity for their son or da…
Compulsory separation of women prisoners from their babies following childbirth: Uncertainty, loss and disenfranchised grief
There is growing evidence to show increased mental ill health in women compulsorily separated from their babies at birth (Cantwell et al., MBRRACE-UK, 2018:56). For imprisoned women, the risk of self-harm and suicide may be exacerbated. This article draws on in-depth interviews with a sample of 28 imprisoned pregnant women/new mothers, 10 prison staff and observations to discuss the experience of separation from or anticipation of separation of w…
Community-based resilience building: Normative meets narrative in Mbale, 2010/2011
This article provides a comparative analysis of normative and community-to-community-based approaches to resilience building. A narrative rendering of events in Bududa in 2010 is provided through the lens of a community-to-community partnership. The comparison is then achieved through a picture of a normative model for low-impact (cyclical), high-frequency disasters drawn from documentary resources. The narrative element is provided through a cas…
Pregnancy, illness and the concept of career
This paper explores a neglected area of women's reproductive experience, namely major illness during pregnancy. It draws on a qualitative study of 15 women who had either a pre-existing illness or developed a major health problem during pregnancy, and explores in detail the accounts of four contrasting case histories. Analysis is framed by the concept of career. It is argued, however, that an understanding of the women's experiences requires that…
Private Risks and Public Dangers
Pregnancy, illness and the concept of career
This paper explores a neglected area of women's reproductive experience, namely major illness during pregnancy. It draws on a qualitative study of 15 women who had either a pre-existing illness or developed a major health problem during pregnancy, and explores in detail the accounts of four contrasting case histories. Analysis is framed by the concept of career. It is argued, however, that an understanding of the women's experiences requires that…
Women's Postnatal Experience Following a Medically Complicated Pregnancy
Within the social science literature on reproduction, relatively little attention has been paid to the areas of major illness during pregnancy and postnatal physical health. In this paper I present the results of a qualitative study of the postnatal health experiences of 15 women who had suffered a serious illness during pregnancy, the onset of which either predated or developed during pregnancy. Recently delivered women with continuing health pr…
Dilemmas in decision-making about resuscitation-a focus group study of older people
Triangulation and integration: Processes, Claims and Implications
Researchers who advocate the use of multiple methods often write interchangeably about 'integrating', 'combining' and 'mixing' methods, sometimes eliding these descriptors with 'triangulation', which itself encompasses several meanings. In this article we argue that such an elision is problematic since it obscures the difference between (a) the processes by which methods (or data) are brought into relationship with each other (combined, integrate…
Community-based resilience building: Normative meets narrative in Mbale, 2010/2011
This article provides a comparative analysis of normative and community-to-community-based approaches to resilience building. A narrative rendering of events in Bududa in 2010 is provided through the lens of a community-to-community partnership. The comparison is then achieved through a picture of a normative model for low-impact (cyclical), high-frequency disasters drawn from documentary resources. The narrative element is provided through a cas…
Stigma, intersectionality and motherhood: Exploring the relations of stigma in the accounts of black teenage mothers ‘looked after’ by the State
Stillbirth and Loss: Family Practices and Display
This paper explores how parents respond to their memories of their stillborn child over the years following their loss. When people die after living for several years or more, their family and friends have the residual traces of a life lived as a basis for an identity that may be remembered over a sustained period of time. For the parent of a stillborn child there is no such basis and the claim for a continuing social identity for their son or da…
Case studies for integrated Care development in US Children’s Hospitals, acute, primary and community services in NE Netherlands, and whole of state services in Jersey, UK
Resilience and Survival: Black Teenage Mothers ‘Looked After’ by the State Tell their Stories About their Experience of Care
‘Looked after’ young people are among the most disadvantaged members of our society. While their disadvantaged status should not be ignored, poor outcomes are often emphasised at the expense of good ones. This article reports a study that adopts the concept of resilience to understand the narratives of the participants’ experience of care and foster care. A total of 15 young mothers, aged 16–19 and mainly from black African backgrounds, were inte…
Private Risks and Public Dangers
Contains papers selected from the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society. Most of the papers fall into the broad theme of risk and danger, and the public response to these in a multiplicity of modes of regulation and surveillance
Pregnancy and childbirth in English prisons: Institutional Ignominy and the Pains of Imprisonment
With a prison population of approximately 9000 women in England, it is estimated that approximately 600 pregnancies and 100 births occur annually. Despite an extensive literature on the sociology of reproduction, pregnancy and childbirth among women prisoners is under-researched. This article reports an ethnographic study in three English prisons undertaken in 2015-2016, including interviews with 22 prisoners, six women released from prison and 1…
Compulsory separation of women prisoners from their babies following childbirth: Uncertainty, loss and disenfranchised grief
There is growing evidence to show increased mental ill health in women compulsorily separated from their babies at birth (Cantwell et al., MBRRACE-UK, 2018:56). For imprisoned women, the risk of self-harm and suicide may be exacerbated. This article draws on in-depth interviews with a sample of 28 imprisoned pregnant women/new mothers, 10 prison staff and observations to discuss the experience of separation from or anticipation of separation of w…
Institutional thoughtlessness and the incarcerated pregnancy
This article examines the unique experiences of pregnant women in prison, building on Sykes’ concept of the pains of imprisonment and Crawley’s notion of institutional thoughtlessness. Based on qualitative data from an ethnographic study of three English prisons, including interviews with 28 pregnant prisoners and 10 staff members and field observations, the study highlights the lack of basic provisions for pregnant women, such as adequate nutrit…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Pregnancy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works)