Geraldine Lee‐treweek
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geraldine Lee‐treweek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geraldine |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee‐treweek |
| SIGNATURE | TREWEEK G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contested spaces
Doing Race
This article examines how ‘race’ impacts upon the lives of young people who attend secondary schools in a mainly white British area of the United Kingdom. Schools Stand up 2 Racism (SSu2R), a Big Lottery research project, brought together a community partner – the Cheshire, Halton and Warrington Race and Equality Centre – and a team from Manchester Metropolitan University to investigate racism in Cheshire secondary schools. In an area where the p…
Negotiating the Holistic Turn - the Domestication of Alternative Medicine
Fadlon, J. Negotiating the Holistic Turn - the Domestication of Alternative Medicine . New York : State University of New York , 2005 . £34.50 (hbk) 157pp . ISBN 0-7914-6315-X Baer, H. Toward an Integrative Medicine - Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine . California : Altamira Press , 2004 . $27.95 (pbk) 224pp . ISBN 0-7591-0302-X The field of the sociology of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can be viewed as the poor cousi…
Trust in complementary medicine
Trust has been seen as operating within situations in which an individual's ability to assess risk or probability is absent and yet they still choose to believe in something. The development of new sets of knowledge in modern societies raises interesting questions about how the public come to trust the 'experts' who practice them and there is a paucity of work which addresses how trust 'happens' in these new relationships. This paper uses the acc…
I'm Not Ill, it's Just This Back
Personal responsibility has become a central focus for British health policy, professional ideologies and lay ideas around health. This article focuses upon the issue of personal responsibility and long-standing back problems. It uses material from interviews with osteopathic patients to illustrate the ways that patients' ideas about responsibility for and control over their symptoms are often moulded by their interactions with health care practi…
Women, Resistance and Care
Paid care work has traditionally been marginalised within the sociology of work. This paper argues that this absence needs to be addressed and redressed as paid care is an increasingly important source of employment for women in Britain. Ethnographic material from a study of the labour of auxiliaries in a nursing home is used to illustrate how paid care is affected by factors similar to those which are salient in other forms of work. Like workers…
Women, Resistance and Care
Paid care work has traditionally been marginalised within the sociology of work. This paper argues that this absence needs to be addressed and redressed as paid care is an increasingly important source of employment for women in Britain. Ethnographic material from a study of the labour of auxiliaries in a nursing home is used to illustrate how paid care is affected by factors similar to those which are salient in other forms of work. Like workers…
Trust in complementary medicine
Trust has been seen as operating within situations in which an individual's ability to assess risk or probability is absent and yet they still choose to believe in something. The development of new sets of knowledge in modern societies raises interesting questions about how the public come to trust the 'experts' who practice them and there is a paucity of work which addresses how trust 'happens' in these new relationships. This paper uses the acc…
I'm Not Ill, it's Just This Back
Personal responsibility has become a central focus for British health policy, professional ideologies and lay ideas around health. This article focuses upon the issue of personal responsibility and long-standing back problems. It uses material from interviews with osteopathic patients to illustrate the ways that patients' ideas about responsibility for and control over their symptoms are often moulded by their interactions with health care practi…
Negotiating the Holistic Turn - the Domestication of Alternative Medicine
Fadlon, J. Negotiating the Holistic Turn - the Domestication of Alternative Medicine . New York : State University of New York , 2005 . £34.50 (hbk) 157pp . ISBN 0-7914-6315-X Baer, H. Toward an Integrative Medicine - Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine . California : Altamira Press , 2004 . $27.95 (pbk) 224pp . ISBN 0-7591-0302-X The field of the sociology of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can be viewed as the poor cousi…
Doing Race
This article examines how ‘race’ impacts upon the lives of young people who attend secondary schools in a mainly white British area of the United Kingdom. Schools Stand up 2 Racism (SSu2R), a Big Lottery research project, brought together a community partner – the Cheshire, Halton and Warrington Race and Equality Centre – and a team from Manchester Metropolitan University to investigate racism in Cheshire secondary schools. In an area where the p…
Women, Resistance and Care
Paid care work has traditionally been marginalised within the sociology of work. This paper argues that this absence needs to be addressed and redressed as paid care is an increasingly important source of employment for women in Britain. Ethnographic material from a study of the labour of auxiliaries in a nursing home is used to illustrate how paid care is affected by factors similar to those which are salient in other forms of work. Like workers…
I'm Not Ill, it's Just This Back
Personal responsibility has become a central focus for British health policy, professional ideologies and lay ideas around health. This article focuses upon the issue of personal responsibility and long-standing back problems. It uses material from interviews with osteopathic patients to illustrate the ways that patients' ideas about responsibility for and control over their symptoms are often moulded by their interactions with health care practi…
Trust in complementary medicine
Trust has been seen as operating within situations in which an individual's ability to assess risk or probability is absent and yet they still choose to believe in something. The development of new sets of knowledge in modern societies raises interesting questions about how the public come to trust the 'experts' who practice them and there is a paucity of work which addresses how trust 'happens' in these new relationships. This paper uses the acc…
Negotiating the Holistic Turn - the Domestication of Alternative Medicine
Fadlon, J. Negotiating the Holistic Turn - the Domestication of Alternative Medicine . New York : State University of New York , 2005 . £34.50 (hbk) 157pp . ISBN 0-7914-6315-X Baer, H. Toward an Integrative Medicine - Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine . California : Altamira Press , 2004 . $27.95 (pbk) 224pp . ISBN 0-7591-0302-X The field of the sociology of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can be viewed as the poor cousi…
Doing Race
This article examines how ‘race’ impacts upon the lives of young people who attend secondary schools in a mainly white British area of the United Kingdom. Schools Stand up 2 Racism (SSu2R), a Big Lottery research project, brought together a community partner – the Cheshire, Halton and Warrington Race and Equality Centre – and a team from Manchester Metropolitan University to investigate racism in Cheshire secondary schools. In an area where the p…
Contested spaces
Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Alternative medicine (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)