Cristina Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Political Life of Research Ethics Committees And What It Means for Ethnographic Research
This review discusses three pieces of work, that is, a conference panel and two books, that deal with the role of research ethics committees (RECs) in regulating biomedical research and medical anthropological research. We summarise the papers and conversations of a panel we convened on this topic during the 2020 European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference. We review two relatively recent books which discuss the role of RECs…
Ethics governance in Scottish universities
While ethical norms for conducting academic research in the United Kingdom are relatively clear, there is little empirical understanding of how university research ethics committees (RECs) themselves operate and whether they are seen to operate well. In this article, we offer insights from a project focused on the Scottish university context. We deployed a three-sided qualitative approach: (i) document analysis; (ii) interviews with REC members, …
A World of Touch in a No-Touch Pandemic
Touch is essential when living with dementia for communication and remaining connected with the world, and it is also unavoidable when performing body care. Thus, it is impossible to think of living and caring for people with dementia in the absence of touch. Drawing from my ethnographic fieldwork conducted with therapy animals and people living with dementia in Scottish care facilities, in this article I argue that the public health measures tak…
Multi-species dementia studies
Ageing, ritual and social change
Ageing, ritual and social change: comparing the secular and religious in Eastern and Western Europe." Mortality, 22(1), pp. 90–91
Ageing, ritual and social change
Ageing, ritual and social change: comparing the secular and religious in Eastern and Western Europe." Mortality, 22(1), pp. 90–91
A World of Touch in a No-Touch Pandemic
Touch is essential when living with dementia for communication and remaining connected with the world, and it is also unavoidable when performing body care. Thus, it is impossible to think of living and caring for people with dementia in the absence of touch. Drawing from my ethnographic fieldwork conducted with therapy animals and people living with dementia in Scottish care facilities, in this article I argue that the public health measures tak…
Multi-species dementia studies
Ethics governance in Scottish universities
While ethical norms for conducting academic research in the United Kingdom are relatively clear, there is little empirical understanding of how university research ethics committees (RECs) themselves operate and whether they are seen to operate well. In this article, we offer insights from a project focused on the Scottish university context. We deployed a three-sided qualitative approach: (i) document analysis; (ii) interviews with REC members, …
The Political Life of Research Ethics Committees And What It Means for Ethnographic Research
This review discusses three pieces of work, that is, a conference panel and two books, that deal with the role of research ethics committees (RECs) in regulating biomedical research and medical anthropological research. We summarise the papers and conversations of a panel we convened on this topic during the 2020 European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference. We review two relatively recent books which discuss the role of RECs…
Sociology (5 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Dementia (2 works) · Disease (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)