M J Bloor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3657446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Bloor |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloor |
| SIGNATURE | BLOOR M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among injecting drug users in London and Glasgow
This paper reports on the British findings from a cross-national study of HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among 1,037 injecting drug users (IDUs) recruited from a variety of treatment- and community-based settings during 1990. Confirmed HIV saliva test results show 12.8% (63) of London respondents and 1.8% (8) of Glasgow respondents to be HIV antibody positive. Among London respondents, a higher rate of prevalence was found in those with no…
The inappropriateness of psycho-social models of risk behaviour for understanding HIV-related risk practices among Glasgow male prostitutes
Much the most common models of HIV-related risk behaviour are those psychosocial models derived from studies of health behaviour and tested on large interview samples of American gay men. These models were not appropriate for understanding risk behaviour among 32 Glasgow male prostitutes. Whereas psycho-social models conceive of risk behaviour as volitional and individualistic, ethnographic data indicate that the male prostitutes' risk practices …
A possible artefactual component in specific cause mortality gradients. Social class variations in the clinical accuracy of death certificates
This paper investigates one possible avenue of artefactual influence on the production and/or concealment of social class gradients in specific cause mortality rates, namely, the possibility of social class biases in the accuracy of diagnosis of cause of death and the systematic misallocation of certain social groups to particular diagnoses. Information on this topic was obtained by matching occupational data gathered at death registration with d…
Teamwork, information control and therapeutic effectiveness
This paper maps the differential distribution of therapeutic work within the programmes of two therapeutic communities found in psychiatric hospitals. It is shown that in one of the two communities, therapeutic work was largely restricted to the small groups and to those large groups attended by the psychiatrists. The other community displayed a distribution of therapeutic work which was spread across the whole formal weekly programme and into in…
Social control in the therapeutic community
Sharp's study ‘Social Control in the Therapeutic Community’ is used as a critical case for the hypothesis that all treatment institutions routinely maintain manipulative control of their clientele. Sharp's argument is that social control is an inevitable consequence of the ubiquitous, nihilating, individualising, and selective properties of staff interpretative work. This view is contested by the presentation of data collected in a second communi…
Reality construction, reality exploration and treatment in two therapeutic communities1
Data collected by participant observation in two contrasting types of therapeutic community are compared to reveal broad similarities in the treatment process. In both communities treatment was centrally concerned with reality construction: patients/residents learned to follow, assimilate and reproduce accounts of the community structure and prescriptions for behaviour, and these accounts and prescriptions reflexively constituted the social world…
Reality construction, reality exploration and treatment in two therapeutic communities
On the Retrieval of Sociological Descriptions
Our concern in this article is with the feeding back of sociological descriptions to those whom these descriptions purport to be about. This in particular is what we mean in our title by the ‘retrieval of sociological description’. We would like to consider here some of the issues surrounding any attempt on the part of the sociologist to offer his account for inspection by his research respondents, why one may attempt such an exercise and, tentat…
Therapeutic paradox – the patient culture and the formal treatment programme in a therapeutic community
Data collected by participant observation in a day hospital are used to examine the complex relationship between informal patient interaction and the formal group therapy programme of this therapeutic community. It was evident that staff might view apparently similar informal patient activities in quite different lights, as either complementary or as detrimental to the work of the formal groups. This apparent inconsistency in staff prescriptions …
A review of investigations into adenotonsillectomy
Operations on the tonsils and adenoids are among the most commonly performed of all operations but present a wide range of problems when attempts are made to evaluate the results. This article reviews the findings of the major evaluative studies and discusses the general difficulties that confront them, particularly those that arise from failure to take into account the extensive web of social factors that precipitate a child towards operation an…
Social control in the therapeutic community
Sharp's study ‘Social Control in the Therapeutic Community’ is used as a critical case for the hypothesis that all treatment institutions routinely maintain manipulative control of their clientele. Sharp's argument is that social control is an inevitable consequence of the ubiquitous, nihilating, individualising, and selective properties of staff interpretative work. This view is contested by the presentation of data collected in a second communi…
A possible artefactual component in specific cause mortality gradients. Social class variations in the clinical accuracy of death certificates
This paper investigates one possible avenue of artefactual influence on the production and/or concealment of social class gradients in specific cause mortality rates, namely, the possibility of social class biases in the accuracy of diagnosis of cause of death and the systematic misallocation of certain social groups to particular diagnoses. Information on this topic was obtained by matching occupational data gathered at death registration with d…
Teamwork, information control and therapeutic effectiveness
This paper maps the differential distribution of therapeutic work within the programmes of two therapeutic communities found in psychiatric hospitals. It is shown that in one of the two communities, therapeutic work was largely restricted to the small groups and to those large groups attended by the psychiatrists. The other community displayed a distribution of therapeutic work which was spread across the whole formal weekly programme and into in…
Therapeutic paradox – the patient culture and the formal treatment programme in a therapeutic community
Data collected by participant observation in a day hospital are used to examine the complex relationship between informal patient interaction and the formal group therapy programme of this therapeutic community. It was evident that staff might view apparently similar informal patient activities in quite different lights, as either complementary or as detrimental to the work of the formal groups. This apparent inconsistency in staff prescriptions …
Reality construction, reality exploration and treatment in two therapeutic communities1
Data collected by participant observation in two contrasting types of therapeutic community are compared to reveal broad similarities in the treatment process. In both communities treatment was centrally concerned with reality construction: patients/residents learned to follow, assimilate and reproduce accounts of the community structure and prescriptions for behaviour, and these accounts and prescriptions reflexively constituted the social world…
Reality construction, reality exploration and treatment in two therapeutic communities
On the Retrieval of Sociological Descriptions
Our concern in this article is with the feeding back of sociological descriptions to those whom these descriptions purport to be about. This in particular is what we mean in our title by the ‘retrieval of sociological description’. We would like to consider here some of the issues surrounding any attempt on the part of the sociologist to offer his account for inspection by his research respondents, why one may attempt such an exercise and, tentat…
A review of investigations into adenotonsillectomy
Operations on the tonsils and adenoids are among the most commonly performed of all operations but present a wide range of problems when attempts are made to evaluate the results. This article reviews the findings of the major evaluative studies and discusses the general difficulties that confront them, particularly those that arise from failure to take into account the extensive web of social factors that precipitate a child towards operation an…
On the Retrieval of Sociological Descriptions
Our concern in this article is with the feeding back of sociological descriptions to those whom these descriptions purport to be about. This in particular is what we mean in our title by the ‘retrieval of sociological description’. We would like to consider here some of the issues surrounding any attempt on the part of the sociologist to offer his account for inspection by his research respondents, why one may attempt such an exercise and, tentat…
Therapeutic paradox – the patient culture and the formal treatment programme in a therapeutic community
Data collected by participant observation in a day hospital are used to examine the complex relationship between informal patient interaction and the formal group therapy programme of this therapeutic community. It was evident that staff might view apparently similar informal patient activities in quite different lights, as either complementary or as detrimental to the work of the formal groups. This apparent inconsistency in staff prescriptions …
Reality construction, reality exploration and treatment in two therapeutic communities1
Data collected by participant observation in two contrasting types of therapeutic community are compared to reveal broad similarities in the treatment process. In both communities treatment was centrally concerned with reality construction: patients/residents learned to follow, assimilate and reproduce accounts of the community structure and prescriptions for behaviour, and these accounts and prescriptions reflexively constituted the social world…
Reality construction, reality exploration and treatment in two therapeutic communities
Social control in the therapeutic community
Sharp's study ‘Social Control in the Therapeutic Community’ is used as a critical case for the hypothesis that all treatment institutions routinely maintain manipulative control of their clientele. Sharp's argument is that social control is an inevitable consequence of the ubiquitous, nihilating, individualising, and selective properties of staff interpretative work. This view is contested by the presentation of data collected in a second communi…
Teamwork, information control and therapeutic effectiveness
This paper maps the differential distribution of therapeutic work within the programmes of two therapeutic communities found in psychiatric hospitals. It is shown that in one of the two communities, therapeutic work was largely restricted to the small groups and to those large groups attended by the psychiatrists. The other community displayed a distribution of therapeutic work which was spread across the whole formal weekly programme and into in…
A possible artefactual component in specific cause mortality gradients. Social class variations in the clinical accuracy of death certificates
This paper investigates one possible avenue of artefactual influence on the production and/or concealment of social class gradients in specific cause mortality rates, namely, the possibility of social class biases in the accuracy of diagnosis of cause of death and the systematic misallocation of certain social groups to particular diagnoses. Information on this topic was obtained by matching occupational data gathered at death registration with d…
The inappropriateness of psycho-social models of risk behaviour for understanding HIV-related risk practices among Glasgow male prostitutes
Much the most common models of HIV-related risk behaviour are those psychosocial models derived from studies of health behaviour and tested on large interview samples of American gay men. These models were not appropriate for understanding risk behaviour among 32 Glasgow male prostitutes. Whereas psycho-social models conceive of risk behaviour as volitional and individualistic, ethnographic data indicate that the male prostitutes' risk practices …
HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among injecting drug users in London and Glasgow
This paper reports on the British findings from a cross-national study of HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among 1,037 injecting drug users (IDUs) recruited from a variety of treatment- and community-based settings during 1990. Confirmed HIV saliva test results show 12.8% (63) of London respondents and 1.8% (8) of Glasgow respondents to be HIV antibody positive. Among London respondents, a higher rate of prevalence was found in those with no…
Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works)