Amit Desai
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3697960 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amit Desai |
| PRENOMES | Amit |
| SOBRENOME | Desai |
| ASSINATURA | DESAI A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | King Edward Memorial Hospital Research Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3073-6823 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Constraining co-creation? An ethnographic study of Healthwatch organizations in England
While the potential benefits of co-production and co-creation are widely vaunted, the degree to which they precipitate innovative change in systems varies, and influences on their impact demand greater attention.We present an ethnographic study of organizations intended to foster co-creation in English health and social care.Comparing five cases, we find demonstrable activity and some tangible impacts.At the same time, the positioning of these or…
Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant medical and psychological challenges worldwide, and not only exceeded the capacity of hospitals and intensive care units but also an individuals' ability to cope with life. Health-care workers have continued to provide care for patients despite exhaustion, fear of transmission to themselves and their family, illness or death of friends and colleagues, and losing many patients. They have also faced addi…
The Ways of Friendship
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through…
Patient experience data as enacted
Over the last three decades, sociomaterial approaches to the study of health care practices have made an important contribution to the sociology of health care. Significant attention has been paid to the role of technology and artefacts in health care and the operation of actor-networks but less space has been given to questions of ontological multiplicity in health care practices. In this paper, we draw upon our study of patient experience data …
Enabling ‘citizen voice’ in the English health and social care system
BACKGROUND: Local Healthwatch have been operating since 2013 as 'consumer champions' in health and social care in England. There is little evidence about how they operate and the daily practices through which they seek to represent citizen views and influence others. OBJECTIVE: To explore (a) the current organizational arrangements, relationships and impact of local Healthwatch in England, and (b) to what extent do these vary across local Healthw…
The Ways of Friendship
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through…
The ways of friendship
Dilemmas of devotion
This article offers perspectives on the kinds of agency harnessed when people in central India join a Hindu devotional sect (or panth ). It takes seriously the devotees' desire to participate fully in a relationship with God alone and looks at the consequences of this desire on significant relationships with kin, neighbours, and other gods. The article contrasts these forms of agency with the kind demanded of local people by modernizing projects …
Anti-'anti-witchcraft' and the Maoist insurgency in rural Maharashtra, India
Aghor medicine
Subaltern Vegetarianism
Academic writing on the practice of vegetarianism in India has proceeded on the assumption that those on the lower rungs of society-low castes-give up eating meat out of a desire to change their so
Caste in question
Tribal communities and social change - Chacko, Pariyaram M
Humoral concepts of mental illness in India
Traditional concepts of mental disorder among Indian psychiatric patients
Traditional concepts of mental disorder among Indian psychiatric patients
Humoral concepts of mental illness in India
Subaltern Vegetarianism
Academic writing on the practice of vegetarianism in India has proceeded on the assumption that those on the lower rungs of society-low castes-give up eating meat out of a desire to change their so
Anti-'anti-witchcraft' and the Maoist insurgency in rural Maharashtra, India
Dilemmas of devotion
This article offers perspectives on the kinds of agency harnessed when people in central India join a Hindu devotional sect (or panth ). It takes seriously the devotees' desire to participate fully in a relationship with God alone and looks at the consequences of this desire on significant relationships with kin, neighbours, and other gods. The article contrasts these forms of agency with the kind demanded of local people by modernizing projects …
Patient experience data as enacted
Over the last three decades, sociomaterial approaches to the study of health care practices have made an important contribution to the sociology of health care. Significant attention has been paid to the role of technology and artefacts in health care and the operation of actor-networks but less space has been given to questions of ontological multiplicity in health care practices. In this paper, we draw upon our study of patient experience data …
Traditional concepts of mental disorder among Indian psychiatric patients
Humoral concepts of mental illness in India
Tribal communities and social change - Chacko, Pariyaram M
Caste in question
Subaltern Vegetarianism
Academic writing on the practice of vegetarianism in India has proceeded on the assumption that those on the lower rungs of society-low castes-give up eating meat out of a desire to change their so
Anti-'anti-witchcraft' and the Maoist insurgency in rural Maharashtra, India
Aghor medicine
The Ways of Friendship
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through…
The ways of friendship
Dilemmas of devotion
This article offers perspectives on the kinds of agency harnessed when people in central India join a Hindu devotional sect (or panth ). It takes seriously the devotees' desire to participate fully in a relationship with God alone and looks at the consequences of this desire on significant relationships with kin, neighbours, and other gods. The article contrasts these forms of agency with the kind demanded of local people by modernizing projects …
Enabling ‘citizen voice’ in the English health and social care system
BACKGROUND: Local Healthwatch have been operating since 2013 as 'consumer champions' in health and social care in England. There is little evidence about how they operate and the daily practices through which they seek to represent citizen views and influence others. OBJECTIVE: To explore (a) the current organizational arrangements, relationships and impact of local Healthwatch in England, and (b) to what extent do these vary across local Healthw…
Patient experience data as enacted
Over the last three decades, sociomaterial approaches to the study of health care practices have made an important contribution to the sociology of health care. Significant attention has been paid to the role of technology and artefacts in health care and the operation of actor-networks but less space has been given to questions of ontological multiplicity in health care practices. In this paper, we draw upon our study of patient experience data …
Reductions in anxiety, depression and insomnia in health care workers using a non-pharmaceutical intervention
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant medical and psychological challenges worldwide, and not only exceeded the capacity of hospitals and intensive care units but also an individuals' ability to cope with life. Health-care workers have continued to provide care for patients despite exhaustion, fear of transmission to themselves and their family, illness or death of friends and colleagues, and losing many patients. They have also faced addi…
The Ways of Friendship
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through…
Constraining co-creation? An ethnographic study of Healthwatch organizations in England
While the potential benefits of co-production and co-creation are widely vaunted, the degree to which they precipitate innovative change in systems varies, and influences on their impact demand greater attention.We present an ethnographic study of organizations intended to foster co-creation in English health and social care.Comparing five cases, we find demonstrable activity and some tangible impacts.At the same time, the positioning of these or…
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