Gillian Bendelow
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Bendelow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Bendelow |
| SIGNATURE | BENDELOW G |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton Brighton UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Processing the pandemic
The worldwide COVID-19 crisis has highlighted perhaps more than ever before in the history of SHI the need for a critical sociological lens alongside the clinical, public health and organisational discussion of the current pandemic as it continues through 2020. In particular, debates around social inequalities in health and medicine have received new attention globally. A research note by one of us (Will, 1) suggested in the spring that sociologi…
Depression
The diagnosis of depression in the clinical context is extremely controversial and is subject to criticism of over-medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Depression can be conceptualised across the entire spectrum of lay and medical belief, from the 'normal' highs and lows of the human condition to its inclusion in the dominant Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classificatory system, as a form of serious mental illness. In …
The slide to pragmatism
This paper reports on a qualitative study of UK mental health practitioners’ experiences of working with the contested condition, dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD). Our interviews focused on the issues of treatability, risk assessment and decision-making in multi-disciplinary teams. We discuss the approach of values-based medicine (VBM) as a useful framework for interpreting the data: respondents cited both explicit values (based o…
Emotions, pain and gender
Emotional health
In general practice in the UK, the term emotional health is increasingly being used to address an ever-increasing range of consultations which involve distressing symptoms which combine mental, physical and social aspects of health and wellbeing. Practitioners often despair of being able to treat these complex conditions with traditional biomedicine, as they are often manifested through medically unexplained symptoms, hence the turn to more holis…
Screening for breast cancer
Women's perspectives on breast screening (mammography and breast awareness) were explored in interviews with midlife women sampled for diversity of background and health experience. Attending mammography screening was considered a social obligation despite women's fears and experiences of discomfort. Women gave considerable legitimacy to mammography visualizations of the breast, and the expert interpretation of these. In comparison, women lacked …
Emotions in Social Life
The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life. Emotions are 'social things', they are controlled and managed in our everyday lives and transcend the divides between mind and body, nature and culture, structure and action. In this way, they hold a crucial key to our understanding of social processes and can push forward the boundaries of sociological investigation. Throughout Western social thought emoti…
The Lived Body
The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body. The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas of a range of key thinkers, from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, …
The Lived Body
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
Hardship and Health in Women's Lives
Information on women's lives settling down finding a home being a mother caring for children working for pay finding the money making ends meet keeping going children's health concluding comments
Pain perceptions, emotions and gender
This research explores the relationship between perceptions of pain and the social characteristics of the individual, with a focus on the role of gender in the process, with an emphasis on the meaning of 'lay' understanding of the phenomena of pain. In order to broaden the definition of pain a multi-method form of enquiry was adopted and significant gender differences were found in the emphasis on the role of the emotions and the social expectati…
Emotions in Social Life
The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life. Emotions are 'social things', they are controlled and managed in our everyday lives and transcend the divides between mind and body, nature and culture, structure and action. In this way, they hold a crucial key to our understanding of social processes and can push forward the boundaries of sociological investigation. Throughout Western social thought emoti…
Pain perceptions, emotions and gender
This research explores the relationship between perceptions of pain and the social characteristics of the individual, with a focus on the role of gender in the process, with an emphasis on the meaning of 'lay' understanding of the phenomena of pain. In order to broaden the definition of pain a multi-method form of enquiry was adopted and significant gender differences were found in the emphasis on the role of the emotions and the social expectati…
Depression
The diagnosis of depression in the clinical context is extremely controversial and is subject to criticism of over-medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Depression can be conceptualised across the entire spectrum of lay and medical belief, from the 'normal' highs and lows of the human condition to its inclusion in the dominant Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classificatory system, as a form of serious mental illness. In …
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
Screening for breast cancer
Women's perspectives on breast screening (mammography and breast awareness) were explored in interviews with midlife women sampled for diversity of background and health experience. Attending mammography screening was considered a social obligation despite women's fears and experiences of discomfort. Women gave considerable legitimacy to mammography visualizations of the breast, and the expert interpretation of these. In comparison, women lacked …
The slide to pragmatism
This paper reports on a qualitative study of UK mental health practitioners’ experiences of working with the contested condition, dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD). Our interviews focused on the issues of treatability, risk assessment and decision-making in multi-disciplinary teams. We discuss the approach of values-based medicine (VBM) as a useful framework for interpreting the data: respondents cited both explicit values (based o…
Pain perceptions, emotions and gender
This research explores the relationship between perceptions of pain and the social characteristics of the individual, with a focus on the role of gender in the process, with an emphasis on the meaning of 'lay' understanding of the phenomena of pain. In order to broaden the definition of pain a multi-method form of enquiry was adopted and significant gender differences were found in the emphasis on the role of the emotions and the social expectati…
Hardship and Health in Women's Lives
Information on women's lives settling down finding a home being a mother caring for children working for pay finding the money making ends meet keeping going children's health concluding comments
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
The Lived Body
The Lived Body
The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body. The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas of a range of key thinkers, from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, …
Emotions in Social Life
The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life. Emotions are 'social things', they are controlled and managed in our everyday lives and transcend the divides between mind and body, nature and culture, structure and action. In this way, they hold a crucial key to our understanding of social processes and can push forward the boundaries of sociological investigation. Throughout Western social thought emoti…
Emotions, pain and gender
Emotional health
In general practice in the UK, the term emotional health is increasingly being used to address an ever-increasing range of consultations which involve distressing symptoms which combine mental, physical and social aspects of health and wellbeing. Practitioners often despair of being able to treat these complex conditions with traditional biomedicine, as they are often manifested through medically unexplained symptoms, hence the turn to more holis…
Screening for breast cancer
Women's perspectives on breast screening (mammography and breast awareness) were explored in interviews with midlife women sampled for diversity of background and health experience. Attending mammography screening was considered a social obligation despite women's fears and experiences of discomfort. Women gave considerable legitimacy to mammography visualizations of the breast, and the expert interpretation of these. In comparison, women lacked …
The slide to pragmatism
This paper reports on a qualitative study of UK mental health practitioners’ experiences of working with the contested condition, dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD). Our interviews focused on the issues of treatability, risk assessment and decision-making in multi-disciplinary teams. We discuss the approach of values-based medicine (VBM) as a useful framework for interpreting the data: respondents cited both explicit values (based o…
Depression
The diagnosis of depression in the clinical context is extremely controversial and is subject to criticism of over-medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Depression can be conceptualised across the entire spectrum of lay and medical belief, from the 'normal' highs and lows of the human condition to its inclusion in the dominant Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classificatory system, as a form of serious mental illness. In …
Processing the pandemic
The worldwide COVID-19 crisis has highlighted perhaps more than ever before in the history of SHI the need for a critical sociological lens alongside the clinical, public health and organisational discussion of the current pandemic as it continues through 2020. In particular, debates around social inequalities in health and medicine have received new attention globally. A research note by one of us (Will, 1) suggested in the spring that sociologi…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works)