Michael Fine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Fine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Fine |
| SIGNATURE | FINE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4285-7099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
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Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Clinicians, and Public Health
Care and Capitalism
On Building Common Ground
Long Covid’ and seeing in the pandemic dark
This double special issue of the International Journal of Care and Caring considers the acute shock to caregiving around the world created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, when inviting contributions for this volume, we editorialised that 'care has "come out", emerging from the shadows as a taken-for-granted afterthought in public life'. As we supposed what we expected to learn, we noted that inequalities in both access to and provision of…
George Floyd (October 14, 1973–May 25, 2020)
Primary Care Is Dead. Long Live Primary Care
Primary Care Is Dead. Long Live Primary Care Michael Fine MD Affiliation Michael Fine is with City of Central Falls, Rhode Island.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Michael Fine, MD, 348 Gleaner Chapel Road, Scituate, RI 02857 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints" link. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306182 Accepted: January 15, 2021 Published Online: March 10, 2021
Care goes viral
As the COVID-19 novel coronavirus spread in late 2019, it quickly transformed from a local outbreak to a regional and then an international epidemic. Within three months, it became the global pandemic that many observers believe will irrevocably change the world and how we live in it. Among the most affected aspects of life will be how we organise and practise care and caring
The Public Health Value of Hospitals
Gender, migration and the work of care
Gender, migration and the work of care
Contesting Boomageddon? Identity, politics and economy in the global milieu
This issue presents contributions of members of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Ageing and Sociology thematic group, formed in 2015 to provide a supportive network for sociologists working in, or researching, the field of ageing. A key aim of the Ageing and Sociology thematic group is to foster collaborative endeavours and disseminate sociological theory and knowledge, which – particularly in Australian contexts – tends to become s…
The marketization of care
Care is a social necessity for life. Ensuring access to appropriate care at crucial points in the life course became a political necessity soon after the mid-20th century, as the right to suitable care became recognized as a fundamental entitlement of citizenship in most advanced capitalist economies. Over recent decades there has been a shift away from more traditional welfare state forms of public services towards increasingly marketized system…
Care and caring
Nurturing longevity
This paper examines assumptions that surround the way that aged care and assistance is conceptualised and discussed. Problems with the concept of care became apparent with the critique of care theory by the disability movement in the 1980s and continue to this day. Debates arose initially between those who sought to identify care as a gender-based duty that serves to burden those who take responsibility for it, and those who reject the concept as…
Individualising care. The transformation of personal support in old age
This paper considers developments in long-term care that are increasingly focused around the individual. Recent decades have seen massive changes in the way that care is understood and provided. Yet in Australia, as in Europe, North America and Asia, we are still a long way from a stable state of agreed services and provisions. Emphasising the social theory behind the shift, it is argued that understanding the individualisation of care cannot be …
Care
‘Care’ is a source of critical tension in current social theory, and the policy and practice implications of that tension are evidenced in its current prominence on the political agenda of developed welfare states. This article critically appraises current developments in the theory, policy and practice of care, drawing on interdisciplinary developments in political theory, sociology and social policy. Developing feminist and disability‐rights th…
Individualization and the Delivery of Welfare Services
The conception of welfare services has changed to consider the more specialized needs of individual users or consumers. This book examines the contradictions and complexities of contemporary individua
Featureneuroscience and the future of human-computer interaction
research-article Share on FEATURENeuroscience and the future of human-computer interaction Authors: Brad S. Minnery The MITRE Corporation The MITRE CorporationView Profile , Michael S. Fine The MITRE Corporation The MITRE CorporationView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 16Issue 2March + April 2009 pp 70–75https://doi.org/10.1145/1487632.1487649Online:01 March 2009Publication History 28citation2,004DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations28…
A Caring Society
The Social Division of Care
In Australia, as in most developed economies, care has now ‘gone public’. It is no longer solely a private, familial concern that can be automatically assigned to women to be undertaken without pay. Nor is it contained in residential institutions or bureaucratic hierarchies. In this paper I consider what is emerging in its place ‐ the ‘care deficit’ and the new social divisions of care, in which paid care is assuming an ever more important place …
Why caregivers of people with dementia and memory loss don't use services
The Inner Consultation – how to develop an effective and intuitive consulting style (2e)
By Neighbour, Roger . Radcliffe Publishing Ltd , 2005 , PB £24.95 , 275 pp. ISBN 1-85775-679-7 The Inner Consultation, a sophisticated training manual for general practitioners and primary care physicians, aims to bridge the physician side of a critical gap between patients and physicians: we approach each other with very different expectations. Patients, according to Neighbour, want to know what has happened, why it has happened, why it has happ…
Dependence, independence or inter-dependence? Revisiting the concepts of 'care' and 'dependency
Research and theory on 'dependency' and 'care-giving' have to date proceeded along largely separate lines, with little sense that they are exploring and explaining different aspects of the same phenomenon. Research on 'care', initially linked to feminism during the early 1980s, has revealed and exposed to public gaze what was hitherto assumed to be a 'natural' female activity. Conversely, disability activists and writers who have promoted a socia…
Dependency work
The emergence of a specialised field of care research is a relatively recent development, owing much to feminist scholarship and the increasing prevalence of women in the public domain. This paper briefly outlines two of the most influential approaches to the more general field of care research, comparing them with research on professional relationships in formal health care settings. While gender operates as an explanatory factor in each of thes…
Dependence, independence or inter-dependence? Revisiting the concepts of 'care' and 'dependency
Research and theory on 'dependency' and 'care-giving' have to date proceeded along largely separate lines, with little sense that they are exploring and explaining different aspects of the same phenomenon. Research on 'care', initially linked to feminism during the early 1980s, has revealed and exposed to public gaze what was hitherto assumed to be a 'natural' female activity. Conversely, disability activists and writers who have promoted a socia…
Individualization, risk and the body
No longer hidden in the home as a private problem, care and the human services are increasingly important public concerns in advanced societies. Care is also emerging as a significant field of social theory and enquiry with considerable importance for the field of sociology. However, it remains a specialist topic rather than a central concern of the discipline. This article considers these developments and discusses the significance that recogniz…
Care and caring
The marketization of care
Care is a social necessity for life. Ensuring access to appropriate care at crucial points in the life course became a political necessity soon after the mid-20th century, as the right to suitable care became recognized as a fundamental entitlement of citizenship in most advanced capitalist economies. Over recent decades there has been a shift away from more traditional welfare state forms of public services towards increasingly marketized system…
Individualising care. The transformation of personal support in old age
This paper considers developments in long-term care that are increasingly focused around the individual. Recent decades have seen massive changes in the way that care is understood and provided. Yet in Australia, as in Europe, North America and Asia, we are still a long way from a stable state of agreed services and provisions. Emphasising the social theory behind the shift, it is argued that understanding the individualisation of care cannot be …
Care goes viral
As the COVID-19 novel coronavirus spread in late 2019, it quickly transformed from a local outbreak to a regional and then an international epidemic. Within three months, it became the global pandemic that many observers believe will irrevocably change the world and how we live in it. Among the most affected aspects of life will be how we organise and practise care and caring
Nurturing longevity
This paper examines assumptions that surround the way that aged care and assistance is conceptualised and discussed. Problems with the concept of care became apparent with the critique of care theory by the disability movement in the 1980s and continue to this day. Debates arose initially between those who sought to identify care as a gender-based duty that serves to burden those who take responsibility for it, and those who reject the concept as…
Renewing the Social Vision of Care
Care is a fundamental condition of human existence, an inherently social activity. Yet surprisingly, care has only recently begun to receive serious attention from social researchers and the public. Despite the fact that care has become a public issue over the past twenty‐five years or so, current thinking in policy and advocacy for carers has developed an overtly narrow and self‐limiting focus with a strong emphasis on the plight of primary or s…
The Social Division of Care
In Australia, as in most developed economies, care has now ‘gone public’. It is no longer solely a private, familial concern that can be automatically assigned to women to be undertaken without pay. Nor is it contained in residential institutions or bureaucratic hierarchies. In this paper I consider what is emerging in its place ‐ the ‘care deficit’ and the new social divisions of care, in which paid care is assuming an ever more important place …
Long Covid’ and seeing in the pandemic dark
This double special issue of the International Journal of Care and Caring considers the acute shock to caregiving around the world created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, when inviting contributions for this volume, we editorialised that 'care has "come out", emerging from the shadows as a taken-for-granted afterthought in public life'. As we supposed what we expected to learn, we noted that inequalities in both access to and provision of…
Dependency work
The emergence of a specialised field of care research is a relatively recent development, owing much to feminist scholarship and the increasing prevalence of women in the public domain. This paper briefly outlines two of the most influential approaches to the more general field of care research, comparing them with research on professional relationships in formal health care settings. While gender operates as an explanatory factor in each of thes…
User pays’ and other approaches to the funding of long-term care for older people in Australia
It has been argued that without some system in which future generations of users are able to pay for their care the cost of services for an increasingly large group of older people will be borne by a declining base of economically active younger people. Is the answer a user pays approach to the financing of aged care, as promoted by recent changes to aged care financing? This paper reviews this concept and its recent history in Australia. On the …
Community‐based Services and the Fragmentation of Provision
Although the use of non‐government organisations to provide assistance has long been part of Australian welfare history, the principles of community‐based provision have only recently been adopted as part of the mainstream philosphy of service provision. This article examines the association between the expansion of community‐based provision and the fragmentation of service provision using information drawn from a study of the provision of long‐t…
Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Clinicians, and Public Health
On Building Common Ground
Community‐based Services and the Fragmentation of Provision
Although the use of non‐government organisations to provide assistance has long been part of Australian welfare history, the principles of community‐based provision have only recently been adopted as part of the mainstream philosphy of service provision. This article examines the association between the expansion of community‐based provision and the fragmentation of service provision using information drawn from a study of the provision of long‐t…
User pays’ and other approaches to the funding of long-term care for older people in Australia
It has been argued that without some system in which future generations of users are able to pay for their care the cost of services for an increasingly large group of older people will be borne by a declining base of economically active younger people. Is the answer a user pays approach to the financing of aged care, as promoted by recent changes to aged care financing? This paper reviews this concept and its recent history in Australia. On the …
Renewing the Social Vision of Care
Care is a fundamental condition of human existence, an inherently social activity. Yet surprisingly, care has only recently begun to receive serious attention from social researchers and the public. Despite the fact that care has become a public issue over the past twenty‐five years or so, current thinking in policy and advocacy for carers has developed an overtly narrow and self‐limiting focus with a strong emphasis on the plight of primary or s…
Why caregivers of people with dementia and memory loss don't use services
The Inner Consultation – how to develop an effective and intuitive consulting style (2e)
By Neighbour, Roger . Radcliffe Publishing Ltd , 2005 , PB £24.95 , 275 pp. ISBN 1-85775-679-7 The Inner Consultation, a sophisticated training manual for general practitioners and primary care physicians, aims to bridge the physician side of a critical gap between patients and physicians: we approach each other with very different expectations. Patients, according to Neighbour, want to know what has happened, why it has happened, why it has happ…
Dependence, independence or inter-dependence? Revisiting the concepts of 'care' and 'dependency
Research and theory on 'dependency' and 'care-giving' have to date proceeded along largely separate lines, with little sense that they are exploring and explaining different aspects of the same phenomenon. Research on 'care', initially linked to feminism during the early 1980s, has revealed and exposed to public gaze what was hitherto assumed to be a 'natural' female activity. Conversely, disability activists and writers who have promoted a socia…
Dependency work
The emergence of a specialised field of care research is a relatively recent development, owing much to feminist scholarship and the increasing prevalence of women in the public domain. This paper briefly outlines two of the most influential approaches to the more general field of care research, comparing them with research on professional relationships in formal health care settings. While gender operates as an explanatory factor in each of thes…
Individualization, risk and the body
No longer hidden in the home as a private problem, care and the human services are increasingly important public concerns in advanced societies. Care is also emerging as a significant field of social theory and enquiry with considerable importance for the field of sociology. However, it remains a specialist topic rather than a central concern of the discipline. This article considers these developments and discusses the significance that recogniz…
A Caring Society
The Social Division of Care
In Australia, as in most developed economies, care has now ‘gone public’. It is no longer solely a private, familial concern that can be automatically assigned to women to be undertaken without pay. Nor is it contained in residential institutions or bureaucratic hierarchies. In this paper I consider what is emerging in its place ‐ the ‘care deficit’ and the new social divisions of care, in which paid care is assuming an ever more important place …
Individualization and the Delivery of Welfare Services
The conception of welfare services has changed to consider the more specialized needs of individual users or consumers. This book examines the contradictions and complexities of contemporary individua
Featureneuroscience and the future of human-computer interaction
research-article Share on FEATURENeuroscience and the future of human-computer interaction Authors: Brad S. Minnery The MITRE Corporation The MITRE CorporationView Profile , Michael S. Fine The MITRE Corporation The MITRE CorporationView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 16Issue 2March + April 2009 pp 70–75https://doi.org/10.1145/1487632.1487649Online:01 March 2009Publication History 28citation2,004DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations28…
Care
‘Care’ is a source of critical tension in current social theory, and the policy and practice implications of that tension are evidenced in its current prominence on the political agenda of developed welfare states. This article critically appraises current developments in the theory, policy and practice of care, drawing on interdisciplinary developments in political theory, sociology and social policy. Developing feminist and disability‐rights th…
Individualising care. The transformation of personal support in old age
This paper considers developments in long-term care that are increasingly focused around the individual. Recent decades have seen massive changes in the way that care is understood and provided. Yet in Australia, as in Europe, North America and Asia, we are still a long way from a stable state of agreed services and provisions. Emphasising the social theory behind the shift, it is argued that understanding the individualisation of care cannot be …
Nurturing longevity
This paper examines assumptions that surround the way that aged care and assistance is conceptualised and discussed. Problems with the concept of care became apparent with the critique of care theory by the disability movement in the 1980s and continue to this day. Debates arose initially between those who sought to identify care as a gender-based duty that serves to burden those who take responsibility for it, and those who reject the concept as…
Care and caring
Contesting Boomageddon? Identity, politics and economy in the global milieu
This issue presents contributions of members of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Ageing and Sociology thematic group, formed in 2015 to provide a supportive network for sociologists working in, or researching, the field of ageing. A key aim of the Ageing and Sociology thematic group is to foster collaborative endeavours and disseminate sociological theory and knowledge, which – particularly in Australian contexts – tends to become s…
The marketization of care
Care is a social necessity for life. Ensuring access to appropriate care at crucial points in the life course became a political necessity soon after the mid-20th century, as the right to suitable care became recognized as a fundamental entitlement of citizenship in most advanced capitalist economies. Over recent decades there has been a shift away from more traditional welfare state forms of public services towards increasingly marketized system…
Gender, migration and the work of care
Gender, migration and the work of care
Care goes viral
As the COVID-19 novel coronavirus spread in late 2019, it quickly transformed from a local outbreak to a regional and then an international epidemic. Within three months, it became the global pandemic that many observers believe will irrevocably change the world and how we live in it. Among the most affected aspects of life will be how we organise and practise care and caring
The Public Health Value of Hospitals
George Floyd (October 14, 1973–May 25, 2020)
Primary Care Is Dead. Long Live Primary Care
Primary Care Is Dead. Long Live Primary Care Michael Fine MD Affiliation Michael Fine is with City of Central Falls, Rhode Island.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Michael Fine, MD, 348 Gleaner Chapel Road, Scituate, RI 02857 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints" link. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306182 Accepted: January 15, 2021 Published Online: March 10, 2021
Long Covid’ and seeing in the pandemic dark
This double special issue of the International Journal of Care and Caring considers the acute shock to caregiving around the world created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, when inviting contributions for this volume, we editorialised that 'care has "come out", emerging from the shadows as a taken-for-granted afterthought in public life'. As we supposed what we expected to learn, we noted that inequalities in both access to and provision of…
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