Mary Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1337-4557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 563 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Visible Writings
Exploring the concept and history of visual and graphic epistemologies, this engrossing collection of essays by artists, curators, and scholars provides keen insights into the many forms of connection between visibility and legibility. With more than 130 color and black-and-white photographs, Visible Writings sheds new light on the visual dimensions of writing as well as writing's interaction with images in ways that affect our experiences of rea…
Reliability of adverse symptom event reporting by clinicians
Evaluation of Public Participation
Public participation has become a central element of planning activity over the last decades. The planning literature has given considerable attention to participation in theory and practice, discussing its benefits for democratic governance, its multiple goals and criteria for assessing success. Although planning academics and practitioners understand the importance of participation and know that participatory processes often fail, the field of …
The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position
This Handbook is the definitive resource for anyone wishing to quickly look up and understand key concepts and measurements relating to socioeconomic position and inequalities. A range of key concepts is defined and measures of socioeconomic position and inequality described. Alphabetical listings, cross-referencing, graphs and worked examples, references to web and other sources of further information, all contribute to making the Handbook both …
The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position
Why we measure teenage pregnancy but do not count teenage mothers
Teenage pregnancy has been labelled as a major social and health problem and has become a key policy area in several industrialized countries. In England, current policy aims (1) to halve teenage pregnancy rates for under-18s by 2010, and (2) to reduce teenage parents’ risk of social exclusion by supporting their participation in education, training and employment. Official statistics are published on the rate of teenage pregnancy but not on the …
Life expectancy
During 2006, even in the poorest countries, women can expect to outlive men
Supporting young mothers into education, employment and training
The government has set a target of increasing the participation of teenage mothers in education, employment and training (EET) to 60% by 2010 to reduce their risk of long-term social exclusion. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research project conducted in the South West region of England to establish the tracking practices employed by practitioners working with young parents to ascertain whether and to what extent teenage parent…
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)
This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research. A description of what they intend to measure is given together with how data are elicited and the advantages and limitation of the indicators. The glossary is divided into two parts for journal publication but the intention is that it should be used as one piece. The second part highlights a life course approach and will be published in th…
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 2)
This is the second part of a glossary on indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research (the first part was published in the January issue of the journal)
Teenage children of teenage mothers
Supporting or controlling? New Labour’s housing strategy for teenage parents
Teenage pregnancy has been the subject of much attention in recent social policy, including a particular strategy for supported housing for teenage parents. The issue of support, both formal and from family, is central to this endeavour, and problematic. In this paper we unravel New Labour’s construction of teenage parents’ housing need as an issue of isolation from support. First we focus on family support, and argue that New Labour’s supported …
Housing and Public Health
This review considers the broad area of housing and public health, one of the traditional and core areas of public health research and intervention. The review takes into account the range of factors, acting at different levels, directly and indirectly, through which housing affects health. In public health terms, housing affects health in a myriad of relatively minor ways, in total forming one of the key social determinants of health. The paper …
Gender and age inequity in the provision of coronary revascularisation in England in the 1990s
Disabling words
The National School Fruit Scheme in England
Background: National surveillance for chemical incidents is being developed in the UK. It is important to improve the quality of information collected, standardise techniques, and train personnel. Objective: To define the extent to which eight National Poison Information Service specialists in poison information agree on the classification of calls received as ''chemical incidents'' based on the national definition. Design: Blinded, inter-rater r…
Lawlor Et Al. Respond
Bassett points out that our analysis ignores targeted marketing by tobacco companies and that to see smoking prevalence as an outcome only of personal choice is an incomplete view. We, along with Bassett and others, deplore the tactics of the tobacco industry.1–3 We did not claim in our article that the smoking prevalence observed in a population was the result only of personal choice. We pointed out that socioeconomic inequalities acting through…
Smoking and Ill Health
The resistance of disadvantaged groups to anti-smoking advice is remarkable. In relation to the study of differing cultures, there is a long-standing academic tradition assuming that behavior that may otherwise be difficult to understand is indeed rational within particular cultural contexts. Persistent smoking among the most deprived members of society may represent a rational response to their life chances informed by a lay epidemiology. Health…
Life and death of the people of London
Population production and modelling mortality—an application of geographic information systems in health inequalities research
Geographies of the agenda
In the 1980s and 1990s, poverty and inequality in Britain increased, yet the discipline of (human) geography was apparently disinterested. This paper poses the question as to why part of the discipline turned its back on public policy and particularly issues of poverty and inequality. The aim of the paper is to encourage students and advocates of geography to think a little about what they are involved in (and to think about the role of academia …
Income inequality, the psychosocial environment, and health
Putting time, person and place together
It is now rmly established that there are social and spatial inequalities in health in Britain, and that these have been widening since the late 1970s/early 1980s. Since the publication of the hugely in uential Black Report (DHSS, 1980) a growing body of research has documented the growth of health inequalities in Britain and
Poor People, Poor Places
Health and housing
The JECH gallery Health and housing: a lasting relationshipThis photograph shows the condition of some of the worst housing in the Glasgow constituency of Shettleston, which had the highest premature standardised mortality ratios in Britain in the period 1996-98. 1 Leaking soil pipes have caused the dark patches visible on the walls.Although most of the windows are boarded up, two of the flats are still occupied.These flats were built in the earl…
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)
This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research. A description of what they intend to measure is given together with how data are elicited and the advantages and limitation of the indicators. The glossary is divided into two parts for journal publication but the intention is that it should be used as one piece. The second part highlights a life course approach and will be published in th…
Geographies of the agenda
In the 1980s and 1990s, poverty and inequality in Britain increased, yet the discipline of (human) geography was apparently disinterested. This paper poses the question as to why part of the discipline turned its back on public policy and particularly issues of poverty and inequality. The aim of the paper is to encourage students and advocates of geography to think a little about what they are involved in (and to think about the role of academia …
Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 2)
This is the second part of a glossary on indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research (the first part was published in the January issue of the journal)
Migration and geographical inequalities in health in Britain
Mortality and migration in Britain, first results from the British Household Panel Survey
Smoking and Ill Health
The resistance of disadvantaged groups to anti-smoking advice is remarkable. In relation to the study of differing cultures, there is a long-standing academic tradition assuming that behavior that may otherwise be difficult to understand is indeed rational within particular cultural contexts. Persistent smoking among the most deprived members of society may represent a rational response to their life chances informed by a lay epidemiology. Health…
Teenage children of teenage mothers
Evaluation of Public Participation
Public participation has become a central element of planning activity over the last decades. The planning literature has given considerable attention to participation in theory and practice, discussing its benefits for democratic governance, its multiple goals and criteria for assessing success. Although planning academics and practitioners understand the importance of participation and know that participatory processes often fail, the field of …
Increasing mortality differentials by residential area level of poverty
Widening inequality in mortality between 160 regions of 15 European countries in the early 1990s
Life and death of the people of London
Population change and mortality in men and women
The association between population change and mortality has been investigated for over a century. In the Supplement to the 35th Annual Report of the Registrar-General (1861–1870) it was evident that rapidly urbanising areas, with increasing populations, experienced relatively adverse mortality trends, while districts with declining populations did rather better.1 In 1930 Lewis-Faning1showed that between 1860 and 1910 more rapid population growth …
Changing the Map
It is accepted that within Britain there are persistent and growing inequalities in mortality between groups of people as defined by their social class. This paper shows that similar persistent and growing inequalities prevail between groups of people defined by district of residence. Although there is some confusion between these two ways of grouping people - there is a slight tendency for people of the same class to live in the same district.Th…
Population production and modelling mortality—an application of geographic information systems in health inequalities research
Supporting or controlling? New Labour’s housing strategy for teenage parents
Teenage pregnancy has been the subject of much attention in recent social policy, including a particular strategy for supported housing for teenage parents. The issue of support, both formal and from family, is central to this endeavour, and problematic. In this paper we unravel New Labour’s construction of teenage parents’ housing need as an issue of isolation from support. First we focus on family support, and argue that New Labour’s supported …
Supporting young mothers into education, employment and training
The government has set a target of increasing the participation of teenage mothers in education, employment and training (EET) to 60% by 2010 to reduce their risk of long-term social exclusion. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research project conducted in the South West region of England to establish the tracking practices employed by practitioners working with young parents to ascertain whether and to what extent teenage parent…
Lawlor Et Al. Respond
Bassett points out that our analysis ignores targeted marketing by tobacco companies and that to see smoking prevalence as an outcome only of personal choice is an incomplete view. We, along with Bassett and others, deplore the tactics of the tobacco industry.1–3 We did not claim in our article that the smoking prevalence observed in a population was the result only of personal choice. We pointed out that socioeconomic inequalities acting through…
The Discourse of Fashion
Qu'on imagine (s'il est possible) une femme couverte d'un vetement sans fin, lui-meme tiss6 de tout ce que dit le journal de Mode, car ce vetement sans fin se donne 4 travers un texte sans fin. Ce vtement total, il faut l'organiser, c'est-t-dire decouper en lui des unites signifiantes, afin de pouvoir les comparer entre elles et reconstituer ainsi la signification gnderale de la mode.1 -Roland Barthes, Systhme de la mode (53)
Ephemeral Signs
Though his dance criticism constitutes no more than a few pages, the nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé has come to be considered an important dance theorist. His dance essays set forth a complex and original view of dance as a poetry of the body and prefigure contemporary efforts to study dance as a system of signs. Mallarmé's prose style is, however, notoriously obscure and resistant to translation. Thus despite the power and beauty of t…
Los elementos del tzotzil colonial y moderno
Ephemeral Signs
Though his dance criticism constitutes no more than a few pages, the nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé has come to be considered an important dance theorist. His dance essays set forth a complex and original view of dance as a poetry of the body and prefigure contemporary efforts to study dance as a system of signs. Mallarmé's prose style is, however, notoriously obscure and resistant to translation. Thus despite the power and beauty of t…
The Discourse of Fashion
Qu'on imagine (s'il est possible) une femme couverte d'un vetement sans fin, lui-meme tiss6 de tout ce que dit le journal de Mode, car ce vetement sans fin se donne 4 travers un texte sans fin. Ce vtement total, il faut l'organiser, c'est-t-dire decouper en lui des unites signifiantes, afin de pouvoir les comparer entre elles et reconstituer ainsi la signification gnderale de la mode.1 -Roland Barthes, Systhme de la mode (53)
Dance as Text
Unhealthy Societies
Changing the Map
It is accepted that within Britain there are persistent and growing inequalities in mortality between groups of people as defined by their social class. This paper shows that similar persistent and growing inequalities prevail between groups of people defined by district of residence. Although there is some confusion between these two ways of grouping people - there is a slight tendency for people of the same class to live in the same district.Th…
The widening gap
The widening health gap
Throughout the long 18 years of Conservative government the Labour party referred to the issue of increasing social inequalities in health as an area of particular concern. Before the May 1997 election Labour announced that it would launch an Independent Inquiry into inequalities in health. The Inquiry
Mortality and migration in Britain, first results from the British Household Panel Survey
Widening inequality in mortality between 160 regions of 15 European countries in the early 1990s
Increasing mortality differentials by residential area level of poverty
Migration and geographical inequalities in health in Britain
Income inequality, the psychosocial environment, and health
Putting time, person and place together
It is now rmly established that there are social and spatial inequalities in health in Britain, and that these have been widening since the late 1970s/early 1980s. Since the publication of the hugely in uential Black Report (DHSS, 1980) a growing body of research has documented the growth of health inequalities in Britain and
Poor People, Poor Places
Health and housing
The JECH gallery Health and housing: a lasting relationshipThis photograph shows the condition of some of the worst housing in the Glasgow constituency of Shettleston, which had the highest premature standardised mortality ratios in Britain in the period 1996-98. 1 Leaking soil pipes have caused the dark patches visible on the walls.Although most of the windows are boarded up, two of the flats are still occupied.These flats were built in the earl…
Population change and mortality in men and women
The association between population change and mortality has been investigated for over a century. In the Supplement to the 35th Annual Report of the Registrar-General (1861–1870) it was evident that rapidly urbanising areas, with increasing populations, experienced relatively adverse mortality trends, while districts with declining populations did rather better.1 In 1930 Lewis-Faning1showed that between 1860 and 1910 more rapid population growth …
Life and death of the people of London
Population production and modelling mortality—an application of geographic information systems in health inequalities research
Geographies of the agenda
In the 1980s and 1990s, poverty and inequality in Britain increased, yet the discipline of (human) geography was apparently disinterested. This paper poses the question as to why part of the discipline turned its back on public policy and particularly issues of poverty and inequality. The aim of the paper is to encourage students and advocates of geography to think a little about what they are involved in (and to think about the role of academia …
Lawlor Et Al. Respond
Bassett points out that our analysis ignores targeted marketing by tobacco companies and that to see smoking prevalence as an outcome only of personal choice is an incomplete view. We, along with Bassett and others, deplore the tactics of the tobacco industry.1–3 We did not claim in our article that the smoking prevalence observed in a population was the result only of personal choice. We pointed out that socioeconomic inequalities acting through…
Smoking and Ill Health
The resistance of disadvantaged groups to anti-smoking advice is remarkable. In relation to the study of differing cultures, there is a long-standing academic tradition assuming that behavior that may otherwise be difficult to understand is indeed rational within particular cultural contexts. Persistent smoking among the most deprived members of society may represent a rational response to their life chances informed by a lay epidemiology. Health…
Housing and Public Health
This review considers the broad area of housing and public health, one of the traditional and core areas of public health research and intervention. The review takes into account the range of factors, acting at different levels, directly and indirectly, through which housing affects health. In public health terms, housing affects health in a myriad of relatively minor ways, in total forming one of the key social determinants of health. The paper …
Gender and age inequity in the provision of coronary revascularisation in England in the 1990s
Disabling words
Sociology (20 works) · Demography (19 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (16 works) · Population (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Inequality (13 works) · Demography (10 works)