Deborah Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0176-2704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada. Jamie Jelinski
‘Localism and intimacy, and… other rather imponderable reasons of that sort’: A qualitative study of patient experience of community hospitals in England
Debates over the value and contribution of community hospitals are hampered by a lack of empirical assessment of the experience of patients using these services. This paper presents findings from a study which included a focus on patient and family-carer experiences of community hospitals in England. We adopted a qualitative design involving nine case study hospitals. Data collection included interviews with patients (n = 60), carers (n = 28) and…
The emergence and effect of hospital protocols for perinatal loss in Canada
The 1980s and 1990s saw the remaking of the meaning of perinatal death in Canadian hospitals from that of the silencing to the recognition and attention to women’s grief (Davidson, 2007). By the mid-twentieth century both birth and death were increasingly removed from the home and placed in healthcare and funeral facilities (Aries, 1981; Walter, 1994). Beginning in the 1950s when hospital birth had become the general social norm, death around the…
Memorial tattoos: Advancing continuing bonds theory
A memorial tattoo is a tattoo that honors a person who has died. We aimed to understand how memorial tattoos could be an expression of a bereaved person's continuing relationship with the deceased person that the tattoo memorializes. We interviewed 41 people and used qualitative description grounded in a symbolic interactionist framework to analyze the transcripts. This research expands on continuing bonds theory by showing that memorial tattoos …
Use of the internet and griefwork in perinatal loss: Motivations, methodologies and meaning making
Strategies to Promote the Inclusion of Young Adults With Developmental Disabilities in Community-Based Health Studies
We discuss strategies to promote the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities (DDs) in qualitative community-based research studies. Strategies were applied in three projects conducted between 2012 and 2017 that addressed issues of socioeconomic challenges, discrimination, and exclusion of children and young adults with developmental disabilities (YADD). Strategies included partnership with community organizations; inclusion of YADD, f…
Sibling loss - disenfranchised grief and forgotten mourners
My first encounter with the experience of sibling loss was with a nurse administrator in a neonatal unit that I was interviewing for my dissertation on grief and bereavement. While examining the em
The need for bereavement support following perinatal loss
‘Perinatal loss is physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally taxing on parents and families. The grief that parents experience following the loss of a child is difficult to overcome and ma
Art embodied: Tattoos as memorials
profound loss, is one fraught with a considerable degree of silence and invisibility in so much that what is often experienced is considered to be unspeakable and beyond representation (Kitzmann
Mothering children with developmental disabilities: A critical perspective on health promotion
We present findings of a qualitative study exploring what constitutes relevant health promotion initiatives for immigrant mothers of children with developmental disabilities. We apply a social ecological approach, with a focus on gender-specific and transformative health promotion, to examine factors impacting mothers' health and wellbeing. Twenty-eight semi-structured and open-ended interviews were conducted with immigrant mothers in the greater…
Embodied Storytelling: Loss and Bereavement, Creative Practices, and Support
Art, music, literature, and drama are acknowledged to have a place in the embodied experience of bereavement and increasingly are also utilized for the collection and presentation of data in the social sciences and humanities. Such work tells us much about ourselves as individuals and about our relationships with others. The concept of griefwork, which acknowledges and values the collective work the bereaved do with others, is one way to frame su…
Reflections on Doing Research Grounded in My Experience of Perinatal Loss: From Auto/biography to Autoethnography
This article, derived from my doctoral dissertation ( DAVIDSON 2007 ) examining the emergence of hospital protocols for perinatal bereavement during the last half of the twentieth century in Canada, focuses on the methodological complexities - the draw, the drain, and the delight of doing qualitative research grounded in my own experience of perinatal loss. With my dissertation now a fait a complete, reflecting back on my research, my use of auto…
A technology of care: Caregiver response to perinatal loss
The breastfeeding incident: Teaching and Learning Through Transgression
The authors describe what happened when feminist teaching came head to breast with mothering. The authors' attempt to impact student responses to feminist theorizing in a third‐year social psychology class met with transgressions when a colleague, who had been invited as a guest‐lecturer to speak about social structure and violence against women, brought her three‐year‐old and five‐month‐old sons with her. During her presentation, when her younge…
Tamworth, Australia's ‘country music capital’: Place marketing, rurality, and resident reactions
Tamworth, Australia's ‘country music capital’: Place marketing, rurality, and resident reactions
Memorial tattoos: Advancing continuing bonds theory
A memorial tattoo is a tattoo that honors a person who has died. We aimed to understand how memorial tattoos could be an expression of a bereaved person's continuing relationship with the deceased person that the tattoo memorializes. We interviewed 41 people and used qualitative description grounded in a symbolic interactionist framework to analyze the transcripts. This research expands on continuing bonds theory by showing that memorial tattoos …
Embodied Storytelling: Loss and Bereavement, Creative Practices, and Support
Art, music, literature, and drama are acknowledged to have a place in the embodied experience of bereavement and increasingly are also utilized for the collection and presentation of data in the social sciences and humanities. Such work tells us much about ourselves as individuals and about our relationships with others. The concept of griefwork, which acknowledges and values the collective work the bereaved do with others, is one way to frame su…
A technology of care: Caregiver response to perinatal loss
Reflections on Doing Research Grounded in My Experience of Perinatal Loss: From Auto/biography to Autoethnography
This article, derived from my doctoral dissertation ( DAVIDSON 2007 ) examining the emergence of hospital protocols for perinatal bereavement during the last half of the twentieth century in Canada, focuses on the methodological complexities - the draw, the drain, and the delight of doing qualitative research grounded in my own experience of perinatal loss. With my dissertation now a fait a complete, reflecting back on my research, my use of auto…
Strategies to Promote the Inclusion of Young Adults With Developmental Disabilities in Community-Based Health Studies
We discuss strategies to promote the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities (DDs) in qualitative community-based research studies. Strategies were applied in three projects conducted between 2012 and 2017 that addressed issues of socioeconomic challenges, discrimination, and exclusion of children and young adults with developmental disabilities (YADD). Strategies included partnership with community organizations; inclusion of YADD, f…
The breastfeeding incident: Teaching and Learning Through Transgression
The authors describe what happened when feminist teaching came head to breast with mothering. The authors' attempt to impact student responses to feminist theorizing in a third‐year social psychology class met with transgressions when a colleague, who had been invited as a guest‐lecturer to speak about social structure and violence against women, brought her three‐year‐old and five‐month‐old sons with her. During her presentation, when her younge…
Tamworth, Australia's ‘country music capital’: Place marketing, rurality, and resident reactions
The breastfeeding incident: Teaching and Learning Through Transgression
The authors describe what happened when feminist teaching came head to breast with mothering. The authors' attempt to impact student responses to feminist theorizing in a third‐year social psychology class met with transgressions when a colleague, who had been invited as a guest‐lecturer to speak about social structure and violence against women, brought her three‐year‐old and five‐month‐old sons with her. During her presentation, when her younge…
A technology of care: Caregiver response to perinatal loss
Reflections on Doing Research Grounded in My Experience of Perinatal Loss: From Auto/biography to Autoethnography
This article, derived from my doctoral dissertation ( DAVIDSON 2007 ) examining the emergence of hospital protocols for perinatal bereavement during the last half of the twentieth century in Canada, focuses on the methodological complexities - the draw, the drain, and the delight of doing qualitative research grounded in my own experience of perinatal loss. With my dissertation now a fait a complete, reflecting back on my research, my use of auto…
Embodied Storytelling: Loss and Bereavement, Creative Practices, and Support
Art, music, literature, and drama are acknowledged to have a place in the embodied experience of bereavement and increasingly are also utilized for the collection and presentation of data in the social sciences and humanities. Such work tells us much about ourselves as individuals and about our relationships with others. The concept of griefwork, which acknowledges and values the collective work the bereaved do with others, is one way to frame su…
Art embodied: Tattoos as memorials
profound loss, is one fraught with a considerable degree of silence and invisibility in so much that what is often experienced is considered to be unspeakable and beyond representation (Kitzmann
Mothering children with developmental disabilities: A critical perspective on health promotion
We present findings of a qualitative study exploring what constitutes relevant health promotion initiatives for immigrant mothers of children with developmental disabilities. We apply a social ecological approach, with a focus on gender-specific and transformative health promotion, to examine factors impacting mothers' health and wellbeing. Twenty-eight semi-structured and open-ended interviews were conducted with immigrant mothers in the greater…
Sibling loss - disenfranchised grief and forgotten mourners
My first encounter with the experience of sibling loss was with a nurse administrator in a neonatal unit that I was interviewing for my dissertation on grief and bereavement. While examining the em
The need for bereavement support following perinatal loss
‘Perinatal loss is physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally taxing on parents and families. The grief that parents experience following the loss of a child is difficult to overcome and ma
Use of the internet and griefwork in perinatal loss: Motivations, methodologies and meaning making
Strategies to Promote the Inclusion of Young Adults With Developmental Disabilities in Community-Based Health Studies
We discuss strategies to promote the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities (DDs) in qualitative community-based research studies. Strategies were applied in three projects conducted between 2012 and 2017 that addressed issues of socioeconomic challenges, discrimination, and exclusion of children and young adults with developmental disabilities (YADD). Strategies included partnership with community organizations; inclusion of YADD, f…
The emergence and effect of hospital protocols for perinatal loss in Canada
The 1980s and 1990s saw the remaking of the meaning of perinatal death in Canadian hospitals from that of the silencing to the recognition and attention to women’s grief (Davidson, 2007). By the mid-twentieth century both birth and death were increasingly removed from the home and placed in healthcare and funeral facilities (Aries, 1981; Walter, 1994). Beginning in the 1950s when hospital birth had become the general social norm, death around the…
Memorial tattoos: Advancing continuing bonds theory
A memorial tattoo is a tattoo that honors a person who has died. We aimed to understand how memorial tattoos could be an expression of a bereaved person's continuing relationship with the deceased person that the tattoo memorializes. We interviewed 41 people and used qualitative description grounded in a symbolic interactionist framework to analyze the transcripts. This research expands on continuing bonds theory by showing that memorial tattoos …
‘Localism and intimacy, and… other rather imponderable reasons of that sort’: A qualitative study of patient experience of community hospitals in England
Debates over the value and contribution of community hospitals are hampered by a lack of empirical assessment of the experience of patients using these services. This paper presents findings from a study which included a focus on patient and family-carer experiences of community hospitals in England. We adopted a qualitative design involving nine case study hospitals. Data collection included interviews with patients (n = 60), carers (n = 28) and…
Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada. Jamie Jelinski
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Grief (4 works)