Laura L Machin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 117799 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura L Machin |
| PRENOMES | Laura L |
| SOBRENOME | Machin |
| ASSINATURA | MACHIN L L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6717-959X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Implications of Genetic Testing in Adoption
Genetic testing helps determine the risk an individual faces in developing genetic diseases. Understanding the risk can allow measures to be put in place to increase preparation for the potential onset of certain diseases. Adoptees and adopters are often provided with limited information on the mental and physical health of birth parents. Therefore, some individuals argue that genetic testing could provide adoptive parents with further informatio…
Ambiguous Loss and Disenfranchized Grief in Adoption Breakdown
Adoption breakdown occurs when a child leaves the adoptive family home prematurely. Although only a minority of adoption placements end prematurely, breakdown has a profound impact on all involved and a period of grieving often follows the loss of a child from the family home. For adopters, loss and grief may be prolonged and complicated by the stigma surrounding breakdown, commonly interpreted as parental failure. Such perceptions can lead to fe…
Exploring the Impact of Adoption on Family Members and Relationships Within the Adoptive Family System
Perceptions of help-seeking for sexual violence and harassment by minoritised UK higher education students
Sexual violence affecting university students is a significant problem worldwide. Though recent legislation introduced into UK universities aims to tackle the problem, it remains to be seen how effective this will be. Furthermore, within much existing research and legislation, the voices of minoritised students in relation to the issue are absent. This research utilised qualitative focus groups and interviews with 38 minoritised students from two…
Caring for Traumatized Children
If We’re Not Coping, What Chance Have we Got of Parenting Our Children Well?” Adopters’ Mental Health and Help-Seeking Experiences
Developmental and mental health challenges experienced by adopted children can manifest vicariously in adopters. Yet there is a perceived lack of consideration toward adopters’ mental health throughout the adoption process. Studies exist on birth-parental mental health and support needs, and mental illness and behavioral challenges in adopted children, yet comparatively little research explores the mental health experiences of adopters. This stud…
Exploring UK foundation doctors’ perceptions surrounding raising concerns in the workplace
This study aims to explore the perceptions of foundation doctors (FDs) in the United Kingdom (UK) surrounding raising concerns in the workplace. An online survey was sent to all FDs in the UK between February and March 2018. Respondents were asked what they had observed or experienced that had been ethically challenging during their foundation training. The qualitative responses were coded into themes. Reasons why FDs wished to raise concerns in …
Organ donation in principle and in practice
Exploring “quality” in cord blood transfusion
Umbilical cord blood unit (CBU) “quantity” continues to grow internationally, while cord blood transplantation (CBT) “quality” remains poorly defined and subject to uncertainty. CBT “quality” is affected by both the product (i.e. CBUs) and CBT processes, with “best practice” varying across countries. To improve overall CBT “quality”, we need to better understand the uncertainty associated with CBUs and CBT processes and how staff manage it. In th…
Prepared for practice? UK Foundation doctors’ confidence in dealing with ethical issues in the workplace
This paper investigates the medical law and ethics (MEL) learning needs of Foundation doctors (FYs) by means of a national survey developed in association with key stakeholders including the General Medical Council and Health Education England. Four hundred sevnty-nine doctors completed the survey. The average self-reported level of preparation in MEL was 63%. When asked to rate how confident they felt in approaching three cases of increasing eth…
Proposing a sociology of donation
This article advances the case for a ‘sociology of donation’. We aim to establish that there is a need for such a sociology, to bring together the many, often disparate, elements that make up the theorizing, practice and experience of donation. We argue that bringing together different forms of donation illuminates the distinctive place both in social meaning and regulation that the body and its products hold. In developing this, we are primarily…
From waste product to blood, brains and narratives
The aim of this paper is to examine the meaning of the concept of donation in health research. Drawing on a set of narrative interviews with people invited to donate biosamples for research and a range of other studies, we identify several conceptual themes that speak to the complexity of the current landscape of critical thinking about donation. These conceptual themes are: the language of 'donation'; a hierarchy of biosamples; alternative infor…
An Alternative View of Self-Discharge Against Medical Advice
In this article, we present the experiences of discharging against medical advice from the perspectives of 17 hospital and community-based health care practitioners, and 16 patients, and relatives from a range of medical and surgical wards. Semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted and thematically analyzed. We identified that practitioners, patients, and relatives frequently expressed empathy for each other during the interviews, and di…
Mediated research encounters
Given increasing globalisation, the continuing prevalence of emergencies, and the importance of rigorous research to ensure the mental health needs of populations exposed to emergencies are effectively met, cross-language research will continue to arise. Drawing upon the lead author's experience of conducting a cross-language qualitative study in three post-conflict settings in South Asia, this article discusses methodological considerations rais…
The collection of “quality” umbilical cord blood for stem cell treatments
Incentives have been proposed to National Health Service (NHS) hospitals to encourage the collection of “quality” umbilical cord blood (UCB) to treat people with blood disorders. As UCB is collected immediately after a woman has given birth, maternity practices have come under scrutiny. Sixty-two interviews were conducted between 2009 and 2010 with those working on maternity wards, and in UCB collection and banking. Ethical approval was granted b…
The social life of the dead
Immunitary bioeconomy
Immunitary bioeconomy
Mediated research encounters
Given increasing globalisation, the continuing prevalence of emergencies, and the importance of rigorous research to ensure the mental health needs of populations exposed to emergencies are effectively met, cross-language research will continue to arise. Drawing upon the lead author's experience of conducting a cross-language qualitative study in three post-conflict settings in South Asia, this article discusses methodological considerations rais…
Proposing a sociology of donation
This article advances the case for a ‘sociology of donation’. We aim to establish that there is a need for such a sociology, to bring together the many, often disparate, elements that make up the theorizing, practice and experience of donation. We argue that bringing together different forms of donation illuminates the distinctive place both in social meaning and regulation that the body and its products hold. In developing this, we are primarily…
An Alternative View of Self-Discharge Against Medical Advice
In this article, we present the experiences of discharging against medical advice from the perspectives of 17 hospital and community-based health care practitioners, and 16 patients, and relatives from a range of medical and surgical wards. Semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted and thematically analyzed. We identified that practitioners, patients, and relatives frequently expressed empathy for each other during the interviews, and di…
From waste product to blood, brains and narratives
The aim of this paper is to examine the meaning of the concept of donation in health research. Drawing on a set of narrative interviews with people invited to donate biosamples for research and a range of other studies, we identify several conceptual themes that speak to the complexity of the current landscape of critical thinking about donation. These conceptual themes are: the language of 'donation'; a hierarchy of biosamples; alternative infor…
Immunitary bioeconomy
The collection of “quality” umbilical cord blood for stem cell treatments
Incentives have been proposed to National Health Service (NHS) hospitals to encourage the collection of “quality” umbilical cord blood (UCB) to treat people with blood disorders. As UCB is collected immediately after a woman has given birth, maternity practices have come under scrutiny. Sixty-two interviews were conducted between 2009 and 2010 with those working on maternity wards, and in UCB collection and banking. Ethical approval was granted b…
The social life of the dead
An Alternative View of Self-Discharge Against Medical Advice
In this article, we present the experiences of discharging against medical advice from the perspectives of 17 hospital and community-based health care practitioners, and 16 patients, and relatives from a range of medical and surgical wards. Semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted and thematically analyzed. We identified that practitioners, patients, and relatives frequently expressed empathy for each other during the interviews, and di…
Mediated research encounters
Given increasing globalisation, the continuing prevalence of emergencies, and the importance of rigorous research to ensure the mental health needs of populations exposed to emergencies are effectively met, cross-language research will continue to arise. Drawing upon the lead author's experience of conducting a cross-language qualitative study in three post-conflict settings in South Asia, this article discusses methodological considerations rais…
From waste product to blood, brains and narratives
The aim of this paper is to examine the meaning of the concept of donation in health research. Drawing on a set of narrative interviews with people invited to donate biosamples for research and a range of other studies, we identify several conceptual themes that speak to the complexity of the current landscape of critical thinking about donation. These conceptual themes are: the language of 'donation'; a hierarchy of biosamples; alternative infor…
Proposing a sociology of donation
This article advances the case for a ‘sociology of donation’. We aim to establish that there is a need for such a sociology, to bring together the many, often disparate, elements that make up the theorizing, practice and experience of donation. We argue that bringing together different forms of donation illuminates the distinctive place both in social meaning and regulation that the body and its products hold. In developing this, we are primarily…
Prepared for practice? UK Foundation doctors’ confidence in dealing with ethical issues in the workplace
This paper investigates the medical law and ethics (MEL) learning needs of Foundation doctors (FYs) by means of a national survey developed in association with key stakeholders including the General Medical Council and Health Education England. Four hundred sevnty-nine doctors completed the survey. The average self-reported level of preparation in MEL was 63%. When asked to rate how confident they felt in approaching three cases of increasing eth…
Exploring UK foundation doctors’ perceptions surrounding raising concerns in the workplace
This study aims to explore the perceptions of foundation doctors (FDs) in the United Kingdom (UK) surrounding raising concerns in the workplace. An online survey was sent to all FDs in the UK between February and March 2018. Respondents were asked what they had observed or experienced that had been ethically challenging during their foundation training. The qualitative responses were coded into themes. Reasons why FDs wished to raise concerns in …
Organ donation in principle and in practice
Exploring “quality” in cord blood transfusion
Umbilical cord blood unit (CBU) “quantity” continues to grow internationally, while cord blood transplantation (CBT) “quality” remains poorly defined and subject to uncertainty. CBT “quality” is affected by both the product (i.e. CBUs) and CBT processes, with “best practice” varying across countries. To improve overall CBT “quality”, we need to better understand the uncertainty associated with CBUs and CBT processes and how staff manage it. In th…
Caring for Traumatized Children
If We’re Not Coping, What Chance Have we Got of Parenting Our Children Well?” Adopters’ Mental Health and Help-Seeking Experiences
Developmental and mental health challenges experienced by adopted children can manifest vicariously in adopters. Yet there is a perceived lack of consideration toward adopters’ mental health throughout the adoption process. Studies exist on birth-parental mental health and support needs, and mental illness and behavioral challenges in adopted children, yet comparatively little research explores the mental health experiences of adopters. This stud…
The Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Implications of Genetic Testing in Adoption
Genetic testing helps determine the risk an individual faces in developing genetic diseases. Understanding the risk can allow measures to be put in place to increase preparation for the potential onset of certain diseases. Adoptees and adopters are often provided with limited information on the mental and physical health of birth parents. Therefore, some individuals argue that genetic testing could provide adoptive parents with further informatio…
Ambiguous Loss and Disenfranchized Grief in Adoption Breakdown
Adoption breakdown occurs when a child leaves the adoptive family home prematurely. Although only a minority of adoption placements end prematurely, breakdown has a profound impact on all involved and a period of grieving often follows the loss of a child from the family home. For adopters, loss and grief may be prolonged and complicated by the stigma surrounding breakdown, commonly interpreted as parental failure. Such perceptions can lead to fe…
Exploring the Impact of Adoption on Family Members and Relationships Within the Adoptive Family System
Perceptions of help-seeking for sexual violence and harassment by minoritised UK higher education students
Sexual violence affecting university students is a significant problem worldwide. Though recent legislation introduced into UK universities aims to tackle the problem, it remains to be seen how effective this will be. Furthermore, within much existing research and legislation, the voices of minoritised students in relation to the issue are absent. This research utilised qualitative focus groups and interviews with 38 minoritised students from two…
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