Kate Weiner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 230555 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kate Weiner |
| PRENOMES | Kate |
| SOBRENOME | Weiner |
| ASSINATURA | WEINER K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5115-8866 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
“No-one’s contribution is more valid than another’s”
In this article, we explore the power and potential of democratic research methodologies in and beyond Critical Disability Studies research contexts. We centre two funded co-produced, participatory and arts-informed projects that have been co-designed and co-led with disabled young people and people living with chronic (respiratory) illness. We critically explore some key processes, which we suggest can mitigate forms of disablism and ableism inh…
Cripping inquiry
We question the meanings of these forms of welcoming in disability, impairment and difference as ways to develop radical and cripcultures of co-produced and innovative disability research methodologies, and conclude by calling for a more inclusive sociology
Ethico-racial positioning in campaigns for Covid-19 research and vaccination featuring public figures
This article analyses a set of videos which featured public figures encouraging racially minoritised people in the UK to take the COVID-19 vaccine or get involved in related research. As racially targeted health communication has both potentially beneficial and problematic consequences, it is important to examine this uniquely high-profile case. Using a purposive sample of 10 videos, our thematic content analysis aimed to reveal how racially mino…
The Logics of Invited and Uninvited Material Participation
This paper addresses debates concerning the ‘participatory turn’ in healthcare. It focuses on the case of blood pressure self-monitoring, understanding this as a form of patient participation at the level of individual care. Drawing and expanding on the work of Marres and Wynne and their notions of material participation and of uninvited engagement, we examine how patients’ home blood pressure self-monitoring is incorporated into clinical care, h…
Navigating standards, encouraging interconnections
Apps, websites and networked devices now offer to help consumers produce, access and share health knowledge, precipitating social scientific concern over the consequences of these so-called digital health platforms. This paper makes a novel contribution to this literature, taking up a recent call from Plantin et al. to adopt an infrastructural lens in exploring platforms. It argues, through empirical analysis of digital health platforms of differ…
Everyday curation? Attending to data, records and record keeping in the practices of self-monitoring
This paper is concerned with everyday data practices, considering how people record data produced through self-monitoring. The analysis unpacks the relationships between taking a measure, and making and reviewing records. The paper is based on an interview study with people who monitor their blood pressure and/or body mass index/weight. Animated by discussions of 'data power' which are, in part, predicated on the flow and aggregation of data, we …
Negotiating the practical ethics of 'self-tracking' in intimate relationships
Young people's perspectives of e-cigarette use in the home
Constituting practices, shaping markets
Commercial actors play a key role in promoting public health agendas as they move into space previously occupied by the state-sponsored health sector and welfare state. This paper examines how marketing of digital self-monitoring devices promotes public health. Existing self-monitoring research often separates or compares positions of commercial actors and users, using a discourse lens to examine commercial actors’ ‘expectations’ and ‘promises’, …
Racialised prescribing
This article examines the articulation and enactment of racialised classifications in clinical practice guidelines and in accounts of clinical practice. It contributes to debates about racialisation in medicine and its consequences. The research centred on the case study of prescribing guidelines for hypertension in England and Wales, drawing on documentary sources and semi-structured expert interviews. We found that conceptual and socio-politica…
Thinking with care infrastructures
The growing consumer market in health monitoring devices means that technologies that were once the preserve of the clinic are moving into spaces such as homes and workplaces. We consider how one such device, blood pressure monitors, comes to be integrated into everyday life. We pursue the concept of 'care infrastructure', drawing on recent scholarship in STS and medical sociology, to illuminate the work and range of people, things and spaces inv…
Have we seen the geneticisation of society? Expectations and evidence
Abby Lippman's geneticisation thesis, of the early 1990s, argued and anticipated that with the rise of genetics, increasing areas of social and health related activities would come to be understood and defined in genetic terms leading to major changes in society, medicine and health care. We review the considerable literature on geneticisation and consider how the concept stands both theoretically and empirically across scientific, clinical, popu…
Materiality matters
Previous scholarship on novel foods, including functional foods, has suggested that they are difficult to categorise for both regulators and users. It is argued that they blur the boundary between 'food' and 'drug' and that uncertainties about the products create 'experimental' or 'restless' approaches to consumption. We investigate these uncertainties drawing on data about the use of functional foods containing phytosterols, which are licensed f…
Sustained multiplicity in everyday cholesterol reduction
This article is concerned with talk about and the practices of healthy living in relation to cholesterol reduction. It draws on qualitative interviews with 89 people who are current or former users of either cholesterol-lowering functional foods or statins for cardiovascular risk reduction. Focusing on data about everyday activities including food preparation, shopping and exercise, we illustrate four repertoires that feature in talk about choles…
Do-it-yourself heart health? 'Lay' practices and products for disease prevention
This paper considers how ‘health behaviours’ are imagined and practised in contemporary society, considering the combination of commercial products such as over the counter (OTC) statins and functional foods with more established ‘healthy behaviours’ in everyday life. Using data from users of low dose statins licensed for OTC sale in the UK and functional foods, we consider policy fears that such products would dilute efforts at healthy living. I…
Exploring genetic responsibility for the self, family and kin in the case of hereditary raised cholesterol
The Subject of Functional Foods
This paper explores the notion of the late modern or reflexive subject, for whom consumption, rationality, autonomy and a reflexive attitude to risk are said to be constitutive. Drawing on an example of 'ordinary' health consumption ( GRONOW and WARDE, 2001 ), the paper addresses what kinds of consumer identities emerge in people's talk about buying or eating foods containing phytosterols. These are 'functional foods' which are marketed on the ba…
Configuring users of cholesterol lowering foods
The tenacity of the coronary candidate
This article considers how people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), an inherited high cholesterol condition, construct FH, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease (CHD). These data are used to explore some of the more prevalent claims about the expansion of genetic explanations for health and illness and its implications. The article draws on 31 interviews with people with FH undertaken at a large lipid clinic, a specialist outpatient…
Lay Involvement and Legitimacy
In 2002, the Family Heart Association (FHA), a U.K. patient-focused charity working in the area of inherited high cholesterol conditions, merged with the professional organization in this field to form HEART UK. This article explores how this merger might be understood in the context of current scholarly interest in patient organizations that has focused on the emergence of novel forms of lay-expert relations and knowledge production. The article…
A genetic future for coronary heart disease
This paper is concerned with changing conceptions of genetic disease. It is based on an analysis of biomedical literature and focuses on the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD) in four published commentary papers. The aim of this analysis is to explore the ways in which CHD is constructed as genetic and the place of genetic discourses in the wider set of ideas that circulate about the disease. This analysis is then used to consider some of …
Are different forms of care-management for older people in England associated with variations in case-mix, service use and care-managers' use of time
This paper reports one component of an evaluation of the different forms, types and models of local authority social services' care-management for older people that have emerged in England since 1993. It was undertaken at a time of a growing debate about whether care-management differentiated those with simple from complex needs, and whether for the latter a multi-disciplinary approach was required. A sample representative of different approaches…
Gene Week
Within academic circles, the “deficit” model of public understanding of science has been subject to increasing critical scrutiny by those who favor more constructivist approaches. These suggest that “the public” can articulate sophisticated ideas about the social and ethical implications of science regardless of their level of technical knowledge. The seminal studies following constructivist approaches have generally involved small-scale qualitat…
Integrating Health and Social Care at the Micro Level
A common problem in the provision of coordinated long‐term care is the separation of health and social care. The present government has been increasingly concerned with promoting convenient, user‐centred services and improving integration of health and social care. One arrangement that could contribute to this for some older service users is for health care staff to act as care managers, coordinating the provision of both health and social care. …
Care management arrangements for older people in England
Care management has become a key component in the development of community-based care in many countries, and this paper examines the different care management arrangements for older people's services that are now emerging. It has been United Kingdom government policy since 1989 that the providers of social services develop care management systems, as confirmed in the White Paper, Modernising Social Services . The paper opens with the background t…
Thinking with care infrastructures
The growing consumer market in health monitoring devices means that technologies that were once the preserve of the clinic are moving into spaces such as homes and workplaces. We consider how one such device, blood pressure monitors, comes to be integrated into everyday life. We pursue the concept of 'care infrastructure', drawing on recent scholarship in STS and medical sociology, to illuminate the work and range of people, things and spaces inv…
Exploring genetic responsibility for the self, family and kin in the case of hereditary raised cholesterol
Have we seen the geneticisation of society? Expectations and evidence
Abby Lippman's geneticisation thesis, of the early 1990s, argued and anticipated that with the rise of genetics, increasing areas of social and health related activities would come to be understood and defined in genetic terms leading to major changes in society, medicine and health care. We review the considerable literature on geneticisation and consider how the concept stands both theoretically and empirically across scientific, clinical, popu…
Sustained multiplicity in everyday cholesterol reduction
This article is concerned with talk about and the practices of healthy living in relation to cholesterol reduction. It draws on qualitative interviews with 89 people who are current or former users of either cholesterol-lowering functional foods or statins for cardiovascular risk reduction. Focusing on data about everyday activities including food preparation, shopping and exercise, we illustrate four repertoires that feature in talk about choles…
A genetic future for coronary heart disease
This paper is concerned with changing conceptions of genetic disease. It is based on an analysis of biomedical literature and focuses on the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD) in four published commentary papers. The aim of this analysis is to explore the ways in which CHD is constructed as genetic and the place of genetic discourses in the wider set of ideas that circulate about the disease. This analysis is then used to consider some of …
Care management arrangements for older people in England
Care management has become a key component in the development of community-based care in many countries, and this paper examines the different care management arrangements for older people's services that are now emerging. It has been United Kingdom government policy since 1989 that the providers of social services develop care management systems, as confirmed in the White Paper, Modernising Social Services . The paper opens with the background t…
Emerging Patterns of Care Management
One of the key objectives of the community care legislation, implemented in the UK in 1993, was the development of care management systems. Subsequent studies based on limited samples of local authorities have indicated that there is much variation in the forms and types of arrangements being developed. This paper explores whether typologies of care management arrangements for older people can be discerned through the analysis of a series of key …
Racialised prescribing
This article examines the articulation and enactment of racialised classifications in clinical practice guidelines and in accounts of clinical practice. It contributes to debates about racialisation in medicine and its consequences. The research centred on the case study of prescribing guidelines for hypertension in England and Wales, drawing on documentary sources and semi-structured expert interviews. We found that conceptual and socio-politica…
The tenacity of the coronary candidate
This article considers how people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), an inherited high cholesterol condition, construct FH, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease (CHD). These data are used to explore some of the more prevalent claims about the expansion of genetic explanations for health and illness and its implications. The article draws on 31 interviews with people with FH undertaken at a large lipid clinic, a specialist outpatient…
Lay Involvement and Legitimacy
In 2002, the Family Heart Association (FHA), a U.K. patient-focused charity working in the area of inherited high cholesterol conditions, merged with the professional organization in this field to form HEART UK. This article explores how this merger might be understood in the context of current scholarly interest in patient organizations that has focused on the emergence of novel forms of lay-expert relations and knowledge production. The article…
Everyday curation? Attending to data, records and record keeping in the practices of self-monitoring
This paper is concerned with everyday data practices, considering how people record data produced through self-monitoring. The analysis unpacks the relationships between taking a measure, and making and reviewing records. The paper is based on an interview study with people who monitor their blood pressure and/or body mass index/weight. Animated by discussions of 'data power' which are, in part, predicated on the flow and aggregation of data, we …
Negotiating the practical ethics of 'self-tracking' in intimate relationships
Integrating Health and Social Care at the Micro Level
A common problem in the provision of coordinated long‐term care is the separation of health and social care. The present government has been increasingly concerned with promoting convenient, user‐centred services and improving integration of health and social care. One arrangement that could contribute to this for some older service users is for health care staff to act as care managers, coordinating the provision of both health and social care. …
Do-it-yourself heart health? 'Lay' practices and products for disease prevention
This paper considers how ‘health behaviours’ are imagined and practised in contemporary society, considering the combination of commercial products such as over the counter (OTC) statins and functional foods with more established ‘healthy behaviours’ in everyday life. Using data from users of low dose statins licensed for OTC sale in the UK and functional foods, we consider policy fears that such products would dilute efforts at healthy living. I…
Are different forms of care-management for older people in England associated with variations in case-mix, service use and care-managers' use of time
This paper reports one component of an evaluation of the different forms, types and models of local authority social services' care-management for older people that have emerged in England since 1993. It was undertaken at a time of a growing debate about whether care-management differentiated those with simple from complex needs, and whether for the latter a multi-disciplinary approach was required. A sample representative of different approaches…
Ethico-racial positioning in campaigns for Covid-19 research and vaccination featuring public figures
This article analyses a set of videos which featured public figures encouraging racially minoritised people in the UK to take the COVID-19 vaccine or get involved in related research. As racially targeted health communication has both potentially beneficial and problematic consequences, it is important to examine this uniquely high-profile case. Using a purposive sample of 10 videos, our thematic content analysis aimed to reveal how racially mino…
The Subject of Functional Foods
This paper explores the notion of the late modern or reflexive subject, for whom consumption, rationality, autonomy and a reflexive attitude to risk are said to be constitutive. Drawing on an example of 'ordinary' health consumption ( GRONOW and WARDE, 2001 ), the paper addresses what kinds of consumer identities emerge in people's talk about buying or eating foods containing phytosterols. These are 'functional foods' which are marketed on the ba…
‘Everybody’s got a dad…’. Issues for lesbian families in the management of donor insemination
This article explores the experiences of lesbians who have become mothers using donated semen. During the 1980s lesbian access to clinic‐based donor insemination was limited because it was seen to threaten both the traditional family and the medical definition of ‘infertility’. However, the spread of self‐insemination networks has enabled more lesbians to become mothers. This article analyses how lesbians negotiate and manage the role that donate…
Emerging Patterns of Care Management
One of the key objectives of the community care legislation, implemented in the UK in 1993, was the development of care management systems. Subsequent studies based on limited samples of local authorities have indicated that there is much variation in the forms and types of arrangements being developed. This paper explores whether typologies of care management arrangements for older people can be discerned through the analysis of a series of key …
Care management arrangements for older people in England
Care management has become a key component in the development of community-based care in many countries, and this paper examines the different care management arrangements for older people's services that are now emerging. It has been United Kingdom government policy since 1989 that the providers of social services develop care management systems, as confirmed in the White Paper, Modernising Social Services . The paper opens with the background t…
Integrating Health and Social Care at the Micro Level
A common problem in the provision of coordinated long‐term care is the separation of health and social care. The present government has been increasingly concerned with promoting convenient, user‐centred services and improving integration of health and social care. One arrangement that could contribute to this for some older service users is for health care staff to act as care managers, coordinating the provision of both health and social care. …
Gene Week
Within academic circles, the “deficit” model of public understanding of science has been subject to increasing critical scrutiny by those who favor more constructivist approaches. These suggest that “the public” can articulate sophisticated ideas about the social and ethical implications of science regardless of their level of technical knowledge. The seminal studies following constructivist approaches have generally involved small-scale qualitat…
Are different forms of care-management for older people in England associated with variations in case-mix, service use and care-managers' use of time
This paper reports one component of an evaluation of the different forms, types and models of local authority social services' care-management for older people that have emerged in England since 1993. It was undertaken at a time of a growing debate about whether care-management differentiated those with simple from complex needs, and whether for the latter a multi-disciplinary approach was required. A sample representative of different approaches…
A genetic future for coronary heart disease
This paper is concerned with changing conceptions of genetic disease. It is based on an analysis of biomedical literature and focuses on the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD) in four published commentary papers. The aim of this analysis is to explore the ways in which CHD is constructed as genetic and the place of genetic discourses in the wider set of ideas that circulate about the disease. This analysis is then used to consider some of …
The tenacity of the coronary candidate
This article considers how people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), an inherited high cholesterol condition, construct FH, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease (CHD). These data are used to explore some of the more prevalent claims about the expansion of genetic explanations for health and illness and its implications. The article draws on 31 interviews with people with FH undertaken at a large lipid clinic, a specialist outpatient…
Lay Involvement and Legitimacy
In 2002, the Family Heart Association (FHA), a U.K. patient-focused charity working in the area of inherited high cholesterol conditions, merged with the professional organization in this field to form HEART UK. This article explores how this merger might be understood in the context of current scholarly interest in patient organizations that has focused on the emergence of novel forms of lay-expert relations and knowledge production. The article…
Configuring users of cholesterol lowering foods
Exploring genetic responsibility for the self, family and kin in the case of hereditary raised cholesterol
The Subject of Functional Foods
This paper explores the notion of the late modern or reflexive subject, for whom consumption, rationality, autonomy and a reflexive attitude to risk are said to be constitutive. Drawing on an example of 'ordinary' health consumption ( GRONOW and WARDE, 2001 ), the paper addresses what kinds of consumer identities emerge in people's talk about buying or eating foods containing phytosterols. These are 'functional foods' which are marketed on the ba…
Do-it-yourself heart health? 'Lay' practices and products for disease prevention
This paper considers how ‘health behaviours’ are imagined and practised in contemporary society, considering the combination of commercial products such as over the counter (OTC) statins and functional foods with more established ‘healthy behaviours’ in everyday life. Using data from users of low dose statins licensed for OTC sale in the UK and functional foods, we consider policy fears that such products would dilute efforts at healthy living. I…
Sustained multiplicity in everyday cholesterol reduction
This article is concerned with talk about and the practices of healthy living in relation to cholesterol reduction. It draws on qualitative interviews with 89 people who are current or former users of either cholesterol-lowering functional foods or statins for cardiovascular risk reduction. Focusing on data about everyday activities including food preparation, shopping and exercise, we illustrate four repertoires that feature in talk about choles…
Materiality matters
Previous scholarship on novel foods, including functional foods, has suggested that they are difficult to categorise for both regulators and users. It is argued that they blur the boundary between 'food' and 'drug' and that uncertainties about the products create 'experimental' or 'restless' approaches to consumption. We investigate these uncertainties drawing on data about the use of functional foods containing phytosterols, which are licensed f…
Have we seen the geneticisation of society? Expectations and evidence
Abby Lippman's geneticisation thesis, of the early 1990s, argued and anticipated that with the rise of genetics, increasing areas of social and health related activities would come to be understood and defined in genetic terms leading to major changes in society, medicine and health care. We review the considerable literature on geneticisation and consider how the concept stands both theoretically and empirically across scientific, clinical, popu…
Constituting practices, shaping markets
Commercial actors play a key role in promoting public health agendas as they move into space previously occupied by the state-sponsored health sector and welfare state. This paper examines how marketing of digital self-monitoring devices promotes public health. Existing self-monitoring research often separates or compares positions of commercial actors and users, using a discourse lens to examine commercial actors’ ‘expectations’ and ‘promises’, …
Racialised prescribing
This article examines the articulation and enactment of racialised classifications in clinical practice guidelines and in accounts of clinical practice. It contributes to debates about racialisation in medicine and its consequences. The research centred on the case study of prescribing guidelines for hypertension in England and Wales, drawing on documentary sources and semi-structured expert interviews. We found that conceptual and socio-politica…
Thinking with care infrastructures
The growing consumer market in health monitoring devices means that technologies that were once the preserve of the clinic are moving into spaces such as homes and workplaces. We consider how one such device, blood pressure monitors, comes to be integrated into everyday life. We pursue the concept of 'care infrastructure', drawing on recent scholarship in STS and medical sociology, to illuminate the work and range of people, things and spaces inv…
Young people's perspectives of e-cigarette use in the home
Navigating standards, encouraging interconnections
Apps, websites and networked devices now offer to help consumers produce, access and share health knowledge, precipitating social scientific concern over the consequences of these so-called digital health platforms. This paper makes a novel contribution to this literature, taking up a recent call from Plantin et al. to adopt an infrastructural lens in exploring platforms. It argues, through empirical analysis of digital health platforms of differ…
Everyday curation? Attending to data, records and record keeping in the practices of self-monitoring
This paper is concerned with everyday data practices, considering how people record data produced through self-monitoring. The analysis unpacks the relationships between taking a measure, and making and reviewing records. The paper is based on an interview study with people who monitor their blood pressure and/or body mass index/weight. Animated by discussions of 'data power' which are, in part, predicated on the flow and aggregation of data, we …
Negotiating the practical ethics of 'self-tracking' in intimate relationships
The Logics of Invited and Uninvited Material Participation
This paper addresses debates concerning the ‘participatory turn’ in healthcare. It focuses on the case of blood pressure self-monitoring, understanding this as a form of patient participation at the level of individual care. Drawing and expanding on the work of Marres and Wynne and their notions of material participation and of uninvited engagement, we examine how patients’ home blood pressure self-monitoring is incorporated into clinical care, h…
Ethico-racial positioning in campaigns for Covid-19 research and vaccination featuring public figures
This article analyses a set of videos which featured public figures encouraging racially minoritised people in the UK to take the COVID-19 vaccine or get involved in related research. As racially targeted health communication has both potentially beneficial and problematic consequences, it is important to examine this uniquely high-profile case. Using a purposive sample of 10 videos, our thematic content analysis aimed to reveal how racially mino…
Sociology (22 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Public relations (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Business (9 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Health care (7 obras)