Andy Alaszewski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 247499 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andy Alaszewski |
| PRENOMES | Andy |
| SOBRENOME | Alaszewski |
| ASSINATURA | ALASZEWSKI A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6312-7306 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Nina Hallowell, 4th november 1957 – 28th June 2023
Nina Hallowell was a medical sociologist, Professor of Social and Ethical Aspects of Genomics at the University of Oxford, and an active member of the editorial board of Health, Risk & Society. In this article I reflect on her contribution to the journal and to the interdisciplinary study of risk especially through her research on the risk of new genetic technologies, both its management and impact on those at-risk
Plus ça change? The Covid-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory
On 30 December 2019, Dr Marjorie Pollack, deputy editor of ProMed, received information about a SARS-like disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Having checked the facts, she issued an alert to the worldwide network signalling the start of an outbreak of a highly infectious and dangerous disease. The new virus, SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly from Wuhan causing a global pandemic of COVID-19. In this review, I examine the ways in which risk can provide i…
Reflecting on and celebrating 21 years of Health, Risk & Society
To mark and celebrate the 21st year of the publication of Health, Risk & Society, Taylor and Francis have published a virtual special issue which includes 21 key articles representing the contribut
Understanding Policy Scandals in Historical Context
The emergence of and reaction to policy scandals has been usefully studied through comparative case studies. Far less attention has been devoted, however, to the study of such scandals in long-term historical context. With the aim of illuminating longer-term social processes which shape the likelihood that (health)care scandals emerge, we delineate three areas where such changes are visible: a) changing formats of social relations and emotions wi…
Tom Horlick-Jones and risk work
In this review, I examine Tom Horlick-Jones’s contribution to risk work—the ways in which individuals in their everyday activities select and make sense of risk issues and take and subsequently account for actions in relationship to such issues. I consider Tom Horlick-Jones’s background as a natural science and the ways in which his concerns about the social consequences of science drew him to work on practical issues that effect everyday life su…
Choice, Risk, and Moral Judgment
In this chapter we examine midwives’ discourses in relationship to risk and place of birth. We analyse the ways in which these discourses take place at the intersection of two discrete imperatives: to provide pregnant women with choice over where and how they give birth; and to protect mothers and babies from harm. When midwives’ assessment of risk of harm during birth is aligned with their assessment of the riskiness of a woman’s preferred place…
Anthropology and risk
In this review, I examine the contribution of social anthropology to the study of risk. I define social anthropology as the study of ‘other cultures’ and note that such studies have a long history, for example the Greeks and Romans were interested in exploring and understanding ‘barbarians’ and using such studies to reflect on their own society. However, in the early twentieth century, with the Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Straits and Malin…
Purity and danger
In this article, we draw on data from fieldwork on the Izu islands and from historical sources to examine the role of shamans in identifying and managing danger and the ways in which surviving practices reflect of the symbolism of premodern Japanese rituals. In most of contemporary Japan, misfortunes, such as illness or maritime accidents, are accounted for, predicted and managed and through modern science-based risk systems such as medicine. How…
The paradox of hope for working age adults recovering from stroke
This article draws on data from a Stroke Association–funded longitudinal study in South East England (2003–2006) that explored the experiences and recovery of 43 stroke survivors under 60 years. Participants were invited to take part in four interviews over an 18-month period and to complete a diary for 1 week each month during this period. Here, we chart their shifting attitudes towards the process of their recovery. We bring a focus to how this…
Vulnerablity and risk across the life course
This editorial forms part of a themed issue on vulnerability and risk across the life course. The six articles in this issue explore the issues that arise when key individuals are not considered competent to assess risks and make decisions. The articles by Bailey and her colleagues and by Cott and Tierne focus on older people whose competence is affected by cognitive impairment, Clarke and Edge and Eyles consider issues that affect babies and you…
Volume 15.2 out in April
Aven, T. The concept of risk and probability: an editorial. Osimani, B. Probabilistic reasoning, risk aversion and the precautionary principle in the pharmaceutical domain: a philosophical enquiry
Time-framing and health risks
This special issue is the last in a four-part series Health Care Through the ‘Lens of Risk’, which focuses on risk categorisation, valuing, expecting and time-framing, respectively, and has been published in 2012–2013. The present editorial introduces the issue of time-framing in relation to an interview-based article, a guest editorial and six articles reporting findings from empirical research. The central argument of the editorial concerns the…
Fateful moments and the categorisation of risk
In this article, we examine the ways in which risk is categorised in childbirth, and how such categorisation shapes decision-making in the risk management of childbirth. We consider the ways in which midwives focus on and highlight particular adverse events that threaten the normality of childbirth and the life of the mother and/or her baby. We argue that such a focus tends to override other elements of risk, especially the low probability of suc…
Uncertainty in Policy Making
Drugs, risk and society
This themed issue of Health, Risk & Society on Drugs, Risk and Society brings together six articles reflecting the importance of drugs in the study of health risks. The articles fall into three groups. The articles by Davis and Abraham (2011) and Gardner and Drew (2011) explore the government of risk and the ways in which regulators use scientific expertise to identify and control risks. Both articles show the limitations of such expertise and th…
Actions speak louder than words
Trust is vital for quality healthcare outcomes, yet existing research neglects the 'embodiedness' of the interactions on which trust is based. This article draws on qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with cervical cancer patients. The significance of body work in winning or, on occasions, undermining trust emerged as a key theme within the responses. Interpretations of professionals' verbal and non-verbal presentations-of-self were …
Health Care through the Lens of Risk Call for Papers for a four part special issue of Health, Risk & Society
Uncertainty in everyday life
This editorial provides an introduction to and overview of the six papers published in this special issue on Uncertainty and Risk in Everyday Life.While uncertainty and risk are connected and the terms often used interchangeably, we argue here that the terms are not synonymous.'Risk' can be used both to describe the threat posed by uncertainty and the response to such threats.The approach to risk grounded in cognitive rationality involves collect…
The future of risk in social science theory and research
This issue involves a change in the usual format of Health, Risk & Society with the inclusion of two articles that debate the continuing utility of risk for sociological research. In this editorial I reflect on this debate on the future of sociological research on risk. The two protagonists, Judith Green and Jens Zinn, agree that risk has been a fruitful area of sociological research. It is a key focus of several contemporary macro theories of so…
Essays on Professions, Ashgate Classics in Sociology ‐ by Dingwall, R
Dingwall, R. Essays on Professions, Ashgate Classics in Sociology , Aldershot , Ashgate , 2008 , £55.00 ISBN 978-0-7546-4614-3, (hbk) This collection of essays is a reprint of a series of Robert Dingwall's articles on professions published between 1976 and 2006. They provide an interesting insight into the development of British medical sociology over the last thirty years, in terms of their theoretical inspirations, methodological approaches and…
The everyday experience of living with risk and uncertainty
This editorial provides an overview of the articles included in the Special Issue of Health, Risk & Society on living with risk and uncertainty. The papers were originally given at the 2006 BSA Risk and Society Study group and the authors were invited to revise them from this Special Issue. In this Editorial, we identify several important themes within the papers. While it has become a commonplace that modern society is a ‘risk society,’ in which…
Risk, time and reason
Over time, a number of alternative approaches to risk have developed and, while these co-exist, they structure time in different ways and are grounded in different combinations of cognitive rationality and affect. The initial conceptualization of risk, which remains prominent, was based on the use of knowledge from past events to provide the context for choices which minimize harm in the future. It underpins structured approaches to decision maki…
Risk, uncertainty and knowledge
Diaries as a source of suffering narratives
In this article, the ways in which diaries can be used as narratives of risk are explored. It is noted that unsolicited diaries appear to be an especially valuable resource for researchers who wish to explore the nature of suffering. They also provide a way of avoiding some of the moral dilemmas created when researchers solicit narratives of suffering and represent accounts which contextualize suffering within a personal biography. Such texts pro…
Using Diaries for Social Research
Introduction The Development and Use of Diaries Researching Diaries Getting Started Finding Diarists and Diaries Collecting the Data Diaries, Guidelines and Support Analyzing Diaries Numbers, Content and Structure Conclusion Exploiting the Potential of Research Diaries
Actions speak louder than words
Trust is vital for quality healthcare outcomes, yet existing research neglects the 'embodiedness' of the interactions on which trust is based. This article draws on qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with cervical cancer patients. The significance of body work in winning or, on occasions, undermining trust emerged as a key theme within the responses. Interpretations of professionals' verbal and non-verbal presentations-of-self were …
Welfare agencies and risk
This paper is based on research into risk and social welfare being conducted at the University of Hull, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (1.10.94-30.9.96) as part of the Risk and Human Behaviour Programme. The research project focuses on the issues of risk affecting the social welfare of adults with learning disabilities and vulnerable children. The role of agencies has been relatively neglected in discussions of risk assessment…
Issues of Risk Practice and Welfare in Learning Disability Services
This article focuses on risk management in services for people with learning disabilities. It identifies the issue of risk as central to many historical and current care practices. It illustrates this through three examples that raise questions of risk in relationship to people with learning disabilities: on community care, alcohol and sexuality. It concludes that risk has often been negatively associated with danger, but that sensitive risk mana…
The relationship between qualified and unqualified workers in health care
The role of knowledge has traditionally been studied in terms of education and training, not in terms of job practice and the division of labour. This article examines the meaning of knowledge in the work context and its role in legitimating the division of labour between qualified and unqualified remedial therapy workers. The main analytic framework is derived from the work of Schutz
The situation of nursing administrators in hospitals for the mentally handicapped
The situation of nursing administrators in hospitals for the mentally handicapped
Rehabilitation, the remedial therapy professions and social policy
Rehabilitation, the remedial therapy professions and social policy
The relationship between qualified and unqualified workers in health care
The role of knowledge has traditionally been studied in terms of education and training, not in terms of job practice and the division of labour. This article examines the meaning of knowledge in the work context and its role in legitimating the division of labour between qualified and unqualified remedial therapy workers. The main analytic framework is derived from the work of Schutz
Readings in the Sociology of Nursing (Book)
Another dose of managerialism? Commentary on the consultative paper “patients first”
The British National Health Service
Ideas on Institutions
The Power of Psychiatry (Book)
Strong Medicine
Evaluating Community Care. Services for People with Learning Difficulties (Book)
Managing risk in the city
Issues of Risk Practice and Welfare in Learning Disability Services
This article focuses on risk management in services for people with learning disabilities. It identifies the issue of risk as central to many historical and current care practices. It illustrates this through three examples that raise questions of risk in relationship to people with learning disabilities: on community care, alcohol and sexuality. It concludes that risk has often been negatively associated with danger, but that sensitive risk mana…
Welfare agencies and risk
This paper is based on research into risk and social welfare being conducted at the University of Hull, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (1.10.94-30.9.96) as part of the Risk and Human Behaviour Programme. The research project focuses on the issues of risk affecting the social welfare of adults with learning disabilities and vulnerable children. The role of agencies has been relatively neglected in discussions of risk assessment…
Risk and health
(1999). Risk and health: Challenges and opportunity. Health, Risk & Society: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 5-6
Health, Risk & Society
We set ourselves the challenge in the first editorial of this journal, of contributing to understandings of the ways in which contemporary society responds to and shapes health \nissues. We declared the journal to be committed to stimulating the interdisciplinary study of risk. We envisaged it being a catalyst for high quality interdisciplinary study. And, if that was not enough, we confessed our ambition that the journal would act as a mechanism…
Risk, Health and Globalisation
Risk, Health and Globalisation
Risk, Health and Globalisation
Risk, Trust and Health
This editorial reflects on the relationship between risk and trust in health and health care. It examines how and why trust is a key component in the health care system of risk management, why there is a crisis of trust and the ways in which the trust relationship is being reconfigured in the UK's NHS and how this is likely to effect the management of knowledge and risk
Health, Risk and Society
In this editorial the Founding Editor of Health, Risk and Society reflects on the aims of the journal and the extent to which they have been achieved in first five volumes of the journal. The editorial looks forward to the opportunities offered by the expansion of the journal to four issues per year and the ways in which aims of the journal can be developed to include such issues as risk production and construction and to provide more sophisticat…
Risk, safety and organizational change in health care
The increased emphasis on risk assessment and management in health care systems has major implications for the overall management and delivery of health care.Concerns with ensuring safety and minimizing harm are driving 'modernization' of health care systems.In this editorial I use recent articles published in Health, Risk and Society to consider the impact of such changes on professional decision-making, especially the pressure to move from deci…
Risk communication
This editorial uses articles published in recent issues of Health, Risk and Society to critically review current approaches to risk communication. The effective communication of risk forms a key component of public health measures designed to improve the health of populations in countries such as the UK. These approaches assume that the recipients of the risk information are rational actors who will use the information to minimize their exposure …
Diaries as a source of suffering narratives
In this article, the ways in which diaries can be used as narratives of risk are explored. It is noted that unsolicited diaries appear to be an especially valuable resource for researchers who wish to explore the nature of suffering. They also provide a way of avoiding some of the moral dilemmas created when researchers solicit narratives of suffering and represent accounts which contextualize suffering within a personal biography. Such texts pro…
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