Sara Macdonald
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3582958 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sara Macdonald |
| PRENOMES | Sara |
| SOBRENOME | Macdonald |
| ASSINATURA | MACDONALD S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5380-6943 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Drift of Men
The rising enrolment of women in faculties of arts significantly influenced the development of business education in English-Canadian universities. To identify commerce as a professional program for men, and to fortify its academic integrity, universities eliminated skill-based courses in office procedure from the curriculum. This article explores early business education by focusing on two universities: Queen’s, which introduced commerce in 1919…
Barriers to consulting for symptoms of possible colorectal cancer among rural patients in England
BACKGROUND: Rural cancer inequalities are well-documented globally, but their causes remain unclear. Late diagnosis may impact rural cancer outcomes; however, little is known about rural patients' beliefs and experiences of consulting for cancer symptoms. METHODS: 3400 eligible patients from four primary care practices in rural England were invited to participate. Participants completed a survey about recent symptomatic experience and beliefs abo…
Freedom and Politics in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline explores the tension between the desire for freedom and the obligations individuals owe to their social and political communities. Through the course of the play, characters seek freedom from the authority of their fathers, kings, emperors, and gods with devastating consequences. Tragedy is only averted once these characters understand that the freedom and authority they variously desire is only fulfilled in a mutual love …
Becoming a 'Bricoleur' - Using a Holistic Bricolage Approach to Explore Breast Cancer Candidacy
Bricolage is a 'critical, multi-perspective, multi-modal and multi-theoretical' (Rogers, 2012, p.1) research approach to exploring complex phenomena. Levi-Strauss (1966) suggests it requires the researcher ('bricoleur') to use creativity and 'wild thinking.' The approach develops a repertoire of skills and knowledge that enable bespoke, fit-for-purpose data collection, analysis, and theorisation; combining these to innovate understandings of comp…
Undergraduate Bodies
In the nineteenth century, the cap and gown, like soldiers’ uniforms or the robes of lawyers, was perceived to be unfitting on a woman’s body. The right to wear the cap and gown was granted to young men when they matriculated as undergraduates, signifying that they were members of their university and holders of academic citizenship. The withholding of these rights cast women as inferior, and the denial of academic citizenship was premised on a d…
The impact of living with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) on everyday life – a qualitative evidence synthesis
The impact of living with MLTCs was experienced as a multifaceted and complex workload involving multiple types of work, many of which are reciprocally linked. Much of this work, and the associated impact on people, may not be apparent to healthcare staff, and current health systems and policies are poorly equipped to meet the needs of this growing population. There was a paucity of data from LMICs and insufficient information on how patient char…
Sophoclean Epistemology
In Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles shows that neither individual reason nor piety are singularly sufficient for either individual happiness or the common good. Human understanding is dependent on a decentering of the individual, such that the reason of the wider community, including that of the gods, can augment the limitations of individual perspective. Sophocles shows not only the dependence of faith and reason on one another, but the degree to wh…
Extending the sociology of candidacy
Alcohol is a modifiable breast cancer risk, increasing risk in a dose-dependent manner. Mid-life women (aged 45-64 years) consume alcohol at higher rates than younger women and this, combined with age, make them a high-risk group for breast cancer. This critical public health problem has a seemingly obvious solution (reduce drinking); however, women do not necessarily know alcohol causes breast cancer, and if they do, reducing consumption is not …
Widening or narrowing inequalities? The equity implications of digital tools to support Covid‐19 contact tracing
Our patient and public involvement coapplicant, L. L., was involved in all aspects of the study including coauthorship. Interim results were presented to our local Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement Group, who commented on interpretation and made suggestions about further recruitment
From the Frankfurt greenbelt to the Regionalpark RheinMain
Legally protected by its own constitution since 1991, the greenbelt (or ‘GrünGürtel’) forms a ring of greenspace around Frankfurt, Germany and has been considered an effective reaction to municipal development pressures. As a response to Frankfurt’s embeddedness within a highly interconnected suburbanized region under extensive growth pressures, the Regionalpark RheinMain was established to upscale the greenbelt to the regional level. In this art…
Revisiting Candidacy
The notion of candidacy emerged three decades ago through Davison and colleagues' exploration of people's understanding of the causes of coronary heart disease. Candidacy was a mechanism to estimate one's own or others risk of disease informed by their lay epidemiology. It could predict who would develop illness or explain why someone succumbed to it. Candidacy's predictive ability, however, was fallible, and it was from this perspective that the…
Towards smart regional growth
The task of developing regional greenbelts poses multidimensional challenges to policymakers. Unlike their early 20th-century predecessors, these greenspaces incorporate multiple functions including growth management, farmland and environmental protection, and increasing economic competitiveness. This regional and multifunctional approach to greenbelt management involves considerable governance complexities, as an increasing number of policy fiel…
Reconceptualising Rural Cancer Inequalities
Evidence has shown for over 20 years that patients residing in rural areas face poorer outcomes for cancer. The inequalities in survival that rural cancer patients face are observed throughout the developed world, yet this issue remains under-examined and unexplained. There is evidence to suggest that rural patients are more likely to be diagnosed as a result of an emergency presentation and that rural patients may take longer to seek help for sy…
I don’t think there’s anything I can do which can keep me healthy’
Many migrant groups, particularly those that are politically and economically marginalised, such as asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs), face inequities in access to health care as well as poorer physical and mental health outcomes. The role of post-arrival experiences in contributing to these inequities is increasingly being explored, and it is suggested that being a migrant is itself a determinant of health outcomes. Drawing on the theoretical c…
Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts
In recent decades, a new generation of greenbelts has developed that are embedded within dynamic regionalism processes. Governance of these greenbelts is increasingly being challenged by institutional arrangements requiring coordination across multiple policy fields, territorial jurisdictions and policy levels – complexities that are not yet reflected within the literature. The paper explores how vertical, horizontal and territorial coordination …
Perceived colorectal cancer candidacy and the role of candidacy in colorectal cancer screening
Screening is a well-established tool to advance earlier cancer diagnosis. We used Davison’s concept of ‘candidacy’ to explore how individuals draw on collectively constructed images of ‘typical’ colorectal cancer (CRC) sufferers, or ‘candidates’, in order to evaluate their own risk and to ascertain the impact of candidacy on screening participation in CRC. We interviewed 61 individuals who were invited to participate in the Scottish Bowel Screeni…
Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt on the Beautiful and the Just
Despite certain similarities in their backgrounds, French philosopher Simone Weil (1909–43) and German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–75) had dramatically different perspectives on the importance of politics. Yet both thinkers turned to Homer’s Iliad as a way of understanding the atrocities of WWII and the rise of authoritarian regimes. While each author comments on the beauty of the poem, they also argue that the Iliad demonstrates the…
Making sense of bodily sensations
Mass media and risk factors for cancer
Illness identity as an important component of candidacy
Rethinking the patient
BACKGROUND: In this article we outline Burden of Treatment Theory, a new model of the relationship between sick people, their social networks, and healthcare services. Health services face the challenge of growing populations with long-term and life-limiting conditions, they have responded to this by delegating to sick people and their networks routine work aimed at managing symptoms, and at retarding - and sometimes preventing - disease progress…
In search of the cancer candidate
First published in 1991, the ideas embedded in 'Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox' offered a novel and rational explanation for the lay public's failure to fully engage with the lifestyle messages offered by health educators. During the course of a large ethnographic study in South Wales, Davison and colleagues described the emergence of what they termed the coronary candidate. Candidacy provides a 'cultural mechanism' that facilitates …
Democratic Royalty
Mark Helprin’s novel Freddy and Fredericka demonstrates the individual virtue made possible within the United States. Its title characters, the ill-behaved Prince and Princess of Wales, have been exiled and cannot return to Great Britain until they have successfully reclaimed America for England. Their epic journey through the United States teaches Freddy and Fredericka the nature and value of democracy as well as their true potential. Helprin su…
Ancient Greek Thought in Practice - Ancient Greek Thought in Practice, Paul Cartledge, Key Themes in Ancient History; Cambridge
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Deciding how NHS money is spent
Objectives To examine the validity of the Prioritization Scoring Index (PSI) methodology by obtaining the views of our local population and clinicians regarding the criteria and weightings that should be used in deciding how NHS money is spent. Background We have used a PSI in Argyll and Clyde to allocate new money since 1996 and to determine priorities for our 1999/2000–2003/2004 Health Improvement Programme (HIP). Since the criteria and weighti…
Illness identity as an important component of candidacy
In search of the cancer candidate
First published in 1991, the ideas embedded in 'Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox' offered a novel and rational explanation for the lay public's failure to fully engage with the lifestyle messages offered by health educators. During the course of a large ethnographic study in South Wales, Davison and colleagues described the emergence of what they termed the coronary candidate. Candidacy provides a 'cultural mechanism' that facilitates …
Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts
In recent decades, a new generation of greenbelts has developed that are embedded within dynamic regionalism processes. Governance of these greenbelts is increasingly being challenged by institutional arrangements requiring coordination across multiple policy fields, territorial jurisdictions and policy levels – complexities that are not yet reflected within the literature. The paper explores how vertical, horizontal and territorial coordination …
Mass media and risk factors for cancer
Extending the sociology of candidacy
Alcohol is a modifiable breast cancer risk, increasing risk in a dose-dependent manner. Mid-life women (aged 45-64 years) consume alcohol at higher rates than younger women and this, combined with age, make them a high-risk group for breast cancer. This critical public health problem has a seemingly obvious solution (reduce drinking); however, women do not necessarily know alcohol causes breast cancer, and if they do, reducing consumption is not …
Making sense of bodily sensations
Poetry
Deciding how NHS money is spent
Objectives To examine the validity of the Prioritization Scoring Index (PSI) methodology by obtaining the views of our local population and clinicians regarding the criteria and weightings that should be used in deciding how NHS money is spent. Background We have used a PSI in Argyll and Clyde to allocate new money since 1996 and to determine priorities for our 1999/2000–2003/2004 Health Improvement Programme (HIP). Since the criteria and weighti…
Democratic Royalty
Mark Helprin’s novel Freddy and Fredericka demonstrates the individual virtue made possible within the United States. Its title characters, the ill-behaved Prince and Princess of Wales, have been exiled and cannot return to Great Britain until they have successfully reclaimed America for England. Their epic journey through the United States teaches Freddy and Fredericka the nature and value of democracy as well as their true potential. Helprin su…
Ancient Greek Thought in Practice - Ancient Greek Thought in Practice, Paul Cartledge, Key Themes in Ancient History; Cambridge
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
In search of the cancer candidate
First published in 1991, the ideas embedded in 'Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox' offered a novel and rational explanation for the lay public's failure to fully engage with the lifestyle messages offered by health educators. During the course of a large ethnographic study in South Wales, Davison and colleagues described the emergence of what they termed the coronary candidate. Candidacy provides a 'cultural mechanism' that facilitates …
Rethinking the patient
BACKGROUND: In this article we outline Burden of Treatment Theory, a new model of the relationship between sick people, their social networks, and healthcare services. Health services face the challenge of growing populations with long-term and life-limiting conditions, they have responded to this by delegating to sick people and their networks routine work aimed at managing symptoms, and at retarding - and sometimes preventing - disease progress…
Illness identity as an important component of candidacy
Mass media and risk factors for cancer
Perceived colorectal cancer candidacy and the role of candidacy in colorectal cancer screening
Screening is a well-established tool to advance earlier cancer diagnosis. We used Davison’s concept of ‘candidacy’ to explore how individuals draw on collectively constructed images of ‘typical’ colorectal cancer (CRC) sufferers, or ‘candidates’, in order to evaluate their own risk and to ascertain the impact of candidacy on screening participation in CRC. We interviewed 61 individuals who were invited to participate in the Scottish Bowel Screeni…
Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt on the Beautiful and the Just
Despite certain similarities in their backgrounds, French philosopher Simone Weil (1909–43) and German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–75) had dramatically different perspectives on the importance of politics. Yet both thinkers turned to Homer’s Iliad as a way of understanding the atrocities of WWII and the rise of authoritarian regimes. While each author comments on the beauty of the poem, they also argue that the Iliad demonstrates the…
Making sense of bodily sensations
Reconceptualising Rural Cancer Inequalities
Evidence has shown for over 20 years that patients residing in rural areas face poorer outcomes for cancer. The inequalities in survival that rural cancer patients face are observed throughout the developed world, yet this issue remains under-examined and unexplained. There is evidence to suggest that rural patients are more likely to be diagnosed as a result of an emergency presentation and that rural patients may take longer to seek help for sy…
I don’t think there’s anything I can do which can keep me healthy’
Many migrant groups, particularly those that are politically and economically marginalised, such as asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs), face inequities in access to health care as well as poorer physical and mental health outcomes. The role of post-arrival experiences in contributing to these inequities is increasingly being explored, and it is suggested that being a migrant is itself a determinant of health outcomes. Drawing on the theoretical c…
Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts
In recent decades, a new generation of greenbelts has developed that are embedded within dynamic regionalism processes. Governance of these greenbelts is increasingly being challenged by institutional arrangements requiring coordination across multiple policy fields, territorial jurisdictions and policy levels – complexities that are not yet reflected within the literature. The paper explores how vertical, horizontal and territorial coordination …
From the Frankfurt greenbelt to the Regionalpark RheinMain
Legally protected by its own constitution since 1991, the greenbelt (or ‘GrünGürtel’) forms a ring of greenspace around Frankfurt, Germany and has been considered an effective reaction to municipal development pressures. As a response to Frankfurt’s embeddedness within a highly interconnected suburbanized region under extensive growth pressures, the Regionalpark RheinMain was established to upscale the greenbelt to the regional level. In this art…
Revisiting Candidacy
The notion of candidacy emerged three decades ago through Davison and colleagues' exploration of people's understanding of the causes of coronary heart disease. Candidacy was a mechanism to estimate one's own or others risk of disease informed by their lay epidemiology. It could predict who would develop illness or explain why someone succumbed to it. Candidacy's predictive ability, however, was fallible, and it was from this perspective that the…
Towards smart regional growth
The task of developing regional greenbelts poses multidimensional challenges to policymakers. Unlike their early 20th-century predecessors, these greenspaces incorporate multiple functions including growth management, farmland and environmental protection, and increasing economic competitiveness. This regional and multifunctional approach to greenbelt management involves considerable governance complexities, as an increasing number of policy fiel…
Widening or narrowing inequalities? The equity implications of digital tools to support Covid‐19 contact tracing
Our patient and public involvement coapplicant, L. L., was involved in all aspects of the study including coauthorship. Interim results were presented to our local Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement Group, who commented on interpretation and made suggestions about further recruitment
Sophoclean Epistemology
In Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles shows that neither individual reason nor piety are singularly sufficient for either individual happiness or the common good. Human understanding is dependent on a decentering of the individual, such that the reason of the wider community, including that of the gods, can augment the limitations of individual perspective. Sophocles shows not only the dependence of faith and reason on one another, but the degree to wh…
Extending the sociology of candidacy
Alcohol is a modifiable breast cancer risk, increasing risk in a dose-dependent manner. Mid-life women (aged 45-64 years) consume alcohol at higher rates than younger women and this, combined with age, make them a high-risk group for breast cancer. This critical public health problem has a seemingly obvious solution (reduce drinking); however, women do not necessarily know alcohol causes breast cancer, and if they do, reducing consumption is not …
Undergraduate Bodies
In the nineteenth century, the cap and gown, like soldiers’ uniforms or the robes of lawyers, was perceived to be unfitting on a woman’s body. The right to wear the cap and gown was granted to young men when they matriculated as undergraduates, signifying that they were members of their university and holders of academic citizenship. The withholding of these rights cast women as inferior, and the denial of academic citizenship was premised on a d…
The impact of living with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) on everyday life – a qualitative evidence synthesis
The impact of living with MLTCs was experienced as a multifaceted and complex workload involving multiple types of work, many of which are reciprocally linked. Much of this work, and the associated impact on people, may not be apparent to healthcare staff, and current health systems and policies are poorly equipped to meet the needs of this growing population. There was a paucity of data from LMICs and insufficient information on how patient char…
Freedom and Politics in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline explores the tension between the desire for freedom and the obligations individuals owe to their social and political communities. Through the course of the play, characters seek freedom from the authority of their fathers, kings, emperors, and gods with devastating consequences. Tragedy is only averted once these characters understand that the freedom and authority they variously desire is only fulfilled in a mutual love …
Becoming a 'Bricoleur' - Using a Holistic Bricolage Approach to Explore Breast Cancer Candidacy
Bricolage is a 'critical, multi-perspective, multi-modal and multi-theoretical' (Rogers, 2012, p.1) research approach to exploring complex phenomena. Levi-Strauss (1966) suggests it requires the researcher ('bricoleur') to use creativity and 'wild thinking.' The approach develops a repertoire of skills and knowledge that enable bespoke, fit-for-purpose data collection, analysis, and theorisation; combining these to innovate understandings of comp…
The Drift of Men
The rising enrolment of women in faculties of arts significantly influenced the development of business education in English-Canadian universities. To identify commerce as a professional program for men, and to fortify its academic integrity, universities eliminated skill-based courses in office procedure from the curriculum. This article explores early business education by focusing on two universities: Queen’s, which introduced commerce in 1919…
Political science (14 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Nursing (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Candidacy (6 obras) · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (6 obras)