Deborah Anne Potter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96545 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deborah Anne Potter |
| PRENOMES | Deborah Anne |
| SOBRENOME | Potter |
| ASSINATURA | POTTER D A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9727-0837 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 306 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Beyond Deflection
The ways in which public officials, citizens, and social institutions are held accountable for social problems, including police‐involved killings in the United States, reflect changing attributions of responsibility. Although news reports now rely less on official police narratives and less often stereotype police as heroes and victims as villains, there has been little research on how opinion columns, featuring the views of community leaders, f…
Biographical disruption, redefinition, and recovery
The rich conceptual literature on illness experiences has been based largely on singular diseases/conditions. However, over the last few decades, more complex disease patterns and increased longevity have complicated our understanding of how people experience illness. This study builds upon existing theoretical constructs (e.g. biographical disruption) to more robustly capture the illness experiences of those living with multi-morbid conditions. …
Peer Support Specialists and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice
Through in‐depth interviews, this study explored the objective and subjective experiences of 14 peer support specialists (PSSs) working in three community mental health centers. Abductive analyses identified Bourdieu’s theoretical framework as a useful tool to understand how peers constructed and enacted a distinct theory of practice which shaped their roles as lay experts. Recovery was the peers’ primary habitus (predisposition) and their recove…
Epistemological inclusiveness in researching the African American community
African American communities have experienced negative effects from a history of medical abuse, lack of proper research procedures, and misinterpretations of study findings because of racism. These past injustices have led to a mistrust of research and researchers. This paper focuses on how some methodological challenges, in a study funded by a National Institutes of Health grant on two low-income African American communities in Kentucky, were me…
Healthicization and Lay Knowledge About Eating Practices in Two African American Communities
In this manuscript, we expand upon sociological research in lay knowledge about health and healthicization by examining socially mediated ways in which 40 African American adults in two communities acquired information about eating practices. Participants employed a variety of socially informed information-seeking strategies. Many, but not all, used socially prescribed sources exhorting them to maximize their own health and reported an amalgam of…
Situated Motives of Lay Participants in Community Collaboratives for Children's Mental Health
Publicly funded programs in many industrialized countries increasingly require the participation of citizens. In this article, I explore the "situated motives" of family members who participated alongside professionals in implementing children's mental health programs in two communities in the United States. I conducted in-depth interviews with family members and observed monthly meetings of Community Collaboratives to assess how family members u…
Acting Up and Acting Out
This article compares diverse symbolic frames for the childhood psychiatric diagnosis "Conduct Disorder" (CD) found in the popular media with the dominant medicalized frame in the professional literature. Although vestiges of earlier frameworks remain, almost all professional accounts frame the disorder as a way of "acting out" the sick role. In contrast, the popular media use various culturally consistent frames, including delinquently "acting u…
Exploring Media’s Impact on African American Women’s Healthy Food Habits in Kentucky
This qualitative study employs the uses and gratifications framework to explore the perspective of African American women in Kentucky, specifically urban Louisville and rural Hopkinsville, to understand their use of media as potential sources for gathering information about healthy food habits. Key findings include how the participants used media for instrumental purposes to educate themselves about healthy food habits, and that the specific medi…
Wrong parents' and 'right parents
Measuring Ethnicity in New Zealand
While single ethnic group disparity studies have been useful in the past, we suggest that more sophisticated ways of conceptualising and analysing ethnicity data in relation to health disparities are now required in New Zealand. Based on the New Zealand experience, we also suggest that as international migration continues, and as intermarriage becomes more frequent in most countries, there will be pressure to move from single group race-based mea…
How Attention Partitions Itself During Simultaneous Message Presentations
Television producers, across all types of programming, assume young viewers can parallel process simultaneously presented messages. For instance, television news producers appear to believe that young viewers can attend to weather icons, lexical news crawls, and sports scores while they also attend to news anchors who present the news. Nonetheless, attention theory suggests parallel processing on this scale cannot be executed efficiently. Given t…
An Experiment Changed
Keywords: Campaign Issue CoverageDebatesElection Night CoverageJournalistsPolitical ConventionsTV Coverage
Human growth hormone and the temptations of biomedical enhancement
It is likely that humans have sought enhancements for themselves or their children for as long as they have recognised that improvements in individuals are a possibility. One genre of self-improvement in modern society can be called 'biomedical enhancements'. These include drugs, surgery and other medical interventions aimed at improving the mind, body or performance. This paper uses the case of human growth hormone (hGH) to examine the social na…
From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults
Medicalization is, by definition, about the extension of medical boundaries. Analogous to "domain expansion," extant medicalized categories can expand to become broader and more inclusive. This paper examines the emergence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults. ADHD, commonly known as Hyperactivity, became established in the 1970s as a diagnosis for children; it expanded first to include "adult hyperactives" and, in the 199…
Preelection Polls and Issue Knowledge in the 1996 U.S. Presidential Election
Many media leaders and some survey researchers in the United States have begun to question whether preelection polls to determine the relative standings of candidates have any useful purpose. Some even say that such polls harm the democratic process. Their arguments follow an attention-displacement model in which public attention paid to polls reduces the amount of attention available for substantive issues. The counterargument proposes a catalyt…
Physician Variability and Uncertainty in the Management of Breast Cancer
Objectives. The puropse of this research was to determine the influence of patient and physician characteristics on physicians' level of variability and certainty in breast cancer care. Methods. One hundred twenty-eight physicians viewed a videotape of a simulated physician-patient interaction in which the patient has an "atypical" breast lump. Six patient characteristics (age, race, socioeconomic status, physical mobility, comorbidity, presentat…
Non-medical influences on medical decision-making
Bringing social structure back into clinical decision making
National History Day
Journal Article National History Day: A State Coordinator's View Get access Clifton W. Potter, Jr., Clifton W. Potter, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dorothy T. Potter Dorothy T. Potter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 2, Issue 1, Summer 1986, Pages 46–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/2.1.46 Published: 01 June 1986
From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults
Medicalization is, by definition, about the extension of medical boundaries. Analogous to "domain expansion," extant medicalized categories can expand to become broader and more inclusive. This paper examines the emergence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults. ADHD, commonly known as Hyperactivity, became established in the 1970s as a diagnosis for children; it expanded first to include "adult hyperactives" and, in the 199…
Bringing social structure back into clinical decision making
Non-medical influences on medical decision-making
Human growth hormone and the temptations of biomedical enhancement
It is likely that humans have sought enhancements for themselves or their children for as long as they have recognised that improvements in individuals are a possibility. One genre of self-improvement in modern society can be called 'biomedical enhancements'. These include drugs, surgery and other medical interventions aimed at improving the mind, body or performance. This paper uses the case of human growth hormone (hGH) to examine the social na…
Measuring Ethnicity in New Zealand
While single ethnic group disparity studies have been useful in the past, we suggest that more sophisticated ways of conceptualising and analysing ethnicity data in relation to health disparities are now required in New Zealand. Based on the New Zealand experience, we also suggest that as international migration continues, and as intermarriage becomes more frequent in most countries, there will be pressure to move from single group race-based mea…
Wrong parents' and 'right parents
Preelection Polls and Issue Knowledge in the 1996 U.S. Presidential Election
Many media leaders and some survey researchers in the United States have begun to question whether preelection polls to determine the relative standings of candidates have any useful purpose. Some even say that such polls harm the democratic process. Their arguments follow an attention-displacement model in which public attention paid to polls reduces the amount of attention available for substantive issues. The counterargument proposes a catalyt…
Healthicization and Lay Knowledge About Eating Practices in Two African American Communities
In this manuscript, we expand upon sociological research in lay knowledge about health and healthicization by examining socially mediated ways in which 40 African American adults in two communities acquired information about eating practices. Participants employed a variety of socially informed information-seeking strategies. Many, but not all, used socially prescribed sources exhorting them to maximize their own health and reported an amalgam of…
Biographical disruption, redefinition, and recovery
The rich conceptual literature on illness experiences has been based largely on singular diseases/conditions. However, over the last few decades, more complex disease patterns and increased longevity have complicated our understanding of how people experience illness. This study builds upon existing theoretical constructs (e.g. biographical disruption) to more robustly capture the illness experiences of those living with multi-morbid conditions. …
Situated Motives of Lay Participants in Community Collaboratives for Children's Mental Health
Publicly funded programs in many industrialized countries increasingly require the participation of citizens. In this article, I explore the "situated motives" of family members who participated alongside professionals in implementing children's mental health programs in two communities in the United States. I conducted in-depth interviews with family members and observed monthly meetings of Community Collaboratives to assess how family members u…
Peer Support Specialists and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice
Through in‐depth interviews, this study explored the objective and subjective experiences of 14 peer support specialists (PSSs) working in three community mental health centers. Abductive analyses identified Bourdieu’s theoretical framework as a useful tool to understand how peers constructed and enacted a distinct theory of practice which shaped their roles as lay experts. Recovery was the peers’ primary habitus (predisposition) and their recove…
National History Day
Journal Article National History Day: A State Coordinator's View Get access Clifton W. Potter, Jr., Clifton W. Potter, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dorothy T. Potter Dorothy T. Potter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 2, Issue 1, Summer 1986, Pages 46–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/2.1.46 Published: 01 June 1986
Bringing social structure back into clinical decision making
Non-medical influences on medical decision-making
Preelection Polls and Issue Knowledge in the 1996 U.S. Presidential Election
Many media leaders and some survey researchers in the United States have begun to question whether preelection polls to determine the relative standings of candidates have any useful purpose. Some even say that such polls harm the democratic process. Their arguments follow an attention-displacement model in which public attention paid to polls reduces the amount of attention available for substantive issues. The counterargument proposes a catalyt…
Physician Variability and Uncertainty in the Management of Breast Cancer
Objectives. The puropse of this research was to determine the influence of patient and physician characteristics on physicians' level of variability and certainty in breast cancer care. Methods. One hundred twenty-eight physicians viewed a videotape of a simulated physician-patient interaction in which the patient has an "atypical" breast lump. Six patient characteristics (age, race, socioeconomic status, physical mobility, comorbidity, presentat…
From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults
Medicalization is, by definition, about the extension of medical boundaries. Analogous to "domain expansion," extant medicalized categories can expand to become broader and more inclusive. This paper examines the emergence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults. ADHD, commonly known as Hyperactivity, became established in the 1970s as a diagnosis for children; it expanded first to include "adult hyperactives" and, in the 199…
Human growth hormone and the temptations of biomedical enhancement
It is likely that humans have sought enhancements for themselves or their children for as long as they have recognised that improvements in individuals are a possibility. One genre of self-improvement in modern society can be called 'biomedical enhancements'. These include drugs, surgery and other medical interventions aimed at improving the mind, body or performance. This paper uses the case of human growth hormone (hGH) to examine the social na…
How Attention Partitions Itself During Simultaneous Message Presentations
Television producers, across all types of programming, assume young viewers can parallel process simultaneously presented messages. For instance, television news producers appear to believe that young viewers can attend to weather icons, lexical news crawls, and sports scores while they also attend to news anchors who present the news. Nonetheless, attention theory suggests parallel processing on this scale cannot be executed efficiently. Given t…
An Experiment Changed
Keywords: Campaign Issue CoverageDebatesElection Night CoverageJournalistsPolitical ConventionsTV Coverage
Measuring Ethnicity in New Zealand
While single ethnic group disparity studies have been useful in the past, we suggest that more sophisticated ways of conceptualising and analysing ethnicity data in relation to health disparities are now required in New Zealand. Based on the New Zealand experience, we also suggest that as international migration continues, and as intermarriage becomes more frequent in most countries, there will be pressure to move from single group race-based mea…
Wrong parents' and 'right parents
Exploring Media’s Impact on African American Women’s Healthy Food Habits in Kentucky
This qualitative study employs the uses and gratifications framework to explore the perspective of African American women in Kentucky, specifically urban Louisville and rural Hopkinsville, to understand their use of media as potential sources for gathering information about healthy food habits. Key findings include how the participants used media for instrumental purposes to educate themselves about healthy food habits, and that the specific medi…
Acting Up and Acting Out
This article compares diverse symbolic frames for the childhood psychiatric diagnosis "Conduct Disorder" (CD) found in the popular media with the dominant medicalized frame in the professional literature. Although vestiges of earlier frameworks remain, almost all professional accounts frame the disorder as a way of "acting out" the sick role. In contrast, the popular media use various culturally consistent frames, including delinquently "acting u…
Epistemological inclusiveness in researching the African American community
African American communities have experienced negative effects from a history of medical abuse, lack of proper research procedures, and misinterpretations of study findings because of racism. These past injustices have led to a mistrust of research and researchers. This paper focuses on how some methodological challenges, in a study funded by a National Institutes of Health grant on two low-income African American communities in Kentucky, were me…
Healthicization and Lay Knowledge About Eating Practices in Two African American Communities
In this manuscript, we expand upon sociological research in lay knowledge about health and healthicization by examining socially mediated ways in which 40 African American adults in two communities acquired information about eating practices. Participants employed a variety of socially informed information-seeking strategies. Many, but not all, used socially prescribed sources exhorting them to maximize their own health and reported an amalgam of…
Situated Motives of Lay Participants in Community Collaboratives for Children's Mental Health
Publicly funded programs in many industrialized countries increasingly require the participation of citizens. In this article, I explore the "situated motives" of family members who participated alongside professionals in implementing children's mental health programs in two communities in the United States. I conducted in-depth interviews with family members and observed monthly meetings of Community Collaboratives to assess how family members u…
Peer Support Specialists and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice
Through in‐depth interviews, this study explored the objective and subjective experiences of 14 peer support specialists (PSSs) working in three community mental health centers. Abductive analyses identified Bourdieu’s theoretical framework as a useful tool to understand how peers constructed and enacted a distinct theory of practice which shaped their roles as lay experts. Recovery was the peers’ primary habitus (predisposition) and their recove…
Biographical disruption, redefinition, and recovery
The rich conceptual literature on illness experiences has been based largely on singular diseases/conditions. However, over the last few decades, more complex disease patterns and increased longevity have complicated our understanding of how people experience illness. This study builds upon existing theoretical constructs (e.g. biographical disruption) to more robustly capture the illness experiences of those living with multi-morbid conditions. …
Beyond Deflection
The ways in which public officials, citizens, and social institutions are held accountable for social problems, including police‐involved killings in the United States, reflect changing attributions of responsibility. Although news reports now rely less on official police narratives and less often stereotype police as heroes and victims as villains, there has been little research on how opinion columns, featuring the views of community leaders, f…
Sociology (13 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Social science (5 obras) · Health Policy Implementation Science (4 obras)