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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Medical Sociology"”.
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Left Out: A Revealing Look Into the Everyday Fashion Choices of Individuals With Mobility Disabilities
… the individual – a perspective influenced by the medical sociology of disability. As appearance plays a role in interactions, the stereotypes surrounding physical disability are perpetuated by an appearance that cannot be changed due to the absence of clothing one might desire to wear.
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"We Know Where We Stand": Contesting and Constructing Knowledge in Nicaragua's Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic
… historical context. Grounded in literature from medical anthropology and medical sociology and based on two months of ethnographic field research in northwestern Nicaragua, it analyzes how knowledge production interacts with scientific uncertainty about CKDs specific biomedical causes. It posits …
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The doctor's view: Clinical and governmental rationalities in twentieth-century general medical practice
… the 'intellectual' foundations for general medical practice as an independent, autonomous clinical discipline. The empirical focus of the study is upon the application of psychological and 'person-centred' approaches to general practice; above all, in the work of Michael Balint, and the …
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Essential Caretaking for Artists with Disabilities: Exploring the Overlooked Histories of Hazel Knapp and Grandma Moses
… disability in scholarship, especially concerning medical sociology and caretaking. Focusing on two early-twentieth-century self-taught American artists, Hazel Knapp (1908–95), who fell into obscurity, and Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), best known as Grandma Moses, this is a comparative …
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Cervical Cancer at the Crossroads. An historical ontology of evidence in cervical cancer prevention
… these sources via methods and theory from medical sociology, history and philosophy of science, and Science and Technology Studies, the thesis has three findings. First, it demonstrates that we are witnessing a change in the nature of the constitution of cervical cancer. New HPV-based …
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Enacting patient safety on the frontline: an ethnographic study of rescue work with acutely illpatients
… work’, drawing on theoretical insights from medical sociology to illuminate relationships between organisational systems, department and individual level processes. Data collection involved ethnographic fieldwork over a 12 month period in two UK NHS Trusts, including observations (180 hours), …
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A Vignette Study Examining The Accuracy Of Diagnosis: The Role Of Patient And Practitioner Gender And Race Match
… <p>Advisor: Dr. Janet R. Hankin</p> <p>Major: Medical Sociology</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology</p> <p>A convenience snowball sample of 228 mental health practitioners were surveyed and administered two vignettes of persons with mental illness and a 12-question survey that …
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Three Papers On Home Health Care Services In The United States
… and low-paid aides who experience high turnover. Medical sociology has generally studied hospitals and facilities over home-based care, and sociology of service work and care work have largely focused on workers’ interactions with consumers instead of employer institutions and organizations. In …
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The impact of service-learning on academics related to neurogenic communication disorders
… limited, but has been an increasing interest for medical, sociology, education, and communication disorders fields. This study describes the effect that SL has on academic learning related to neurogenic communication disorders, attitudes towards SL, and community benefits. One section of a senior …
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Essays in the sociology of autism diagnosis
… I investigate using organizational, economic and medical sociology and which generate theoretical insights with broad applicability to the management of organizations. Two sets of analyses are included. The first analysis is motivated by sharp differences in diagnostic rates across three …
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SERVICE LEARNING: AN INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS APPROACH
The medical profession is in a state of social transformation. Medical education must follow suit to continue to produce physicians who can meet the demands of the ever-changing field of medicine and of the public it serves. In this study, an institutional logic framework is used in examining how …
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A Black Feminist's Critique of the Crooked Room of Medicine (CRoM): Innovation of Thick Studies and the Gender, Race, Weight (GRW) Matrix
… with Black feminist thought and critical medical sociology, have taught me otherwise. This disssertation takes Dietz's theory as a starting point in order to argue that Black women in the US experience fatphobic and racial discrimination while being "cared for" by western institutional …
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Social disparities in the epidemiology and treatment of substance-related use disorders in the United States, 2002-16
… particularly considering new literature from medical sociology which has underscored the importance of identifying and addressing disparities in health outcomes based upon social determinants. As such, this dissertation seeks to contribute to our understanding of the scale of substance use …
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(Un)bounding DSM 300.3: A Study of the Everyday Practice of Managing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
… professionals. Foregrounding the concepts of medicalization, Hacking's ""making up people,"" subjectivity, and practice, and drawing upon a wide variety of social scientific literature, including texts in the sociology of mental health, medical sociology, and science and technology studies, I …
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How Mental Health Care Workers Meet Client Needs for Care in Organizational Contexts
Modern community-based mental health care is delivered by an assemblage of services that attempts to meet the diverse needs of the population. Frontline mental health staff deliver these services directly to clients in ways that reflect their personal and professional orientations to treatment. …
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Narrated Experiences of Medically Assisted Reproduction in Hungary - Infertility from a Multimethod Perspective
… and lived experiences of female patients using medically assisted reproductive technologies in Hungary. In general, the aim of the thesis research is to explore patients’ constructed narratives about infertility and reproduction technologies used in treatment. Further goal is to understand the …
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A Conceptual Analysis of Canadian Palliative Care Ethics
… three overall themes of process – routinization, medicalization, and professionalization.
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Dealing with Death: Medical Students' Experiences with Patient Loss
Current research on medical students' death experiences is either outdated or produces conflicting results. This research aims to address these issues by analyzing in-depth interviews in order to explore how medical students view and cope view death. The sample consists of twenty third and fourth …
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Stress Proliferation and Disability over the Life Course
<p>For decades, life course and stress process scholars have documented that negative, stressful experiences have consequences for health across the life course. However, less attention has been paid to hearing impairment, a highly prevalent functional limitation that has significant implications …
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Journey to Parenthood: How New Fathers and Mothers Make Sense of Perinatal Emotional Distress
… in seeking professional help or implementing non-medical solutions. Their illness narratives were shaped, but not determined, by medicalized discourse. I also drew on feminist theories to explore the social and cultural factors that contributed to their perinatal mental health symptoms, in light …
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