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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Sociology of health"”.
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Cross-national analysis of the association between subjective social status and health.
… discrepancies and their associations with health have been a persistent issue in the sociology of health and illness across the globe. Throughout the extensive research effort, subjective social status (SSS) has emerged as a relevant tool for social science and health researchers to …
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The medicalization of oral aesthetics: an application of structuration theory
… has been discussed at length in the sociology of health and illness literature. Typically, dialogue has centered on the effects of medicalization and the process as a phenomenon in professional fields alone. This work is an attempt to study medicalization using a theoretical model, …
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User involvement and improving quality of health and social care.
The aims of the work presented have been to: i) extend knowledge of the social interactions which affect health and social care delivery; and ii) improve the quality of health and social care through an increased understanding of patients’/clients’ needs and factors which influence professionals’ …
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Blame it on her genes : on performativity, politics, and the consumption of prevention
This thesis examines the politics of performativity and its effects in everyday life. The context of the study is the practices surrounding the consumption of preventive solutions for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, and a specific set of genes, the BRCA genes, which are associated with an …
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Technoscientific Knowledge Practices of Adolescent Mental Health Care Work
… the technoscientific knowledge-practices of adolescent psychotherapy. Employing an interpretive, feminist version of grounded theory, 40 interviews with psychotherapists were analyzed. Building on Science and Technology Studies and the Sociology of Health and Illness, the following …