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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"patienthood"”.
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Please Be Patient : A Cultural Phenomenological Study of Haemodialysis and Kidney Transplantation Care
… the aim is to examine the forms of person- and patienthood enacted and negotiated in haemodialysis and kidney transplantation care and in the daily lives of persons with kidney failure. On the other hand, the aim is to investigate the ways in which the enacted and negotiated forms of person- and …
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Ezobudoda (manhood things) a qualitative study of HIV-positive adolescent boys and young mens health practices in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
… children, they performed to norms of HIVpositive patienthood. As they became older, norms of masculinity, including financial achievement, ulwaluko (traditional initiation/circumcision), ‘moral’ behaviour and engaged fatherhood became more important and began to conflict with performances of …
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Sense-making and authorising in the organisation of mental health care
… accountability to that indicated in the CPA. The patienthood story narrates how people are transformed into objects of mental health work. Becoming a psychiatric patient is more diffuse than much labelling theory presumes. and is the product of specific forms of organisation. The thesis concludes …
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The ante-tempus narrative : fictions of medicine and prevention
… manifests. This study proposes the ante-tempus patienthood paradigm to define the individual and collective subjectivity affected by the confluence of medicine, biopolitical control, and neoliberal economics characterising the contemporary Western world, which Nichols (2008) has termed the ‘age …
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Planning for death? An ethnographic study of choice and English end-of-life care
… a wider notion of personhood beyond individual patienthood should be adopted for understanding living at the ‘end of life’. Shifting the focus from choice as an individual act and object to one of interaction, I demonstrate how a relational approach to the study of end-of-life care challenges …