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The politics of health services research: health professionals as hired hands in a commissioned research project in England
(Universities of Surrey, University of Stirling, British Sociological Association, Sage Ltd, 2014-08-15)
Previous health services research has failed to account for the role played by clinical staff in the collection of data. In this paper we use the work of Roth on hired hand research to examine the politics of evidence ...
Assessing Latour: The case of the sickle cell body in history
(Sage, 2018-02-18)
The work of Bruno Latour has animated debates in sociology, anthropology and philosophy over several decades, whilst attracting criticisms of the ontological, epistemological and political implications of his focus on ...
Sickle cell and thalassaemia: why social science is critical to improving care and service support.
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2012-01)
For sickle cell and thalassaemia, social science is critical if we wish to understand the social context of - and how people experience - the two conditions. Sickle cell and thalassaemia are more than simply ‘being of’, ...
Valuing people with sickle cell disease
(Reed, 2016-09-30)
Employers need to be flexible when managing sickle cell disease in the workplace and sensitive to the risks of discrimination. Diana De, Simon Dyson and Karl Atkin offer evidence-based guidance and recommendations.
Review: On the problems of mixing RCTs with qualitative research: the case of the MRC framework and the evaluation of complex healthcare interventions.
(2010)
This is a timely and important contribution to thinking about the social production of evidence in health care. The recent tendency to incorporate qualitative research into process evaluation within RCTs, in order to ...
Achieve equity in access to sickle cell services
(EMAP Publishing Limited, 2013-11-26)
Greater priority, and appropriate resources, need to be accorded to the provision of sickle cell and thalassaemia services. Sickle cell and thalassaemia disorders are among the most common genetic conditions in the world. ...
Genetics and Global Public Health: Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia.
(Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2012-01)
Sickle cell and thalassaemia are among the world’s most common genetic conditions. They are especially common in Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia. They affect all ethnic groups but they particularly ...
Sickle cell and thalassaemia: global public health issues come of age.
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2012-01)
Sickle cell and thalassaemia are among the world’s leading genetic conditions with over five per cent of the world’s population carrying clinically significant haemoglobin gene variants (Modell and Darlison, 2008). In the ...
Territory, ancestry and descent: the politics of sickle cell disease.
(Sage, 2011-12-20)
Sociologists have long questioned the naturalness and stability of ‘ethnic groups’, suggesting that a concern with how they are socially constituted is more appropriate. However, the example of genetically based medical ...
Sickle cell in the university curriculum: a survey assessing demand for open access educational materials in a constructed community of interest .
(Radcliffe Publishing, 2011-03)
Successive UK governments have sought to support expanded teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects within university curricula. There is an increased expectation that the education of ...