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Asthma Management in British South Asian Children: an application of the candidacy framework to a qualitative understanding of barriers to effective and accessible asthma care.
(BMC Public Health, 2016-06-14)
Background
In the UK, people of South Asian origin with asthma experience excess morbidity, with hospitalisation rates three times those of the majority White population and evidence suggests that South Asian children ...
Materialising the perfect egg 'donor': examining the work of screening technologies in clinical, commercial and counselling practices
(2018-09)
Within Europe, fertility treatment using donor eggs is increasing, with demand coming from a diverse and growing number of recipients, including older women and gay male couples. Within the EU, the practice is governed by ...
Representing 'altruistic donation' in Europe: an analysis of fertility clinic websites in the UK, Belgium and Spain
(2017-12-07)
European regulation on advertising for egg providers makes clear the need to ensure that principles of voluntary and unpaid donation (VUD) are upheld at the country level (ref). Across Europe this requirement is differently ...
Conducting dyadic, relational research about endometriosis: A reflexive account of methods, ethics and data analysis
(Sage, 2018-07-06)
Despite a growing literature on the value of relational data in studies of social phenomena, individuals still commonly constitute the basic unit of analysis in qualitative research. Methodological aspects of interviewing ...
Investigating the cultural, political and moral framing of egg donation: an interdisciplinary study of the UK, Belgium and Spain.
(2017-09)
Donated eggs are now used in over 25,000 IVF treatment cycles in Europe, creating over 7000 babies per year yet evidence about the motivation, decision making and experiences of women who provide eggs, the views of clinicians, ...
Gifting, sharing, donating, helping: tracing discourses of altruism and medical need in clinics' recruitment of egg providers
(2018-09)
Fertility treatment using donor eggs is a growing phenomenon, with over 40,000 cycles performed across Europe per year. European regulations stipulate that in advertising for women to come forward as egg providers, promotional ...
A comparative analysis of marketing materials used to recruit egg donors in Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom (Poster).
(2018-07)
Study question: How is egg donation framed in clinic marketing material used to recruit and/or inform potential egg donors in (Dutch speaking) Belgium, Spain and the UK?
Summary answer: In Belgium, egg donation (ED) was ...
Men, chronic illness and health work: accounts from male partners of women with endometriosis
(Wiley, 2020-06-26)
Currently dominant in medical discourse, the concept of self‐management sees the responsibility for health and illness shift from the state to the individual. However, while this emphasis on individual responsibility and ...