Health Sociology ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2024.2320223
Tereza Divíšek, Dino Numerato
{"title":"Leaky bodies, vaccination and three layers of memory: bio-immune, social-collective and lived experience.","authors":"Tereza Divíšek, Dino Numerato","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2024.2320223","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2024.2320223","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper focuses on the omnipresent yet analytically almost invisible role of memory and bodily experiences in childhood vaccination. Previous scholarship on the sociocultural aspects of vaccination has primarily focused on the individual and sociodemographic factors underpinning vaccine hesitancy, the role of healthcare professionals and the politicisation or mediatisation of vaccination. Social practices considering vaccination were primarily explored as a matter of the present. Only little consideration was given to the past, individual biographies and sociohistorical temporalities. To complement this body of work, we focus on cognitively-based, embodied and emotionally-experienced memory related to vaccination. Based on a qualitative study of childhood vaccination conducted in Czechia between 2017 and 2019 consisting of ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews and a document review, we identified three interconnected forms of vaccination memory: bio-immune, social-collective and lived experience. Bio-immune memory refers to the body's physical memory, gained to protect itself from diseases. Social-collective memory focuses on socially shared narratives about diseases and vaccination in the past. The memory of lived experience refers to feelings, embodied knowledge and pain. Our findings may inspire further analysis of childhood vaccination in other geographical contexts and amidst the reconfiguration of attitudes and newly established memories following the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"73-88"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140040646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Sociology ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2024.2316742
Anette Grønning, Line Maria Simonsen, Elle C Lüchau, Elisabeth Assing Hvidt, Maja Klausen
{"title":"My time, your time, our time. Older patients' and GPs' time sensibilities around email consultations.","authors":"Anette Grønning, Line Maria Simonsen, Elle C Lüchau, Elisabeth Assing Hvidt, Maja Klausen","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2024.2316742","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2024.2316742","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we discuss how email consultations in general practice operate as a temporal technology, transforming working conditions and power relations between general practitioners (GPs) and patients. We draw on empirical material from Denmark in the form of a set of semi-structured interviews with 53 patients and 15 GPs, including two focus group discussions with 17 GPs. Our theoretical point of departure stems primarily from media theorist Sarah Sharma's (2014) concept of power-chronography, which describes how power is embedded in temporal relations and everyday life and secondarily from sociologist, Judy Wajcman's (2015) concept of multiple temporal landscapes. Patients and GPs calibrate their own time and attune their mutual time according to their expectations and ideas about the other party's time. The patient and the GP can both be viewed as 'time workers' and the email consultation as a digital technology fostering the recalibration of one person's time to that of another, requiring significant labour. The email consultation rearranges the GP-patient boundaries and thereby the power relations. Health institutions ought to consider whose time and labour is being 'saved' with digital systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"43-58"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139933550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Sociology ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2024.2319189
Victoria Cluley, James O Burton, Katherine L Hull, Helen Eborall
{"title":"The paradox of haemodialysis: the lived experience of the clocked treatment of chronic illness.","authors":"Victoria Cluley, James O Burton, Katherine L Hull, Helen Eborall","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2024.2319189","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2024.2319189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studies exploring the relationship between time and chronic illness have generally focused on measurable aspects of time, also known as linear time. Linear time follows a predictable, sequential order of past, present and future; measured using a clock and predicated on normative assumptions. Sociological concepts addressing lifecourse disruption following diagnosis of chronic illness have served to enhance the understanding of lived experience. To understand the nuanced relationship between time and chronic illness, however, requires further exploration. Here, we show how the implicit assumptions of linear time meet in tension with the lived experience of chronic illness. We draw on interviews and photovoice work with people with end-stage kidney disease in receipt of in-centre-daytime haemodialysis to show how the clocked treatment of chronic illness disrupts experiences of time. Drawing on concepts of 'crip' and 'chronic' time we argue that clocked treatment and the lived experience of chronic illness converge at a paradox whereby clocked treatment allows for the continuation of linear time yet limits freedom. We use the concept of 'crip time' to challenge the normative assumptions implicit within linear concepts of time and argue that the understanding of chronic illness and its treatment would benefit from a 'cripped' starting point.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"24-42"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140111754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Sociology ReviewPub Date : 2023-11-01Epub Date: 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2023.2261433
Kerryn Drysdale, Nathanael Wells, Anthony K J Smith, Nilakshi Gunatillaka, Elizabeth Ann Sturgiss, Tim Wark
{"title":"Beyond the challenge to research integrity: imposter participation in incentivised qualitative research and its impact on community engagement.","authors":"Kerryn Drysdale, Nathanael Wells, Anthony K J Smith, Nilakshi Gunatillaka, Elizabeth Ann Sturgiss, Tim Wark","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2023.2261433","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2023.2261433","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Participant recruitment for qualitative research often offers incentives (honoraria; financial compensation) to increase participation and to recognise lived expertise and time involved in research. While not necessarily a new concern for survey and other quantitative based research, 'spam', 'bot', and other inauthentic forms of research participation has rarely been an apparent issue for qualitative research, given it often involves levels of interaction with potential participants prior to the conduct of in-depth interviews and other methods of data generation. This is no longer the case. A troubling new occurrence has meant that recruitment calls for qualitative research with incentives on public-facing social media have attracted 'imposter' expressions of interest and research participation. In this commentary, we explore this challenge that goes beyond research integrity. In particular, we consider the risks of employing strategies to screen for legitimate participants and the importance of building trust and maintaining community engagement.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":" ","pages":"372-380"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41167658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Sociology ReviewPub Date : 2022-07-01Epub Date: 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2022.2055484
Vicki Kerrigan, Stuart Yiwarr McGrath, Rarrtjiwuy Melanie Herdman, Pirrawayingi Puruntatameri, Bilawara Lee, Alan Cass, Anna P Ralph, Marita Hefler
{"title":"Evaluation of 'Ask the Specialist': a cultural education podcast to inspire improved healthcare for Aboriginal peoples in Northern Australia.","authors":"Vicki Kerrigan, Stuart Yiwarr McGrath, Rarrtjiwuy Melanie Herdman, Pirrawayingi Puruntatameri, Bilawara Lee, Alan Cass, Anna P Ralph, Marita Hefler","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2022.2055484","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14461242.2022.2055484","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Australia's Northern Territory (NT) most people who access health services are Aboriginal and most healthcare providers are non-Indigenous; many providers struggle to deliver culturally competent care. Cultural awareness training is offered however, dissatisfaction exists with the limited scope of training and the face-to-face or online delivery format. Therefore, we developed and evaluated <i>Ask the Specialist: Larrakia, Tiwi and Yolŋu stories to inspire better healthcare</i>, a cultural education podcast in which Aboriginal leaders of Larrakia, Tiwi and Yolŋu nations, known as the <i>Specialists</i>, answer doctors' questions about working with Aboriginal patients. The Specialists offer 'counterstories' which encourage the development of critical consciousness thereby challenging racist narratives in healthcare. After listening to the podcast, doctors reported attitudinal and behavioural changes which led to stereotypes being overturned and more culturally competent care delivery. While the podcast was purposefully local, issues raised had applicability beyond the NT and outside of healthcare. Our approach was shaped by cultural safety, critical race theory and Freirean pedagogy. This pilot is embedded in a Participatory Action Research study which explores strategies to improve culturally safe communication at the main NT hospital Royal Darwin Hospital.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"139-157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42149719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The toxic gift: reciprocity and social capital in cigarette exchange in China","authors":"X. Yang, Michael Vuolo, Dan Wu","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2022.2064225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2022.2064225","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The widespread exchange of tobacco cigarettes as a gift in some societies normalises the symbolic desirability of tobacco products and promotes smoking. Little is known about how and why people exchange toxic substances as gifts. This study argues two key factors involved in social exchange processes – reciprocity and social capital – can explain gift cigarette circulation. We conducted a multistage survey among household heads from China and measured the quantity and monetary values of outgoing and incoming gift cigarettes circulated by each household and measured social capital in three dimensions: collective participation, social ties, and trust. Ordinary Least Square regressions showed that reciprocity is strongly and significantly associated with both the value and quantity of gift cigarettes. All three dimensions of social capital are varyingly associated with gifting cigarettes. Income and higher classes are also associated with greater quantity and value of received cigarettes. This study broadens the phenomenon of gifting cigarettes to the more universal patterns of reciprocity and social capital, wherein better social capital and socioeconomic position ironically lead to a higher risk of tobacco use and endanger health. We suggest policymakers target the endemic social need for gift exchange in China’s informal economy.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"309 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47386454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsettling knowledge boundaries: the Indigenous pitiki space for Basotho women’s sexual empowerment and reproductive well-being","authors":"N. Mohlabane","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2022.2079092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2022.2079092","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Indigenous knowledge systems embody a holistic, inclusive view of the world and foreground interconnectedness for the promotion of life. Through reflective engagement with the author’s positioning as an Indigenous researcher, this article explores Indigenous knowledges of sexual, reproductive health and motherhood shared by Basotho women. It draws on the life stories of twenty never-married women and uses decolonial African feminist approaches to challenge the assumed universality of conceptions of sexual and reproductive health that are both deeply embedded and produced within specific relations of power. It illuminates the Indigenous pitiki space as an Indigenous knowledge hub purposed to empower Basotho women’s sexual and reproductive health. Within this space, Indigenous knowledges and skills are shared amongst women, with the elderly imparting knowledges to the young women. In the context of unsurmountable health disparities, the article shows how Indigenous knowledge-sharing outside the exclusive ‘westernised’ health systems enables communal support for the well-being of women and children in African contexts. It emphasises the need for inclusive and expansive knowledge production systems not only to better inform equitable health solutions for Indigenous communities but also for epistemic redress in the discipline of Sociology.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"158 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42505325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mette Ryssel Bystrup, A. Hindhede, Hanne Pallesen, L. Aadal, Kristian Larsen
{"title":"Unequal neurorehabilitation trajectories – a longitudinal case study combining field structures with social Class–Based Capital Conversion","authors":"Mette Ryssel Bystrup, A. Hindhede, Hanne Pallesen, L. Aadal, Kristian Larsen","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2021.2007161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2021.2007161","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Inequalities in illness, service provision, and outcomes are well documented in the Nordic universal welfare state. The ways in which inequalities are produced during illness recovery trajectories remain largely unknown. Long-term brain injury rehabilitation in this context provides a window into veiled aspects of inequality and the underlying mechanisms. We examine inequality empirically by combing framing field structures with the classed abilities of families to mobilise capital after a severe acquired brain injury (severe ABI). Using a Bourdieuan theoretical framework, informed by the concepts of field, doxa, cultural health capital (CHC), and rehabilitation capital (RC), we designed a longitudinal case study encompassing professional records, observations, and interviews that tracked and analysed subjects' trajectories. We found that families’ consistent accumulation and conversion of capital was crucial after a severe ABI because of the multifaceted rehabilitation process involving many different field specific agendas and doxas. This study supplements previous concepts (CHC and RC) developed in a health care context by including other rehabilitation contexts. These disparities in forms of capital amongst social classes result in winners and losers and were reflected in the rehabilitation trajectories of the young adults, characterised by continuity on one extreme and broken trajectories on the other.","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"293 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46773155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminism and a vital politics of depression and recovery","authors":"A. Hickey-Moody, Philippa Collin","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2020.1832357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1832357","url":null,"abstract":"Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery is a conceptual and methodological intervention into the discursive construction of gender and illness. The book is much needed, beautifully...","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"342 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14461242.2020.1832357","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42084418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}