{"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}
Health Sociology ReviewPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2020-11-22DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2020.1846581
Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin, Lisa Bourke, Olivia Mitchell, Trudie Newman
{"title":"'It's a cultural thing': excuses used by health professionals on providing inclusive care.","authors":"Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin, Lisa Bourke, Olivia Mitchell, Trudie Newman","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2020.1846581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1846581","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although health services in Australia have an aim to provide inclusive care for their patients/clients, this study highlights how barriers to care can lie at the centre of patient-provider interactions. Racial microaggression is a subtle form of racism that can occur in health settings, leading to further exclusion for First Nations Australians, immigrants and refugees. This paper is guided by Derrida's approach to deconstructionism by unpacking how language is used by health professionals - as holders of organisational power - and how they construct 'truths' or discourses about clients that historically have been marginalised by health services and system. Data comprise 21 interviews with staff from two rural health services. It identified three racial microaggressions were used to justify the challenges of providing care to people from First Nations, immigrant and refugee backgrounds: (1) Participants problematised culture(s) of service users; (2) participants implied cultural superiority in their conceptualisation of 'other' cultures; and (3) participants shared stories of inactions, discomfort and relegating of responsibility. The findings identified these discourses as forms of racial microaggression that can potentially lead to further exclusion of people seeking services and support.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14461242.2020.1846581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39005322","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 : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-01-19DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2020.1865183
Malene Lue Kessing
{"title":"Doing peer work in mental health services: Unpacking different enactments of lived experiences.","authors":"Malene Lue Kessing","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2020.1865183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1865183","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mental health services are increasingly employing peer workers (PWs), individuals who have lived experiences with mental health problems, to support patients and be part of mental health care teams. While the employment of PWs continues to increase, little is known about how the function unfolds in practice. This paper explores the broader context in which the PWs navigate and the concrete outcomes and everyday issues that exist at the individual level. Methodologically, the paper draws on 22 interviews with PWs employed in the mental health services in Denmark. Theoretically, it combines Lipsky's (1980) theory on street-level bureaucrats with sociological discussions concerning the lay-expert divide. The analysis shows that PWs experience both role ambiguity and goal uncertainty and that they use substantial discretion in determining the nature, amount and quality of their peer practices. This - combined with the PWs' diverse lived experiences - calls for a heterogeneous understanding of peer work and therefore the analysis presents three categories of peer workers: PWs as (1) a representative of patients' lifeworld, (2) an interdisciplinary professional and (3) an 'expert by experience'. These categories display PWs different enactments of their lived experiences and reveal ambiguities tied to the lay-expert divide.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"32-46"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14461242.2020.1865183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38841091","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 : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2020-12-09DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2020.1850317
Renae Fomiatti, Michael Savic, Suzanne Fraser, Michael Edwards, Adrian Farrugia
{"title":"Heavy drinking as phenomenon: gender and agency in accounts of men's heavy drinking.","authors":"Renae Fomiatti, Michael Savic, Suzanne Fraser, Michael Edwards, Adrian Farrugia","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2020.1850317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1850317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alcohol consumption is a significant public health concern in Australia, with men disproportionately represented in treatment for health issues related to heavy drinking. Despite this, little is known about the experiences of these men or the gender dynamics that may shape heavy drinking. Increasingly, the treatment of alcohol and other drug-related issues, including those related to heavy drinking, is based on a biopsychosocial approach. Within this framework, heavy drinking is understood as a symptom of individual pathology in the context of various social 'factors' that influence individual capacity to exercise agency. Following the work of Karen Barad, this article employs a feminist science studies account of agency to formulate heavy drinking as a gendered 'phenomenon': enacted and sustained through the 'intra-action' of other phenomena. Drawing on interviews with men who drink heavily, our analysis explores how the phenomenon of men's heavy drinking materialises through the intra-actions of gender, isolation and healthcare. We argue that heavy drinking is not a sign of failed individual agency but an expression of entangled agencies. In concluding, we suggest it is possible to enhance the well-being of men who drink heavily by addressing specific gendered intra-actions in the making of heavy drinking.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"16-31"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14461242.2020.1850317","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39003658","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 : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1886865
Olivia King, Nicole Shaw
{"title":"' … breaks down silos': allied health clinicians' perceptions of informal interprofessional interactions in the healthcare workplace.","authors":"Olivia King, Nicole Shaw","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2021.1886865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2021.1886865","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Informal interprofessional interactions have gained interest in recent interprofessional care, education, health services and social sciences research literature. Some of the established benefits associated with these interactions include enhanced communication, teamwork, research translation and the provision of safer care. Limited evidence about how informal interprofessional interactions are perceived by the allied health workforce, exists. The survey conducted at a large Australian health service explored allied health clinicians' perceptions of the benefits, challenges and enablers of informal interprofessional interactions and their recommendations to improve opportunities for these workplace interactions. Sixty-four responses were analysed descriptively (for close-ended questions) and using a framework analysis approach, informed by Bourdieu's <i>social space</i> theory (for open-ended questions). Perceived benefits were aligned with three themes: teams and organisations, individual clinicians and service-users. Challenges to, and enablers of, informal interprofessional interactions were identified according to five themes: socio-cultural practices, physical environment, timing-related factors, individual and organisational factors. Participant recommendations to increase opportunities for informal interprofessional workplace interactions for allied health reflected three of the aforementioned themes: socio-cultural practices, physical environment and organisational factors. This theoretically-informed analysis may aid in the development of strategies to support these types of workplace interactions and realise the benefits identified.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"47-63"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14461242.2021.1886865","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25428193","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 : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-03-30DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1899842
Marta Makowska
{"title":"How Polish medical students are socialised to cooperate with the pharmaceutical industry: a focus group study of the importance of informal, hidden and null curricula.","authors":"Marta Makowska","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2021.1899842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2021.1899842","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study analysed how Polish medical students are socialised to cooperate with the pharmaceutical industry via informal, hidden, and null curricula. Nine focus groups were run with medical students in their second year and upwards at three Polish medical universities. Initially, most students had difficulty in discerning pharmaceutical companies' presence in their education, but on reflection they all recognised this presence. Students said that they were surrounded by small medical gifts provided by companies, met pharmaceutical representatives, and took part in events for physicians organised and/or sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless, they did not think they were the main target of the industry's marketing activities, saying that these were largely aimed at practicing doctors, and that they were only targeted as opportunities arose. Students' statements make it clear that their socialisation takes place within a culture which consents to medical professionals' cooperation with the industry. Medical students come to perceive cooperation with the industry as natural, and benefits from the industry as a privilege of doctors. Medical schools can prevent this by introducing guidelines, conflict of interest polices, and changing the formal curriculum, but the need for such measures is not currently recognised in Poland.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"81-95"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14461242.2021.1899842","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25541542","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 : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-02-16DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1888653
James Rupert Fletcher
{"title":"Situational expectations and surveillance in families affected by dementia: organising uncertainties of ageing and cognition.","authors":"James Rupert Fletcher","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2021.1888653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2021.1888653","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent political processes have rendered people with dementia an increasingly surveilled population. Surveillance is a contentious issue within dementia research, spanning technological monitoring, biomarker research and epidemiological data gathering. This paper explores surveillance in the relationships of people affected by dementia, how older relatives both with and without diagnoses are surveilled in everyday interactions, and the importance of expectations in guiding surveillance. This paper presents data from 41 in-depth interviews with people affected by dementia living in the community in the United Kingdom. Agedness was a key contributor to expectations that a person may have dementia, based on previous experiences, media accounts and wider awareness. Expectations provoked surveillance in interactions, with participants looking for signs of dementia when interacting with older relatives. Older people also enacted self-surveillance, monitoring their own behaviour. Various actions could be attributed to dementia because interpretation is malleable, partly vindicating expectations while leaving some uncertainties. Expectant surveillance transformed people's experiences because they organised their own actions, and interpreted those of others, in line with pre-existing meanings. The ability to interpret behaviours to fit expectations can bring coherence to uncertainties of ageing, cognition and dementia, but risks ascribing dementia to many older people who straddle those uncertainties.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"64-80"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14461242.2021.1888653","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25373291","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 : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-04-22DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1918016
Stefanie Plage, Emma Kirby
{"title":"Reconfiguring time: optimisation and authenticity in accounts of people surviving with advanced cancer.","authors":"Stefanie Plage, Emma Kirby","doi":"10.1080/14461242.2021.1918016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2021.1918016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increasingly, people live longer with advanced cancer, despite having no prospect of full recovery. Ongoing survival is owed to early detection and effective disease management, yet experienced as highly precarious. In this article we explore how cancer chronicity brings into effect a pre-occupation with time, what time is to people with advanced cancer, and what socio-cultural norms inflect everyday practices. We analyse 20 interviews conducted in Queensland, Australia with 11 participants with advanced cancer, to trace the intersections of what time means, what people do with time, and what time feels like. Drawing on scholarship on the moralities around ill health, we discuss how awareness of time emerges in cancer chronicity and raises moral questions on how to live well. Here, imperatives of optimisation (urging people with advanced cancer to make the most of limited time) intersect with imperatives of authenticity (marked by emphasis on how to live one's own best life). These dynamics reveal expressions of living with advanced cancer in morally viable ways. Such ontological processes have implications for the lived experience of people with advanced cancer, their families and oncological care.</p>","PeriodicalId":46833,"journal":{"name":"Health Sociology Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"96-111"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14461242.2021.1918016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38819249","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}