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Thinking sociologically about health and health care
No full textAbout the book:
This exciting new volume offers a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health and healthcare, structured around five core areas:
Sociological perspectives on health and healthcare
Making methodological sense of health and healthcare
Inequalities and diversity
Bodies, minds and emotions
Power, professions and practice
The Sociology of Healthcare encourages reflective practice and critical thinking. Each of the 28 extracts includes commentary by the editors, activities and questions to stimulate debate and aid learning, and a selection of annotated further readings
Problematising sex : introducing sex as crime
No full textThis edited collection represents a multi-disciplinary consideration of sex as crime. The majority of the chapters build on pieces presented at a joint British Society of Criminology/British Sociological Association Conference (April 2006). The motivation for the conference ‘Sex as Crime’ was the recognition of how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault have risen up the government agenda in recent years, for example the ‘Paying the Price’ consultation exercise on sex work in 2004 and the subsequent Coordinated Prostitution Strategy (2006), and other recent legislation around sex crimes including the Sex Offences Act 2003. We were also motivated by the need to question relationships between sex, crime and violence more generally given that this area of research within the criminological domain is often overshadowed by issues such as policing and community safety. The conference was attended by academic researchers, researchers outside of academia, policy-makers, practitioners and sex workers. As noted this book takes forward many of the key issues considered at the ‘Sex as Crime’ conference and is a social scientific, pro-feminist, gender-sensitive collection, drawing on practice, empirical research, documentary analysis and overviews of research in the areas of sex work and sexual violence. The purpose of this introduction is not to introduce specific papers (we do this in the two part introductions: ‘Part 1: Sex for Sale’ and ‘Part 2: Sex as Violence’) but rather to set the context for the collection and to highlight the originality of our approach
Their ‘life’ in your hands, or just a job? Exploring the PhD supervisor self and performance of caring work
Full text linkExploring the PhD supervisor self and performance of caring work
To my PhD students, I am the one who metaphorically holds their hand through their research journey, I am the one who knows what buttons to push, and what to say and when to say it - I am the one who can reduce them to tears or place them so high they reach cloud nine and burst with pride. I too can feel these range of emotions vicariously. I question, who am I in my
professional role? I am an academic, a researcher, a teacher, a colleague, a PhD supervisor. All roles I take seriously. The PhD student cannot and will not always be my priority yet is part of my academic role in supporting the academy in, I hope, a care-full manner. Via an auto/biographic narrative and a care ethics framework I explore the self as a doctoral supervisor. Their doctoral life is in my hands, but at what point does the PhD student take control and recognise the supervisor is ‘going home’
Is breast best?: breastfeeding, motherhood and identity
Full text linkIs Breast Best?: breastfeeding, motherhood and identity is concerned with how breastfeeding is both a personal and a political issue. Earle begins with a cross-cultural analysis of the prevalence of breastfeeding, considering differences between and within countries and cultures and highlighting the presumed physical and psychological advantages for mothers and their babies. The remainder of the chapter is devoted to data derived from a qualitative study concerned with the body in pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood. Earle argues that there are competing discourses which serve to structure women's experiences and perceptions of breastfeeding. Furthermore, she argues that gendered expectations and conflict in relation to women's sexual and maternal identities can cause tension, as can the competing pressure to breastfeed versus the importance of including the father in childcare. In conclusion, Earle leaves us with a question, namely: is the breastfeeding women empowering herself by doing what comes naturally or is the mother who uses formula milk making positive choices about her life and the care of her children
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Gender, identity and reproduction: social perspectives
No full text'Gender, Identity and Reproduction' draws on a variety of perspectives relevant to an understanding of reproduction across the life-course. Through a consideration of the representation of reproductive identities and experiences, the book highlights difference and diversity in relation to contemporary reproductive choices. The book focuses on women's and men's experiences of agency, control and negotiation within the context of cultural, medical, political, theoretical and lay ideologies of the reproductive process in contemporary Western societies
On the emotions and politics of autoethnographic supervision
No full textIn this chapter we collaboratively consider some doubts, tensions, and anxieties around Marton’s PhD research that was supervised by Sarah and Martin. Instead of a teleological journey, we begin by discussing the PhD process using the metaphors of ‘the Zone’, ‘dancing in the shadows’, and ‘reflections in a dark mirror’ to highlight the feelings we each most vividly recall. In the second part of the chapter, we respond to each other’s opening metaphors. Finally, we settle on three themes that may be relevant to readers: the role of the institutional context in cultivating ‘dangerous’ and engaged PhD topics, the complexity of roles and identities during the supervision of such projects, and the problem with linear representations of multivocal realities
When the student dies
Full text linkFor me, supervising doctoral students has been an enlightening process of companionship, compassion, and transformation. Engaging in transformational learning necessitates awareness, experienced guiding, and rituals. I find accompanying a student becoming a researcher to be a passionate investment in an emancipatory process. I have found – as I did with Christine – supervision starts with asking difficult questions, seeking clarification, while gradually building trust and support. Christine’s work was situated around the absence of the lecturer’s voice in higher education. Equally, there is an absence of supervisor accounts, voicing what happens when a student dies. Christine’s writing explains who she was and why this research was important to her; my aim here is to voice this through speaking of her death. Considering Christine’s story, I argue that rather than the metaphor of an epic journey of existential heroics and trophies, a metaphor of transition is less discursively power-laden and holds a more relational and democratic approach for modern doctoral studies. Students on professional doctorates can be equally or more experienced than the supervisor. Not all journeys are transitions and not all end well. I consider the ways in which the relationship between supervisor and supervisee can be voiced when the student dies
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The sociology of healthcare: A reader for health professionals
No full textThis exciting new volume offers a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health and healthcare, structured around five core areas:
Sociological perspectives on health and healthcare
Making methodological sense of health and healthcare
Inequalities and diversity
Bodies, minds and emotions
Power, professions and practice
The Sociology of Healthcare encourages reflective practice and critical thinking. Each of the 28 extracts includes commentary by the editors, activities and questions to stimulate debate and aid learning, and a selection of annotated further readings
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