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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Merton e a sociologia médica Merton and medical sociology

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2007
Trata das principais contribuições do sociólogo norte-americano Robert King Merton (1910-2003), sobretudo aquelas voltadas para o campo da sociologia médica.
Everardo Duarte Nunes
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The Importance of the Study of Medical Sociology [PDF]

, 2014
This 1894 article by a physician discusses the relationshp between the medical profession and the general field of ...
McIntire, Charles
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Implementing an Indigenous Research Methodology to Develop a Culturally Appropriate Survey and Yarning Protocol: Challenges With Retention of the Aboriginal Health, Ageing and Disability Workforce

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal staff play a vital part in improving culturally safe and effective services and supports for Aboriginal people. Research on the Aboriginal workforce helps advance a culturally safe environment for workers and Aboriginal people accessing health and community services. This study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to workforce
F. Talbot, J. Gilroy, J. Gwynn, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, Rob Heard, Sarah Peter, A. Haines, M. Lincoln, B. Rambaldini   +10 more
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Learning from Surgery: How Medical Knowledge is Constructed

Professions and Professionalism, 2013
Using data collected from surgeons working in a transplantation unit in Portugal this article aims to identify how medical knowledge is constructed within the context of surgery.
Helena Serra
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Jonathan Gabe, Lee F. Monaghan, Key Concepts in Medical Sociology [PDF]

, 2013
Compte-renduCompte rendu de l'ouvrage : Jonathan Gabe, Lee F. Monaghan (dir.), Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, Sage, coll. " Key Concepts ", 2013, 229 p., deuxième éd., EAN : 9780857024787.Maël Dieudonné, " Jonathan Gabe, Lee F. Monaghan, Key Concepts
Dieudonné, Maël
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Managing sleep and wakefulness in a 24 hour world [PDF]

, 2013
This article contributes to literature on the sociology of sleep by exploring the sleeping practices and subjective sleep experiences of two social groups: shift workers and students.
Alhola P., Arber S., Bryan M.L., Bryman A., Coffey A., Coveney C.M., Dingwall R., Flick U., Hochschild A., Morse J.   +9 more
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Self‐help friendliness in cancer care: A cross‐sectional study among self‐help group leaders in Germany

Health Expectations, 2022
Background Peer support is increasingly recognized as crucial for improving health and psychosocial outcomes in oncological care. The integration of cancer self‐help groups (SHGs) into cancer care facilities has gained importance in recent years.
Elâ Ziegler, Stefan Nickel, Alf Trojan, Jens Klein, Christopher Kofahl   +4 more
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Trends in healthy life expectancy between 2002 and 2018 in Germany - Compression or expansion of health-related quality of life (HRQOL)?

SSM: Population Health, 2021
The question of whether rising life expectancy has led to additional life years spent in good health or poor health is of major public health relevance.
Marie Kristin Klar, Siegfried Geyer, Batoul Safieddine, Fabian Tetzlaff, Juliane Tetzlaff, Stefanie Sperlich   +5 more
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From waste product to blood, brains and narratives : developing a pluralist sociology of contributions to health research [PDF]

, 2018
Funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research CentrePeer reviewedPublisher ...
Boylan, Anne-Marie, Locock, Louise, Machin, Laura   +2 more
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