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“A lot of it is about feel”: The promise of sensory ethnography for anatomical education research
Abstract Ethnographers have constructed rich accounts of cultural settings since the early nineteenth century. A new approach, sensory ethnography, holds great promise for Health Professions Education scholars in its incorporation of the senses, particularly regarding anatomical teaching and learning. In this article, we describe sensory ethnography as
Paula Cameron, Olga Kits, Anna MacLeod
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Editorial: Breastfeeding: a sociological reflection on new mothers' wellbeing
Sarah Earle, Alison Spiro
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Background In health research, indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) are often used interchangeably and often lack theoretical foundation. This makes it difficult to compare results from different studies and to explore the relationship between SES ...
Michael Fliesser +2 more
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Family health practices among open-country people in a south Missouri county [PDF]
Report on Department of Rural Sociology research project 201, Rural health--P.
Hassinger, Edward W., 1925- +1 more
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'It burdens me': The impact of stroke in central Aceh, Indonesia [PDF]
This is the accepted version of the following article: Norris, M., Allotey, P. and Barrett, G. (2012), ‘It burdens me’: the impact of stroke in central Aceh, Indonesia. Sociology of Health & Illness, 34: 826–840.
Allotey, P, Barrett, G, Norris, M
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Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million +3 more
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Background and Aim: Social capital is one of the social determinants of health, which might have an important role in health inequalities. The amount of social capital gained by individuals differs depending on social circumstances in fact, not all ...
Mohamad Tavakol, Mohsen Naseri Rad
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Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
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The families, their physicians, their health behavior in a northwest Missouri county [PDF]
Report on Department of Rural Sociology research project no. 201, 'Rural health'--P.
Hassinger, Edward W., 1925- +1 more
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Defining an epidemic:The body mass index in British and American obesity research 1960-2000 [PDF]
Between the 1970s and the mid‐1990s the body mass index (BMI) became the standard means of assessing obesity both in populations and in individuals, replacing previously diverse and contested definitions of excess body weight.
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