An impact of male gender on the experience of illness
An impact of male gender on the experience of illness CECIL R., McCAUGHAN E., and PARAHOO, K. (2010) ‘It’s hard to take because I am a man’s man’: an ethnographic exploration of cancer and...
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.”‘When…only one man is unemployed, that is his personal trouble, and for its relief we look to the character of the man, his skills and his immediate opportunities. When…15 million…are unemployed,...
View ArticleThe personal is political; care in an age of spectacle.
Are we really surprised that the BBC’s Panorama has again uncovered poor quality care and abuse in a home for older people? We know the roots of this, and I have previously argued that this is a...
View Article“The University in Ruins”
Constructing the Paraversity using the web. Introduction Higher Education institutions across the globe are changing and changing fast. Several writers have expressed dismay, as well as seeing...
View ArticleNursing care scares and Moral Panic
Nursing, Care scares and Moral Panic. The number and tone of reports of poor quality care (e.g. Simmons 2011) especially, since the Mid Staffs NHS trust inquiry but by no means is defined by it, may...
View ArticleWhy do nurses behave as they do?
Subject Positions Theory. Why do individual nurses behave as they do? SPT tries to explain how ‘subjects’ will behave in certain situations. It can be used to explore what ‘positions’ we take up and...
View ArticleSimone de Beauvoir: The second sex – the social construction of women and...
Simone de Beauvoir: The second sex – the social construction of women and implications for wellbeing. In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir published ‘The Second Sex’, a book that was put on a ‘prohibited list’...
View ArticleAction Nursing? Addressing politics and ideology?
I read this http://www.cost-ofliving.net/a-case-for-action-sociology/ a while ago, and I published this on the one dimensional state of UK nurse education,...
View ArticleThe missing two C’s – commodity and critique
http://tinyurl.com/the-missingtwoCs This is the link to the published article in the Journal of Research in Nursing. This discussion paper argues for understanding nursing care as a commodity within...
View ArticleA manifesto for Action Nursing
A manifesto for Action Nursing (Acknowledgement: Many thanks to Graham Scambler for his work on action sociology which inspired this manifesto). “NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that has...
View ArticleNeoliberalism: Rhetoric and Reality.
This paper was prepared as background to the 4th edition of ‘Communication and Interpersonal skills in nursing (Grant, A. and Goodman, B. forthcoming). In that book discourses of neoliberalism and...
View ArticleThe Sociological Imagination
“The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise” C. Wright Mills Photo by Lance Anderson on...
View ArticleThe ‘will of the people’ is a chimera.
Photo by davide ragusa on Unsplash “The term chimera has come to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.” “The people have...
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