Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

Release on 2021-02-11 | by Alderson, Priscilla

This original text draws on international examples of health and illness research across the life course, from small studies to large trials, to show how versatile critical realism can be in validating research and connecting it to policy ...

Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research
  • Author: Alderson, Priscilla
  • Publisher: Policy Press
  • ISBN: 9781447354567
  • Category: Medical
  • Page: 252
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Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations. This original text draws on international examples of health and illness research across the life course, from small studies to large trials, to show how versatile critical realism can be in validating research and connecting it to policy and practice. To meet growing demand from students and researchers, this book is based on the course at UCL, first taught by Roy Bhaskar, the founder of critical realism.

Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

Release on 2021-02-11 | by Alderson, Priscilla

More valid accurate findings depend on researchers critically rethinking their assumed theories. ... Social and biomedical influences through the centuries For centuries, medicine 12 Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research.

Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research
  • Author: Alderson, Priscilla
  • Publisher: Policy Press
  • ISBN: 9781447354598
  • Category: Medical
  • Page: 252
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Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations. This original text draws on international examples of health and illness research across the life course, from small studies to large trials, to show how versatile critical realism can be in validating research and connecting it to policy and practice. To meet growing demand from students and researchers, this book is based on the course at UCL, first taught by Roy Bhaskar, the founder of critical realism.

Social Theory Health and Healthcare

Release on 2009-06-30 | by Orla McDonnell

Specifically written for health professionals and those engaged in health studies research, this book will help students and practitioners alike understand the sociology of health and illness, and enable them to critically assess health ...

Social Theory Health and Healthcare
  • Author: Orla McDonnell
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781137062154
  • Category: Medical
  • Page: 248
  • View: 152

Social Theory Health and Healthcare

Health research, education and provision have become increasingly interdisciplinary over the last few years, leading health professionals to broaden their knowledge beyond technical aspects of care. Practitioners now need a clear understanding of how society can affect health, and an appreciation of how societal structures can drive healthcare practices. In a clear, systematic and accessible style, this timely text looks at the social context of health and healthcare by: - Analysing a wide range of classic and contemporary theories; - Identifying the relevance of each theory to health; - Showing how theory has been used in research - Outlining the impact of theory on health and health provision. Specifically written for health professionals and those engaged in health studies research, this book will help students and practitioners alike understand the sociology of health and illness, and enable them to critically assess health issues, policies and practices.

Qualitative Health Psychology

Release on 1999-03-19 | by Michael Murray

This book shows clearly how a qualitative approach offers a better understanding of the experience of illness while locating it in its broader social context.

Qualitative Health Psychology
  • Author: Michael Murray
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9781446234976
  • Category: Psychology
  • Page: 272
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Qualitative Health Psychology

`This book constitutes a valuable resource for postgraduate students and researchers. Most.... of the chapters succeed in providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to the various approaches and/or methods, thus enabling the reader to make an informed decision about whether or not they wish to pursue the topic further. The book as a whole is also very well referenced and this makes it a source of essential information for students and researchers with an interest in qualitative health psychology' - Health Psychology Update This book explains the role of qualitative research within health psychology. Theories and methods from a qualitative perspective are highly varied but, in general, differ from the positivist approach which is concerned with quantifying the individual risk factors presumed to cause health and illness behaviour. This book shows clearly how a qualitative approach offers a better understanding of the experience of illness while locating it in its broader social context. Providing a detailed examination of these issues, the book is organized into three sections - the first considers some of the main theoretical perspectives underlying qualitative research in health psychology including discourse analysis and narrative as well as the social context and embodiment of health and illness; the second examines some of the practical issues involved in conducting qualitative research with different populations, such as children and the terminally ill; and the final section considers a range of analytic issues and specific analytic approaches such as grounded theory and action research, and the evaluation of qualitative methods.

Medicine and the Body

Release on 2003-03-19 | by Simon Williams

Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning: - the medicalized body - health inequalities - childhood and ageing - the dilemmas of high-tech medicine - chronic illness and disability - caring and (bio)ethics - sleep, ...

Medicine and the Body
  • Author: Simon Williams
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9781446265253
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 264
  • View: 468

Medicine and the Body

`An intelligent and informed account of medical sociology. Simon Williams has produced an original and comprehensive sociological statement of the centrality of the body to an understanding of medicine, health and illness. His scope is impressive... It will shape future teaching and research in the field of health and illness' - Bryan S Turner, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge This is a clear, well-written account of medicine, health and the body. Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically reexamines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness. Included here are cutting edge discussions and debates concerning: - the medicalized body - health inequalities - childhood and ageing - the dilemmas of high-tech medicine - chronic illness and disability - caring and (bio)ethics - sleep, death and dying - the body in late/postmodernity Written in an accessible, engaging style, with many original and innovative insights, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, and to researchers and lecturers with an interest in the embodied agendas of health and medicine in the new millennium.

Identity Politics

Release on 2022-05-25 | by David Pilgrim

It will appeal to students and professionals from the fields of sociology, politics, social policy, social work, philosophy, mental health, and public health could use this book.

Identity Politics
  • Author: David Pilgrim
  • Publisher: ISD LLC
  • ISBN: 9781800131026
  • Category: Psychology
  • Page: 292
  • View: 412

Identity Politics

Identity politics have taken a strong hold on modern society, in particular online on social media platforms. But to what extent have they contributed to human flourishing? Have they changed the world for the better, and to what extent? David Pilgrim explores identity politics as a 'curate's egg': good and bad in parts. The good, that they shine light on topics that may previously have been neglected. The bad, their tendency towards absolutism and premature certainties. The world is nuanced and contradictory, and our awareness of it is highly partial. Identity politics are an inadequate response to that complexity and mystery of life. They take away the need to give free expression to all views, including those we may not only disagree with but might also find offensive. Pilgrim re-establishes a realist objection to strong social constructivist arguments within social science about gender, sexualities, and putative moral panics. This accessible book is a must-read for anyone with an interest in contemporary policy formation or reform. It will appeal to students and professionals from the fields of sociology, politics, social policy, social work, philosophy, mental health, and public health could use this book.

Sociological Abstracts

Release on 2004 | by Leo P. Chall

SA02339 When Being Alone Might Be Better : Neighborhood Poverty , Social Capital , and Child Mental Health ... SA00145 G. A. Cohen's Functional Explanation : A Critical Realist Analysis ; SA00002 Gender Studies : Rough Notes from a Very ...

Sociological Abstracts
  • Author: Leo P. Chall
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: UOM:39015078349514
  • Category: Sociology
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Sociological Abstracts

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions

Release on 2010-04-14 | by Graham Scambler

Archer , M. , Bhaskar , R. , Collier , A. , Lawson , T. and Norrie , A. ( eds ) ( 1998 ) Critical Realism : Essential Readings . ... Bury , M. ( 1991 ) The Sociology of Chronic Illness : A Review of Research and Prospects .

New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions
  • Author: Graham Scambler
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • ISBN: NWU:35556040885162
  • Category: Political Science
  • Page: 233
  • View: 229

New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions

This book charts the new directions in theory and research in disability studies, giving purpose and shape to the emerging confluence of ideas between traditionally opposed groups.

A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

Release on 1999 | by David Pilgrim

Because critical realism is a materialist , rather than idealist , basis for social science ( cf. the Kantian idealism ... In other words , all sorts of methodologies used by sociologists to study mental health and illness can furnish ...

A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
  • Author: David Pilgrim
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
  • ISBN: UOM:49015002485655
  • Category: Medical
  • Page: 238
  • View: 367

A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

Providing a clear overview of the major aspects of the sociology of mental health and illness, this text draws on a range of social theories and methods to illustrate its points, and information is organised along dimensions of class, race, etc.

Housing Policy Debate

Release on 2004 | by

Integrating better health as an explicitly desirable outcome of housing policy could help fulfill this vision . ... the “ Physiological Dope " Problematic in Housing and Illness Research : Towards a Critical Realism of Home and Health ...

Housing Policy Debate
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  • Category: Electronic journals
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