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Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality

comprehending informal care, with a focus on issues of inequality and injustice. These bodies of scholarship—which, respectively, emphasise the political-economic, affective, policy, geographic, and ecological ... Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney Informal care occupies a paradoxical place in contemporary societies. It is at once

Habits and the socioeconomic patterning of health-related behaviour: a pragmatist perspective

how broader social, cultural, and political structures influence and shape everyday behaviour (ibid.). According to pragmatists, changing habits is something that we do on a daily basis, at least to ... our way through the world . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Baert , P. 2005 . Philosophy of the social sciences: Towards pragmatism . Cambridge: Polity. Banwell , C. , J. Dixon , D. Broom , and A

What is evidence as evidence is used? A case of dualism?

, integration agendas, evolving organisational landscapes, and demographic and political change, it is increasingly important to recognise the different meanings and uses of evidence. ... key argument, that evidence takes divergent forms, using a case study of health service reconfiguration in Greater Manchester, UK, culminating in a judicial review (JR). The background and political

Quasi-Compliance: An Examination of Russia and the European Court of Human Rights

Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is the world’s “most advanced” mechanism for human rights protection and enforcement.4 The ECHR names and protects 16 rights, including political rights such as freedom of ... Ingelevič-Citak “Russia Against Ukraine Before the European Court of Human Rights. The Empire Strikes Back?” Polish Political Science Yearbook, vol. 51 (2022): 7–29, 18. 24 “Russia Quits Europe’s Rule of Law

Exploring the significance of relationality, care and governmentality in families, for understanding women’s classed alcohol drinking practices

practices women engage in. The interpretation extends scholarship on women’s drinking, by adopting a relational approach to identity and linking private care practices and alcohol use to social and political ... relationships, are important for all women, and are shaped by social, economic and political structures. Feminist approaches to care and governmentality Ethics of care ideas are an important area of feminist

Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?

Forensic mental health care is situated across both criminal justice and healthcare systems and is subject to political, cultural, legal and economic shifts in these contexts. The implementation of ... health services. The term ‘late modernity’ captures these broad social, political and economic shifts. Garland (2001) proposed that these have influenced the development of two ways in which social

COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis

fare any better than their Conservative/Corporatist counterparts once potential confounding economic and political variables were accounted for: countries’ economic status, healthcare spending ... . Starting from a political economy approach, this analysis uses the classic welfare state typology developed by Esping-Andersen (1990) as comparative grounds. A welfare regime, philosophically speaking

How US newspapers view the UK’s NHS: a study in international lesson-drawing

Healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic is a highly charged political and economic subject. This work considers US media coverage of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), an under-researched area ... growing political momentum in the US for a single-payer approach to healthcare (Draper 2019). Even after Joe Biden’s election to the presidency in 2020, the prospects for US healthcare appear to be fraught

Coronavirus, capitalism and a ‘thousand tiny dis/advantages’: a more-than-human analysis

materialism; Political economy - Accepted: 18 March 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2022 Introduction Public health, clinical and behavioural science analyses of the ... , recent work has applied new materialist perspectives to the political economy of health and socio-economic position, replacing essentialist and aggregative models of ‘class’ with an understanding of the

How a Tweet Brought People to the Street: Social Media and the Success of Ni Una Menos

social and political change. ... feminist organizations that came before us. We translate this powerful heritage into a political language trained in queer poetry and literature, a movement that I like to call las lenguas de las locas, [the

The changing governance of welfare: revisiting Jessop’s framework in the context of healthcare

NHS to present a new political economy of health. ... healthcare The political economy of health and healthcare has an extensive established literature far too broad to present beyond a brief review here. Highlights include Marxist theorising on the formation of

Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying

“governmentalisation” of human existence (Rose 1990; Walkerdine 2003) , establishes a political logic dominated by a form of “human” profitability (Skeggs 2014). People should, thus, be “subjec ts of value” (Türken ... “equity turn” in palliative care research (2022) and advocates for researchers to take into account “the wider political, institutional, and economic conditions” (p. 10) in which poverty comes to exist and

Psychiatric diagnosis as a political device

, designed to control and contain disturbed behaviour and provide care for dependents. Hence psychiatric diagnosis functions as a political device employed to legitimate activities that might otherwise be ... . Social Theory & Health (2010) 8, 370-382. doi:10.1057/sth.2009.11 psychiatric diagnosis; philosophy of mental illness; psychiatry as social control; social construction of mental illness Introduction

Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design & exploring the role(s) of capital

Art, English, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Religion. The social sciences include areas of study such as Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Anthropology. the PMP as ... Philosophy majors at the University where this study was conducted (Sociology and Philosophy are representative of the SSH disciplines). We then compared these course lists to the standard required courses for

An unproblematized truth: Foucault, biopolitics, and the making of a sociological canon

important to remember here that, albeit stated often in epochal terms—the “entry of life into history (….) into the sphere of political techniques” (1978, pp. 141–142)—Foucault’s announcement of a modern ... the term bio-political was used (in an adjectival and hyphenated form, Foucault 1994b, p. 210) ,1 and the two versions of his The Politics of Health in the eighteenth century (original 1976 and 1979

The psychosocial implications of social distancing for people with COPD: some exploratory issues facing a uniquely marginalised group during the COVID-19 pandemic

distancing has produced, Rossolatos (2020) asserts the importance of regarding social distancing not as an epidemiological or political construct or as a task to be implemented but as an ontological reality ... aspects of embodiment, intercorporeality and trust, together with the wider economic and political upheavals caused by the pandemic, has led to a widespread atmosphere of global uncertainty experienced on

Earbuds, smartphones, and music. Spiritual care and existential changes in COVID-19 times

) . The meaning and practices of being ‘Man’ are deconstructed as historical and political categories defining the norm and what is normal, that is man, white, European, heterosexual, and neurotypical. An ... , being-in-the world is fundamentally informed by the dimension of care, in Merleau-Monty’s philosophy, the world is one of intercorporeality, that is the interweaving of living bodies and embodied

Failing Women? Structural Violence’s Relevance in Responses to Sexual Violence: A Case Study of Rwanda

deeply entrenched in intersectional structural violence. Given this, it argues the necessity for the Rwandan Government’s political will to be examined, wider sensitization campaigns, stronger coordination ... action.​3 His theory is relevant when considering the global pathology of SV, and the interrelations of community organization, political will, and structural shifts. Introduction:​ Estimates approximate

The Impact (or Lack Thereof) of Recent Environmental Negotiations on Climate Induced Displacement

, sea level rise, extreme weather events, and other climatic factors have increased the number of climate displaced persons (CDPs), political and legal frameworks have been slow to respond to the ... article will provide an overview of the history of international environmental negotiations as well as a review of legal code and political convention insofar as they pertain to climate induced displacement