Heart Transplantation
Its Risks, the Expectations, and Cultural Negotiations in Japan
Dr Ikuko Tomomatsu, Queen Mary, University of London
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| chronic condition, gift-exchange, heart transplantation, identity reconstruction, Japanese notion of body, stigma
An ethnography of changes in the giving relationship
Dr Patricia Mahon-Daly, Bucks New University
Categories:
| altruism, bio-medicalisation, blood, blood donation, body parts commoditisation, citizenship, deferment, gift exchange, gift relationship, risk, surveillance
Chronic illness and self-management in primary care
Dr Lucy Moore, Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Involvement in practice
An examination of the multiple influences on the construction of service user involvement in mental health care planning
Dr Sarah Robens, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
Dr Sarah Robens, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
Categories:
| care planning, Care Programme Approach, mental health, Service user involvement, structure and agency, therapeutic relationships
Care closer to home
What does it offer?
Dr Charlotte Overgaard, Aalborg University/King’s College, London
Dr Charlotte Overgaard, Aalborg University/King’s College, London
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Who joins a UK right to die society and why?
A study of members of Friends at the End (FATE)
Dr Marion Judd, Queen Mary University of London
Dr Marion Judd, Queen Mary University of London
Categories:
| ageing, fears about dying process, individualisation, medicalisation of dying, reasons for joining, right to die, risk management, society
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1)
Family Experiences and Healthcare Management of a Genetic Syndrome Characterised by a Highly Uncertain Phenotype
Dr Daniele Carrieri, University of Exeter
Dr Daniele Carrieri, University of Exeter
Categories:
| family, genetic, healthcare
Caring and working
A hermeneutic phenomenological study exploring the experiences of working-age male family carers
Dr Linda Birt, University of East Anglia
Dr Linda Birt, University of East Anglia
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Prison mental health: Context is crucial
A sociological exploration of male prisoners’ mental health and the provision of mental healthcare in a prison setting
Dr Melanie Jordan, University of Nottingham
Dr Melanie Jordan, University of Nottingham
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Young Adults' Discursive Constructions of Chronic Illness Experience
Accounts of Type 1 Diabetes and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Benjamin Saunders, Ph.D., M.A, Cardiff University
Benjamin Saunders, Ph.D., M.A, Cardiff University
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