All Outputs (47)

The design of compassionate care (2014)
Journal Article
Crawford, P., Brown, B., Kvangarsnes, M., & Gilbert, P. (2014). The design of compassionate care. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 23(23-24), https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12632

Aims and objectives

To investigate the tension between individual and organisational responses to contemporary demands for compassionate interactions in health care.

Background

Health care is often said to need more compassion among its prac... Read More about The design of compassionate care.

Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare (2013)
Journal Article
Brown, B., Crawford, P., Gilbert, P., Gilbert, J., & Gale, C. (2014). Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare. Sociology of Health and Illness, 36(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12065

This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology and notions of emotional l... Read More about Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare.

Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health (2013)
Journal Article
Crawford, P., Lewis, L., Brown, B., & Manning, N. (2013). Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health. Mental Health Review Journal, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-11-2012-0031

Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the value of approaches to mental health based on
creative practice in the humanities and arts, and explore these in relation to the potential contribution to
mutual recovery.
Design/meth... Read More about Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health.

Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry (2009)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., Brown, B., & Crawford, P. (2009). Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry. Health, Risk and Society, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/13698570903329441

Since 1997 the world has been facing the threat of a human influenza pandemic that may be caused by an avian virus and the poultry industry around the globe has been grappling with the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1, or in more info... Read More about Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry.

Hygiene and biosecurity: the language and politics of risk in an era of emerging infectious diseases (2009)
Journal Article
Brown, B., Nerlich, B., Crawford, P., Koteyko, N., & Carter, R. (2009). Hygiene and biosecurity: the language and politics of risk in an era of emerging infectious diseases. Sociology Compass, 3(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00230.x

Infectious diseases, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and avian influenza, have recently been high on the agenda of policy makers and the public. Although hygiene and biosecurity are preferred options for disease management, policy... Read More about Hygiene and biosecurity: the language and politics of risk in an era of emerging infectious diseases.

The habitus of hygiene: discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work (2008)
Journal Article
Brown, B., Crawford, P., Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2008). The habitus of hygiene: discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work. Social Science and Medicine, 67(7), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.06.016

This paper reports upon a qualitative interview study of 22 matrons, infection control staff and operating theatre staff who were questioned about their working lives and the role they played in the control of healthcare acquired infections such as M... Read More about The habitus of hygiene: discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work.

‘Not rocket science’ or ‘No silver bullet’? Media and government discourses about MRSA and cleanliness (2008)
Journal Article
Koteyko, N., Nerlich, B., Crawford, P., & Wright, N. (2008). ‘Not rocket science’ or ‘No silver bullet’? Media and government discourses about MRSA and cleanliness. Applied Linguistics, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amn006

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), commonly called a superbug, has recently been a major political issue in the UK, playing a significant role in debates over health policy in the general election held in 2005. While science recogniz... Read More about ‘Not rocket science’ or ‘No silver bullet’? Media and government discourses about MRSA and cleanliness.