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Global warming is dead, long live global heating?
Journal Article
Hulme, M., Nerlich, B., & Pearce, W. (2014). Global warming is dead, long live global heating?

We discuss how global heating is used in comparison to global warming, look at its semantic history and examine the communicative problems it may pose and the confusion it may lead to.

'Climategate': paradoxical metaphors and political paralysis
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Nerlich, B. 'Climategate': paradoxical metaphors and political paralysis. Environmental Values, 14(9), https://doi.org/10.3197/096327110X531543

Climate scepticism in the sense of climate denialism or contrarianism is not a new phenomenon, but it has recently been very much in the media spotlight. When, in November 2009, emails by climate scientists were published on the internet without thei... Read More about 'Climategate': paradoxical metaphors and political paralysis.

Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety
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Waring, J. Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety. Health, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459307070801

‘Systems thinking’ is an important feature of the emerging ‘patient safety’ agenda. As a key component of a ‘safety culture’, it encourages clinicians to look past individual error to recognise the latent factors that threaten safety. This paper inv... Read More about Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety.

New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet
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Parker, D., & Song, M. New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet. Sociological Review, 54(3),

In this article we analyse the emergence of Internet activity addressing the experiences of young people in two British communities: South Asian and Chinese.We focus on two web sites: www.barficulture.com and www.britishbornchinese.org.uk, drawing on... Read More about New ethnicities online: reflexive racialisation and the internet.

Safety and complexity: the inter-departmental threats to patient safety in the operating department
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Waring, J., McDonald, R., & Harrison, S. Safety and complexity: the inter-departmental threats to patient safety in the operating department. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 20(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/14777260610662753

Purpose: Current thinking about ‘patient safety’ emphasises the causal relationship between the work environment and the delivery of clinical care. This research draws on the theory of Normal Accidents to extend this analysis and better understand th... Read More about Safety and complexity: the inter-departmental threats to patient safety in the operating department.

Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe
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Pascall, G., & Lewis, J. Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe. Journal of Social Policy, 33(3),

This article addresses some implications for gender equality and gender policy at European and national levels of transformations in family, economy and polity, which challenge gender regimes across Europe. Women’s labour market participation in the... Read More about Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe.

A Letter of Consequence: Referral Letters from General Practitioners to Secondary Mental Health Services
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Shaw, I., Clegg Smith, K. M., Middleton, H., & Woodward, L. A Letter of Consequence: Referral Letters from General Practitioners to Secondary Mental Health Services. Qualitative Health Research, 15,

The referral letter is a key instrument in moving patients from primary to secondary care services. Consequently, the circumstances in which a referral should be made and its contents have been the subject of clinical guidelines. This article is base... Read More about A Letter of Consequence: Referral Letters from General Practitioners to Secondary Mental Health Services.

The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale
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Tennant, R., Hiller, L., Fishwick, R., Platt, S., Joseph, S., Weich, S., …Stewart-Brown, S. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes,

Background There is increasing international interest in the concept of mental well-being and its contribution to all aspects of human life. Demand for instruments to monitor mental well-being at a population level and evaluate mental health promot... Read More about The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale.

Adaptive regulation or governmentality: patient safety and the changing regulation of medicine
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Waring, J. Adaptive regulation or governmentality: patient safety and the changing regulation of medicine. Sociology of Health and Illness, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00527.x

Studies from across the world have shown that clinical mistakes are a major threat to the safety of patient care (World Health Organisation 2004). For the National Health Service (NHS) of England and Wales it is estimated that one in ten hospital pat... Read More about Adaptive regulation or governmentality: patient safety and the changing regulation of medicine.