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Medical Device Development: the challenge for ergonomics (2008)
Journal Article

High quality, well designed medical devices are necessary to provide safe and effective clinical care for patients as well as to ensure the health and safety of professional and lay device users. Capturing the user requirements of users and incorpor... Read More about Medical Device Development: the challenge for ergonomics.

The grey zone: the 'ordinary' violence of extraordinary times (2008)
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The article analyses the 'ordinary' violence of revolutionary politics, particularly acts of gendered and sexual violence that tend to be neglected in the face of the 'extraordinariness' of political terror. Focusing on the extreme left Naxalbari mov... Read More about The grey zone: the 'ordinary' violence of extraordinary times.

Roger Silverstone: An intellectual appreciation (2007)
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Turkey, the EU and social policy (2007)
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New Ways of Working in Acute Care: A Case for Change (2007)
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This position paper focuses on the current tensions and challenges of aligning inpatient care with innovations in mental health services. It argues that a cultural shift is required within inpatient services. Obstacles to change including traditional... Read More about New Ways of Working in Acute Care: A Case for Change.

Independence or Protection - does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse people with learning disabilities in Cornwall (2007)
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This commentary will use recent events in Cornwall to highlight the ongoing abuse of adults with learning disabilities in England. It will critically explore how two parallel policy agendas – namely, the promotion of choice and independence for adult... Read More about Independence or Protection - does it have to be a choice? Reflections on the abuse people with learning disabilities in Cornwall.

Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia (2007)
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In global discourses about sex work, the image of the 'sex slave' has been influential in constructing the view of women working in the sex industry in developing countries as 'victims'. This paper examines the perpetuation of such discourses through... Read More about Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia.

A Utilitarian Perspective of Social and Medical Contributions to Three Illustrative Conditions, and Recent UK NHS Policy Initiatives (2007)
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Background: To date debate concerning the relative merits of social and medical sciences has been largely academic. Aims: To outline and critically appraise a utilitarian approach to mental health research that reflects a critical realist perspect... Read More about A Utilitarian Perspective of Social and Medical Contributions to Three Illustrative Conditions, and Recent UK NHS Policy Initiatives.

Critical Psychiatry (2007)
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Critical psychiatry appraises and comments upon psychiatric services as they are usually provided. This article, prompted by the publication of a recent book, considers the place of critical psychiatry historically and in the context of contemporar... Read More about Critical Psychiatry.

Images of Childhood in Mothers' Accounts of Contemporary Childrearing (2007)
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This article examines how a sample of first-time mothers in the UK constitute childhood in general, and their own children in particular, in and through their talk about the mundane practices of child-care. The data analysed are drawn from a longitu... Read More about Images of Childhood in Mothers' Accounts of Contemporary Childrearing.

Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media (2007)
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This paper examines the emerging cultural patterns and interpretative repertoires in reports of an impending pandemic of avian flu in the UK mass media and scientific journals at the beginning of 2005, paying particular attention to metaphors, pragma... Read More about Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media.

Streams, Grants and Pools: Stakeholding, Asset-Based Welfare and Convertibility (2007)
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Young people with learning disabilities who sexually harm others: the role of criminal justice within a multi-agency response (2007)
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This paper outlines the key findings from a recent study of statutory service responses to young people with learning disabilities who show sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviours, with a particular focus on the involvement of criminal justice a... Read More about Young people with learning disabilities who sexually harm others: the role of criminal justice within a multi-agency response.

Informed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice (2007)
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In this paper we examine the application of informed consent to ethnographic research in health care settings. We do not quarrel with either the principle of informed consent or its translation into the requirement that research should only be carri... Read More about Informed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice.

The everyday life of the revolution: gender, violence and memory (2007)
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The ‘heroic life’ or the life of the revolutionary is one that resists or even seeks to transcend the everyday and the ordinary. The ‘banal’ vulnerabilities of everyday life, however, continue to constitute the unseen, often unspoken background of su... Read More about The everyday life of the revolution: gender, violence and memory.

Foster Fathers: their experiences and contributions to fostering (2007)
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The paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study which looks at foster fathers’ experiences of fostering and discusses their routes into foster care and their perspectives on their roles and tasks. The study collected quantitative and q... Read More about Foster Fathers: their experiences and contributions to fostering.

Sex work in Cambodia: Beyond the voluntary/forced dichotomy (2006)
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This paper looks at the dominant voluntary/forced dichotomy shaping understandings of sex work internationally. It argues that the distinction between forced and voluntary participation in sex work cannot account for or help explain the multiple and... Read More about Sex work in Cambodia: Beyond the voluntary/forced dichotomy.

Can foster carers help children resolve their emotional and behavioural difficulties? (2006)
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Although foster care is generally seen as providing a positive experience for the children and young people for whom it caters, it is rarely conceived of as a place where the children are helped to address their emotional difficulties and modify thei... Read More about Can foster carers help children resolve their emotional and behavioural difficulties?.

Citizenship and the 'Other'. (2006)
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Use of the deficit model in a shared culture of argumentation: the case of foot and mouth science (2006)
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The "deficit model" as an explanation of the public understanding of science has attracted sustained criticism. While acknowledging the limitations of the deficit model, we argue that researchers should not abandon all interest in exploring it. Our r... Read More about Use of the deficit model in a shared culture of argumentation: the case of foot and mouth science.