Recently added articles from Health Sociology Review:
Introduction - Taking stock of integrative medicine: Broadening biomedicine or co-option of complementary and alternative medicine?
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In response to the emergence of the holistic health movement in the early 1970s and the rising popularity of complementary and alternative therapies, a growing number of biomedical physicians and institutions have embraced complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), often ...
Advancing integrative medicine through interprofessional education
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Interprofessional Education (IPE) has the potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments needed for Integrative Medicine (IM) to thrive. IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine in that both seek to bring together ...
Governing the health of the hybrid self: Integrative medicine, neoliberalism, and the shifting biopolitics of subjectivity
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper employs a Foucauldian perspective on the shifting spacialisation of medical knowledge to explore the manner in which integrative medicine is discursively represented by its biomedical architects so as to ensure good cultural fit with neoliberal strategies of ...
Trials and tribulations on the road to implementing integrative medicine in a hospital setting
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In this paper, results are reported from a five year qualitative study involving a stakeholder analysis of a hospital-based centre for integrative medicine. The objective of the study was to identify the barriers and the facilitators for creating integrative medicine in this ...
The problematic nature of conflating use and advocacy in CAM integration: Complexity and differentiation in UK cancer patients' views
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The integration of complementary and alternative medicine into cancer care is widely debated. Advocates of integration frequently cite the popularity of such therapies amongst patients in support of their case. However, little specific empirical attention has been given to how ...
'You just got to eat healthy': The topic of CAM in the general practice consultation
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT New Zealand research suggests that CAM use by GPs has decreased, while referral to CAM practitioners by GPs has increased, and that patients often do not tell their health practitioners when they are using CAM. The New Zealand Medical Council has developed guidelines for GPs who ...
Integrating biomedical and CAM approaches: The experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper discusses the perspectives of 18 people who were living with HIV/AIDS in Melbourne, Australia, and who were using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) alongside biomedicine. I argue that although people may perceive the holistic focus of CAM to be more ...
In pursuit of health: Pragmatic acculturation in everyday life
Dec 01, 2008; ... When disease strikes the most immediate reaction is to seek a solution: How to stop this? How to get well again? Then comes the intriguing part: How did I get this problem, and why me? Research findings in medical sociology and anthropology over the past five to six decades show these to be ...
EDITORIAL
Oct 01, 2008; ... Whilst lesbian women, gay men, and bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people are typically excluded from normative forms of social order, we continue to create our own forms of inclusive communities. These intersections of exclusion and inclusion often result in complex health ...
Lesbian mothers, gay sperm donors, and community: Ensuring the well-being of children and families
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT As Australian reproductive health continues to be shaped by legal and social heterosexism, lesbian women seeking to conceive are often reliant upon gay men to act as known donors. As previous legal cases demonstrate, this can result in contestations between donors and recipients ...
Exploring gender identity and community among three groups of transgender individuals in the United States: MTFs, FTMs, and genderqueers
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT A United States sample of 166 transgender adults including 50 male-to-females (MTFs), 52 female-to-males (FTMs), and 64 genderqueers (neither completely female nor completely male), were surveyed about identity development, levels of disclosure of transgender status, and ...
Lesbian and queer mothers navigating the adoption system: The impacts on mental health
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Increasing numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and queer (LGBTQ) people are choosing to parent through adoption. The minimal research available, focused particularly on lesbian and gay adoptive parents, suggests they face significant barriers to adoption ...
ART eligibility for lesbians and single heterosexual women in Victoria: How medicalisation influenced a political, legal and policy debate
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article analyses the seven year long Victorian political, policy and law reform debate over eligibility criteria for assisted reproductive technology (ART), emphasising the ways in which medicalised discourse and assumptions framed the arguments advanced by various ...
Transgender people and the amendment of formal documentation: Matters of recognition and citizenship
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In an online survey of transgender people conducted in Australia and New Zealand, half the respondents (50.6%) reported having made attempts to amend formal documentation to reflect their current gender identity, and that this was crucial to their sense of personal and identity ...
'Shiny happy same-sex attracted woman seeking same': How communities contribute to bisexual and lesbian women's well-being
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Existing research studies document significant challenges to bisexual and lesbian women's health, and suggest social connection may be protective. This study investigated how communities might contribute to bisexual and lesbian women's wellbeing. Interviews with 47 women suggest ...
Genes and families in the media: Implications of genetic discourse for constructions of the 'family'
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Many critics have previously examined the ways in which the pervasive construction of the family in Western nations - that of the heterosexual nuclear family - is normalised and naturalised in a range of contexts. This paper examines discourses of genetics and the 'family' in a ...
Australian sperm donors: Public image and private motives of gay, bisexual and heterosexual donors
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper contributes to debate in Australia about sexuality-based restrictions on access to Assisted Reproduction Services, particularly sperm donation by gay and bisexual men. It utilises content analysis of print-media and reveals that the public image of sperm donation is ...
EDITORIAL
Aug 01, 2008; ... This Special Issue arose in the first instance out of the work of a 'Research Cluster' within the University of Adelaide, South Australia. The Research Cluster was organised around a common concern amongst researchers regarding Preventive Health. The aim was to develop a broad research grouping ...
Hazardous good intentions? Unintended consequences of the project of prevention
Aug 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Preventing disease is by definition a valuable objective, and most debates have revolved around improving the effectiveness of prevention. In this discussion, I explore the latent functions - the unintended consequences - of what I call the 'project of prevention'. Although many ...
Biopolitical technologies of prevention
Aug 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper examines the way some public health campaigns in Australia have been caught within a paradigm shift in the management of 'risk society'. It details this paradigm shift in terms of an intensification of political technologies of 'pre-emption' in response to ...