Ageing, dementia and the social mind: past, present and future perspectives [0.03%]
衰老，痴呆和社会心理：过去、现在和未来的视角
Paul Higgs,Chris Gilleard
Paul Higgs
Accompanying the ageing of contemporary ageing societies is an increase in age associated morbidity, with dementia having an important impact. Mental frailty in later life is a source of fear for many and a major policy concern to all those...
Patricia McParland,Fiona Kelly,Anthea Innes
Patricia McParland
This article discusses the reduction of the complex experience of dementia to a dichotomised 'tragedy' or 'living well' discourse in contemporary Western society. We explore both discourses, placing them in the context of a successful agein...
Emily Stella Andrews
Emily Stella Andrews
This article explains how old, poor people living with dementia came to be institutionalised in 19th-century Britain (with a focus on London), and how they were responded to by the people who ran those institutions. The institutions in ques...
'Doing good by proxy': human-animal kinship and the 'donation' of canine blood [0.03%]
"善行代理": 人与动物的亲属关系和“捐赠”犬血
Vanessa Ashall,Pru Hobson-West
Vanessa Ashall
This article demonstrates the relevance of animals to medical sociology by arguing that pet owners' accounts of veterinary decision-making can highlight key sociological themes which are important to both human and animal health. Based on s...
Ian Rees Jones,Gareth Williams
Ian Rees Jones
Joan Busfield
Joan Busfield
Medicalisation has been an important concept in sociological discussions of medicine since its adoption by medical sociologists in the early 1970s. Yet it has been criticised by some sociologists, in part because it seems too negative about...
Obesity, bodily change and health identities: a qualitative study of Canadian women [0.03%]
关于肥胖、身体变化与健康身份的质性研究——加拿大女性为例
Andrea E Bombak,Lee F Monaghan
Andrea E Bombak
Medicalised concerns about an obesity crisis persist yet more needs to be learnt about everyday orientations to weight (loss). This article reports and analyses data generated using qualitative methods, including repeated interviews and fie...
Neither 'foolish' nor 'finished': identity control among older adults with HIV in rural Malawi [0.03%]
莫桑比克农村HIV阳性老年人的身份认同控制既非“荒唐”亦无“终止”
Emily Freeman
Emily Freeman
Prevalence of HIV after age 50 is considerable, especially in southern Africa. Negative social constructions of HIV in older age, and the health consequences of ageing with the virus, mean that having HIV presents a challenge for many peopl...
Mapping the illness trajectories of insomnia: a biographical disruption? [0.03%]
失眠的病程研究：传记视角下的破坏性事件吗？
Janet M Y Cheung,Bandana Saini,Delwyn J Bartlett et al.
Janet M Y Cheung et al.
The insomnia illness experience can be conceptualised as a form of biographical disruption. Using a critical interpretive phenomenological lens 51 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients from specialist sleep and ps...