The implications of Neoliberalism on African economies, health outcomes and wellbeing: a conceptual argument [0.03%]
新自由主义对非洲经济、健康结果和福祉的影响:一个概念性论点
Kathomi Gatwiri,Julians Amboko,Darius Okolla
Kathomi Gatwiri
Not only did the 2015 Ebola Outbreak in West African countries leave the whole of the sub-Saharan region with a sense of uncertainty and panic, it was also a stress test to Africa's and the wider world's capacity to respond to and mitigate ...
Regulating Hybrids: 'Making a Mess' and 'Cleaning Up' in Tissue Engineering and Transpecies Transplantation [0.03%]
杂交体的监管:组织工程和跨物种移植中的「制造混乱」与「扫除障碍」
Nik Brown,Alex Faulkner,Julie Kent et al.
Nik Brown et al.
This paper explores the institutional regulation of novel biosciences, hybrid technologies that often disturb and challenge existing regulatory frameworks. Developing a conceptual vocabulary for understanding the relationship between materi...
The New Public Health Hegemony: Response to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto [0.03%]
新公共卫生成霸主:透视Toronto对抗严重急性呼吸道综合症(SARS)之对策
Sarah Sanford,S Harris Ali
Sarah Sanford
The 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak presented a challenging period for public health in Toronto. Many old and new public health measures were implemented at local, national and global levels, in an attempt to control ...
Bioattack or Panic Attack? Critical Reflections on the Ill-logic of Bioterrorism and Biowarfare in Late/Postmodernity [0.03%]
生物恐怖和生物战的不合理性: late/postmodernity时期的批判反思
Simon J Williams
Simon J Williams
This paper casts a critical sociological eye over the pros and cons of bioterrorism and biowarfare in the wake of September 11th. The first part of the paper provides a brief sketch of the (not so) secret history of chemical and biological ...
Healing Health Care: From Sick Care Towards Salutogenic Healing Systems [0.03%]
医治保健:从疾病护理转向促进健康的医疗体系
Christopher J Fries
Christopher J Fries
Aaron Antonovsky's salutogenic model is starting to impact health promotion at the level of theory and research. However, the benefits of Antonovsky's theory for population health promotion practices and health care restructuring are unreal...
Preparedness as a technology of (in)security: Pandemic influenza planning and the global biopolitics of emerging infectious disease [0.03%]
作为安全的(不安全)技术的防范准备:流感大流行计划与新兴传染病的全球生物政治学
Sarah Sanford,Jessica Polzer,Peggy McDonough
Sarah Sanford
This article takes as its starting point the idea that re-emerging infectious disease has become a paradigmatic way of thinking about disease. The framing of infectious disease as a threat to global public health and economic security coinc...
SARS, pandemic influenza and Ebola: The disease control styles of Britain and the United States [0.03%]
SARS、流感大流行及埃博拉:英国和美国的疾病控制风格
Charles Allan McCoy
Charles Allan McCoy
Some researchers claim that nation states have begun to conform to an internationally uniform response to infectious disease. A potential barrier to this development are the distinct systems of disease control that industrialized nation sta...
In BMI We Trust: Reframing the Body Mass Index as a Measure of Health [0.03%]
对BMI的信任:将体重指数重新定义为健康指标
Iliya Gutin
Iliya Gutin
Recent work in medical sociology has provided critical insights into distinguishing between obesity as a condition with severe individual- and population-level health consequences, and obesity as a socially undesirable, stigmatizing constru...
A Conceptual Framework for Examining Healthcare Access and Navigation: A Behavioral-Ecological Perspective [0.03%]
基于行为生态学视角的医疗保健利用和获取的概念框架
Miriam Ryvicker
Miriam Ryvicker
This paper introduces a conceptual framework for investigating individual ability to navigate healthcare in the contexts of the built environment, social environment, and healthcare infrastructure in which a person is embedded. Given the co...
Feminism and Bourdieusian Social Theory in a Sexual Health Empowerment Project with Incarcerated and Recently Released Women [0.03%]
女性主义和布尔迪厄社会理论在一项针对关押及刚释放女性的性健康赋权项目中的应用研究
Amanda M Emerson,Joi Wickliffe,Patricia J Kelly et al.
Amanda M Emerson et al.
Theory is often downplayed or omitted in the research and scholarly literature around public health interventions in carceral settings. Our Sexual Health Empowerment (SHE) project was an education intervention and ethnographic study that ai...