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Soc Sci Med
October 2021
Division of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 N 1900 E, 2B200, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA. Electronic address:
Scholars recognize that social networks can influence a number of health behaviors, including women's contraceptive method choices. However, the gendered dynamics underlying the process of using non-medical information sources to make decisions about contraception has received less attention. Using 30 semi-structured interviews with women enrolled in a contraceptive initiative in the western United States, we explore how women use gendered understandings of medicine and feminized social networks to make decisions about contraceptives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Public Health
April 2018
Both authors are with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY.
J Intellect Disabil Res
March 2010
Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia.
This paper examines the history of care in modern society and seeks to expose how deep transformations in care arise from wider social relations. From historical survey we may discern a series of transitional points, where the practice and the experience of care was greatly, sometimes suddenly, redefined. Each betrayed deeper political and ethical struggles that went to the core of social relations, and which weren't merely therapeutic in nature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis is a report of a three and a half-year follow up of uprooted chronic schizophrenics, who had become disposition problems at the time of discharge from a state psychiatric hospital. One group of 14 was discharged to themselves, another in small supporting units to share living quarters with fellow patients. The results are encouraging and may throw some light into the problem of recidivism.
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