Epidemic psychology: a model

Strong, Philip

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.ep11347150

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“…How then can the dynamics of such relations be understood? Here we suggest that important insights are provided by Strong's (1990) analysis of the social impact of a novel and fatal epidemic; namely HIV/AIDS in the pre-antiretroviral drug era. Strong (1990: 249) draws attention to the patterns of social dislocation -'plagues of fear, panic, suspicion and stigma' -which accompanied the development of the disease.…”

Section: Difficulties In Establishing Research Rapport In Potentiallymentioning

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Any port in a storm: fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings

Белоусов

Horlick-Jones²,

Bloor

et al. 2007

Qualitative Research

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Russia, as part of an international comparative examination of health and safety regulatory enforcement in the shipping industry. We discuss the difficulties faced by fieldworkers in ensuring personal safety and maintaining rapport with research respondents in conditions characterized by danger and crisis; a situation made worse by the murder of one of our key gatekeepers. We develop a provisional conceptual framework which draws distinctions between the 'frontier'-like nature of settings associated with some research areas, the challenges posed by researching institutions faced by various kinds of crisis, and the sensitivity of the specific research topic in question. We argue that a combination of these dimensions produce particular social spaces, which we term 'risksaturated', which are especially corrosive of relations with respondents, and which may pose very real physical threats to fieldworkers. K E Y W O R D S : crisis-ridden institutions, dangerous fieldwork, respondent rapport, risk, sensitive research topics A RT I C L E 155

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Section: Difficulties In Establishing Research Rapport In Potentiallymentioning

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Any port in a storm: fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings

Белоусов

Horlick-Jones²,

Bloor

et al. 2007

Qualitative Research

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“…Routinely presented as a 'life-threatening' disruption to everyday life, these unusual trends and authoritative interpretations give expression to an epidemic of a different and potentially more corrosive kind. In his Schutzian informed approach to the panic surrounding AIDS, Strong (1990) proposes an 'ideal-typical' model, which is also used in everyday life: namely, epidemic psychology. This refers to conceptual schema employed to make sense of the fragile social world.…”

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Discussion Piece: A Critical Take on the Obesity Debate

Monaghan

2005

Soc Theory Health

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This paper critically engages with dominant obesity discourses, making particular reference to the perceived epidemic of 'excess' weight among men in England. It expands upon arguments written for the Men's Health Forum during the run up to their recent conference on 'tackling male weight problems' . The science legitimating the war against fat is questioned as well as arguments offered by those playing a key role in constructing this as a massive public health problem. A sociologically imaginative approach to the obesity debate is encouraged in line with a critical realist appreciation of health and its determinants.

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“…In the process of communicating with each other, the messages formulated and sent out by groups become detached from the individual occasions on which they originated but nevertheless encode information of value to the audience or the arena within which group members are acting. Strong (1990Strong ( , 1998 picked up this argument directly from GH Mead to propose that it offered a different analysis of public reactions to AIDS. Mass outbreaks of disease threaten the trust which makes everyday life possible.…”

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Contemporary legends, rumours and collective behaviour: some neglected resources for medical sociology?

Dingwall

2001

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper demonstrates the potential interest for the sociological understanding of medicine and health as social institutions of the qualitative study of collective behaviour. It takes, as a case study, the transformation of a widely-circulating contemporary legend,`The Missing Kidney' into a rumour in Nottingham, and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in 1992. Possible methodological approaches and interpretations are considered, making particular use of the work of the French sociologist, Edgar Morin, and the`mass society' tradition of social theory. It is argued that neither provides an adequate understanding of the phenomenon and that medical sociologists should look to the Chicago tradition of work on collective behaviour, represented by Park and Blumer for inspiration. Using this, it is suggested that the Missing Kidney offers useful insights into lay thinking about professional work and its strategies for the informal social control of medicine.

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Epidemic psychology: a model

Cited by 232 publications

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Any port in a storm: fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings

Any port in a storm: fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings

Discussion Piece: A Critical Take on the Obesity Debate

Contemporary legends, rumours and collective behaviour: some neglected resources for medical sociology?

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