The interweaving of pharmaceutical and medical expectations as dynamics of micro-pharmaceuticalisation: Advanced-stage cancer patients' hope in medicines alongside trust in professionals

Brown, Patrick; Graaf, Sabine de; Hillen, Marij A.; Smets, Ellen M. A.; Laarhoven, Hanneke W. M. van

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.053

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“…This active reconfiguring as seen in the experiences of Mattingly's respondents in order to maintain hope is also recognized in the study of Brown and colleagues () in their research on advanced‐stage cancer patients who are participating in clinical trials. Motivations of patients to participate in a trial are imbued with ideas and expectations regarding positive effects on their health in the (nearby) future as a result of their treatment.…”

Section: Exploring Three Common Themes Emerging From the Studiesmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Medical professionals are considered important ‘mediators of hope’ (Brown et al . ). They have a key role in admitting and keeping patients in trials, and they mediate hope by communicating about the medicines involved in the trial as well as the effects of these medicines on patients' health.…”

Section: Exploring Three Common Themes Emerging From the Studiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Therefore, a ‘bracketing out’ of doubts, concerns or uncertainties regarding medicines, trials and the professionals is continuously enacted in order for patients to construct and maintain hopes regarding future possibilities (Brown et al . , p. 317).…”

Section: Exploring Three Common Themes Emerging From the Studiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Those authors who do propose a definition of the concept are clearly not in agreement with each other, as we can see hope conceptualized as an emotion (Bloch [1986]), an emotional attitude (Crapanzano ; Simpson ; Brown et al . ), a method (Miyazaki ), a practice (Mattingly ), a temporal stance (Zigon ) and as a dynamic process (Alaszewski and Wilkinson ). However, the three core themes that emerged from the reviewed literature seem to be present in most of the studies, though in some more explicit than in others.…”

Section: Conclusion and Directions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These 'horizons of possibilities' (Brown et al 2015a, p. 318) are actively managed by patients by their willingness to hope in (new) technologies and treatments and their possible outcomes. Medical professionals are considered important 'mediators of hope' (Brown et al 2015a). They have a key role in admitting…”

Section: Pragmatic Practices Of Hopementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Construction and Use of Hope within Health‐Settings: Recent Developments in Qualitative Research and Ethnographic Studies

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2016

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Qualitative and ethnographic studies within sociology and anthropology have paid increasing attention to the concept of hope. This review focuses on the analysis of hope within contexts of health and healthcare. An all‐compassing definition has continued to prove elusive, though studies have brought forth useful insights on the conceptualization and nature of hope. The article explores three common themes which emerged from recent literature. The first theme emphasizes different ways in which hope is enacted by people to ensure that hope can be maintained. The second theme focuses on the ways hope can transcend different frames of future time through the imagination of future possibilities, as well as moving people to cross‐geographical and imaginative borders. Finally, the third theme highlights insights into tensions that seem to be inherent to hoping. Hope proves to be ambivalent, as there always remains a possibility that the future which people imagined is not realized. The review shows that more empirical material is needed to understand how people deal with these tensions and how these tensions relate to the fluctuating nature and experience of hope. This offers interesting directions for further research on hope, both within and outside the context of health and healthcare.

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Section: Exploring Three Common Themes Emerging From the Studiesmentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Exploring Three Common Themes Emerging From the Studiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Exploring Three Common Themes Emerging From the Studiesmentioning

confidence: 97%