Qualitative Health Research

Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist through Dingwall Enterprises Ltd and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He draws on more than forty years’ experience as an academic researcher studying health care, legal services, and science and technology policy at the Universities of Aberdeen, Oxford and Nottingham. Over that time, he has held grants and contracts worth more than £7 million (at 2017 prices) in total from the Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts, ESRC, NERC, MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, the EU, the UK Department of Health and various NHS/NIHR programmes, the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Food Standards Agency. These have resulted in 30 books and more than 100 scientific papers. Robert Dingwall is also an experienced manager: he served for five years as head of a large social science department and founded and directed what was one of Europe’s leading research institutes in science and technology studies for 12 years. Robert has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2002 and an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health since 2014. He was awarded the 2019 Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community by the Socio-Legal Studies Association.

• VOLUME 1: PATIENTS AND DISEASESPart 1: What is a Disease?What Is Disease? - L. S. King The Study of Disease in Relation to Culture - H. Fabrega, Jr. Ilnness, Therapy and the Modern Urban - T. Parsons and R. FoxThe Insanity of Place - E. Goffman Disability as Social Deviance - E. Freidson Illness and Everyday Life - R. Dingwall Part 2: Experiencing DiseaseHistory, Culture and Subjective Experience: An exploration of the social bases of drug-induced experiences - H. Becker The Cardiac Patient′s Perception of his Heart - B. Cowie Social Movements, the Occupational Arena and Changes in Career Consciousness: The case of women flight attendants - Roberta Lessor Epidemic Psychology - A Model - P.M. Strong The Epidemiology of a Folk Illness: "Susto" - Rubel Part 3: Diagnosing Disease"Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever" - Folk models of infection in an English suburban community, and their relation to medical treatment - C.G. Helman The Diagnosis of Disease Among the Subanun of Mindanao - C. Frake The Hierarchy of Resort in Curative Practices: The Admiralty Islands, Melanesia - Lola Romanucci Schwartz Bishop Berkeley and the Adeno-tonsillectomy Enigma - M. Bloor Typification in the Diagnostic Practices of Rehabilitation Agencies - T. Scheff Orchestrating an Encounter: A note on the talk of mentally handicapped children - J. Brewer, G. McBride and S. Yearley Part 4: Medication and MedicalizationThe Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the medicalization of deviant behavior - P. Conrad Media and Medicine The Message of Psychotropic Drug - G.V. Stimson Body Ritual among The Nacirema American - H. Miner Sociological Imperialism and the Profession of Medicine: A critical examination of the thesis of medical imperialism - P.M. Strong Obeying Doctor′s Orders: A view from the other side - G.V. Stimson Compliance and the Patient′s Perspective: Controlling symptoms in everyday life - L.M. Hunt, B. Jordan, S. Irwin and C.H. Browner VOLUME 2: HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND THEIR WORKPart 1: ProfessionsProfessions - E.C. Hughes Part 2: Professional/Patient Interaction Physician and Patient as a Social System New England - L.J. Henderson Behavior in Private Places: Sustaining definitions of reality in gynecological examinations - J.P. EmersonGoing Private: Ceremonial Forms in a Private Oncology Clinic - D. Silverman Pain Talk: The Expression of Suffering in the Medical Consultation - C.C. Heath Online Commentary in Acute Medical Visits: A method of shaping patient expectations - J. Heritage and T. StiversBad News in Oncology: How physician and patient talk about death and dying without using those words - K. Lutfey and D. Maynard Part 3: Professional SocializationInitiation Into a Women′s Profession: Identity Problems in the status transition of coed to student nurse - F. Davis and V. L. Olesen The faces of Florence Nightingale: Functions of the heroine legend in an occupational sub-culture - E.W. Whittaker and V.L. Olesen Uncertainty in Medical Prognosis: Clinical and functional - F. Davis Medical Mystique - P.A. Atkinson, M.E. Reid and P.F. Sheldrake Uncertainty and Control in Professional - D. Light Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students - F.W. Hafferty Roundsmanship - Inherent Control on a Medical Teaching Ward - Arluke Part 4: Mistakes at WorkMistakes at work Canadian - E.C. Hughes Phychiatry and Suicide: The management of a mistake - D. Light Standardization in Action: Achieving local universality through medical protocols - S. Timmermans and M. Berg Ritual and Magic in Control of Contagion - J.A. RothPart 5: The Craft of SurgeryThe Tacit Order of Teamwork: Collaboration and embodied conduct in anaesthesia - J. Hindmarsh and A. Pilnick On Control, Certitude, and the Paranoia of Surgeons - J. Cassell The Woman in the Surgeon′s Body: Understanding difference - J. Cassell At the Cutting Edge? Modernization and nostalgia in a hospital operating theatre department - R. McDonald. J.Waring and S. Harrison Part 6: Primary and Community CareProcesses of Control in a Company of Equals - E. Freidson and B. RheaThe Social Organization of Physician-Managers in a Changing HMO - T.J. Hoff Role Strains of a Health Care Team in a Poverty Community - H.D. Banta and R C. Fox Accomplishing Team: Teamwork and categorisation in two community mental health teams - L. Griffiths VOLUME 3: HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONSPart 1: Hospitals in HealthcareThe Role of the Hospital - Waddington The Hospital and its Negotiated Order - L. Strauss, L. Schatzman, R. Bucher, D. Ehrlich, and M. Sabshin Decline of the Hospital: Reconstructing institutional dangers - D. Armstrong Part 2: Producing and Managing InformationSome Notes on Record Taking and Making in an Antenatal Clinic - S. Macintyre Making Sense of Mortality - L. Prior Paper and People: The work of the casualty reception clerk - D. Hughes Women′s Voice: The case of nursing information systems - I. Wagner Accumulating and Coordinating: Occasions for information technologies - M. Berg Managing Understandings: Politics, symbolism, niche marketing and the quest for legitimacy in IT implementation - A.D. BrownPart 3: Authority and DeferenceAuthority and Decision-Making in a Hospital: A comparative analysis - R.L. Coser Sources of Power of Lower Participants in Complex Organizations - David Mechanic Influence and Authority Among Physicians in an Outpatient-Clinic - M.E.W. Goss Professionals in Organisations - Some Preliminary Observations on Hospital Consultants - C. DaviesManaging Doctors and Saving a Hospital: Irony, rhetoric and actor networks - M. Dent The Contestation of Archetypes: Negotiating scripts in a UK hospital trust board - F. Mueller, C. Harvey and C. Howorth Physicians on the Drug Industry Side of the Prescription Blank: Their dual commitment to medical science and business - R.C. Fox Management of Radiation Hazards in Hospitals: Plural rationalities in a single institution - S. Rayner Prognostic Conflict in Life-and-Death Decisions: The organization as an ecology of knowledge - R.R. Anspach AIDS and Its Impact on Medical Work: The culture and politics of the shop floor - C.L. Bosk and J. E. Frader VOLUME 4: PATIENT EXPERIENCESPart 1: Ward LifeA Case-Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety: A report on a study of the nursing service of a general hospital - E.P. Menzies Narrating Nursing Jurisdiction: "Atrocity Stories" and "Boundary-Work" - D. Allen Space and Place in the Construction and Performance of Gendered Nursing Identities - S. Halford and P. Leonard Temporal Reference Frameworks and Nurses′ Work Organization - S. Waterworth Old Folks and Dirty Work: The social conditions for patient abuse in a nursing home - C.I. Stannard "Pain Talk" in Hospice and Palliative Care Team Meetings: An ethnography - Arber Some Social Functions of Laughter - A Study of Humor in a Hospital Setting - R.L. Coser Meanings of Immediate: The practical use of the Patient′s Charter in the accident and emergency department - L.C. Sbaih Social Death as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: David Sudnow′s passing on revisited - S. Timmermans The Work of Hospitalized Patients - L. Strauss, S. Fagerhaugh, B. Suczek and C. L. Wiener The Health Service Consumer - A Sociological Misconception - M. StaceyPart 2: Being a Patient Series of Suffering: Subjective tales and research narratives - K. Charmaz Narrative Turn or Blind Alley? - P. Atkinson Orientals Are Stoic New Yorker - Tao-Kim-Hai and M. Andre Parenthood and Patienthood: A dialectical autobiography - N. Hart Four Days in a Strange Place… - "Locus Congressi" Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: The delegitimation of illness experience in chronic fatigue syndrome - N.C. Ware The Construction of Lay Expertise: Aids activism and the forging of credibility - S. Epstein Images of Parenthood in the United Kingdom and Japan - R. Dingwall, H. Tanaka and S. Minamikata Photo Images: Jo Spence′s narratives of living with illness - S. Bell Further Than the Eye Can See? Photo elicitation and research with men - J.L. Oliffe and J.L. BottorffManaging an Uncertain Illness Trajectory in Old Age: Patients′ and physicians′ views of stroke - G. Becker and S. Kaufmann Temporal Aspects of Dying as a Non-Scheduled Status Passage - B. Laser and A.L.Strauss