Health‐related quality of life and the transformation of symptoms

Armstrong, David; Lilford, Richard; Ogden, Jane; Wessely, Simon

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01006.x

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“…Generally speaking, it should be noted that the notion of "quality of life" informs and infuses increasing numbers of discourses today (Leplège 2004;Armstrong et al 2007). It is linked to the historical movement outlined in introduction to integrate health, life and welfare into political strategies (Foucault 2001) prenatal diagnosis, what is at stake actually includes both the living being and life itself.…”

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Genetic Testing, Birth, and the Quest for Health

Vailly

2013

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Newborn screening for genetic diseases has developed rapidly in Western countries. These biopolitics raise the question of birth as a sociological “knot” insofar as it is the threshold between the (possibly ill or disabled) child and the fetus. The question therefore addressed in this text, based on a field study of newborn screening for cystic fibrosis in France, is that of the link between the quest for good health (through treatment) and the elimination of poor health (by prenatal diagnosis). Do they reinforce each other or, on the contrary, are they contradictory? I analyze the positions of both mothers of screened children and clinicians regarding the following three points: prenatal diagnosis to preclude sets of sick siblings, identification of heterozygous individuals, and generalized prenatal screening. This study shows how increasingly attentive patient care and an increasingly demanding approach to prenatal diagnosis reinforce one another. It also analyzes the role of taking action early on and evaluating the lives of sick or disabled people in this process. In conclusion, I engage a more general discussion about what I suggest calling a “quality life.”

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Genetic Testing, Birth, and the Quest for Health

Vailly

2013

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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“…For example, the measurement of health status under pathological medicine had largely been based on the absence of pathology or at least the deviance of biological norms. But in the 1970s a new construct emerged, quality of life (alongside the idea of 'lifestyle') (Armstrong and Caldwell, 2004), and during the 1980s this was operationalised through a series of related concepts such as subjective health status, health-related quality of life and, latterly, patient reported outcome measures and well-being all of which attempt to capture the subjective state of the patient (Armstrong et al, 2007).…”

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The invention of patient-centred medicine

Armstrong

2011

Soc Theory Health

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This article, based on a plenary presentation to the 13th biennial conference of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology, challenges the implicit theme of the meeting, that radically changing societies have significant impacts on health and well-being. This analysis, it is argued, masks the fact that it is the ways in which we construe health and well-being that makes a major contribution to what we understand by 'radically changing societies' .

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“…a graph, which the interviewees produced before their interview showing their employment and working life satisfaction in the Company over time. Vitagrams have been used in medicine to capture quality of life since the 1970s (see Armstrong et al 2007). To support the interviewees during the report of their stories we used an interview guide and open questions, which took their starting point in the vitagram.…”

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Tales of IT Consultants: Understanding Psychological Contract Maintenance and Employment Termination

Kautz

Bjerknes

2015

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This research investigates the question why dedicated Information Technology (IT) consultants quit their jobs and voluntarily terminate their employment contracts. A research approach inspired by grounded theory is used and as a theoretical contribution a novel, cyclic process model for the maintenance or neglect of the psychological contract between employees and employers is derived from the empirical data. The model is subsequently substantiated through the integration of various concepts and theories identified in the literature, combining the concept of psychological contract with social influence theory and a theory of the relation between intrinsic motivation and management practices. The research is based on a revelatory case study which provides tales from four IT consultants in an IT consulting firm. The model helps to explain IT consultants' behaviour of voluntarily terminating their employment contracts. Additionally, it should assist managers in IT consulting firms to avoid practices which might lead to their employees' loss of intrinsic motivation and result in the loss of valuable employees for the organization.

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Health‐related quality of life and the transformation of symptoms

Cited by 41 publications

References 34 publications

Genetic Testing, Birth, and the Quest for Health

Genetic Testing, Birth, and the Quest for Health

The invention of patient-centred medicine

Tales of IT Consultants: Understanding Psychological Contract Maintenance and Employment Termination

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