Mediating illness: newspaper coverage of tranquilliser dependence

Gabe, Jonathan; Gustafsson, Ulla; Bury, Michael

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.ep10492133

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“…The book concentrates on these methods because they appear to be the most widely used in health and health services settings. We have neglected documentary methods and forms of textual analysis [30], which have been used in the health field, for example, to describe mass media reporting of AIDS [31], to ascertain the public and professional attitudes to tranquilliser use portrayed by the popular press [32], and to study diaries kept by rural dwellers during the UK foot and mouth disease outbreak of 2001 [33].…”

Section: Methods Used In Qualitative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Qualitative methods for health research

2009

Choice Reviews Online

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Qualitative methods have much to offer those studying health care and health services. However, because these methods have traditionally been employed in the social sciences, they may be unfamiliar to health care professionals and researchers with a biomedical or natural science background. Indeed, qualitative methods may seem alien alongside the experimental and observational quantitative methods used in clinical, biological and epidemiological research.Misunderstandings about the nature of qualitative methods and their uses have caused qualitative research to be labelled 'unscientific', difficult to replicate or as little more than anecdote, personal impression or conjecture. The first edition of this book, and the series of papers in the British Medical Journal on which the book was initially based, deliberately set out to counter this view. The growing interest in qualitative methods in health research, and their increasing acceptance in clinical and biomedical arenas, in the 10 years since the book was first published, suggest that such misunderstandings may be diminishing. The purpose of this book has therefore altered subtly. Its main aim continues to be to introduce the main qualitative methods available for the study of health and health care, and to show how qualitative research can be employed appropriately and fruitfully to answer some of the increasingly complex questions confronting researchers. In addition, the book considers the ethics of qualitative research and how to assess its quality and looks at the application of qualitative methods within different styles of research and in the emerging area of research synthesis.

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Section: Methods Used In Qualitative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Qualitative methods for health research

2009

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“…A good illustration of this concems the media portrayal through 'atrocity tales' of tranquilliser dependence. However (Gabe, Gustaffson and Bury 1991) suggest a slightly more subtle explantation for the influence of the media in the context of tranquilliser dependence. They suggest that the media actually performs more of a 'mediating' role between, on the one hand, the realm of individual experience and, on the other hand, media imperatives conceming the production of 'newsworthy' stories.…”

Section: And a Working-class Womanmentioning

confidence: 95%

Images of scientific medicine

Calnan

Williams

1992

Sociology Health & Illness

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Atetract This pa[>er draws on empirical evidence from recent survey and qualitative research to develop an analysis of lay perceptions of modem medicine and medical practice. It builds on previous exploratory work and examines lay evaluation of a range of medical procedures which include medicines and drugs; elective surgery; reproductive technology and life saving technology. Overall, there was an ambivalence to modem medicine and the criteria used to evaluate modem medicine included whether it was: life saving or life threatening, quality of life enhancing or diminishing, natural or unnatural, restored independence or created dependence, and whether it was good value for money or not. The theoretical implications of these findings for understanding the stmcture and nature of lay perceptions are discussed.

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“…As we have noted elsewhere (Gabe et al 1991) this methodology involves three analytically distinct dimensions: social-historical analysis of the context in which media messages are produced and circulated, formal or discursive analysis of the structural features and relations of these messages and an interpretive procedure which builds on these dimensions and employs the insights generated in order to explain how readers receive and appropriate these messages. As we are interested here in the construction of newspaper reports of misconduct cases we shall concentrate on Thompson's second dimension and consider the structural features of these stories.…”

Section: Methods and Back^thind Infotmationmentioning

confidence: 99%