The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work

Brown, Brian J.; Crawford, Paul; Nerlich, Brigitte; Koteyko, Nelya

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.06.016

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“…The 'securitization of healthcare work' is the process of detecting and accounting for threats to patient safety and exercising the authority to characterise and control them (Brown, 2008.…”

Section: Auditing Practices: the Visibility Of Rescue Workmentioning

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The habitus of ‘rescue’ and its significance for implementation of rapid response systems in acute health care

Mackintosh

Humphrey

Sandall

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Auditing Practices: the Visibility Of Rescue Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The securitization process of auditing involves 'the production of a certain kind of truth or cultural capital and is a discourse through which relations of power are exercised' (Brown, 2008.…”

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The habitus of ‘rescue’ and its significance for implementation of rapid response systems in acute health care

Mackintosh

Humphrey

Sandall

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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“…If this type of microbiological data can be made more meaningful through dynamic visualization methods, perhaps linked to specific ward contexts for induction training, it might be possible to culture conceptions and perceptions that more effectively link to behaviour. In a useful sociological analysis of "the habitus of hygiene" in English hospital settings, Brown, Crawford, Nerlich and Koteyko (2008) draw on the work of Bourdieu, emphasizing the role of socialization and cultural induction in particular institutional settings.…”

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Visualizing the invisible: applying an arts-based methodology to explore how healthcare workers and patient representatives envisage pathogens in the context of healthcare associated infections

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2014) Visualizing the invisible: applying an arts-based methodology to explore how healthcare workers and patient representatives envisage pathogens in the context of healthcare associated infections, Arts Background: While efforts to enhance healthcare workers' knowledge and behaviours in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) have been considerable, little is known about how staff visualize pathogens and their relationship to HAIs. This study, therefore, sought to explore how healthcare workers envisage pathogens in the context of HAIs. Method: Ten hospital-based healthcare workers and two patient representatives participated in a workshop combining risk identification, making activities and in-depth interviews. This methodology was informed by Sullivan's Dimensions of Visualization framework. A descriptive cross-case analysis approach was used to summarize and synthesize the data. Results: Few of the participants reported actively visualizing pathogens in their mind's eye; however, the study elicited mental images of pathogens from all participants and all were able to create related models during the making activity. Conceptions appeared to be influenced primarily by microbiology and infection control campaigns. Conclusion: Our adaptation of Sullivan's Dimensions of Visualization framework proved useful in structuring this initial enquiry and merits wider application and evaluation by qualitative health researchers.

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“…Only more recently has it underpinned sociologies of health (Béhague et al 2008, Brown et al 2008). It has not been utilised in connection with chronic illness in schools, though there seem to be a number of theoretical reasons supporting such an approach.…”

Section: Bourdieu: Habitus Capital and Fieldmentioning

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Sickle cell, habitual dys‐positions and fragile dispositions: young people with sickle cell at school

Dyson

Atkin

Culley

et al. 2011

Sociology Health & Illness

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The experiences of young people living with a sickle cell disorder in schools in England are reported through a thematic analysis of forty interviews, using Bourdieu’s notions of field, capital and habitus. Young people with sickle cell are found to be habitually dys-positioned between the demands of the clinic for health maintenance through self-care and the field of the school, with its emphases on routines, consistent attendance and contextual demands for active and passive pupil behaviour. The tactics or dispositions that young people living with sickle cell can then employ, during strategy and struggle at school, are therefore fragile: they work only contingently, transiently or have the unintended consequences of displacing other valued social relations. The dispositions of the young people with sickle cell are framed by other social struggles: innovations in school procedures merely address aspects of sickle cell in isolation and are not consolidated into comprehensive policies; mothers inform, liaise, negotiate and advocate in support of a child with sickle cell but with limited success. Reactions of teachers and peers to sickle cell have the enduring potential to drain the somatic, cultural and social capital of young people living with sickle cell.

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The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work

Cited by 40 publications

References 31 publications

The habitus of ‘rescue’ and its significance for implementation of rapid response systems in acute health care

The habitus of ‘rescue’ and its significance for implementation of rapid response systems in acute health care

Visualizing the invisible: applying an arts-based methodology to explore how healthcare workers and patient representatives envisage pathogens in the context of healthcare associated infections

Sickle cell, habitual dys‐positions and fragile dispositions: young people with sickle cell at school

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