1st Edition
Researching Trust and Health
‘Between the demands of truth and government’: health practitioners, trust and immunisation work
Julie Brownlie (University of Stirling) and Alexandra Howson (Research Consultant, USA)
Trust and care delivery for young people with diabetes
Alexandra Greene (University of Aberdeen) and Peter McKiernan (University of St Andrews
Health, Trust and Social Capital: Expert and Community Perceptions of Mobile Telephony Hazards
Alex Law, University of Abertay Dundee
Tokens of Trust? The case of population genetic data collections.
Dr. Gill Haddow, Research Fellow, ESRC INNOGEN Centre, University of Edinburgh.
Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Reader in Medical Sociology, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Consenting to Trust: The ‘Organ Retention Scandal’.
Val Sheach-Leith, Robert Gordon University
Trust and legitimacy in the UK general practitioner-patient relationship
Bruce Guthrie, Community Health Sciences, University of Dundee
Trust-Worthy Doctors and Confidence Building Systems? Implications of Trust and Distrust for Improved Health Care Delivery.
Mark R. Dibben Senior Lecturer in Management, Lincoln University
New Zealand and Hon. Senior Lecturer, St Andrews University
Accountability, trust and organisational change: an example of integrated health and social services in Scotland, UK.
Guro Huby, Edinburgh University
Biography
Dr Julie Brownlie is a lecturer in sociology at Stirling University. Her research interests are in the sociology of the body, childhood and trust and in sociological explorations of therapeutic practices.
Dr. Alexandra Greene is a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology in the School of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests are in chronic illness, patient-centred care and concordance, with a particular focus on the experiences and perceptions of and interactions between young people, the family and health care professionals.
Alexandra Howson, M.A., Ph.D. has taught and researched sociology at several universities in Scotland, where her interests focused on overlapping fields of the body, gender and health. She has published widely in these areas and has also written two books – The Body in Society (Polity, 2003) and Embodying Gender (Sage, 2005). She is currently an independent Research Consultant in Northern California.
