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| Helen LambertSummaryAffiliation: University of Bristol Country: UK Publications
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Medical pluralism and medical marginality: bone doctors and the selective legitimation of therapeutic expertise in IndiaHelen Lambert
School of Social and Community, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK
Soc Sci Med 74:1029-36. 2012..This case study contributes to our understanding of the nature of non-professional expertise and its implications for pluralistic health care policy and the human resourcing of Indian health systems...
Public involvement in suicide prevention: understanding and strengthening lay responses to distressChristabel Owens
Peninsula Medical School Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Wonford House, Dryden Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5AF, UK
BMC Public Health 9:308. 2009....
Anthropology in health research: from qualitative methods to multidisciplinarityHelen Lambert
Department of Social Medicine, Bristol University, Bristol BS8 2PY
BMJ 325:210-3. 2002
A comparative analysis of communication about sex, health and sexual health in India and South Africa: Implications for HIV preventionHelen Lambert
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Cult Health Sex 7:527-41. 2005..The concluding section reflects on the implications of a comparative analysis such as this for current policy emphases on the importance of promoting verbal communication skills as part of 'life skills' for HIV prevention...
Accounting for EBM: notions of evidence in medicineHelen Lambert
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PY, UK
Soc Sci Med 62:2633-45. 2006..Finally, the paper considers possible future trajectories for EBM with regard to the incorporation of cultural and structural dimensions of health and the inclusion of qualitative material in the evidence base...
Introduction: gift horse or Trojan horse? Social science perspectives on evidence-based health careHelen Lambert
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PY, UK
Soc Sci Med 62:2613-20. 2006
"Showing roughness in a beautiful way": talk about love, coercion, and rape in South African youth sexual cultureKate Wood
Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
Med Anthropol Q 21:277-300. 2007....
"Injuries are beyond love": physical violence in young South Africans' sexual relationshipsKate Wood
Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK
Med Anthropol 27:43-69. 2008..Violence is shown to configure lives and subjectivities and to be productive of relationships, in particular playing a part in the organization of inequality within sexual relationships...
The limits of behaviour change theory: condom use and contexts of HIV risk in the Kolkata sex industryCatrin Evans
School of Nursing, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
Cult Health Sex 10:27-42. 2008....
Implementing community interventions for HIV prevention: insights from project ethnographyCatrin Evans
University of Nottingham, School of Nursing, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
Soc Sci Med 66:467-78. 2008....
Tales of biographical disintegration: how parents make sense of their sons' suicidesChristabel Owens
Christabel Owens, Mental Health Research Group, Peninsula Medical School, Wonford House, Dryden Road, Exeter EX2 5AF, UK
Sociol Health Illn 30:237-54. 2008..We argue that their stories represent survival tools, enabling them not only to make sense of the past but also to face their own future...
The impact of different measures of socioeconomic position on the relationship between ethnicity and healthMargaret Kelaher
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Ann Epidemiol 18:351-6. 2008..In this study we explicitly examine the effect of using asset-based and conventional measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) on ethnic differences in health...
Social and behavioural science education in UK medical schools: current practice and future directionsAndrew Russell
Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, 43 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HN, UK
Med Educ 38:409-17. 2004..Yet social and behavioural scientists often feel isolated and marginalized. This research was designed to build a network of such practitioners to share and compare current practice, and to develop better models and resources...
The mortality divide in India: the differential contributions of gender, caste, and standard of living across the life courseS V Subramanian
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, KRESGE 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02115 6096, USA
Am J Public Health 96:818-25. 2006..We investigated the contributions of gender, caste, and standard of living to inequalities in mortality across the life course in India...
