A grief ignored: narratives of pregnancy loss from a male perspective
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The article examines the impact of pregnancy loss on the male partners of female patients in Northern Ireland. Men interviewed experienced a marginalization of their loss, with no access to social supports available for other forms of bereavement. Implications for health care settings and community responses are discussed.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2004
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'He hath the French pox': stigma, social value and social exclusion
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The concept of reciprocity is used to show how groups are socially excluded and stigmatized as a means for preventing their exploitation of limited social resources. Patterns of inclusion and exclusion follow decisions regarding the determination of groups as worthy or unworthy of social investment.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2005
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The personal significance of home: habitus and the experience of receiving long-term home care
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The article examines ways in which the home is changed when health care practices and standards are introduced via long-term home care. Main themes identified are the maintenance of cleanliness and order, politics of aesthetics, and transcending a home's limitations.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2005
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