Death brokering: constructing culturally appropriate deaths

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Medical experts offer flexible cultural background to death for making end-of-life socially meaningful. Such activities of medical authorities are called death brokering. They help in creating ambiguity about death, which is the very thing they set out to resolve. In process, a need for more expert death brokering becomes essential.

Analysis, Causes of, Death

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Family stories and the use of heuristics: women from suspected hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) families

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The article examines the growing importance of the family in the physician-patient relationship, illustrated by women's narratives in seeking genetic risk counseling for ovarian and breast cancer in the United Kingdom. Heuristics used by women in risk evaluation included availability, representativeness, and illusion of control.

Diagnosis, Comparative analysis, Cancer, Women's health services, Genetic counseling, Heuristic, Cancer diagnosis, Heuristics (Psychology), Cancer screening, Genetic counselling

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Some of our concepts are missing: reflections on the absence of sociology of organizations in Sociology of Health and Illness

Article Abstract:

The evolution of the concept of organizations in 'Sociology of Health and Illness' in its first 25 years has been unsatisfactory. Research conducted on healthcare organizations in the early years of the journal and why sociologists did not approve the work, is explored.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Sociologists

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