Identifying delusional discourse: issues of rationality, reality and power
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Definitions are presented on clinical sociology and ethnomethodology, using the diagnosis of delusion as an example. Topics include the determination of pathology, social constructivist perspectives and objective and subjective interpretations of reality.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2000
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'Everybody's got a dad...' issues for lesbian families in the management of donor insemination
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Case studies of lesbians who have become mothers using donated semen are discussed. Lesbian donor insemination has gained acceptance only within a medicalized framework, and self-insemination still seen as a threat to medicine.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2000
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Constructing families and kinship through donor insemination
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The parent-child and family relations of children conceived by donor insemination (ID) process is examined by focusing on New Zealand families.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2006
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