- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Ethics in medical practice
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Obesity and Health Practices
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Sex work and related issues
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
University of Bristol
2004-2019
Queen Mary University of London
1995-2012
University of London
1995-2010
Nielsen (United States)
2004
University of Dundee
2004
St Bartholomew's Hospital
1993-2004
Institute of Medical Ethics
1993-2004
Universitat de València
2004
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2004
Leiden University Medical Center
2004
In Sickness and in Health - Safe Sex? Regulating Reproduction A Labour of Love Hazards Hearth Home Waged Work Well-Being Abusing Women Women's Movements for The Global Politics
Background: Better understanding and addressing health inequities is a growing global priority.Objective: In this paper, we contribute to the literature examining complex relationships between biological social dimensions in field of inequalities. Specifically, explore potential intersectionality advance current approaches socio-biological entwinements.Design: We provide brief overview combining both factors single study, then investigate contributions an intersectional framework such...
# Informed consent in medical research {#article-title-2} In the issue of 12 April 1997 BMJ invited comment on acceptable limits informed studies. In view large correspondence this generated, we two original commentators, Len Doyal and Jeffrey Tobias, to revisit subject. We also comments from three people who are not doctors, researchers, or ethicists: them represent views patients potential patients # consent—a response recent {#article-title-3} Editorial by Smith Personal pp 1026-7...
There are no studies that have examined the particular needs and experiences of African women living with HIV in UK at a time when they represent an increasingly large proportion epidemic. This study explores illness biographies daily lives HIV-positive receiving treatment London. Sixty-two from 11 countries attending specialist clinics five London hospitals participated self-completion questionnaires depth semi-structured interviews. Using narrative approach, were asked to talk about their...
<h3>Abstract</h3> Is the demand for informed consent absolute? In first of this pair articles a professor medical ethics argues that principle to participate in research is fundamental if patients are competent volunteers. Consent not needed when incompetent give it (young children, unconscious patients, etc); uses only records; and stored human tissue used. Before publishing results such research, however, journals must ensure certain minimal conditions complied with. second article an...
The number of hospital based posts in which nurses take over clinical work previously done by junior doctors is growing. Accountability for the scope such new roles and standards practice apply to them are still unclear. When analysed together compared, regulations arising from professional bodies (GMC UKCC), civil law concerning certain wrongs patients, employment sometimes contradictory hard interpret. resulting uncertainties about appropriate management evolving between professions,...
Most social science research on HIV has focused prevention. The arrival of new therapies generated more studies life with HIV. However most have been carried out in developed world contexts. Much less is known about the vast majority those living and dying from AIDS. If this gap to be filled, qualitative will needed affected individuals developing also among migrants who left countries live diaspora. It essential explore lives same communities may experience very different ways as a result...
The interconnectedness of today's globalised world brings with it challenges and inequality in the health populations. But all too often professionals' training focuses on downstream individual intervention approaches (eg, smoking cessation, diet improvement), at expense upstream determinants food marketing, trade agreements). A crop global degrees has emerged aimed explaining understanding diseases importance. However, these courses are largely taught from a position assumed power which...
Working with members of the Royal London Trust and its medical council, Len Doyal Daniel Wilsher have composed a set guidelines governing making decisions to withhold resuscitation from patients. The describe procedures that should be followed when giving orders for non-resuscitation clinical, legal, moral criteria satisfied before such are issued. authors hope these will help those responsible creation hospitals9 policies non-resuscitation.