This study examines the effect of leader influence tactics on employee safety participation in a U.K.‐based manufacturing organization, examining role climate as mediator. Structural equation modeling showed that associated with transformational leadership style had significant relationships were partially mediated by (consultation) or fully (inspirational appeals). In addition, transactional participation: rational persuasion (partially climate) and coalition (direct effect). Thus, leaders...

This paper explores the online "pro-anorexia" underground, a movement that supports those with anorexia and adopts an "anti-recovery" perspective on disease. While encouraging "healthy" diet to sustain anorexic way-of-life, also recommends radical use of weight-loss pharmaceuticals pursue maintain low body weight, in contrast their conventional treat obesity. Using ethnographic interview data collected from participants "Anagrrl" website forum, we analyse pro-anorexia (or "pro-ana") terms...

Abstract This paper examines the consequences of a new emphasis on lifestyle in production, marketing and consumption pharmaceuticals. Over past decade, range medicines have become available that address aspects lifestyle, while others been subject marketing. We argue, with recourse to broad literature from social sciences, economics health services research our study pharmaceutical consumption, two processes can be discerned. First, there is domestication drugs via home computers,...

This article explores the formation of 'health identities': embodied subjectivities that emerge out complex psychosocial contexts reflexive modernity, in relation to data on health and illness practices among groups people patients using medical technologies including weight-loss drugs erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil (Viagra). We examine a range identities, from 'expert patient'--a person who broadly adopts biomedical model illness, 'resisting consumer', fabricates identity around lay...

This paper draws together findings from studies of health and identity to develop a model identities, based upon Deleuze Guattari's approach understanding the relationship between self, body society. The is used inform methodology for empirical study identities in relation body. Using sample interview transcript, analysis demonstrated. application studying are discussed.

The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that cyber-ethnography most appropriate tool in reaching an understanding online community. I argue cyber-ethnography's reflexive qualities allow characteristics community emerge. demonstrate, through cyber-ethnographic exploration two feminist communities, how participants define their own perimeters. suggest has main characteristics. Through its convergence with physical, community's existence apparent, though not unconditionally virtual. Indeed, does...

In a civil society, the governance of technology is matter law and regulation, but also responsibility accountability, within which issues public safety security must be balanced against individual collective rights. Within sociology, studies have not fully examined complexity how achieved, environmental changes may threaten systems. This article explores negotiated character in case study consumerism pharmaceutical industry. industry highly regulated, but, information age, traditional...

Governance addresses a wide range of issues including social, economic and political continuity, security integrity, individual collective safety the liberty rights to self-actualization citizens. Questions be answered include how governance can achieved sustained within social context imbued with cultural values in which power is distributed unevenly dynamically, impacts on individuals institutions. Drawing Gramscian notions hegemony consent, recent science literatures regulation...

With reference to an ‘online ethnography’ (Ward, 1999) carried out in the ‘Anagrrl’ [1] pro-anorexic (ana) asynchronous [2] web based community, I explore radical, underground web-based pro-ana movement. The ‘pro-ana’ movement challenges established biomedical ideas surrounding treatment of anorexia, on ‘normalisation’ body shape and weight. For participants movement, anorexic condition represents a form stability control: state be maintained. group offers non-judgemental support guidance...

Stommel, W. Entering an online support group on eating disorders: A discourse analysis , Amsterdam : Rodopi 2010 285 pp. € 57.00 (pbk ) ISBN 978-90-420-2660-5 Stommel presents of the dynamics involved in joining community, framing this interactive process, through vehicles community and identity, as accomplishing early stages Parsonian sick role. In employing ethnomethodological conversation analytical approach, author examines rule-bound non-negotiable processes employed to join group. The...

Abstract A culture of oral health neglect and one chipped tooth led Christine Collins to a devastating series conditions that affected her physical emotional well‐being. The costs this on person's individual – the health‐care system as whole demonstrate true value preventive care.