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Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living With Dementia
(Book)Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday ... -
Wanted: guidelines for reporting correlations
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War on video: Combat footage, vernacular video analysis and military culture from within
(Article)In this article we present an ethnomethodological study of a controversial case of ‘friendly fire’ from the Iraq War in which leaked video footage, war on video, acquired particular significance. We examine testimony ... -
War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of ‘friendly fire’
(Article)In this paper we analyse a ‘friendly fire’ incident from the second Gulf War and the controversy which came to envelop it during a coroner's inquest in 2007. Focusing on the cockpit video of the incident that was leaked ... -
Ward based feeding and swallowing training.
(Conference / Image)TITLE OF PAPER: WARD BASED FEEDING AND SWALLOWING TRAINING KEYWORDS: DYSPHAGIA, EVIDENCE BASE WHY THE STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN This paper summarises the findings of the Northamptonshire Healthcare (NH) Feeding and ... -
"We di woman den, na we di suffer"
(Technical Report)Sierra Leone is thought to be one of the West African countries most affected by sickle cell disorders. Estimates state that one in four people carry the gene for sickle cell and between 1 to 2% of births are of children ... -
Web Watch - Biotechnology
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Web-based learning and teaching resources for microscopic detection of human parasites.
(Conference)DMU e-Parasitology (http://parasitology.dmu.ac.uk) presents novel web-based resources co-developed by EU academics at De Montfort University (DMU) for the teaching and learning of microscopic diagnoses of common and emerging ... -
What do untrained conversation partners know about communicating with people with aphasia?
(Image)Background This study was undertaken as part of the final year undergraduate degree programme at De Montfort University. In 2006 Turner & Whitworth identified that teaching conversational partners about supportive ... -
What do you want to do with the leg?”: A critical narrative review of the understandings and implications of disposal in the context of limb amputations
(Article)Purpose: Amputation is seen to be a potentially distressing experience for patients and one which, for some patients, is seen as being akin to grief. Historically medical professionals have alluded to the relevance of ... -
What so service industry workers know about people with aphasia? – a small scale questionnaire investigation.
(Image)Background This study was undertaken as part of the final year undergraduate degree programme at De Montfort University. In 2003 Code found that people with aphasia (PWA) spent an average of twenty hours outside their ... -
Who do you troll and why: An investigation into the relationship between the Dark Triad Personalities and online trolling behaviours towards popular and less popular Facebook profiles.
(Article)This experiment examined the influence of Dark Personalities in trolling behaviour towards popular and less popular Facebook profiles. One-hundred and thirty-five participants were recruited to view two fake Facebook ... -
‘Who's the guy in the room?’ Involving fathers in antenatal care screening for sickle cell disorders
(Article)Fathers are increasingly invited to take part in antenatal care of which screening for sickle cell trait is a part. Expectations about involvement reflect changing perceptions of fatherhood and negotiation of gendered ... -
Whooping cough vaccination: historical, social and political controversies.
(Article)New acellular whooping cough vaccines may have the effect of leading us to believe that infectious diseases such as whooping cough have declined in the context of particular historical and social conditions, and persist ...