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Dr Linda Waldman | Social Anthropology | 01 April 2005
This research uses asbestos related diseases as a means to examine personal and collective identity in relation to the scientific processes enshrined in the medical and legal discourses that sufferers engage with. widespread asbestos pollution ...
Professor Carol Thomas | Sociology | 08 January 2007
This project involves the re-analysis of two datasets comprising in-depth interviews with adult cancer patients and their main informal carers: 88 patients and 50 carers in total. The interviews were conducted in 1998-99 and 2001-02 as part of two la ...
Professor James Newell | Sociology | 07 May 2007
Tb remains the single biggest killer of adults in the world - someone dies of tb every 15 seconds, nearly all in developing countries. Tb particularly affects the poor. Tb is a highly stigmatised disease - that is, tb patients are despised and shunne ...
Dr Kate Weiner | Interdisciplinary Studies | 01 April 2006
This two year post-doctoral fellowship is an extension of doctoral work concerned with the place of genetic knowledge in understanding and managing common diseases. The doctoral research provides an empirical investigation of the geneticisation thesi ...
Professor Janet Seeley | Social Anthropology | 01 June 2006
The main objective of the research is to assess the impact of hiv-infection on households over a 15 year period (1991-2006) in a rural setting in uganda. The research will take place in south west uganda in collaboration with the medical research cou ...
Professor Matthew Weait | Socio Legal Studies | 01 December 2005
The purpose of the seminar series is to explore the impact of law on people living with hiv/aids by providing a space where links can be forged between;
those whose expertise lies in legal and social research (whether theoretically- or empirically-o ...
Dr Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala | Social Stats., Comp. & Methods | 26 June 2006
Historically, variations in incidence and prevalence of diarrhoea, cough and fever have been related to household socio-economic factors because it determines the amount of resources (such as food, good sanitation, and health care) that are available ...
Dr D Sporton | Human Geography | 01 August 2005
This international collaborative project with the university of namibia will provide systematic empirical evidence about elderly livelihoods in southern africa where the significance of population ageing has been heightened by the hiv/aids pandemic. ...
Dr Catherine Will | Interdisciplinary Studies | 01 October 2005
The fellowship extends doctoral work on the changing meaning of 'effectiveness' in healthcare, which was documented through a case study of the introduction of the cholesterol-lowering statins. Where that research was based on interviews and analysis ...
Dr Rebecca Marsland | Social Anthropology | 01 March 2005
The first aim of this project is to publish and disseminate the results of doctoral research – an ethnographic account of malaria as it is constituted by the nyakyusa in the southwestern tanzania. Malaria is considered in the context of international ...
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