Exploring the meaning of 'dissatisfaction' with health care: the importance of 'personal identity threat.'
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Research on patient satisfaction with health care find the phrase 'personal identity threat' to be more fitting,.This concept describes the complexity of the reaction and includes the reasons for dissatisfaction. Disempowering experiences were found to challenge personal identity, and differences involving gender, class and race also threatened respondents' identity.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 1999
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Identity and the social construction of risk: injecting drug use
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A comparison of the social issues in recreational and habitual drug use is given. The solidarity reported by recreational users was to maintain low practices, while the social scene of addicts was not organized around such solidarities. Addicts exhibited traits of sensual hedonism whichh resulted inevitably in ever greater drug use.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 1999
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Researching the disabled identity: contextualising the identity transformations which accompany the onset of impairment
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A study examining the opinions of people who were, disabled, their perception of their 'self' (self-identity), others perception of them and their disability, is presented. The factors which have heavily influenced them and their identity are, independence, work and appearance/sexuality.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2005
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