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A Sociomaterial Analysis Of Team-Based Care For Patients With Advanced Heart Failure, Allan Glen Mcdougall
A Sociomaterial Analysis Of Team-Based Care For Patients With Advanced Heart Failure, Allan Glen Mcdougall
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This dissertation explores team-based care for patients with advanced heart failure (HF), especially care practices associated with integrating palliative care. Its three integrated articles explore advanced HF care as a team-based health care phenomena, focusing on both objects and people as integral for team activity. The dissertation utilizes the theoretical framework of sociomaterialism to explore the overarching research question: how do materials mediate and influence the integration of palliative and cardiac care for patients with HF? Study data take the form of 15 team sampling units (TSU), each of which consists of a patient interview and an interview with at …
Addiction: The Colonization Of Rituals, Matthew Prokopiw
Addiction: The Colonization Of Rituals, Matthew Prokopiw
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What is addiction? Since its transformation as a word in the late 19th century, not only has it taken on the form of a scientific concept, but it also contains a complex social-historical component that tells a story of how and why addiction is now conceived of as a harmful and deviant behaviour. The objective of this text is to highlight how addiction fundamentally eclipses scientific discourses and instead functions as a social concept in the interests of colonization – comprised of forces of State and capitalism. Based on a critical reading of Mircea Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane …