Technology & health

Current research

  • The virtual breast EPSRC/ESRC PhD Studentship Joint supervisors Griffiths F & Rajan V. Advisor G Hundt (From September 2006)

Completed Research

  • The role of networked technology in dementia care with Powell J (PI), Sheehan B, Lowe P. Department of Health Policy Research Programme, (1 September 2006 to 31 December 2007)
  • Act for Health: The role of technology in the production, consumption & use of health information in varied settings: implications for policy & practice, led by Balka E. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, (2004 to 2008)
  • The use of the internet in seeking health information: secondary analysis of Dipex interviews with Powell J, Lowe P, Thorogood M.

Publications

  • 2010 Screening for breast cancer: medicalisation, visualisation and the embodied experience. Griffiths F, Green EE, Bendelow G, Palmer J. Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 4:653-668. doi: 10.1177/1363459310361599.
  • 2009 ‘Making it all Normal’: The role of the Internet in Problematic Pregnancy. Lowe P, Powell J, Griffiths F, Thorogood M, Locock L. Qualitative Health Research. 19 (10): 1476 - 1484 (1049-7323). doi: 10.1177/1049732309348368.
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