Material affinities:'Doing'family through the practices of passing on

H Holmes - Sociology, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores how mundane objects are passed on through kinship networks and
how these practices become part of the 'doing'of family and kinship. Using Mason's concept …

“A Picture Paints a Thousand Words”—A Systematic Review of the Ethical Issues of Prenatal Ultrasound

M Favaretto, M Rost - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2024 - Springer
Prenatal ultrasound is a non-invasive diagnostic examination. Despite the recognized
diagnostic value, this technology raises complex ethical questions. The aim of this study is to …

Family and funerals: Taking a relational perspective

K Woodthorpe - Death Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores a number of relational features of a contemporary funeral: content,
participation, and commercial choice. In so doing, it uses Finch and Mason's concept of …

Ultrasound as a technology of reassurance? How pregnant women and health care professionals articulate ultrasound reassurance and its limitations

GM Thomas, J Roberts… - Sociology of Health & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The premise that ultrasound technologies provide reassurance for pregnant women is well‐
rehearsed. However, there has been little research about how this reassurance is articulated …

Co-sleeping with partners and pets as a family practice of intimacy: Israeli couples' narratives of creating kinship

D Zarhin, A Karanevsky-Samnidze, M Aharon - Sociology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite advances in the sociology of sleep, we know relatively little about the experience of
co-sleeping in general and about co-sleeping with pets in particular. This study draws on …

Documenting families: Paper-work in family display among planned single father families

S Zadeh, V Jadva, S Golombok - Sociology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article extends existing sociological scholarship on doing and displaying family by
developing the concept of documenting families. We suggest that documenting is …

'I didn't want to pass that onto my child, being afraid to go to the dentist': making sense of oral health through narratives of connectedness over the life course

JE Kettle, L Warren, P Robinson… - … of Health and …, 2019 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
While previous sociological research on oral health has identified the relevance of personal
relationships, there is more scope to analyse the mouth through a lens of connectedness …

La grossesse et l'accouchement à l'ére de la biotechnologie: l'expérience de femmes au Québec

R Gagnon - 2018 - papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca
La grossesse et l'accouchement tout en étant des processus physiologiques sont
néanmoins façonnés par la culture et les sociétés. La technologie associée à ces …

Enchevêtrements. Penser le cinéma par l'écocritique féministe

C Salles - 2024 - theses.hal.science
Que peut le cinéma dans l'écocide? Cette thèse vise à étoffer l'écocritique
cinématographique de la pensée féministe du trouble, étonnamment peu mobilisée. Son …

Pandemic reproduction: an ethnography of disjunctures and im/mobilities in Sundsvall, Sweden

K Marr - 2023 - open.library.ubc.ca
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary feminist ethnography about human reproduction
during the pandemic for people living in Sundsvall, Sweden. It focuses on the disjunctures …