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Fiona Webster Author
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chronic health conditions, Critical ethnography, Gender and health, Health equity, social determinants of health
Associate Professor, Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University
Biography
Fiona Webster is a medical sociologist and Associate Professor in the Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University in London Ontario. She is conducting a nationally funded ethnographic study to explore the social organization of care for patients with chronic pain, beginning in the standpoint of patients also suffering from poverty, mental health and addictions. Dr. Webster has published more than 80 primarily qualitative studies in Peer reviewed journals and is currently an editorial board member for the Canadian Journal of Pain.
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Beyond addiction: the medicalization of poverty in the treatment of chronic pain
Author(s): Fiona Webster
Our team conducted an Institutional ethnography, including qualitative interviews, observations, and textual analysis of relevant documents, of physicians’ work in managing patients with chronic pain in Ontario Canada. We interviewed over 60 participants, including primary care providers (physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and allied health professionals). We applied the theoretical lens of medicalization of poverty to analyze our findings. The concept of medicalization has been used to refer to the process by which problems, experiences or issues become defined as primarily medical in nature, thus requiring the skill and expertise of medicine to correct. The known problems associated with poverty – poor health outcomes, mental health issues and addiction, to name but ... view more»
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