Post Traumatic Stress; Managing Beds in the NHS
Laurie Taylor explores the relationship between masculinity, militarism and health, with a look at post traumatic stress in combat veterans. Plus managing beds in the NHS.
Post traumatic stress in male combat veterans: Laurie Taylor talks to Nick Caddick, Research Assistant at Loughborough University, and co-author of a study exploring the relationship between masculinity, militarism and mental health. Do conventional notions of male bravery and resilience impede soldiers' ability to access to support? They're joined by Anthony King, Professor in Sociology at the University of Exeter.
Also, managing beds in the NHS. Pressure on beds is an acute challenge to the health service.
Davina Allen, Professor of Healthcare Organisation at Cardiff University, discusses her study into bed utilisation from the point of view of UK hospital nurses. How is access to beds granted or denied and who decides?
Producer: Natalia Fernandez.
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Managing Beds in the NHS
Duration: 10:37
Post Traumatic Stress and Surfing
Duration: 14:59
Contributors
Nick Caddick
Research Assistant, Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport, Loughborough University
Abstract: Male combat veterans’ narratives of PTSD, masculinity, and health
Caddick, N., Smith, B. and Phoenix, C. (2015)
Sociology of Health & Illness, 37: 97–111
doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12183
Anthony King
Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter
The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces: From the Rhine to Afghanistan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 1107647681
ISBN-13: 978-1107647688
Davina Allen
Professor in the School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University
Abstract: Inside ‘bed management’: ethnographic insights from the vantage point of UK hospital nurses
Allen, D. (2015)
Sociology of Health & Illness, 37: 370–384
doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12195
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- Wed 29 Apr 201516:00BBC Radio 4
- Mon 4 May 201500:15BBC Radio 4
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