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Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town (2017)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M., Bingham, S., & Sicwebu, N. (2017). Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town. Journal of Experiential Education, 40(4), 409-424. https://doi.org/10.1177/1053825917731868

Background: Field school research, which begins by considering community partners as pedagogues and thus exploring their perspectives on student learning, is uncommon. Photovoice is a method for self-expression of such marginalized voices. Purpose: D... Read More about Photovoice and photodocumentary for enhancing community partner engagement and student learning in a public health field school in Cape Town.

Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs (2017)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M. (2018). Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(26), 3094-3103. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2017.1376357

Purpose: This anthropological study investigated what people imagined chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to look like in their lungs, what may be influencing these images and how this imagery shapes embodiment. Method: Employing graphic elicitatio... Read More about Imaging and imagining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Uruguayans draw their lungs.

Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay (2017)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M. (2017). Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay. Medical Anthropology, 36(4), 332-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2017.1287180

The sensory experience of breathing, particularly the sensation of breathlessness in the case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is a rich though understudied topic in medical anthropology. Fieldwork in Uruguay made it clear to me that... Read More about Sensing the Airs: The Cultural Context for Breathing and Breathlessness in Uruguay.

Rebellion and Co-Morbidity (2016)
Book Chapter
Wainwright, M. (2016). Rebellion and Co-Morbidity. In L. Manderson, A. Hardon, & E. Cartwright (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. Routledge

What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms (2016)
Journal Article
Maatz, A., Wainwright, M., Russell, A., Macnaughton, J., & Yiannakou, Y. (2016). What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 90, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.09.005

Background The term ‘difficult’ is pervasively used in relation to medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) and patients with MUS. This article scrutinises the use of the term by analysing interview data from a study of secondary care specialists' experi... Read More about What’s ‘difficult’? A multi-stage qualitative analysis of secondary care specialists’ experiences with medically unexplained symptoms.

Self-management of medical abortion: A qualitative evidence synthesis (2016)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M., Colvin, C., Swartz, A., & Leon, N. (2016). Self-management of medical abortion: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Reproductive health matters, 24(47), 155-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhm.2016.06.008

Medical abortion is a method of pregnancy termination that by its nature enables more active involvement of women in the process of managing, and sometimes even administering the medications for, their abortions. This qualitative evidence synthesis r... Read More about Self-management of medical abortion: A qualitative evidence synthesis.

Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action (2016)
Journal Article
Russell, A., Wainwright, M., & Tilson, M. (2018). Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action. Global Public Health, 13(1), 83-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2016.1152284

E-cigarettes are a new and disruptive element in global health diplomacy (GHD) and policy-making. This is an ethnographic account of how e-cigarettes and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) were tackled at the 6th Conference of the Part... Read More about Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action.

A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2014)
Journal Article
Russell, A., Wainwright, M., & Mamudu, H. (2015). A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 29(2), 256-277. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12141

The World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the first international public health treaty to address the global spread of tobacco products. Ethnographic research at the fourth meeting of the FCTC's Conference of t... Read More about A chilling example? Uruguay, Phillip Morris International, and WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Challenging the Biopsychosocial Model in a Chronic Constipation Clinic (2011)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M., Russell, A., & Yiannakou, Y. (2011). Challenging the Biopsychosocial Model in a Chronic Constipation Clinic. Qualitative Health Research, 21(12), 1643-1657. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732311416824

In this article we discuss the results of an ethnographic study of professionals’ and patients’ experiences within a specialist constipation clinic in England. Chronic constipation tends to be poorly understood and inadequately treated. Eleven patien... Read More about Challenging the Biopsychosocial Model in a Chronic Constipation Clinic.