Programme full

Thursday 16 April 2015 13:30 - 15:00
PAPER SESSION 5
Rose Barbour, Susan Halford and Wendy Martin will form the panel for the day, providing background to their
considerations and inviting delegate feedback. The full working party includes Huw Davies, Robert Dingwall, Christina
Hotz, Gabriel Newfield and Daniel Conway.
Frontiers 2
W828, HAMISH WOOD BUILDING
HOW TO GET YOUR WORK READ AND CITED
This session will be hosted by Wiley and is open to all delegates.
Medicine, Health and Illness
C236, CHARLES OAKLEY BUILDING
Changing the Label: Re-Configuring Identity as a Path to Resilience for Destitute Asylum Seekers in the UK
Cuthill, F.
(University of Edinburgh)
In recent years, an asset based approach to public health has gained traction and while not a new approach, it has
turned the attention of both policy makers and researchers away from a focus on health deficits, towards identifying
capabilities for health. Resilience is increasingly seen as an asset for health and this is especially so for people living
in marginalised spaces, where ill health is often associated with structural oppression. While it is widely recognised
that people seeking asylum in high-income countries occupy a vulnerable structural position, it is rare for research to
explore the concept of resilience with this group. More often, the focus for research has been on physical and mental
ill-health. Nonetheless, to study the notion of resilience in groups who live stigmatised lives beyond the margins of
citizenship and lawful employment, offers the potential to find new understandings of the ways that resilience is
developed.
In this paper, the findings of a peer participatory research study with people who find themselves destitute following
the asylum process in the UK is presented. The findings explore new contours of resilience and contribute to
expanding our understandings of the ways that resilience is shaped within positions of extreme structural oppression.
'Because We're Responsible Citizens!': Constructions of the 'Good Patient' in GPs' and Lay People's
Narratives of the Presentation of Cancer Symptoms in Primary Care
Green, T., Seymour; J., Macleod, U.
(University of Hull)
This paper draws on data from a qualitative study undertaken in the UK that explored General Practitioners' (GPs) use
of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools for cancer in primary care. Twenty-eight GPs were interviewed over the
telephone about their experiences of using the tools in practice and to complement these data, focus groups were
conducted with six patient representative groups to explore their perceptions of GPs' use of such tools during
GP/patient consultations. Fieldwork was carried out during 2012 – 2013, a time which heralded a period of flux within
primary care and a raised public awareness via the media of limited resources within the National Health Service
(NHS), alongside ongoing public health campaigns to raise awareness of cancer symptoms. The paper will use the
data to show GPs' and lay people's narrative constructions of the 'good patient' to reveal how maintenance of this
identity was underscored by notions of the patient as worthy and deserving of GP time. We draw on Dixon-Woods
concept of 'candidacy' to interrogate how lay constructions of the self as 'good patient' can act as a facilitator and/or a
barrier to the receipt of timely healthcare. Applying a Bourdieuan analysis, our discussion is grounded in the
conceptual framework of 'cultural health capital' (Shim, 2010) in order to broaden understandings of healthcare
inequalities and cultural health practices in a contemporary UK context and in relation to the earlier diagnosis of
cancer.
179 BSA Annual Conference 2015
Glasgow Caledonian University