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Exploring altered body perception and comfort after stroke: An interpretive phenomenological analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Stott, H., Cramp, M., McClean, S., & Turton, A. (2018). Exploring altered body perception and comfort after stroke: An interpretive phenomenological analysis. Clinical Rehabilitation, 32(10), 1406-1417. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215518784346

Background: After stroke, changes to body perception are common. However, little is known about what these disturbed perceptions feel like to the stroke survivor. This study took a phenomenological approach to explore experiences of altered body per... Read More about Exploring altered body perception and comfort after stroke: An interpretive phenomenological analysis.

‘You feel it in your body’: Narratives of embodied well-being and control among women who use complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy (2018)
Journal Article
McClean, S., & Mitchell, M. (2018). ‘You feel it in your body’: Narratives of embodied well-being and control among women who use complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy. Societies, 8(2), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8020030

In Western societies, women’s use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) during pregnancy and labor is increasingly ubiquitous, yet there have been few in-depth explorations of the lived experience of women who use CAM and little critical an... Read More about ‘You feel it in your body’: Narratives of embodied well-being and control among women who use complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy.

Governing healthy migrant families: Migrants’ and health workers’ views and perceptions of child health and wellbeing services in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
McClean, S. (2018). Governing healthy migrant families: Migrants’ and health workers’ views and perceptions of child health and wellbeing services in the UK. European Journal of Public Health, 28(S1), 76. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky047.168

Background: Migrating between countries involves adjustment and movement between healthcare systems, in addition to a changing relationship between the migrant individual/family) and the state. The objective of this paper is to explore how migrant pa... Read More about Governing healthy migrant families: Migrants’ and health workers’ views and perceptions of child health and wellbeing services in the UK.

De colonising knowledge: Biomedical beliefs and indigenous medical practice (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Moore, R., & McClean, S. (2018, March). De colonising knowledge: Biomedical beliefs and indigenous medical practice. Paper presented at Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine(s): History vs. Modernity International Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, London, England

Medical traditions and practices go back to antiquity and are defined by the cultures in which they emerge. We may regard these practices (health care systems) as profoundly personal and ethnocentric, tied to such things as religion and belief system... Read More about De colonising knowledge: Biomedical beliefs and indigenous medical practice.