REVIEW: Frederick Grinnell, The Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic

AbstractAssistive technologies (ATs) are being ‘mainstreamed’ within dementia care, where they are promoted as enabling people with dementia to age in place alongside delivering greater efficiencies in care. AT provision focuses upon standardised solutions, with little known about how ATs are used by people with dementia and their carers within everyday practice. This paper explores how people with dementia and carers use technologies in order to manage care. Findings are reported from qualitative semi-structured interviews with 13 people with dementia and 26 family carers. Readily available household technologies were used in conjunction with and instead of AT to address diverse needs, replicating AT functions when doing so. Successful technology use was characterised by ‘bricolage’ or the non-conventional use of tools or methods to address local needs. Carers drove AT use by engaging creatively with both assistive and everyday technologies, however, carers were not routinely supported in their creative engagements with technology by statutory health or social care services, making bricolage a potentially frustrating and wasteful process. Bricolage provides a useful framework to understand how technologies are used in the everyday practice of dementia care, and how technology use can be supported within care. Rather than implementing standardised AT solutions, AT services and AT design in future should focus on how technologies can support more personalised, adaptive forms of care.

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Gender, Immigration, and the Everyday Practice of Social Citizenship

Practiced Citizenship ◽

10.2307/j.ctv8xnfrj.8 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 75-100

Author(s):

NIMISHA BARTON

Keyword(s):

Everyday Practice ◽

Social Citizenship ◽

The Everyday

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Object relations, attachment theory, self-psychology, and interpersonal psychoanalysis

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry ◽

10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0039 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 306-312

Author(s):

Jeremy Holmes

Keyword(s):

Object Relations ◽

Attachment Theory ◽

Common Ground ◽

Self Psychology ◽

Everyday Practice ◽

The Everyday ◽

Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

Despite many splits and schisms, dating back to Adler and Jung's early break with Freud, there has been an enduring attempt within psychoanalysis to hold to a central psychodynamic vision and to find common ground between differing theoretical and clinical approaches. The aim of this chapter is to describe the work of some of the major figures who have extended and developed Freud's ideas, pointing to areas of both conflict and convergence, and, wherever possible, to relate their concepts to the everyday practice of psychiatry.

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An ethnography of midwifery work patterns during organisational redesign

Australian Health Review ◽

10.1071/ah000022 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 22 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sue M Wilson

Keyword(s):

Service Delivery ◽

Everyday Practice ◽

Work Patterns ◽

General Hospitals ◽

Hospital Restructuring ◽

The Everyday

Despite a substantial increase in midwifery research since the early 1990s, there remains alack of available research into the everyday practice of midwives. In general, hospitals arestriving to reduce costs and increase efficiencies, so many hospital-based midwives are beingexposed to hospital restructuring processes. The primary purpose of my research was to learnabout the work patterns of hospital midwives during organisational redesign. A largeBrisbane hospital, as part of its hospital-wide organisational redesign plan, merged twopostnatal wards to create a new, larger unit. With this amalgamation, the ward midwiveswere exposed to several service delivery changes. Midwifery work patterns during thisorganisational change revealed a milieu characterised by a culture of busyness. The impactof change introduced ritual and personal elements that influenced midwifery work patterns.

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The Everyday Practice of Information

Human Factors in Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-931777-10-0.ch008 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 93-103

Author(s):

Andrew Wenn

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Everyday Practice ◽

Conference Paper ◽

The Everyday ◽

Nature Of Information ◽

The Way

This chapter discusses the nature of information, the way it appears in everyday life. However, the way information is presented and discussed in this chapter is also a little unconventional in that it uses rather a large amount of interview and other document transcripts (in Times italic font). The interview texts are largely unedited because I want to retain some of the flavour of the conversations that took place. Moreover, the limits of a conventional conference chapter are pushed even further because the text is also littered with comments from several other voices (represented in a sans serif font). Doing so allows a degree of reflexivity, albeit in the limited format of a conference paper, where we can explore things contained within the text that directly relate to the topic (Woolgar & Ashmore, 1991).

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