From the Margins to New Ground : An Autoethnography of Passage between Disciplines /

From the Margins to New Ground : An Autoethnography of Passage between Disciplines / / by Lea Hagoel, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman.

The authors, two sociologists, discover, follow-up, examine, and make sense of the cross-roads where the social and life sciences meet, surprised by the emergent story which they simultaneously witness and document. Together, they focus on Lea Hagoel’s professional path as a medical sociologist fitt...

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Hagoel, Lea.
Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah.
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (217 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgment
  • Part I: Theoretical Considerations
  • Encounters of Natives in Scientific Places
  • Non-Natives
  • And in Science?
  • Combining Disciplines
  • Boundaries and Passages between Disciplines
  • From Sovereign Disciplines to Transdisciplinarity
  • Individuals Seeking Solutions and the Unique Advantages of Women
  • Concluding Comments
  • Stories as a Way of Knowing
  • What Makes a Story a Story
  • What Elements of Experience Come into Stories?
  • Stories and Their Sources
  • Stories of Natives, Stories of Migrants
  • What Stories Disclose
  • Discourse: Constructs, Dialogues, and Dialogical Research
  • Part II: A Story of Search and Research
  • Point of Departure: Joining a Workplace (1982–1990)
  • In the Beginning: The Department of Family and Community Health (1975–1991)
  • Research Projects in the Department
  • Constructing the Role of the Medical Sociologist
  • Professional Makeup of the Department
  • Location
  • Leadership
  • A Promising Project
  • The Organization Splits in Two
  • New Projects, 1991–2011
  • Launching Screening Programs
  • Partnerships
  • Large Case-Control Studies: The Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • The Familial Cancer Counseling Service
  • One Focus, Highly Varied Performance
  • Revisions of Professional Identities
  • Academic Career Shifts: Life in the Department
  • Teaching Sociology
  • Learning: Interventions, Research, and Listening
  • At a Crossroads
  • Embarking on New Courses of Study
  • A Sociologist Studying Biology
  • The Pilot Study: My Laboratory Project
  • Doing the Work
  • Forward to a Dissertation
  • Trying for a Dissertation Once Again
  • Lung Cancer Research
  • Meaning of the Learning Experience
  • The Making of Biologists
  • Part III: Construing the Process
  • Characterizing the Department as a Work Environment: Structures and Discourse
  • Encounters in a Changing Work Environment
  • Scripts and Constructs
  • Dialogical Encounters and Language Functions
  • Varieties of Encounters
  • Scripts and Control
  • Summarizing Remarks
  • Revising the Sociologist’s Role: Taking on New Responsibilities
  • Working with Epidemiologists
  • The Early Detection of Cancer and Adherence to Recommendations for Screening
  • Baseline Research Projects: Mammography and FOBT
  • The PCP Study
  • Misunderstandings
  • Participation in the Three-Specializations Conference
  • Psychosocial Research at the Familial Cancer Counseling Service
  • Participation in the Establishment of the New Molecular CF35Epidemiology Laboratory on the Roof
  • Independent Work in the Department
  • Resolving Puzzles: Theoretical Integration
  • Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology as a CF35Complex Organization
  • Discourse: Scripts, Constructs, Conversational Functions
  • A Climate of Trust
  • Lea as a Researcher across Disciplines
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index.

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