ORCID Profile
0000-0002-7789-1556
Current Organisations
Ministry of Health
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University of South Australia
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Alfaisal University College of Medicine
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-10-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JTSB.12072
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 14-12-2022
DOI: 10.3390/CTN6040027
Abstract: For the past 10 years, disease-modifying therapy (DMT) options for multiple sclerosis (MS) have grown remarkably where DMTs have been shown to reduce the risk of MS relapses. MS patients are advised to begin treatment with a DMT shortly after diagnosis to limit the possibility of disease progression over time. While patients with radiologically isolated syndrome do not require pharmacologic treatment, high-risk patients with clinically isolated syndrome are advised to start DMTs. This article provides evidence-based recommendations for DMT use in MS management, helping healthcare practitioners advise patients on treatment decisions. We aim to provide recommendations for the management of acute MS relapses. The recommendations herein were developed following the gathering of a panel of experts after evaluating international guidelines, and the latest evidence was collected through a comprehensive literature review.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-05-2017
Abstract: Within the field of disasters research, there is a tendency to define disasters as rapidly occurring events. Some accounts argue for maintaining such a temporal definition of disasters because it is intended to prevent disasters from being theorized in an overly broad fashion. In this article, I critically appraise such a way of conceptualizing disasters. While there is merit in imposing limits on the meaning of disasters, I find that there are ways of theorizing disasters as involving a protracted component that do not completely threaten the wholesale integrity of the concept. This involves developing a theoretical account of disasters, which encapsulates—but also differentiates between—social disruptions that are temporally focused and those that are temporally diffuse or recurrent. Adopting this typology of disasters is fruitful because it opens up fresh lines of inquiry to be undertaken. It positions largely unexplored phenomena within the purview of disasters research and it pushes the study of certain phenomena, such as climate change and heat waves, more into the field’s mainstream. Slow-moving and chronic social breakdowns are particularly important to theorize as disasters since they may be more impactful than disasters that are rapidly onset. It is precisely because they are less visible—in that they are normalized as everyday problems—that slow moving and recurrent disasters have the potential to cause greater damage to environments and human life.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-05-2013
Abstract: Within Western contemporary social thought, the claim that social acceleration is a key feature of the late-modern world has been widely circulated. A criticism of this argument is that it is often based on conjecture and hyperbole instead of on actual empirical evidence (Rosa and Scheuerman, 2009 Wajcman, 2008). A viable way to subject the social acceleration argument to a higher degree of empirical scrutiny is to deploy the sociological study of sleep as a key indicator. Such an insight builds upon research in the nascent sociological study of sleep, which has established how some developments in people’s sleep lives may signal broader shifts in the socio-temporal order (e.g. Baxter and Kroll-Smith, 2005 Melbin, 1987 Williams, 2005, 2011). I contribute to this emerging body of literature by emphasizing the importance of being sufficiently precise and nuanced when sleep research is deployed as a measure of the social acceleration phenomenon. I appeal to Hartmut Rosa’s theory of social acceleration (2003) as a way to advance a more explicit, multi-faceted and open-ended understanding of the social acceleration concept. Rosa’s theory is unique because it identifies three distinct facets of the concept that can be empirically grounded. By undertaking an exploratory study of what evidence regarding people’s sleep lives can be used to test these three facets, I find that this yields a more discontinuous and context-driven view of social acceleration.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOS0968
Abstract: The slow food movement developed out of a protest at the opening of a McDonald's restaurant in Rome. Since then, the movement has spread to many other parts of the world. The objectives and practices of the slow food movement have led scholars working in sociology to connect it to several broader contemporary social movements. This entry details these social movements and describes how the slow food movement is linked to the antiglobalization movement and the growing discontent with high‐speed and socially isolated lifestyles. It also covers criticisms of the slow food movement, which question its efficacy, inclusivity, and scope.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-12-2015
Abstract: Within the emerging sociology of sleep, researchers have, for strategic reasons, been mainly concerned with the sleep of human beings. But of what benefit is it to understand sleep as a trait of non-human entities? The aim of this article is to establish why it is worthwhile to expand how sleep is theoretically construed in sociological circles, so that sleep is more than just a property that human beings possess. In particular, I explore why it is fruitful to consider the sleep of non-human animals from a sociological perspective. I also examine the value of understanding sleep as a property ascribed to some technological devices. I then use the remaining part of this article to reflect on what it means to study sleep in these expanded ways. I relate non-human sleep to the emergence of the new materialism and explore how the concept opens up new areas for sociological inquiry.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-12-2018
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are one of the most highly anticipated technological developments of our time, with potentially wide-ranging social implications. Where dominant popular discourses around autonomous vehicles have tended to espouse a crude form of technological determinism, social scientific engagements with autonomous vehicles have tended to focus on rather narrow utilitarian dimensions related to regulation, safety or efficiency. This article argues that what is therefore largely missing from current debates is a sensitivity to the broader social implications of autonomous vehicles. The article aims to remedy this absence. Through a speculative mode, it is shown how a mobilities approach provides an ideal conceptual lens through which the broader social impacts of autonomous vehicles might be identified and evaluated. The argument is organized across four dimensions: transformations to experiences, inequalities, labour and systems. The article develops an agenda for critical sociological work on automated vehicles and it calls on sociologists to contribute much-needed critical voices to the institutional and public debates on the development of autonomous vehicles.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-01-2014
Abstract: Within contemporary social thought, the slow food movement is commonly construed as a growing, organized protest against the development of high-speed lifestyles. The primary aim of this article is to query the limits of such an interpretation. To highlight aspects of the slow food movement that may not be as incongruous to a high-speed society as commonly thought, I explore how the slow food movement relates to the phenomenon of time shortage. I undertake a discourse analysis of slow food texts in the English language to reveal that the aims and activities of the slow food movement may not wholly address the three sources of feeling ‘hurried’, as set out by Southerton and Tomlinson. I find that a more sophisticated analysis of the slow food movement emerges if we avoid thinking of fast and slow in dichotomous terms.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-04-2016
Location: Saudi Arabia
Location: United States of America
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