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Perception and valuing of clinical ethics issues by health professionals: an ob...

Introduction: Clinical ethics involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical problems that arise in healthcare practice. This study aimed to describe how health professionals identify and manage clinical ethics issues and to identify which tools and support structures they consider useful. Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study was conducted among health professionals working in primary care in...

Medication use for the management of professional performance : between invisib...

This article aims to explore pharmaceuticalisation processes in professional work contexts. The approach focuses on identifying patterns of medicine and dietary supplement use for managing work performance, and on discussing the relationship between these consumption practices and work-related pressure factors. This analysis adapts the notions of ‘normalisation’ to understand the extent of cultural acceptabilit...

Nurses under pressure : the demands of professional performance and their manag...

This article discusses the relationship between the demands on nurses’ professional performance and adherence to the use of medicines and supplements for their management. This approach allows us to analyze the transformations of nursing work and how nurses use various natural and pharmaceutical resources to cope with the pressures they face in their professional activities. To understand the interconnection be...

Determinants influencing distance learning at health technology higher educatio...

Introducing distance learning within higher education institutions (HEIs) is a key societal issue, especially in the health sector, due to its in vivo learning nature. Public policies play an important role in these digital environments. This study aims to identify the determinants influencing national public policies that foster digital learning transformation in Health HEIs in Portugal. A prospective survey, ...

The uses of coffee in highly demanding work contexts: managing rhythms, sleep, ...

This paper presents a sociological approach to coffee consumption as a performance management strategy in work contexts, particularly in professions with intense work rhythms and highly responsive demands. Focusing on the daily work of three professional groups (nurses, police officers, and journalists), we analyze the social expression of coffee and how it is mobilized to deal with sleep problems, fatigue, con...

Tensions and challenges of the ethics of scientific health research: an open re...

Ethics and research are dimensions that are increasingly interdependent, so the broad debate around the promotion of an ethical culture of rigor and demanding scrutiny corresponds to a concern that is effectively transversal to all areas of scientific knowledge. This article of theoretical reflection is intended to highlight the characteristics and trends underlying the evolution of ethical regulation in scient...

A new time of reckoning, a time for new reckoning: views on health and society,...

This article seeks to capture variations and tensions in the relationships between the health– illness–medicine complex and society. It presents several theoretical reconstructions, established theses and arguments are reassessed and criticized, known perspectives are realigned according to a new theorizing narrative, and some new notions are proposed. In the first part, we argue that relations between the medi...

Data protection in sociological health research : a critical narrative about th...

The recent implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) establishes a set of formal requirements that reinforce personal data protection, namely, those concerning the collection, treatment, and dissemination of data on research participants. With the application of this new legal provision at the European level, new types of restrictions are emerging, whose nature and reach intensify the tens...

Coffee in the workplace: a social break or a performance enhancer?

Coffee is a socially rooted drink with pharmacological properties. It is embedded in different everyday rituals, including ‘coffee breaks’ during working hours. This paper analyzes the role of coffee at workplace. Focusing on three professional areas associated with high pressure and responsive demands, we explore the social expression of coffee use at work, and how it is mobilized as a tool for managing sleepi...

"Coffee and Cigarettes" : work contexts and performance management