Joanne Hunt
Who is lobbying whom? Addendum: An eminent abuse of power
Trigger warning: suicide, medical neglect, abuse of power In October last year, I shared two blogposts exploring the academic (chiefly,...
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Joanne Hunt
- Mar 24
Media silence on the politics driving 'one of the biggest medical scandals of the 21st century'
Within the online chronic illness community, discussions episodically arise as to why the UK press and wider media continue to stay...
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Mo Stewart
- Jan 10
A Culture Of Cruelty: A public health crisis created by Thatcher’s ‘dark legacy’
Note: This blogpost is written by Mo Stewart, Independent Disability Studies Researcher and the research lead for the Preventable Harm...
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Joanne Hunt
- Nov 17, 2022
Talking therapies in a market-based society: Psychology and neoliberalism (part one)
“[…] engagement with neoliberal systems results in characteristic tendencies—including a radical abstraction of self from social and...
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Joanne Hunt
- Nov 17, 2022
Talking therapies in a market-based society: Psychology and neoliberalism (part two)
The first part of this two-part blogpost series looked at what neoliberalism is and how this ideology manifests in healthcare and social...
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Joanne Hunt
- Oct 25, 2022
What fuels disability denial? Neoliberalism, epistemic injustice and the psychology of legitimacy
"[...] attitudes, beliefs and stereotypes serve to legitimize social arrangements and to provide ideological support for social and...
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Joanne Hunt
- Oct 3, 2022
Spotlight on ME/CFS: Who is lobbying whom? Part two
This post is the second of a two-part series looking at academic influence on the UK government’s stance on ME/CFS, during the 1990s. It...
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Joanne Hunt
- Oct 3, 2022
Spotlight on ME/CFS: Who is lobbying whom? Part one
I have already written a little on some of the ME/CFS-related academic-state exchanges that can be found in The National Archives, data...
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Joanne Hunt
- Aug 2, 2022
Paper summary: On the politics driving the neglect of ME/CFS
The following summary was very kindly published by The ME Global Chronicle (Twitter: @MECentraal) as part of the June 2022 issue. Last...
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Joanne Hunt
- Aug 8, 2021
Summary: Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model
Following feedback, I have written a summary of the series of four blogposts looking at structural (essentially, socio-political)...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 22, 2021
Socio-political dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Need for a critically reflexive model
“To provide a basis for understanding the determinants of disease and arriving at rational treatments and patterns of health care, a...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 22, 2021
Need for critical reflexivity in medical education: The case of ‘contested’ illness and MUS
Improved medical education has frequently been cited as a potential means of improving patient-centred care and increasing patient...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 5, 2021
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Downstream effects of upstream corruption
“The privileged are simply less likely to believe claims about oppression when they come from those who actually experience it”. Nora...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 5, 2021
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Academic-state-corporate nexus*
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!” Sir Walter Scott. 'Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field'...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 5, 2021
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Constructs and propaganda
“People go to war for ideas, not for evidence.” Gordon Waddell in: White, P. (ed) (2005). 'Biopsychosocial medicine: An integrated...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 5, 2021
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model: Beginnings
"Wherever power is at work, we should be ready to ask who or what is controlling whom, and why". Miranda Fricker (2007). ‘Epistemic...
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Joanne Hunt
- Jun 4, 2021
Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model (full series of blogposts)
This extended blogpost simply brings all of the posts in the 'Structural dimensions' series together, additionally referenced in academic...
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