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Susie Kilshaw
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 24
Citations - 156
Susie Kilshaw is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gulf War syndrome & Miscarriage. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 16 publications receiving 133 citations.
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Gulf war syndrome: a reaction to psychiatry's invasion of the military?
TL;DR: It is argued that despite the increasing presence of psychiatry in military discourse, GWS reveals the way that people are able to transform, negotiate and even negate its power and assumptions.
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Causal explanations of miscarriage amongst Qataris
Susie Kilshaw,Nadia Omar,Stella Major,Mona O. Mohsen,Faten El Taher,Halima Al Tamimi,Kristina Baker Sole,Danny Miller +7 more
TL;DR: Practices and beliefs around miscarriage are embedded in social, cultural, religious and medical frameworks and understanding the socio-cultural context and understandings of explanatory theories can enhance health care providers’ understandings, resulting in improved communication and care.
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On being a Gulf veteran: an anthropological perspective.
TL;DR: This work seeks to make sense of the cultural circumstances, specific and general, which gave rise to the illness, and suggests that GWS symptom reporting can be seen as a form of communication.
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Friendly fire: The construction of Gulf War Syndrome narratives
TL;DR: It is suggested that GWS narratives provide a template to make sense of life events and illness and it is the concordance between the individual and collective narrative that is persuasive.