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Structural dimensions of the biopsychosocial model (full series of blogposts)

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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NHS Digital refuse to place clear caveats on inaccurate ME/CFS webpages

Joanne Hunt

Feb 18, 2021

(Bio)psychosocial hegemony

NHS Digital refuse to place clear caveats on inaccurate ME/CFS webpages

Back in December, I (again) emailed NHS Digital to ask them to remove inaccurate and potentially harmful information from their ME/CFS...

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Health politics in action? Professor Garner’s change of heart on Long Covid (and ME/CFS)

Joanne Hunt

Jan 30, 2021

Emergent Long Covid healthcare

Health politics in action? Professor Garner’s change of heart on Long Covid (and ME/CFS)

Trigger warning: gaslighting, ableism, death, coercive control, cult psychology Note: this a long blogpost, take it easy! Politics...

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Intersectionality: Why epistemic injustice and stigma are not ‘equal opportunities’ phenomena

Joanne Hunt

Jan 15, 2021

(Self-)advocacy and survival

Intersectionality: Why epistemic injustice and stigma are not ‘equal opportunities’ phenomena

Intersectionality is a concept that arose out of what I would consider critical social sciences, notably, the work of Black feminist...

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Toward a critical psychology of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’?

Joanne Hunt

Jan 3, 2021

(Self-)advocacy and survival

Toward a critical psychology of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’?

Following a short overview blogpost on critical psychology, in this post I take a few examples from the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis...

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Reflections on NICE draft for diagnosis and management of ME/CFS

Joanne Hunt

Dec 21, 2020

(Bio)psychosocial hegemony

Reflections on NICE draft for diagnosis and management of ME/CFS

On 10 November, NICE released its long-awaited draft of the guidelines on diagnosis and management of myalgic encephalomyelitis...

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Joanne Hunt

Dec 20, 2020

(Self-)advocacy and survival

Critical psychology: An overview

Since most of my writing is underpinned by critical psychology thinking (intersected with a disability studies lens), I thought I would...

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Factor #8: Ableist politics, money and abuse of power

Joanne Hunt

Nov 6, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Factor #8: Ableist politics, money and abuse of power

Let’s go back to where we started ( factor#1 ), with the biopsychosocial model. This model rather ironically arose as a means of making...

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Factor #7: Lack of medical epistemic humility (and lack of reflexivity)

Joanne Hunt

Nov 6, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Factor #7: Lack of medical epistemic humility (and lack of reflexivity)

Epistemic humility is a form of epistemic justice that encourages an individual to be epistemically humble, that is, to recognise the...

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Factor #6: Challenges to traditional patient-practitioner roles

Joanne Hunt

Nov 2, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Factor #6: Challenges to traditional patient-practitioner roles

Patients with medically unexplained or unmanageable symptoms challenge the health services and medical profession on a number of grounds....

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Factor #5: Limitations of evidence-based medicine

Joanne Hunt

Nov 2, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Factor #5: Limitations of evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine is a much-lauded concept in health services and allegedly draws from three pillars: best available research...

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Factor #4: Hierarchy of disease (and hierarchy of patients)

Joanne Hunt

Nov 1, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Factor #4: Hierarchy of disease (and hierarchy of patients)

A rather uncomfortable truth in healthcare is that there exists a hierarchy of disease and, by extension, hierarchy of patients within...

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Factor #3: Lack of integrated and holistic care provision

Joanne Hunt

Oct 31, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Factor #3: Lack of integrated and holistic care provision

The term integrated care is often used to describe initiatives aiming to deliver increasingly joined-up care, which is arguably of...

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Factor #2 Clash of healthcare models: acute versus chronic care

Joanne Hunt

Oct 31, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Factor #2 Clash of healthcare models: acute versus chronic care

Trigger warning: death, suicide Some Long Covid patients have expressed their realisation that, unless they are considered at high risk...

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Factor #1: Clash of healthcare models: biomedical versus (bio)psychosocial

Joanne Hunt

Oct 30, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Factor #1: Clash of healthcare models: biomedical versus (bio)psychosocial

Health services run most smoothly when clinicians can draw on their core training models in treating patients. In Western healthcare, the...

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Why is the NHS ill-equipped to care for Long Covid patients? Lessons from MUS and chronic illness

Joanne Hunt

Oct 29, 2020

Ill-equipped NHS

Why is the NHS ill-equipped to care for Long Covid patients? Lessons from MUS and chronic illness

Several weeks after Covid-19 first raised its ugly head, some people who had contracted the virus were finding that they were not getting...

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Exploring biopsychosocial hegemony through a critical lens

Joanne Hunt

Oct 27, 2020

(Bio)psychosocial hegemony

Exploring biopsychosocial hegemony through a critical lens

Many of the forthcoming blogs will explore different aspects of biopsychosocial discourse and biopsychosocial hegemony. By hegemony, I...

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NHS webpages continue to spread misinformation on ME/CFS

Joanne Hunt

Oct 27, 2020

(Bio)psychosocial hegemony

NHS webpages continue to spread misinformation on ME/CFS

*Note: for anybody who does not or cannot read to the end of this post, a number of reliable sources of information on ME/CFS exist. For...

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Are ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ really unexplained? My experience as a patient

Joanne Hunt

Oct 26, 2020

'Medically unexplained symptoms'

Are ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ really unexplained? My experience as a patient

ME/CFS is discussed in this post within the context of 'medically unexplained symptoms' (MUS); I do *not* believe ME/CFS should be...

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