Search Results - "Leiter, Valerie"

Regulatory scripting: Stakeholder participation in food and drug administration medical device advisory meetings by White, Shelley K, Leiter, Valerie, Le, Mi H, Helms, Caitlyn K

“…In an age of biomedicalization, medical devices have become more common and more technologically complicated, and adverse events associated with medical…”
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Adverse Event Reports Associated with Vaginal Mesh: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis by Leiter, Valerie, PhD, White, Shelley K., PhD, Walters, Abigail, MPP

“…Abstract Background Surgery with vaginal mesh is often used to treat female urinary incontinence. Questions have emerged over the past decade about the safety…”
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Signs and symptoms: Adverse events associated with a sterilization device by Leiter, Valerie

“…Sterilization is now the most common contraceptive method used by women of in the U.S., and sterilization devices have played an important role in its…”
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Medicalization, Markets and Consumers by Conrad, Peter, Leiter, Valerie

“…This paper examines the impact of changes in the medical marketplace on medicalization in U. S. society. Using four cases (Viagra, Paxil, human growth hormone…”
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“Nobody's just normal, you know”: The social creation of developmental disability by Leiter, Valerie

“…This paper examines the process through which early childhood developmental disability is socially created within a US public program called Early Intervention…”
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Pay at the pump?: Problems with electric breast pumps by Leiter, Valerie, Agiliga, Alexis, Kennedy, Evangeline, Mecham, Emma

“…Breast pump marketing promises mothers that they will be able to follow cultural and scientific mandates to breastfeed their babies, but on their own…”
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FDA Regulation of Menstrual Devices: Increased Innovation, Decreased Oversight, and Shifting Problems by Leiter, Valerie, Powley, Charlotte, Queen, Tsion

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From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: direct‐to‐consumer advertising and medicalisation by Conrad, Peter, Leiter, Valerie

“…The medicalisation of life problems has been occurring for well over a century and has increased over the past 30 years, with the engines of medicalisation…”
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Guinea Pig Kids: Myths or Modern Tuskegees? by Leiter, Valerie, Herman, Sarah

“…The Tuskegee syphilis study represents a nadir in health research in the U.S., when individuals' bodies were used to satisfy researchers' curiosity with no…”
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Regulatory scripting: Stakeholder participation in food and drug administration medical device advisory meetings by Shelley K White, Valerie Leiter, Mi H Le, Caitlyn K Helms

“…In an age of biomedicalization, medical devices have become more common and more technologically complicated, and adverse events associated with medical…”
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Dilemmas in sharing care: maternal provision of professionally driven therapy for children with disabilities by Leiter, Valerie

“…This paper explores some of the dilemmas that result when mothers and professionals collaborate in providing care to young children with disabilities within a…”
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Moving Out: Residential Independence Among Young Adults With Disabilities and the Role of Families by Leiter, Valerie, Waugh, Alexandra

“…This article examines the transition to adulthood from a life course perspective, highlighting the experiences of youth with disabilities and the role that…”
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Enmeshed in controversy: claims about the risks of vaginal mesh devices by Leiter, Valerie, White, Shelley K.

“…Urinary incontinence is a hidden, private issue that affects over 40% of women. Its experience has been medicalised, mainly through urogynaecological surgery,…”
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Mind the Gap: Gender Differences in Child Special Health Care Needs by Leiter, Valerie, Rieker, Patricia P.

“…The gendered nature of special health care needs in childhood is an important yet understudied area. Although gendered differences in the prevalence of special…”
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From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra : direct-to-consumer advertising and medicalisation: Pharmaceuticals and society: critical discourses and debates by CONRAD, Peter, LEITER, Valerie

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The Division of Labor Among Systems of Therapeutic Care for Children with Disabilities by Leiter, Valerie

“…This article demonstrates that there is a division of labor in therapeutic care for children with disabilities (i.e., physical, occupational, and…”
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Moving Out: Residential Independence Among Young Adults With Disabilities and the Role of Families: Families and Disabilities by LEITER, Valerie, WAUGH, Alexandra

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The Consequences of Caring: Effects of Mothering a Child with Special Needs by Leiter, Valerie, Krauss, Marty Wyngaarden, Anderson, Betsy, Wells, Nora

“…This article broadens our knowledge about family caregiving across the life course by examining caregiving and employment effects experienced by women with…”
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Medicalization, markets and consumers: Health and Health Care in the United States: Origins and Dynamics by CONRAD, Peter, LEITER, Valerie

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Claims, Barriers, and Satisfaction: Parents' Requests for Additional Special Education Services by Leiter, Valerie, Wyngaarden Krauss, Marty

“…This article explores the issue of requests for additional special education services. In their study, the authors identified which parents of children who…”
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