Professor Clive Seale, B.Ed MSc PhD
Professor of Medical Sociology
email: c.seale@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 20 7882 2511
Fax: +44 20 7882 2552
PA: Jan Whalley
j.whalley@qmul.ac.uk
Tel: +44 20 7882 2498
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Postal address:
2 Newark Street
Whitechapel
London
E1 2AT
Research interests:
Communication in health care settings; end-of-life care; mass media and health; social research methods
Publications:
Publications (selection)
Books
Charteris-Black J and Seale C (2010) Gender and the Language of Illness. Palgrave-MacMillan
Seale C., Silverman, D., Gubrium, J., Gobo, G. (eds) (2007) Qualitative Research Practice. Sage.
Seale C. (ed) (2004) Researching Society and Culture Sage (Second edition)
Seale, C. (2003) Media and Health. Sage.
Seale C. (1999) The Quality of Qualitative Research. Sage.
Seale C. (1998) Constructing Death: The Sociology of Dying and Bereavement Cambridge University Press
Chapters in edited collections
Seale C (2011) Secondary analysis of qualitative data. In Silverman, D. (ed) Qualitative Research. (3rd edition). London: Sage.
Seale C and Charteris-Black J. (2010) ‘Keyword analysis: a new tool for qualitative research’ in Bourgeault, I.L., DeVries, R. and Dingwall, R. (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research. Sage
Seale C. (2010). Death, dying and the ‘right to die’ In Handbook of Medical Sociology edited by Bird, C and Timmermans S. (6th edition) Prentice Hall.
Journal articles
Bell L, Seale C. (2010) The reporting of cervical cancer in the mass media: a study of UK newspapers. European Journal of Cancer Care. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2010.01222.x
Seale C. (2010) The role of doctors’ religious faith and ethnicity in taking ethically controversial decisions during end-of-life care. Journal of Medical Ethics. 36(11):677-682
Shepherd E and Seale C. (2010) Eating disorders in the media: the changing nature of newspaper reports. European Eating Disorders Review. 18, 6: 486-495
Seale C. (2010) How the mass media report social statistics: a case study concerning research on end-of-life decisions. Social Science and Medicine 71, 5: 861-868
Seale C, Charteris-Black, J., MacFarlane, A. and McPherson, A. (2010) Interviews and internet forums: a comparison of two sources of data for qualitative research Qualitative Health Research 20: 595-606
Pappas Y, Seale C. (2010) The physical examination in telecardiology and televascular consultations: a study using conversation analysis. Patient Education and Counseling. 81, 1, 113-118
Seale C. (2010) Continuous deep sedation in UK medical practice: descriptive study. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 39, 1: 44-53
Seale C. (2009) Hastening death in end-of-life care: a survey of doctors. Social Science and Medicine, 69(11):1659-1666
Charteris-Black J and Seale C. (2009) Men and emotion talk: evidence from the experience of illness Gender and Language 3, 1: 81-113
Seale C. (2009) End-of-life decisions in the UK involving medical practitioners Palliative Medicine 23, 3, 198-204
Seale, C. (2009) Legalisation of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide: survey of doctors’ attitudes Palliative Medicine 23, 3, 205-212
Seale, C. and Charteris-Black, J. (2008) The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives. Ageing and Society 28(7), 1025-1043
Seale, C., Chaplin, R., Lelliott, P., Quirk, A. (2007) Antipsychotic medication, sedation and mental clouding: an observational study of psychiatric consultations. Social Science and Medicine, 65, 4: 698-711
Seale C. (2006) National survey of end-of-life decisions made by UK medical practitioners. Palliative Medicine 20 (1) 3-10
Seale C, Kirk D, Tobin M, Burton P, Grundy R, Pritchard-Jones K, Dixon-Woods M. (2005) Effect of media portrayals of removal of children's tissue on UK tumour bank. British Medical Journal 331: 401-403.
Lempp, H. and Seale C. (2004) The ‘hidden’ curriculum in undergraduate medical education: medical students’ perceptions of teaching quality. British Medical Journal 329: 770-773.
Seale C. (1999) Quality in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry 5, 4, 465-478
Professional activities and outreach:
Clive is editor, along with three others, based at Kings and Royal Holloway, University of London, of the journal Sociology of Health and Illness. This is an international journal which publishes sociological articles on all aspects of health, illness, medicine and health care. See: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shil_enhanced/
Liz Ackroyd, also based at the Centre for Health Sciences is Journal administrator