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Women in surgery: The social construction of gender in surgical practice. (2025)
Journal Article
Schneidman, J., Rice, K., & Armstrong, N. (online). Women in surgery: The social construction of gender in surgical practice. American journal of surgery, 116343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2025.116343

Despite comprising over half of Canadian medical graduates, women remain underrepresented within surgery. Strategies to address this gap have largely focused on increasing numbers or targeting individual women, overlooking subtle, systemic gender ine... Read More about Women in surgery: The social construction of gender in surgical practice..

An anthropological critique of psychiatric rating scales (2024)
Journal Article
Armstrong, N., & Byrom, N. (2025). An anthropological critique of psychiatric rating scales. BJPsych Advances, 31(2), 73-81. https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2024.60

This article discusses sceptical arguments about measurement scales. Measurement scales are part of a promising agenda of openness, transparency and patient and public involvement (PPI) in medical research, but have received critical, sometimes hosti... Read More about An anthropological critique of psychiatric rating scales.

Review of: Loraine Gelsthorpe, Perveez Mody and Brian Sloan (eds). Spaces of Care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth) (2024)
Journal Article
Armstrong, N. (2024). Review of: Loraine Gelsthorpe, Perveez Mody and Brian Sloan (eds). Spaces of Care. 288 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020. £65.00 (cloth). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 30(3), 840-841. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14194