|
Bio statementShannon Hughes is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Utah State University. Her primary research interests involve the uses of new and existing technologies to improve clinical treatment decision-making and drug safety in mental health. She is also interested in the politics of constructing drug knowledge in the age of the Internet, and advocates for expanding the role of consumers' experiential knowledge in mental health and psychopharmacology. ConferencesAttended Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada) Attended Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL) Attended Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA) Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)The Construction of Expertise in the Age of the Internet: Psychotropic Drug Knowledge in Consumer-Constructed Online Spaces By universal definition and consensus, information about psychotropic drugs prescribed and used as medicines rests on a highly specialized knowledge base, long seen as the legitimate if not exclusive province of medical experts. This expert knowledge base has, however, become highly contested, for three main reasons. First, to reach a "valid" understanding of drugs' effects, researchers have persistently muted the direct voice and speech of the patient in favor of a presumably more objective ...
Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)Background: A growing minority of online health seekers report using consumer-generated content, such as discussion forum posts and consumer reviews, to find or share information about a disease or treatment. However, the consistency and quality of consumer commentary for a given treatment across various health sites is unknown. Implications arise for informed treatment decision-making, and for increasing the “usability” of inherently dispersed online content. Objective: This study sou... Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)Challenges to Scientific Validity in Researching the Anonymous Online User The Internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for healthcare consumers, a traditionally silenced group in clinical trial research, to have voice by contributing their treatment experiences on review sites, discussion boards, and patient communities. While many welcome this opportunity for consumers to help further develop the treatment knowledge base, it has also led to concerns about credibility and authenticity of claims in an inherently non-transparent realm. Some social commentators ... Full Paper PublicationsJournal of Medical Internet ResearchCan Online Consumers Contribute to Drug Knowledge? A Mixed-Methods Comparison of Consumer-Generated and Professionally Controlled Psychotropic Medication Information on the Internet This user's work may be related toUsers who have said they have met Shannon Hughes and who Shannon Hughes says they have metFans of Shannon Hughes |
SabrinaSchroder
Gunther
Click here to edit your profile page
Medicine 2.0® is happy to support and promote other conferences and workshops in this area. Contact us to produce and promote your conference or workshop under this label and in this event series. In addition, we are always looking for hosts of future World Congresses.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.