Mothers on Display: Lunchboxes, Social Class and Moral Accountability

Honouring social accountability: a moral responsibility of the medical profession.

Social class, anxieties and mothers' foodwork.

In the context of concerns about childhood obesity, mothers are placed at the forefront of responsibility for shaping the eating behaviour and consequently the health of their young children. This is evident in a multitude of diverse sites such as government reports, health promotion materials, reality TV shows and the advice of childcare nurses and preschools. These sites produce a range of re...

Reclaiming a moral identity: stillbirth, stigma and 'moral mothers'.

OBJECTIVES to understand the effect of expectant motherhood discourses on parents who suffer a stillbirth. DESIGN a qualitative, exploratory study using in-depth interviews to understand parental experience of stillbirth. SETTING interviews took place in the homes of bereaved parents across several English health authorities. PARTICIPANTS 10 couples and 12 mothers who had experienced a st...

Human Rights and Social Accountability

There is an emerging consensus within the international development community to subscribe to a human rights based approach to development. Most countries have signed onto international human rights conventions that have important implications for national legislative frameworks. The World Bank has thus far not directly endorsed a human rights based approach to development, but has argued that ...

Social Identity and Electoral Accountability

In a laboratory experiment, we explore the effects of group identities on the principal-agent relationship between voters and representatives. In an adverse selection framework with observable effort, voters can choose to condition their reelection choices on representatives’ effort alone, beliefs about representatives’ competence, or both of those jointly. We show that inducing social identiti...