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14371
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1460
National Ranking
272

Overview

Celia Kitzinger is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom, and their academic work spans multiple fields primarily within medicine and social sciences. The main areas of their research include medicine with a focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as sociology, political science, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and clinical psychology.

Their research topics cover significant aspects of healthcare and ethics, including:

  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Ethics in Medical Practice

Celia Kitzinger has collaborated frequently with several co-authors throughout their career. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • Jenny Kitzinger
  • Jocelyn Downie
  • Ben White
  • Lindy Willmott
  • Penney Lewis

Their publication record indicates an interdisciplinary approach, combining medical research with social science perspectives to explore complex ethical and legal issues related to healthcare. This includes work on multicultural legal studies and pediatric healthcare ethics, reflecting a blend of clinical and societal concerns in their scholarship.

The diversity in fields such as pediatrics, clinical psychology, and general health professions demonstrates the breadth of Kitzinger's scope within health-related disciplines, emphasizing both practical and theoretical topics in their research.

Best Publications

  • Anonymising interview data: challenges and compromise in practice

    Benjamin Saunders;Jenny Kitzinger;Celia Kitzinger

  • Heteronormativity in Action: Reproducing the Heterosexual Nuclear Family in After-hours Medical Calls

    Celia Kitzinger

  • Just Say No? The Use of Conversation Analysis in Developing a Feminist Perspective on Sexual Refusal:

    Celia Kitzinger;Hannah Frith

  • Representing the Other: A Feminism & Psychology Reader

    Sue Wilkinson;Celia Kitzinger

  • Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis

    Celia Kitzinger

  • 'The thief of womanhood': women's experience of polycystic ovarian syndrome.

    Celia Kitzinger;Jo Willmott

  • Surprise As an Interactional Achievement: Reaction Tokens in Conversation:

    Sue Wilkinson;Celia Kitzinger

  • Transitions from Heterosexuality to Lesbianism: The Discursive Production of Lesbian Identities.

    Celia Kitzinger;Sue Wilkinson

  • Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology

    Celia Kitzinger;Rachel Perkins

  • "Speaking as a heterosexual" : (How) does sexuality matter for talk-in-interaction?

    Celia Kitzinger

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • Reformulating Sexual Script Theory: Developing a Discursive Psychology of Sexual Negotiation

    Hannah Frith;Celia Kitzinger

  • Thinking differently about thinking positive: a discursive approach to cancer patients’ talk

    Sue Wilkinson;Celia Kitzinger

  • Heterosexuality : a feminism & psychology reader

    Sue Wilkinson;Celia Kitzinger

  • Theorizing representing the other

    Celia Kitzinger;Sue Wilkinson

  • 'Kids are just cruel anyway': lesbian and gay parents' talk about homophobic bullying.

    Victoria Clarke;Celia Kitzinger;Jonathan Potter

  • "Emotion work" as a participant resource: a feminist analysis of young women's talk-in-interaction

    Hannah Frith;Celia Kitzinger

  • Speaking as a Lesbian: Correcting the Heterosexist Presumption

    Victoria Land;Celia Kitzinger

  • Attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and support for lesbian and gay human rights among psychology students.

    Sonja J Ellis;Celia Kitzinger;Sue Wilkinson

  • Feminism and Discourse Psychological Perspectives

    Sue Wilkinson;Celia Kitzinger

  • 'The thief of womanhood': women'sexperience of polycys tic ovarian syndrome

    Celia Kitzinger;Jo Willmott

Frequent Co-Authors

Jenny Kitzinger
Jenny Kitzinger Cardiff University
Sue Wilkinson
Sue Wilkinson Loughborough University
Virginia Braun
Virginia Braun University of Auckland
Victoria Clarke
Victoria Clarke University of the West of England
Sarah Nettleton
Sarah Nettleton University of York
Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College
Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan New York University
Janice M. Morse
Janice M. Morse University of Utah
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford
Sharon E. Straus
Sharon E. Straus University of Toronto

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