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Prof. Yael Keshet פרופ' יעל קשת
Sociology of medicine סוציולוגיה של הרפואה
Western Galilee Academic College, Israel
Publications
See also https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6MUf13YAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Refereed Articles
Articles in periodicals
Keshet, Y. & Popper Giveon, A. (2017). Neutrality in medicine and health professionals from ethnic minority groups: The case of Arab health professionals in Israel. Social Science & Medicine, 174: 35-42.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953616306992
Keshet, Y. & Popper Giveon, A. (2016). Work experiences of ethnic minority nurses: a qualitative study. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 5 (1): 18
https://ijhpr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13584-016-0076-5
Keshet, Y., Popper Giveon, A. & Liberman, I. (2015). Intersectionality and underrepresentation among health care workforce: The case of Arab physicians in Israel. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 4:18 (1-13).
http://www.ijhpr.org/content/4/1/18
Popper-Giveon, A., Keshet, Y. (2015). “It’s every family’s dream”: Choice of a medical career among the Arab minority in Israel. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. [Epub ahead of print].
Popper-Giveon, A., Keshet, Y., Liberman, I. (2015). Arabs in health and welfare professions in Israel: an ethnic and gender-oriented view of representativeness and employment. Social Security, 97: 95-126. (Hebrew).
Popper-Giveon, A., Keshet, Y., Liberman (2015). Increasing Gender and Ethnic Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce: The Case of Arab Male Nurses in Israel. Nursing Outlolook, 63(6): 680-690.
Simchai, D., Keshet, Y. (2015). New-Age in Israel: formative ethos, identity blindness, and implications on health-care. Health (London), 2015 Jul 28. [Epub ahead of print].
Ben-Arye, E., Keshet, Y., Miller Shahbar, I., Livne Aharonson, M., Preis, L., Agour, O., Schiff, E., Samuels, N. (2015). The kitchen as therapy: Qualitative assessment of an integrative cuisine workshop for patients undergoing chemotherapy. Supportive Care in Cance 2015 Sep 11. [Epub ahead of print]
Popper-Giveon, A. & Keshet, Y. (2014). ‘‘Everyone wants his son to be a doctor’’: External motives in choosing medicine as a career among an ethnic minority. LETTER TO THE EDITOR. Medical Teacher, Posted online on December 19, 2014.
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/0142159X.2014.993953
Popper Giveon, A. & Keshet, Y. (2014). Complementary Medicine as a Path towards Empowerment of Arab-Palestinian Women in Israel. Health Care for Women International. Health Care Women Int. 2014 Dec 22:1-18. [Epub ahead of print].
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07399332.2014.990561?journalCode=uhcw20
Keshet, Y. Simchai, D. (2014). The 'gender puzzle' of alternative medicine and holistic spirituality: A literature review. Social Science & Medicine, 113: 77-86.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614002883
Keshet, Y., Schiff, E., Samuels, N., Ben-Arye, E. (2015). Giving a Voice to Patients: The Short Narrative as a Patient-Reported Outcome in an Integrative Oncology Setting. Psycho-oncology, 24(2):169-74.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pon.3621/abstract;jsessionid=8A81D2E9825416902121B995B7C3B2B0.f01t03?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false
Popper-Giveon, A., Liberman, I., Keshet, Y. (2014). Workforce ethnic diversity and culturally competent health care: The case of Arab physicians in Israel. Ethnicity and Health. DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2014.8935633. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13557858.2014.893563?journalCode=ceth20#preview
Keshet, Y., & Liberman, I. (2013). Seeking empowerment and spirituality in the secular age: Secular and traditionalist Israelis consulting rabbis. Sociology, 48 (1), 92-110.
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http://soc.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/06/05/0038038512466710.abstract
http://soc.sagepub.com/content/48/1/92
Keshet, Y. (2013). Dual embedded agency: physicians implement integrative medicine in healthcare organizations. Health (London): An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 17(6):605-621.
http://hea.sagepub.com/content/17/6/605.short
Keshet, Y., & Popper-Giveon, A. (2013). Integrative health care in Israel and traditional Arab herbal medicine: When health care interfaces with culture and politics. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 27 (3): 368-384.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maq.12049/abstract;jsessionid=F34067C733ADACDC308136A42FAB3636.f01t01?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false
Keshet, Y., Attias S., Ben Arye, E., Shaham, M., Grimberg, O. & Schiff, E. (2013). Integrative complementary medicine for treatment of bariatric perioperative symptoms: Patients' experiences and staff evaluations. Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care, 8 (3): 108-112.
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/bari.2013.9980
Keshet, Y., & Liberman, I. (2013). Coping with illness and threat: Why non-religious Jews choose to consult rabbis on healthcare issues. Journal of Religion and Health,, 53 (4), 1146-1160
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10943-013-9711-4#page-1
Keshet, Y., Ben-Arye, E., & Schiff, E. (2013). The use of boundary objects to enhance interprofessional collaboration: integrating complementary medicine in a hospital setting. Sociology of Health and Illness, 35 (5): 666-681.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01520.x/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false
Keshet, Y. (2012). Network gatekeeping: Complementary medicine information on the websites of medical institutions. Health (London): An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 16(2), 151-168.
http://hea.sagepub.com/content/16/2/151.short
Keshet, Y., Ben-Arye, E., & Schiff, E. (2012). Can holism be practiced in a biomedical setting? A qualitative study of the integration of complementary medicine to a surgical department. Health (London): An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 16(6), 585-601.
http://hea.sagepub.com/content/16/6/585.refs?patientinform-links=yes&legid=sphea;16/6/585
Keshet, Y., Arnon, Z., Ben Arye, E., Shmuel, A., Sroka, G., Matter, I., & Schiff, E. (2012). The Perceived Impact of Integrative Medicine in a Surgical Department. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 4(1), e27-e35.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876382011001648
Schiff, E., Ben Arye, E., Atias S., & Keshet, Y. (2012). Perceiving Integration of a Complementary Medicine Service within a General Surgery Department through Documentation of Consultations: A Thematic Analysis. PEC. Patient Education and Counseling, 89(3), 430-433.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22425163
Ben-Arye, E., Schiff, E., Steiner, M. Keshet, Y., & Lavie, O. (2012). Attitudes of Patients with Gynecological and Breast Cancer toward Integration of Complementary Medicine in Cancer Care. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 22(1), 146-53.
Keshet, Y. (2011). Energy Medicine and hybrid knowledge construction: the formation of new cultural-epistemological rules of discourse. Cultural Sociology, 5(4), 501-518.
http://cus.sagepub.com/content/5/4/501.abstract
Keshet, Y. (2011). Classification systems in the light of sociology of knowledge. Journal of Documentation, 67(1), 144-158.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1905726
Ben-Arye, E., Schiff, E., Karkabi, K., Keshet, Y., & Lev, E. (2011). Exploring association of spiritual perspectives with complementary medicine use among patients with type 2 diabetes in Israel. Ethnicity and Health, 16(1), 1-10.
Keshet, Y. (2010). Hybrid Knowledge and Research on the Efficacy of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Treatments. Social Epistemology, a Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, 24(4), 331-347.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02691728.2010.506959#.U4HrXfl_suE
Keshet, Y. (2009). The untenable boundaries of biomedical knowledge: Epistemologies and rhetoric strategies in the debate over evaluating complementary and alternative medicine. Health (London): An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 13(2), 131-155.
http://hea.sagepub.com/content/13/2/131.full.pdf
Ben-Arye, E., Lev, E., Keshet, Y., & Schiff, E. (2009). Integration of herbal medicine in primary care in Israel: A Jewish-Arab cross-cultural perspective. Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2011, Article ID 401395, 8 pages. doi:10.1093/ecam/nep146 http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/nep146v1
Ben-Arye, E., Karkabi, K., Karkabi, S., Keshet, Y., Haddad, M., & Frenkel, M. (2009). Attitudes of Arab and Jewish patients towards integration of complementary medicine in primary care clinics in Israel: A Cross-cultural study. Social Science and Medicine, 68(1), 177-182.
Ben-Arye, E., Shapira, C., Keshet, Y., Hogerat I., & Karkabi K. (2009). Attitudes of Arab-Muslims towards integration of complementary medicine in primary-care clinics in Israel: The Bedouin Mystery. Ethnicity and Health, 14(4), 379 – 391.
Ben-Arye, E., Keshet, Y., Shapira, C., Karkabi, S., Karkabi, K., & Frenkel, M. (2009). A cross-cultural perspective of women as leaders of complementary medicine integration in primary care. Gender Medicine, 6(2), 384-397.
Keshet, Y. (2008). Knowledge construction about alternative medicine: Consequences of the ability of shared medical decision-making and informed consent. Social Issues in Israel, 5, 153-184. (Hebrew).
Persman, E. Aviram, H. Zer, Y. & Keshet, Y. (1987). Winter Asparagus harvesting and geothermic water. Hassadeh, 67(12), 2494-2495. (Hebrew).
Persman, E. & Keshet, Y. (1986). Arava growing asparagus cover plastic sheets useful for early yield and quality. Hassadeh, 66(10), 2040-2042. (Hebrew).
Reviews of books and articles in periodicals
Keshet, Y. (2005). Book review: Judith Fadlon: Negotiating the holistic turn: The domestication of alternative medicine. State University of New York Press. Israeli Sociology, 8(1), 191-193. (Hebrew).
Keshet, Y. (2012). Lack of Policy Regarding Complementary, Alternative and integrative Medicine. Comments on the article: Complementary and alternative health care in Israel. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 12(1), 7.
Books (as author)
Keshet, Y. (2010). Complementary Medicine and Reenchantment of the World. Tel Aviv: Resling. (Hebrew).
Articles and Chapters in Books
קשת, יעל (2010). רפואה משלימה והשבת הקסם לעולם. תל אביב, רסלינג.
Keshet, Y., & Ben-Arye, E. (2012). Patients’ Views: Cultural and Healthcare pluralism in Northern Israel. In: Shuval, T. J., & Averbuch, E. (eds.), Alternative and bio-medicine in Israel: Boundaries and bridges (pp. 199-218). Boston: Academic Studies Press.
Keshet, Y. (2012). Complementary and alternative medical information on Israeli medical institutions' web sites 2009: the desirable vs. the available. In: Ithamar, T., & Emanuel, T. (eds.), Medical Ethics in Israel. Tel Aviv: The Israeli Medical Association. (A Collection of Articles, republished, Hebrew).
Keshet, Y. (2006). Alternative and complementary medicine: Does it work? In: Tavori, I. (ed.), Dancing in a Thorn Field: The New Age in Israel (pp. 60-88). Tel- Aviv: Hakibutz Hamehuhad. (Hebrew).
Other publications
Keshet, Y. & Ben Arye, E. (2011). Which complementary and alternative medicine modalities are integrated within Israeli healthcare organizations and do they match the public's preferences? Harefuah, 150(8), 635-638. (Hebrew).
Keshet, Y. (2010). Complementary and alternative medical information on Israeli medical institutions' web sites 2009: the desirable vs. the available. Harefuah, 149(12), 758-762. (Hebrew).
Keshet, Y. (2006). From medical research to health policy: The case of complementary and alternative medicine. Harefuah, 145(6), 441-445, 469. (Hebrew).
Non-refereed publications
Keshet, Y. (2012). Lack of policy regarding complementary, alternative and integrative medicine. Comments on the article: Complementary and alternative health care in Israel. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 1(7).
Keshet, Y. (2009). Integrative physicians: "We need to be the bridge." Complementary Integrative Medicine, 38. (Hebrew).
Keshet, Y., Pressman, E., & Aviram, H., (1985/6). Effect of plastic tunnels cover on asparagus yield (Arava). Summary leafy crops experiment, Ministry of Agriculture, 76 pages. http://www.library.moag.gov.il/titleDetails.asp?id=1427340.
Keshet, Y., Pressman, E., & Aviram, H., (1985/6). Examination of asparagus varieties for early spring. Summary: leafy crops experiment, Ministry of Agriculture. 82 pages. http://www.library.moag.gov.il/titleDetails.asp?id=1427741.
Yaffe, O., Keshet, Y., Pressman, E., & Aviram, H. (1985/6). Treatment effect of crop irrigation on the summer and autumn asparagus yield (Arava). Summary: leafy crops experiment, Ministry of Agriculture, 81 pages. http://www.library.moag.gov.il/titleDetails.asp?id=1427642.
Yaffe, O., Keshet, Y., & Aviram, H. (1985/6). Asparagus harvest and mowing mow September October (Ein Yahav). Summary leafy crops experiment, Ministry of Agriculture. 80 pages. http://www.library.moag.gov.il/titleDetails.asp?id=1427543.
Aviram, H., Pressman, E., & Keshet, Y. (1985/6). Effect of hot geothermal water and land cover with plastic tunnels on asparagus crop (Faran). Summary leafy crops experiment, Ministry of Agriculture. 82 pages. http://www.library.moag.gov.il/titleDetails.asp?id=14274
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