Dr Rebecca Dimond

Articles

• Dimond, R., Stephens, N. and Herbrand, C. 2023. Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the 'idealised policy patient'. Social Science & Medicine 338, article number: 116333. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116333)
• Dimond, R. and Stephens, N. 2023. Science and democracy on stage at the Science and Technology Select Committee. BioSocieties (10.1057/s41292-022-00289-1)
• Dimond, R., Lewis, J. and Sumner, A. 2023. The unexpected and unanticipated announcement of the ‘world’s first’ gene edited babies: breaching, repairing and strengthening community boundaries. New Genetics and Society 42(1), article number: e2155124. (10.1080/14636778.2022.2155124)
• Dimond, R., Doheny, S. and Clarke, A. 2022. Genetic testing and family entanglements. Social Science & Medicine 298, article number: 114857. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114857)
• Dimond, R. 2022. On ‘being there’: A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman. Communication & Medicine 17(2), pp. 173-176. (10.1558/cam.19753)
• Dimond, R., Lewis, J. and Thomas, G. 2021. Editorial: Themed issue: Understanding the technical and social landscape of gene editing. New Genetics and Society 40(4), pp. 361-366. (10.1080/14636778.2021.2004032)
• Courbier, S., Dimond, R. and Bros-Facer, V. 2019. Share and protect our health data: an evidence based approach to rare disease patients’ perspectives on data sharing and data protection - Quantitative survey and recommendations. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 14, article number: 175. (10.1186/s13023-019-1123-4)
• Dimond, R., Machin, L. and Frith, L. 2019. Editorial: Towards a sociology of donation. Sociology of Health and Illness 41(3), pp. 549-552. (10.1111/1467-9566.12840)
• González Santos, S. P., Stephens, N. and Dimond, R. 2018. Narrating the first "three-parent baby": The initial press reactions from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico. Science Communication 40(4), pp. 419-441. (10.1177/1075547018772312)
• Pond, E. and Dimond, R. 2018. Reproductive decision making: interviews with mothers of children with undiagnosed developmental delay. Journal of Community Genetics 9(3), pp. 315-325. (10.1007/s12687-017-0354-0)
• Docherty, F. and Dimond, R. 2018. 'Yeah that made a big difference!': The importance of the relationship between health professionals and fathers who have a child with Down Syndrome. Journal of Genetic Counseling 27(3), pp. 665-674. (10.1007/s10897-017-0171-y)
• Dimond, R. and Stephens, N. 2018. Three persons, three genetic contributors, three parents: Mitochondrial donation, genetic parenting and the immutable grammar of the 'three x x'. Health 22(3), pp. 240-258. (10.1177/1363459316689380)
• Herbrand, C. and Dimond, R. 2018. Mitochondrial donation, patient engagement and narratives of hope. Sociology of Health and Illness 40(4), pp. 623-638. (10.1111/1467-9566.12631)
• Dimond, R. and Krajewska, A. 2017. Comment on mitochondrial replacement techniques and the birth of the 'first'. Journal of Law and the Biosciences 4(3), pp. 599-604. (10.1093/jlb/lsx021)
• Dimond, R. and Lewis, J. T. 2017. Paul Atkinson Festschrift: editorial. Qualitative Research 17(2), pp. 139-142. (10.1177/1468794116688414)
• Webb, K. L., Bullock, A. D., Dimond, R. and Stacey, M. 2016. Can a mobile app improve the quality of patient care provided by trainee doctors? Analysis of trainees case reports. BMJ Open 6, article number: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013075. (10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013075)
• Dimond, R., Bullock, A. D., Lovatt, J. and Stacey, M. R. W. 2016. Mobile learning devices in the workplace: 'as much a part of the junior doctors' kit as a stethoscope'?. BMC Medical Education 16, article number: 207. (10.1186/s12909-016-0732-z)
• Stephens, N. J. and Dimond, R. 2016. Debating CRISPR/cas9 and mitochondrial donation: continuity and transition performances at scientific conferences. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2, pp. 312-321., article number: http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2016.080. (10.17351/ests2016.080)
• Stephens, N. J. and Dimond, R. 2015. Unexpected tissue and the biobank that closed: an exploration of value and the momentariness of bio-objectification processes. Life Sciences, Society and Policy 11, article number: 14. (10.1186/s40504-015-0032-0)
• Stephens, N. and Dimond, R. 2015. Closure of a human tissue biobank: individual, institutional, and field expectations during cycles of promise and disappointment. New Genetics and Society 34(4), pp. 417-436. (10.1080/14636778.2015.1107469)
• Dimond, R. 2015. Social and ethical issues in mitochondrial donation. British Medical Bulletin 115(1), pp. 173-182. (10.1093/bmb/ldv037)
• Dimond, R. 2015. Techniques of donation: ‘three parents’, anonymity and disclosure. Journal of Medical Law and Ethics 3(3), pp. 165-173. (10.7590/221354015X14488767262831)
• Bullock, A. D., Dimond, R., Webb, K. L., Lovatt, J., Hardyman, W. and Stacey, M. R. W. 2015. How a mobile app supports the learning and practice of newly qualified doctors in the UK: an intervention study. BMC Medical Education 15(1), article number: 71. (10.1186/s12909-015-0356-8)
• González-Santos, S. and Dimond, R. 2015. Medical and scientific conferences as sites of sociological interest: A review of the field. Sociology Compass 9(3), pp. 235-245. (10.1111/soc4.12250)
• Dimond, R., Bartlett, A. and Lewis, J. 2015. What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent-led conference. Social Science and Medicine 126, pp. 1-8. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.12.005)
• Dimond, R. 2014. Parent-led conferences as sites of medical work. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 18(6), pp. 631-645. (10.1177/1363459314524806)
• Dimond, R. 2014. Negotiating identity at the intersection of paediatric and genetic medicine: the parent as facilitator, narrator and patient. Sociology of Health and Illness 36(1), pp. 1-14. (10.1111/1467-9566.12035)
• Dimond, R. 2014. Negotiating blame and responsibility in the context of a 'de novo' mutation. New Genetics and Society 33(2), pp. 149-166. (10.1080/14636778.2014.910450)
• Banks, T. and Dimond, R. 2013. Nettleton, Sarah: The Sociology of Health and Illness 3rd. ed [Book Review]. Medical Sociology Online 7(2), pp. 78-79.
• Dimond, R. 2013. Patient and family trajectories of mitochondrial disease: diversity, uncertainty and genetic risk. Life Sciences, Society and Policy 9(1), article number: 2. (10.1186/2195-7819-9-2)
• Dimond, R. 2013. Telecare technologies and the transformation of healthcare [Book Review]. New Genetics and Society 32(1), pp. 97-99. (10.1080/14636778.2012.743275)
• Dimond, R. 2013. Managing the mutations. Britain in 2013 2013, pp. 90-91.
• Gregory, M., Boddington, P., Dimond, R., Atkinson, P., Clarke, A. and Collins, P. W. 2007. Communicating about haemophilia within the family: the importance of context and of experience. Haemophilia 13(2), pp. 189-198. (10.1111/j.1365-2516.2006.01417.x)

Books

• Dimond, R. and Stephens, N. 2018. Legalising mitochondrial donation: enacting ethical futures in UK biomedical politics. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot. (10.1007/978-3-319-74645-6)

Book sections

• Dimond, R. and Stephens, N. 2023. Legalising MRT in the United Kingdom. In: Bowman, D., Ludlow, K. and Johnston, W. G. eds. Reproduction Reborn: How Science, Ethics, and Law Shape Mitochondrial Replacement Therapies. Oxford University Press, pp. 87-119., (10.1093/oso/9780197616192.003.0005)
• Gonzalez-Santos, S. and Dimond, R. 2023. Science and technology studies. In: Reimagining Health Law: from Medical to Health and Social Care Law. Elgar Publishing
• Dingwall, R. et al. 2022. Environment. In: Monaghan, L. F. and Gabe, J. eds. Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, 3rd Edition. London: SAGE Publications
• Dimond, R., Strange, H. and Hughes, J. 2022. Geneticization. In: Monaghan, L. and Gabe, J. eds. Key Concepts in Medical Sociology. SAGE Key Concepts series Sage, pp. 247-253.
• Dimond, R. 2018. Ethics of mitochondrial gene replacement therapy. In: Hostic, S. ed. Clinical Ethics At the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies. Academic Press, pp. 31-53., (10.1016/B978-0-12-813764-2.00002-7)
• Dimond, R. 2018. Ethics of mitochondrial gene replacement therapy. In: Hostiuc, S. ed. Clinical Ethics at the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies. Academic, pp. 31-54.
• Dimond, R. and Hughes, J. 2013. Geneticization. In: Gabe, J. and Monaghan, L. eds. Key Concepts of Medical Sociology (2nd ed.). SAGE Key Concepts series London: SAGE Publications, pp. 136-140.

Conferences

• James, A., Kelly, D. and Dimond, R. 2023. Nurses in the Boardroom: Exploring the changing role of the Executive Nurse Director -Identifying priorities and actions for leadership strategies post pandemic: the CovLead study.. Presented at: RCN International Research Conference 2023, Manchester UK, 6-8 Sept 2023.

Monographs

• Dimond, R. 2014. Dimond views on consultation process. Cardiff University.
• Dimond, R. 2014. Dimond response to Department of Health mitochondria consultation. Project Report. Unpublished.
• Grant, A., Mannay, D., Alberti, G., Needs, J. and Dimond, R. 2009. Postgraduate café papers 2008-9. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

Websites

• Dimond, R. 2012. Preventing mitochondrial disease: What about the patients? [Comment]. [Online]. BioNews 678: BioNews. Available at: http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_196131.asp
• Dimond, R. 2012. Ethical issues in treating mitochondrial disease [Comment]. [Online]. ESRC Genomics Network: ESRC. Available at: http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/cesagen/news/