Dr Alan O'Rourke Publications

Publication List

Book Chapters

O'Rourke A
Handbook of Health Research Methods: investigation, measurement and analysis
Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/ Open University Press
(2005) Chapter 4: Critical appraisal (p 62-84) in Bowling A and Ebrahim S (Eds)

Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed:

Fox NJ, Ward KJ, O'Rourke AJ
'Expert Patients', Pharmaceuticals and the Medical Model of Disease: The Case of Weight Loss Drugs and the Internet'
Social Science & Medicine
(2005)16(6): 1299-1309

Fox N, Ward K, O'Rourke A
The birth of the e-clinic. Continuity or transformation in the UK governance of pharmaceutical consumption?
Social Science & Medicine
(2005)61(7): 1474-1484

Fox N,, Ward K, O'Rourke A
Pro-anorexia, weight loss drugs and the internet: an 'anti-recovery'explanatory model of anorexia
Sociology of Health and Illness
(2005) 27 (7): 944-71

Journal Articles - non-peer reviewed

Sutton A, Booth A, Ayiku L, O'Rourke A
e-FOLIO: using e-learning to learn about e-learning.
Health Information Libraries Journal
(2005) Dec 22 Suppl 2:84-8.

Railway History

O'Rourke A
The Wreck of the "Darkie"
Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society
(2007) 23:101-4

O'Rourke A
The Great Southern & Western Railway at the turn of the century
Five Foot Three (Journal of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland)
(2008-10) part 1 no. 55: 36-43; part 2 no. 56: 30-6; part 3 in press