Search Results - "ADAMS, Vincanne"

Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality by Adams, Vincanne, Murphy, Michelle, Clarke, Adele E

“…One defining quality of our current moment is its characteristic state of anticipation, of thinking and living toward the future. Anticipation has epistemic…”
Get full text

What is critical global health? by Adams, Vincanne

Get full text

The work of evidence in critical global health by Adams, Vincanne, Biehl, João

“…This special section critically examines the paradigms and values that undergird the ever-expanding field of global health. The richly textured ethnographic…”
Get full text

Against health: how health became the new morality by Metzl, Jonathan, Kirkland, Anna Rutherford

“…You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,"Smoking is bad for your health," when what you mean is, "You are a bad person because you smoke." You encounter…”
Get full text

The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Clinical Trials Research: Case Report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China by ADAMS, VINCANNE, MILLER, SUELLEN, CRAIG, SIENNA, NYIMA, SONAM, DROYOUNG, LHAKPEN, VARNER, MICHAEL

“…Efforts to conduct Western clinical research in non-Western medical settings with little or no familiarity with such methodologies are on the rise, but…”
Get full text

Medical Anthropology in the Time of COVID‐19 by Adams, Vincanne, Nading, Alex

“…In different ways and for different reasons, a sense that the COVID‐19 pandemic has changed everything has come to dominate public, personal, and intellectual…”
Get full text

Patient-Led Approaches to a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Delivery Calculator by Rubashkin, Nicholas, Asiodu, Ifeyinwa, Vedam, Saraswathi, Sufrin, Carolyn, Adams, Vincanne

“…To describe patient approaches to navigating their probability of a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) within the context of prediction scores generated from…”
Get full text

Climate disasters and global social medicine by Adams, Vincanne, Garcia, Saudi, Jones, David S

“…Structural racism and segregated development in the USA have disproportionately exposed Black, Latinx, and Indigenous populations to flood-prone…”
Get full text

Slow Research: Thoughts for a Movement in Global Health by Adams, Vincanne, Burke, Nancy J., Whitmarsh, Ian

Get full text

Re-imagining global health through social medicine by Adams, Vincanne, Behague, Dominique, Caduff, Carlo, Löwy, Ilana, Ortega, Francisco

“…The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the…”
Get full text

TIBET ON FIRE: Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global “N of 1” by Vincanne Adams

“…During the summer of 2012, the policemen walking in the cities of Tibet began to carry fire extinguishers in case they encountered Tibetans who had set…”
Get full text

Introduction by Adams, Vincanne

“…This collection of essays brings to light important themes in medical anthropology that have been eclipsed in recent years by theoretical turns toward problems…”
Get full text

The Pharmaceutical Assemblage: Rethinking Sowa Rigpa and the Herbal Pharmaceutical Industry in Asia by Kloos, Stephan, Adams, Vincanne, Craig, Sienna R., Hsu, Elisabeth, Kuo, Wen-Hua, Saxer, Martin, Zhan, Mei

“…Cutting-edge anthropological research on pharmaceuticals aims to trace the connections that link our health and subjectivity, via the drugs we ingest, to…”
Get full text

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. P. WenzelGeissler and CatherineMolyneux, eds. New York: Berghahn Books2011; 498 pp by Adams, Vincanne

Get full text

Randomized Controlled Crime: Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research by Adams, Vincanne

“…The ambiguous terrain of ‘fact-making’ in biomedical clinical research is explored by way of an investigation of the criminalization of Tibetan medicine and…”
Get full text

A pandemic of metrics by Adams, Vincanne, Chandler, Clare, Kelly, Ann H., Livingston, Julie

“…The COVID‐19 pandemic prompted critical attention to the performative power of metrics. We suggest that the existential capacities of metrics as a means of…”
Get full text

Revitalising global social medicine by Pentecost, Michelle, Adams, Vincanne, Baru, Rama, Caduff, Carlo, Greene, Jeremy A, Hansen, Helena, Jones, David S, Kitanaka, Junko, Ortega, Francisco

“…Social medicine in Asia developed through different traditions that emerged from varying political orientations, ranging from China's social medicine as state…”
Get full text

“ There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons”: A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian immigrants in the United States by Puri, Sunita, Adams, Vincanne, Ivey, Susan, Nachtigall, Robert D.

“…In response to concerns from feminists, demographers, bioethicists, journalists, and health care professionals, the Indian government passed legislation in…”
Get full text

Chronic disaster syndrome: Displacement, disaster capitalism, and the eviction of the poor from New Orleans by ADAMS, VINCANNE, VAN HATTUM, TASLIM, ENGLISH, DIANA

“…Many New Orleans residents who were displaced in 2005 by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the subsequent levee failures and floods are still displaced. Living…”
Get full text

It Takes More than a Village: Building a Network of Safety in Nepal’s Mountain Communities by Adams, Vincanne, Craig, Sienna, Samen, Arlene, Bhatta, Surya

“…Purpose This report from the field details the ways that one small maternal child health NGO, which began its work in Tibet and now works in the mountain…”
Get full text