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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 523–550.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Side of Chicago, the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) has attempted to stem the tide of un- and underinsured patients draining the hospital’s resources through a rhetoric of community and population health that could be rendered as a form both of research and of service. To do this, the UCMC...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 May 2018
... .” In Historical Perspectives on the Role of the MRC: Essays on the History of the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom , edited by Austoker Joan Bryder Linda , 163 – 80 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Malherbe Stephanus T. . 2016 . “ Persisting Positron Emission Tomography...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 475–497.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to be consolidated and dismantled. 2016 antibiotics ethics evidence history of medical research temporality tuberculosis August 1890: nearly six thousand physicians descended on the city of Berlin for the Tenth International Medical Congress, eager to hear about the latest advancements in medicine...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 467–486.
Published: 01 September 2005
... conditions and how the grounds for defining diabetes as a disease in the Western medical tradition have shifted over time. Claude Bernard, a pioneer in biomedical research, seized upon diabetes mel- litus in the mid–nineteenth century as the cardinal example of the relationship between normal...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
...; Ilana Löwy, Between Bench and Bedside: Science, Healing, and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996); Helen Valier and Carsten Timmermans, “Clinical Trials and the Reorganization of Medical Research in Post–Second World War Britain,” Medical History 52...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 311–331.
Published: 01 May 2017
... under the rubric of “medical anthropology,” in part because of what it was associated with at the time, which was the idea that “ethnomedicine” was an appropriate object of study, but biomedicine was not ( Lock 2013a) . Could you tell me a little about that context and then how your research on medical...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 277–282.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to be delimited within a history of biomedical research. My goal, both in that essay and in the larger project in which it participates, is to trace the ways in which various ideas of cure come into conflict, broker affinities, solidify, lie dormant, fade away, and, on occasion, reawaken (see Venkat 2016a...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 319–330.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in June 2015. He shared that, unintentionally, his research data had come to tell a narrative that denied the residents’ and evacuees’ subjective experiences of anxiety and fear of living with radiation—a story that normalized the TEPCO accident. Speaking strictly in terms of his professional medical...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 453–477.
Published: 01 September 2004
... sociales, and the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). He is also a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Baudelaire, Charles. 1968 . Œuvres complètes , edited by Y.-G. Le Dantec and Claude Pichois. Paris: Gallimard...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 367–390.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of disabled bodies in history, disability studies set out to diagnose the investments of an ableist society in disability’s various incarnations. Cultural efforts to medicalize or domesticate disability effectively repressed the power of aberrancy to unmoor notions...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 27–51.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Starting Researcher Grant, project number 283679). 1 For a cultural reading of medical imaging techniques, see Van Dijck 2005 . References Ajana Btihaj . 2013 . Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan . Alderson...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 463–475.
Published: 01 September 2013
... in the very name “translational research,” which is translation. The theorization of translation in science and technology studies (STS) has been relatively limited compared to the long history of concerns with the term in linguistics and literary studies. The most prominent and elaborate deployment...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 419–425.
Published: 01 September 2015
... vaccination compulsory. The American antivaccination movement comprised irregular medical practitioners such as homeopaths, chiropractors, and hydrotherapists; Christian scientists; people whose family members had suffered grave injury from accidents of vaccination; antivivisectionists; sellers of patent...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 533–556.
Published: 01 September 2001
... for Media, Culture, and History at New York University, where she is also David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology. She is the author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (2d ed., 1998). Rapp and Ginsburg coedited Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 231–254.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... There are moments in history when drowning, smoking, asthma, choking, polio, hanging, and other forms of curbed respiration gained currency as a medical research area in ways that served others (Jain 2023 ). And so the threat of poison gas in warfare heightened concerns about suffocation in the twentieth century...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 379–391.
Published: 01 September 2023
... . Gil-Riaño Sebastián , and Tracy Sarah E. 2016 . “ Developing Constipation: Dietary Fiber, Western Disease, and Industrial Carbohydrates .” Global Food History 2 , no. 2 : 179 – 209 . Greenhough Beth et al. 2020 . “ Setting the Agenda for Social Science Research...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 155–162.
Published: 01 January 1992
... the film “Taxi Driver”; on the other hand, The New Yurk Times last year reported that an open copy of the Bible was found beside the corpses at the Scene of a murder/suicide. Never before in American history has our government tried to suppress art or litera- ture because of their possible...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 157–184.
Published: 01 January 2012
... Ini- tiative (DNDi), established in Geneva, 2003; and a looser consortium of research- ers led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000. They emerged out of a longer, contested history surrounding the definition...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 349–369.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jenna Grant Abstract This article is an ethnography of color and black‐and‐white in medical images of a particular kind—prenatal ultrasound—in a particular place—Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is also a meditation on histories and theorizations of color. It moves from the discourse and practice...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 267–292.
Published: 01 May 2001
... : 1201 -18. Foucault, Michel. 1975 . The birth of the clinic; an archaeology of medical perception , translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Vintage Books. French, Howard W. 1996 . Migrant workers take AIDS risk home to Niger. New York Times , 8 February, 43 . Gado, Boureima...