Elisa Sobo

Biographic Data

ID238667
NAMEElisa Sobo
GIVEN NAMESElisa
FAMILY NAMESobo
SIGNATURESOBO E
AFFILIATIONSCenter for Child Health Outcomes, Children’s Hospital San Diego
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Could ChatGPT Prompt a New Golden Age in Higher Education

    Open AccessE J Sobo, Elisa SoboARTICLETeaching and Learning Anthropology2023

    The public rollout of ChatGPT, a free app that produces uncannily refined responses to users’ questions or prompts, initially had many education professionals up in arms due largely to fears over student cheating. Panic levels receded as a new realization surfaced: rather than simply banning the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI or AI) for assignments, we can and should adapt to chatbot-related challenges, reframing them as opportu…

  • Chronic Conditions, Fluid States

    Marcia Claire Inhorn, Marcia Inhorn et al.BOOKChronic Conditions, Fluid States2019

    Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and …

  • Anthropological Contributions and Challenges to the Study of Children and Childhoods

    E J Sobo, Elisa SoboARTICLEReviews in Anthropology2015Cited by: 3References: 19

    This essay considers the anthropology of childhood's recent growth. It summarizes the sub-field's extensive if often unacknowledged past, reviews its late 20th-century bourgeoning, and then highlights three influential teaching texts, each of which argues for a more considered, culturally informed understanding of children and childhood while performing the vital service of bringing together heretofore scattered ideas and data. To ensure the fiel…

  • Society for Medical Anthropology

    Open AccessNancy Vuckovic, J S Taylor et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • Society for Medical Anthropology

    Open AccessE J Sobo, Elisa Sobo et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2004

  • A Model Protocol for Applying Anthropology in Rapid Health Services Evaluations

    Elisa SoboARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2003

    In 1998, California launched Healthy Families/Medi-Cal for Children (HF/MCC). HF/MCC provides low- and no-cost insurance to low-income children. Six million dollars was budgeted for culturally appropriate outreach and enrollment activities and 72 community-based organizations (CBOs) were contracted to carry these out. The contracts were performance based and required measurable outcomes, such as successful enrollments, to increase local public aw…

  • Society for Medical Anthropology

    Open AccessE J Sobo, Elisa SoboARTICLEAnthropology News2003

  • The Endangered Self

    Gill Green, E J Sobo et al.BOOKEndangered Self2002

    To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive status affects the individual's sense of identity, on the experience of living with HIV and its effects on the individual's social relationships. …

  • Society for Medical Anthropology

    Open AccessAnn Miles, Fred Bloom et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2001

  • The Endangered Self

    Elisa Sobo, E J Sobo et al.BOOKEndangered Self2000

    To date, the majority of HIV/AIDS research has concentrated on education and prevention for those with a seronegative status, while studies of HIV positive individuals have been concerned with their potential to infect others. The Endangered Self however, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV positive status affects the individual's sense of identity, on the experience of living with HIV and its effects on the individual's social relationships. …

  • Doubting the Experts

    E J Sobo, Elisa Sobo et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization1997

    Many homeless and runaway adolescents may be at a high risk for HIV infection. Ideas about the severity of AIDS, possible modes of transmission, and the integrity of those who provide information about HIV/AIDS come into play as youths make safer sex decisions. Information on youths' ideas about these issues can be used to improve the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS education programs that target them. We interviewed 98 adolescents at two youth shelter…