Carolyn Sargent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Sargent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Sargent |
| SIGNATURE | SARGENT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 339 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Only God knows the hour of your death
Palliative care often positions itself as an alternative to the hubris of curative medicine, claiming to centre the patient rather than the physician's authoritative knowledge. This article examines that claim through the lens of ‘epistemological modesty’ and the long‐debated question of ‘medical truth telling’, drawing on fieldwork with Parisian oncologists treating West African women with breast cancer and with palliative care practitioners in …
Reproduction
Anthropologists have definitively documented the ways in which reproduction is both biological (the production of human beings and the species‐wide physiological processes involved) and socially constituted. While early ethnographic inquiry on reproduction was primarily descriptive, numerous scholars have argued powerfully that the study of reproductive meanings and practices is central to theory in anthropology. Such research demonstrates how re…
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Austerity and its implications for immigrant health in France
Blending Western Biomedicine with Local Healing Practices
Western allopathic physicians working internationally might encounter allopathic colleagues who endorse local healing practices that are not scientifically supported and, hence, might pose harm to patients. Respect for the autonomy of local physicians and patients thus can conflict with the ethical principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence. In such a situation, it is advisable for Western allopathic physicians to communicate their concerns to …
Improvising Medicine. Julie Livingston, Durham
Medical Anthropology QuarterlyVolume 30, Issue 4 BOOK REVIEW Improvising Medicine. Julie Livingston, Durham: Duke University Press, 2012, 228 pp. Carolyn Sargent, Carolyn Sargent Washington University St LouisSearch for more papers by this author Carolyn Sargent, Carolyn Sargent Washington University St LouisSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 June 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12310AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport …
Disease, Risk, and Contagion
Special Issue Part I
Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity
Transnational Migration and Global Health
Globalization, including the global flows of people, is clearly linked to disease transmission and vulnerability to health risks among immigrant populations. Anthropological research on transnational migration and health documents the implications of population movements for health and well-being. Studies of immigrant health reveal the importance of the social, political, and economic production of distress and disease as well as the structures a…
Morgan Clarke, Islam and new kinship
La voix de l’anthropologie médicale se fait entendre
American Anthropological Association, à San Francisco (Californie), en novembre 2008.Le texte a ensuite été publié dans Medical Anthropology Quaterly en 2009 1 .Elle nous a fait l'amitié de nous autoriser à le traduire et à le publier dans le Bulletin Amades.1 Les États-Unis traversent une période qui rend possible une transformation, du fait d'un effondrement des institutions sociales de base, avec un nouveau président élu justement pour remettr…
The Construction of “Cultural Difference” and Its Therapeutic Significance in Immigrant Mental Health Services in France
President, Society for Medical Anthropology Speaking to the National Health Crisis
The Muslim Body and the Politics of Immigration in France
Popular and professional representations of the body profoundly shape maternity care for migrant Muslim women from the Senegal River Valley in West Africa now residing in Paris France. In this article we suggest that the body has become the site of inscription for the politics of discrimination prevalent in France and heavily focused on Muslim immigrant populations. Muslim populations in France are represented mainly by North and sub-Saharan Afri…
Migração e telecomunicações
Através da comparação de conexões e interações entre França e África Ocidental e do uso das telecomunicações por imigrantes chegando à França em períodos diversos entre 1965 e 2005, este artigo demonstra a relevância dessas tecnologias de comunicação na (re)definição da distância social e na facilitação do envolvimento continuado de migrantes na tomada de decisões familiares nas suas comunidades de origem
Liminal Lives
Strategies of state surveillance shape the construction of migrant identities in France. Focusing on migrants from the Senegal River Valley in West Africa, the authors suggest that ideological and institutional constraints concerning legal status and family reunification create a shifting world of unstable identities for these migrants. The fall 2005 riots across France have been widely cited as an illustration of the failure of the French model …
Migration, Identity, and Citizenship
Reproductive Strategies and Islamic Discourse
Approximately 37 thousand Malians currently reside in France as part of the West African diaspora. Primarily Muslim, both women and men confront challenges to their understandings of Islamic prohibitions and expectations, especially those addressing conjugal relations and reproduction. Biomedical policies generate marital conflicts and pose health dilemmas for women who face family and community pressures to reproduce but biomedical encouragement…
Introduction to Medical Anthropology in the Muslim World
Counseling Contraception for Malian Migrants in Paris
Malian migrants in Paris ?gure prominently in French public discourse surrounding immigration, the role of the state in regulating population, and the perceived burden of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa on public health and social welfare systems. Political and biomedical critiques of Malian and other African women have linked high fertility to housing shortages, polygamy, and high unemployment. This research explores how French government polic…
Globalization Raises New Questions about the Politics of Reproduction
Migrations et nouvelles technologies
Le développement des nouvelles technologies et notamment de la téléphonie mobile a modifié le lien que les migrants entretiennent avec leur famille restée au pays. Chacun, ici ou là-bas, se réjouit d'être en contact rapide et direct avec les parents et de pouvoir régler plus rapidement certains problèmes et conflits. Mais la communication moderne accroît aussi les responsabilités et les possibilités de pressions familiales. Enquête à Paris, chez …
Polygamy, disrupted reproduction, and the state
Managing Reproductive Life
Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality. Soraya Tremayne. ed. New York: Berghahn Books. 2001. vii. 286 pp., figures, bibliography, index
Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist. No Hiding Place
Transnational Migration and Global Health
Globalization, including the global flows of people, is clearly linked to disease transmission and vulnerability to health risks among immigrant populations. Anthropological research on transnational migration and health documents the implications of population movements for health and well-being. Studies of immigrant health reveal the importance of the social, political, and economic production of distress and disease as well as the structures a…
Special Issue Part I
Childbirth Education and Childbirth Models
Childbirth education classes represent a formal means of information transmission to prospective parents regarding the birth process. Assessment of the impact of medical messages communicated in two sets of childbirth classes suggests that the structure and orientation of the class affected the particular messages conveyed. Hospital-based classes familiarized prospective patients with hospital procedures, while private classes encouraged self-adv…
Reproductive Strategies and Islamic Discourse
Approximately 37 thousand Malians currently reside in France as part of the West African diaspora. Primarily Muslim, both women and men confront challenges to their understandings of Islamic prohibitions and expectations, especially those addressing conjugal relations and reproduction. Biomedical policies generate marital conflicts and pose health dilemmas for women who face family and community pressures to reproduce but biomedical encouragement…
Ways of Knowing about Birth in Three Cultures
This article examines the concept of authoritative knowledge elaborated by Brigitte Jordan, using examples of birthing systems in Mexico, Texas, and Jamaica. We explore the linkages between the distribution of knowledge about birth and the use of technology; the valuation of biomedical and alternative "ways of knowing" about birth; the production of authoritative knowledge through interaction; and the relationship between authoritative knowledge …
From clay to metal
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice
1: Introduction.- 1.1. The Study.- 1.2. The Setting.- 1.3. Methodology.- 1.4. Theoretical Perspectives on Health Care Decisions.- 2: The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice.- 2.1. Bariba Conceptions of the Order of the Universe.- 2.2. Diagnosis and Treatment.- 2.3. Divination.- 2.4. The Use of Substances.- 2.5. Medicines.- 3: Beliefs and Practices Surrounding Reproductive Processes.- 3.1. Menstruation and Clitoridectomy.- 3.2. Conception.- 3.3…
Gender ideology, childrearing, and child health in Jamaica
The societies of the Caribbean region have been characterized by female-headed households, kinship networks linked by women, and the presence of women in the labor force. The position of women in Jamaica as economic providers and mothers carries implications for the treatment of male and female children. An examination of mothers' expressed gender preferences, anthropometric assessments of children, gender preferences in adoption, and data on chi…
Caribbean transformations
Born to Die
Anthropological inquiry regarding witchcraft and sorcery has predominantly emphasized the articulation between concepts of misfortune and social structure (cf. Evans-Pritchard 1937; Turner 1957; Marwick 1965; Simmons 1971). Increasingly, evidence of rapid urbanization in the Third World has provoked students of indigenous cosmology to address the implications of such features of the urban environment as ethnic heterogeneity and new social and pol…
Surgical birth
The Muslim Body and the Politics of Immigration in France
Popular and professional representations of the body profoundly shape maternity care for migrant Muslim women from the Senegal River Valley in West Africa now residing in Paris France. In this article we suggest that the body has become the site of inscription for the politics of discrimination prevalent in France and heavily focused on Muslim immigrant populations. Muslim populations in France are represented mainly by North and sub-Saharan Afri…
Factors Influencing Prenatal Care among Low-income Jamaican Women
Government health policy in Jamaica encourages prenatal care from the first trimester of pregnancy; however, low-income women continue to obtain prenatal care late in pregnancy, if at all. This research analyzed prevailing patterns of prenatal care in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica. Women attending prenatal clinics and postpartum patients at the primary maternity hospital in Kingston, as well as pregnant women in two low-income neighborhoods in…
Between death and shame
Liminal Lives
Strategies of state surveillance shape the construction of migrant identities in France. Focusing on migrants from the Senegal River Valley in West Africa, the authors suggest that ideological and institutional constraints concerning legal status and family reunification create a shifting world of unstable identities for these migrants. The fall 2005 riots across France have been widely cited as an illustration of the failure of the French model …
Managing Reproductive Life
Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality. Soraya Tremayne. ed. New York: Berghahn Books. 2001. vii. 286 pp., figures, bibliography, index
President, Society for Medical Anthropology Speaking to the National Health Crisis
Migration, Identity, and Citizenship
Aspects of Khmer Medicine Among Refugees in Urban America
Part 5
Introduction to Medical Anthropology in the Muslim World
Transformations in maternity services in Jamaica
Obstetrical choice among urban women in Benin
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge
Midwifery
Letter/Appointment of Prof. E. Mphahlele
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Parallel medical systems
Books/Livres
Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa
Choosing Among Parallel Health Care Systems in a Bariba Community
It is increasingly common in developing countries to find the proliferation of parallel health care systems in which cosmopolitan and indigenous health services co-exist. The basis of people's decisions to select from among these health care options is not, however, thoroughly understood. In this paper, based on research conducted in the People's Republic of Benin in 1976-77, I intend to consider one dimension of health service utilization - name…
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice
The implications of role expectations for birth assistance among Bariba women
Books/Livres
Causality and Classification in African Medicine and Health. (Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine , Vol. 15B, No. 3, 1981.) John M. Janzen and Gwyn Prins
Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist. No Hiding Place
Part 5
Between death and shame
The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice
1: Introduction.- 1.1. The Study.- 1.2. The Setting.- 1.3. Methodology.- 1.4. Theoretical Perspectives on Health Care Decisions.- 2: The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice.- 2.1. Bariba Conceptions of the Order of the Universe.- 2.2. Diagnosis and Treatment.- 2.3. Divination.- 2.4. The Use of Substances.- 2.5. Medicines.- 3: Beliefs and Practices Surrounding Reproductive Processes.- 3.1. Menstruation and Clitoridectomy.- 3.2. Conception.- 3.3…
Aspects of Khmer Medicine Among Refugees in Urban America
Ethnography and policy
MacCormack, Carol, ed. Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. New York: Academic Press, 1982. x + 293 pp. including illustrations, notes, references, index. $35.00 cloth. Mangay‐Maglacas, A., and H. Pizurki, eds. The Traditional Birth Attendant in Seven Countries: Case Studies in Utilization and Training. Geneva: World Health Organization Public Health Papers 75, 1981. 211 pp. including appendices, references. Sw. fr. 15.00
Obstetrical choice among urban women in Benin
Disease Change and the Role of Medicine
Women's Medicine
From clay to metal
Yoruba Medicine . Anthony D. Buckley
Surgical birth
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Born to Die
Anthropological inquiry regarding witchcraft and sorcery has predominantly emphasized the articulation between concepts of misfortune and social structure (cf. Evans-Pritchard 1937; Turner 1957; Marwick 1965; Simmons 1971). Increasingly, evidence of rapid urbanization in the Third World has provoked students of indigenous cosmology to address the implications of such features of the urban environment as ethnic heterogeneity and new social and pol…
Childbirth Education and Childbirth Models
Childbirth education classes represent a formal means of information transmission to prospective parents regarding the birth process. Assessment of the impact of medical messages communicated in two sets of childbirth classes suggests that the structure and orientation of the class affected the particular messages conveyed. Hospital-based classes familiarized prospective patients with hospital procedures, while private classes encouraged self-adv…
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