Susan L Erikson
Biographic Data
| ID | 77226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan L Erikson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan L |
| FAMILY NAME | Erikson |
| SIGNATURE | ERIKSON S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Covid‐Apps
When there is no vaccine for a disease, ‘Test, Trace, Treat/Isolate’ is the public health go‐to directive. During the COVID‐19 pandemic, mobile phone apps are designed to improve on this. But COVID‐apps have not been effective as a public health tool. Countries spend millions to develop them, yet they have been shown to have terrible return on investment. This commentary explores why COVID‐apps are generally championed and provides three brief ca…
Pandemics show us what government is for
Betting on Pandemic
Betting on a pandemic. In its worst light, that’s what the pandemic bond does. In its best light, the pandemic bond is an earnest effort to fill the gap between what countries promise to pay in aid
Faking global health
Globally, human health is improving. Aggregate world health data indicate enormous improvement over the last 100 years. Life expectancy, vaccination, and sanitation rates are higher. Rates of infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, child and maternal mortality are lower. These gains have all been accomplished during a time when governments orchestrated, or aspired to provide, albeit often imperfectly, the systemizations of health care. Now austerity and pr…
Global health futures
Since 2010, there has been a discernable expansion of global health financing forms using private equity, bonds, and 'facilities' to finance international development and humanitarian endeavors. I present the logics of the Pandemic Emergency Facility (PEF), a World Bank device that lashes together a bond, cash, and swaps to lie in reserve for an infectious disease outbreak. I explain how the PEF is emblematic of financial devices that have the po…
Cell Phones ≠ Self and Other Problems with Big Data Detection and Containment during Epidemics
Evidence from Sierra Leone reveals the significant limitations of big data in disease detection and containment efforts. Early in the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, media heralded HealthMap's ability to detect the outbreak from newsfeeds. Later, big data-specifically, call detail record data collected from millions of cell phones-was hyped as useful for stopping the disease by tracking contagious people. It did not work. In this article…
Worse than HIV’
This article shows the consequences of competing global health agendas within differential clinical and social worlds. Specifically, it examines how HIV's prominence in local clinical programming in Swaziland influences cervical cancer screening rates. Drawing on 2014 ethnographic research conducted in a semi-urban town in Swaziland, the interview and participant observation data show the relative scarcity of cervical cancer care and the conseque…
Volunteer Economies
Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health
Global health indicators and maternal health futures
Public health indicators generally operate in the world as credible, apolitical and authoritative. But indicators are less stable than they appear. Clinical critiques of Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) criteria have been forthcoming for decades. This article, though, takes up the measuring and calculation gradients of IUGR in the ultrasound machine itself, including the software algorithms that identify IUGR. One hospital where research wa…
Secrets from Whom
Clandestine financial dealings are at the core of new forms of philanthropic venture capitalism in global health. Worldwide, organizing principles of state-centric pastoral and clinical health care have given way to speculative, market-driven approaches to health. Because global finance is a normatively secretized social space, the increasing use of private financial instruments in health spaces previously publicly funded raises important questio…
Beyond Desperation
In the global food system, food is considered a disposable commodity and waste is produced at extraordinarily high levels. In a number of affluent nations, including Canada, “dumpster diving” for food has emerged as an approach to food provisioning. This article is based on a research project conducted for an honors thesis that examines dumpster diving for food in Vancouver, British Columbia. While an earlier report (Miewald 2009) identified dump…
Global Health Business
The global push for health statistics and electronic digital health information systems is about more than tracking health incidence and prevalence. It is also experienced on the ground as means to develop and maintain particular norms of health business, knowledge, and decision- and profit-making that are not innocent. Statistics make possible audit and accountability logics that undergird the management of health at a distance and that are incr…
Global Ethnography
Women's knowledge in Madagascar
Nutritional and hygienic practices contribute to high morbidity and mortality rates related to malnutrition in Madagascar. This study, a research effort that brought together charitable organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and university collaborators, investigates women's health knowledge in the Anosy region of Madagascar. The needs assessment sought to characterise women's knowledge and understanding of nutrition and hygiene. Ei…
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State
creative, new anthropological research investigating the impact of these processes on human reproductive activities (Barnard 2000; Ginsburg and Rapp 1995; Inda and Rosaldo 2002; Van Hollen 2003).To help ameliorate this situation, in June 2006 we convened a workshop with eighteen scholars from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the United States.Our objectives were to enhance understanding of the consequences for reproduction, reproductive health, …
Fetal Views
Post-diagnostic abortion in Germany
Smoking and Pregnancy
Smoking and Pregnancy: The Polities of Fetal Protection. Laury Oaks. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. + 276 pp
Introduction
Dans cette introduction, nous avançons que l'attention ethnographique portée aux documents, un élément banal de notre quotidien, peut révéler des manœuvres sociales qui accélèrent ou préservent des configurations particulières de pouvoir et d'imputabilité. Nous employons l'expression « document/ation » pour rendre compte des possibles relevant des moments d'action. Les articles de ce numéro spécial mettent en évidence les tensions dynamiques entr…
Introduction
In this introduction we argue that ethnographic attention to documents, as a mundane feature of everyday life, can reveal social manoeuvres that accelerate or detain particular configurations of power and accountability. We use the term "document/ation" to convey this space of possibility in moments of action. The articles collected in this special issue foreground the dynamic tensions between systematisation and ambiguity that arise in situation…
Global Health Business
The global push for health statistics and electronic digital health information systems is about more than tracking health incidence and prevalence. It is also experienced on the ground as means to develop and maintain particular norms of health business, knowledge, and decision- and profit-making that are not innocent. Statistics make possible audit and accountability logics that undergird the management of health at a distance and that are incr…
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State
creative, new anthropological research investigating the impact of these processes on human reproductive activities (Barnard 2000; Ginsburg and Rapp 1995; Inda and Rosaldo 2002; Van Hollen 2003).To help ameliorate this situation, in June 2006 we convened a workshop with eighteen scholars from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the United States.Our objectives were to enhance understanding of the consequences for reproduction, reproductive health, …
Secrets from Whom
Clandestine financial dealings are at the core of new forms of philanthropic venture capitalism in global health. Worldwide, organizing principles of state-centric pastoral and clinical health care have given way to speculative, market-driven approaches to health. Because global finance is a normatively secretized social space, the increasing use of private financial instruments in health spaces previously publicly funded raises important questio…
Cell Phones ≠ Self and Other Problems with Big Data Detection and Containment during Epidemics
Evidence from Sierra Leone reveals the significant limitations of big data in disease detection and containment efforts. Early in the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, media heralded HealthMap's ability to detect the outbreak from newsfeeds. Later, big data-specifically, call detail record data collected from millions of cell phones-was hyped as useful for stopping the disease by tracking contagious people. It did not work. In this article…
Post-diagnostic abortion in Germany
Introduction
In this introduction we argue that ethnographic attention to documents, as a mundane feature of everyday life, can reveal social manoeuvres that accelerate or detain particular configurations of power and accountability. We use the term "document/ation" to convey this space of possibility in moments of action. The articles collected in this special issue foreground the dynamic tensions between systematisation and ambiguity that arise in situation…
Global health futures
Since 2010, there has been a discernable expansion of global health financing forms using private equity, bonds, and 'facilities' to finance international development and humanitarian endeavors. I present the logics of the Pandemic Emergency Facility (PEF), a World Bank device that lashes together a bond, cash, and swaps to lie in reserve for an infectious disease outbreak. I explain how the PEF is emblematic of financial devices that have the po…
Beyond Desperation
In the global food system, food is considered a disposable commodity and waste is produced at extraordinarily high levels. In a number of affluent nations, including Canada, “dumpster diving” for food has emerged as an approach to food provisioning. This article is based on a research project conducted for an honors thesis that examines dumpster diving for food in Vancouver, British Columbia. While an earlier report (Miewald 2009) identified dump…
Pandemics show us what government is for
Betting on Pandemic
Betting on a pandemic. In its worst light, that’s what the pandemic bond does. In its best light, the pandemic bond is an earnest effort to fill the gap between what countries promise to pay in aid
Introduction
Dans cette introduction, nous avançons que l'attention ethnographique portée aux documents, un élément banal de notre quotidien, peut révéler des manœuvres sociales qui accélèrent ou préservent des configurations particulières de pouvoir et d'imputabilité. Nous employons l'expression « document/ation » pour rendre compte des possibles relevant des moments d'action. Les articles de ce numéro spécial mettent en évidence les tensions dynamiques entr…
Introduction
In this introduction we argue that ethnographic attention to documents, as a mundane feature of everyday life, can reveal social manoeuvres that accelerate or detain particular configurations of power and accountability. We use the term "document/ation" to convey this space of possibility in moments of action. The articles collected in this special issue foreground the dynamic tensions between systematisation and ambiguity that arise in situation…
Post-diagnostic abortion in Germany
Smoking and Pregnancy
Smoking and Pregnancy: The Polities of Fetal Protection. Laury Oaks. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. + 276 pp
Fetal Views
Global Ethnography
Women's knowledge in Madagascar
Nutritional and hygienic practices contribute to high morbidity and mortality rates related to malnutrition in Madagascar. This study, a research effort that brought together charitable organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and university collaborators, investigates women's health knowledge in the Anosy region of Madagascar. The needs assessment sought to characterise women's knowledge and understanding of nutrition and hygiene. Ei…
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State
creative, new anthropological research investigating the impact of these processes on human reproductive activities (Barnard 2000; Ginsburg and Rapp 1995; Inda and Rosaldo 2002; Van Hollen 2003).To help ameliorate this situation, in June 2006 we convened a workshop with eighteen scholars from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the United States.Our objectives were to enhance understanding of the consequences for reproduction, reproductive health, …
Global Health Business
The global push for health statistics and electronic digital health information systems is about more than tracking health incidence and prevalence. It is also experienced on the ground as means to develop and maintain particular norms of health business, knowledge, and decision- and profit-making that are not innocent. Statistics make possible audit and accountability logics that undergird the management of health at a distance and that are incr…
Beyond Desperation
In the global food system, food is considered a disposable commodity and waste is produced at extraordinarily high levels. In a number of affluent nations, including Canada, “dumpster diving” for food has emerged as an approach to food provisioning. This article is based on a research project conducted for an honors thesis that examines dumpster diving for food in Vancouver, British Columbia. While an earlier report (Miewald 2009) identified dump…
Global health indicators and maternal health futures
Public health indicators generally operate in the world as credible, apolitical and authoritative. But indicators are less stable than they appear. Clinical critiques of Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) criteria have been forthcoming for decades. This article, though, takes up the measuring and calculation gradients of IUGR in the ultrasound machine itself, including the software algorithms that identify IUGR. One hospital where research wa…
Secrets from Whom
Clandestine financial dealings are at the core of new forms of philanthropic venture capitalism in global health. Worldwide, organizing principles of state-centric pastoral and clinical health care have given way to speculative, market-driven approaches to health. Because global finance is a normatively secretized social space, the increasing use of private financial instruments in health spaces previously publicly funded raises important questio…
Volunteer Economies
Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health
Worse than HIV’
This article shows the consequences of competing global health agendas within differential clinical and social worlds. Specifically, it examines how HIV's prominence in local clinical programming in Swaziland influences cervical cancer screening rates. Drawing on 2014 ethnographic research conducted in a semi-urban town in Swaziland, the interview and participant observation data show the relative scarcity of cervical cancer care and the conseque…
Cell Phones ≠ Self and Other Problems with Big Data Detection and Containment during Epidemics
Evidence from Sierra Leone reveals the significant limitations of big data in disease detection and containment efforts. Early in the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, media heralded HealthMap's ability to detect the outbreak from newsfeeds. Later, big data-specifically, call detail record data collected from millions of cell phones-was hyped as useful for stopping the disease by tracking contagious people. It did not work. In this article…
Faking global health
Globally, human health is improving. Aggregate world health data indicate enormous improvement over the last 100 years. Life expectancy, vaccination, and sanitation rates are higher. Rates of infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, child and maternal mortality are lower. These gains have all been accomplished during a time when governments orchestrated, or aspired to provide, albeit often imperfectly, the systemizations of health care. Now austerity and pr…
Global health futures
Since 2010, there has been a discernable expansion of global health financing forms using private equity, bonds, and 'facilities' to finance international development and humanitarian endeavors. I present the logics of the Pandemic Emergency Facility (PEF), a World Bank device that lashes together a bond, cash, and swaps to lie in reserve for an infectious disease outbreak. I explain how the PEF is emblematic of financial devices that have the po…
Pandemics show us what government is for
Betting on Pandemic
Betting on a pandemic. In its worst light, that’s what the pandemic bond does. In its best light, the pandemic bond is an earnest effort to fill the gap between what countries promise to pay in aid
Covid‐Apps
When there is no vaccine for a disease, ‘Test, Trace, Treat/Isolate’ is the public health go‐to directive. During the COVID‐19 pandemic, mobile phone apps are designed to improve on this. But COVID‐apps have not been effective as a public health tool. Countries spend millions to develop them, yet they have been shown to have terrible return on investment. This commentary explores why COVID‐apps are generally championed and provides three brief ca…
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