Nadine Beckmann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 123971 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nadine Beckmann |
| NOMBRES | Nadine |
| APELLIDO | Beckmann |
| FIRMA | BECKMANN N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2747-0833 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Understanding anthropological contributions to infectious disease outbreak preparedness and response
This review explores how anthropology has been applied in outbreak preparedness and response since the onset of COVID-19 in 2019, identifying key trends and providing recommendations to its integration into global health practice. Our search of four databases yielded 68 studies published between 2019 and August 2024. Most studies (71%) focused on COVID-19, followed by Ebola (17%). Nearly half examine African contexts (46%), with fewer studies in …
“This is what a war does”- Trust, information ecosystems and childhood vaccination among Ukrainian parents
Armed conflict not only disrupts health systems but reconfigures trust in vaccination and interactions with information. This study explored how the war in Ukraine has reshaped vaccine attitudes among parents living in Lviv, Ukraine and those displaced to Warsaw, Poland. Using a qualitative design, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 Ukrainian parents and 21 key informants, including healthcare workers, journalists, humanitarian actor…
Leveraging community insights and navigating logistical challenges
This case study describes how high vaccination coverage was achieved during the 2024 polio vaccination campaign in Gaza amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis marked by damaged critical infrastructure, an obstruction of the entry of health supplies, mass displacement and security concerns for health workers. Despite the immense challenges, 559 161 children were vaccinated in the first round (94% of the revised target of 591 714) and 556 774 in the s…
Trust and the infodemic
Amidst polarisation, public health threats and economic uncertainty, there is a concern around the impact of an overabundance of information: the infodemic. In this paper we argue that:information threats are a symptom of eroded trust, not the cause. Instead of viewing the overabundance of information as the primary problem, it should be understood as a reflection of wider trust processes;focusing on rebuilding trust offers a more effective appro…
Rituals of care
A growing number of studies highlight high levels of misdiagnosis in the scale-up of HIV rapid testing programmes, which often remain invisible to individual testers. Drawing on interviews with HIV testers and observations in four health facilities in Zimbabwe, we show that testers navigated the translation of the standardised, dis-embodied norms of laboratory-based testing into the body work of point-of-care testing through ritualisation of labo…
The (In)visibility of Misdiagnosis in Point-of-Care HIV Testing in Zimbabwe
There is a global trend to introduce point-of-care diagnostic tests, enabling healthcare workers at any level to test, provide results, and initiate immediate treatment if necessary. This article explores how healthcare workers conducting rapid HIV tests - in contexts of limited external quality assurance mechanisms - ascertain the accuracy of their test results. Drawing on interview data and participant observations from health facilities in Zim…
Improving health facility delivery rates in Zanzibar, Tanzania through a large-scale digital community health volunteer programme
The utilization of community health worker (CHW) programmes to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes has become widely applied in low- and middle-income countries. While current research has focused on discerning the effect of these interventions, documenting the process of implementing, scaling and sustaining these programmes has been largely ignored. Here, we focused on the implementation of the Safer Deliveries CHW programme in Zanziba…
Strings Attached
Religious ideas about health, sexuality, and the body have had great influence on the perceptions of HIV/AIDS in the African continent. At the same time, AIDS as a disease and as a realm of international aid interventions is heavily impacting on socio-religious formations and developments in Africa. Religion and AIDS are transforming African public and private domains together. Yet, scant attention is paid to the ways in which this intertwined en…
Strings Attached
Responding to medical crises
The framing of HIV/AIDS as a crisis has facilitated the rollout of large-scale intervention programmes that represent an enormous effort at mainstreaming biomedical rationalities and neoliberal notions of responsibilisation and self-care. Based on a 'logic of choice' (Mol 2008) and 'responsibilised citizenship' (Robins 2005a), although veiled in a language of rights and partnership, the heavy focus on individual behaviour and a pharmaceutical 'so…
Where humans and spirits meet
Medicines of hope? The tough decision for anti-retroviral use for HIV in Zanzibar, Tanzania
The provision of free anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS in Zanzibar since March 2005 is the result of enormous struggles at a global scale and has provided immense relief for sufferers. At the same time, the new "medicines of hope", as they quickly became known, have produced new uncertainties about how best to respond to HIV/AIDS, both for the infected individual and for the society at large. ART programmes make possible a biologised, pharmaceu…
The commodification of misery
Pleasure and danger
This paper highlights extensive variation in Muslim interpretations of sexual life by discussing views on and the management of sexual life in one specific locality (Zanzibar) where sexuality is perceived to be an ambivalent force, dangerous and creative at the same time. Efforts to channel sexuality in Zanzibar are directed at enhancing the positive side of sexuality and at controlling its negative force through sex education, gender segregation…
The 'Politics of the Queue
Starting from a body of literature on movements around 'biological citizenship', this article analyses the political significance of HIV-positive people's collective action in Tanzania. We explore reasons for the limited impact of Tanzanian AIDS activism on the wider political scene, concluding that the formation of a 'movement' is still in its infancy and faces many constraints, though some breakthroughs have been made. Participation in PLHA gro…
Aids and the power of God
Discourses on AIDS in Zanzibar are embedded in a cultural logic associated with Islam and shaped by the islands long problematic relationship with the mainland. This chapter analyses how people struggle to translate such discourses into local practice in an effort to make sense of and contain the epidemic, and how AIDS has been used by religious groups in a political discourse opposing government policies that are perceived as having tolerated mo…
The 'Politics of the Queue
Starting from a body of literature on movements around 'biological citizenship', this article analyses the political significance of HIV-positive people's collective action in Tanzania. We explore reasons for the limited impact of Tanzanian AIDS activism on the wider political scene, concluding that the formation of a 'movement' is still in its infancy and faces many constraints, though some breakthroughs have been made. Participation in PLHA gro…
Responding to medical crises
The framing of HIV/AIDS as a crisis has facilitated the rollout of large-scale intervention programmes that represent an enormous effort at mainstreaming biomedical rationalities and neoliberal notions of responsibilisation and self-care. Based on a 'logic of choice' (Mol 2008) and 'responsibilised citizenship' (Robins 2005a), although veiled in a language of rights and partnership, the heavy focus on individual behaviour and a pharmaceutical 'so…
Medicines of hope? The tough decision for anti-retroviral use for HIV in Zanzibar, Tanzania
The provision of free anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS in Zanzibar since March 2005 is the result of enormous struggles at a global scale and has provided immense relief for sufferers. At the same time, the new "medicines of hope", as they quickly became known, have produced new uncertainties about how best to respond to HIV/AIDS, both for the infected individual and for the society at large. ART programmes make possible a biologised, pharmaceu…
Aids and the power of God
Discourses on AIDS in Zanzibar are embedded in a cultural logic associated with Islam and shaped by the islands long problematic relationship with the mainland. This chapter analyses how people struggle to translate such discourses into local practice in an effort to make sense of and contain the epidemic, and how AIDS has been used by religious groups in a political discourse opposing government policies that are perceived as having tolerated mo…
The commodification of misery
Pleasure and danger
This paper highlights extensive variation in Muslim interpretations of sexual life by discussing views on and the management of sexual life in one specific locality (Zanzibar) where sexuality is perceived to be an ambivalent force, dangerous and creative at the same time. Efforts to channel sexuality in Zanzibar are directed at enhancing the positive side of sexuality and at controlling its negative force through sex education, gender segregation…
The 'Politics of the Queue
Starting from a body of literature on movements around 'biological citizenship', this article analyses the political significance of HIV-positive people's collective action in Tanzania. We explore reasons for the limited impact of Tanzanian AIDS activism on the wider political scene, concluding that the formation of a 'movement' is still in its infancy and faces many constraints, though some breakthroughs have been made. Participation in PLHA gro…
Where humans and spirits meet
Medicines of hope? The tough decision for anti-retroviral use for HIV in Zanzibar, Tanzania
The provision of free anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS in Zanzibar since March 2005 is the result of enormous struggles at a global scale and has provided immense relief for sufferers. At the same time, the new "medicines of hope", as they quickly became known, have produced new uncertainties about how best to respond to HIV/AIDS, both for the infected individual and for the society at large. ART programmes make possible a biologised, pharmaceu…
Responding to medical crises
The framing of HIV/AIDS as a crisis has facilitated the rollout of large-scale intervention programmes that represent an enormous effort at mainstreaming biomedical rationalities and neoliberal notions of responsibilisation and self-care. Based on a 'logic of choice' (Mol 2008) and 'responsibilised citizenship' (Robins 2005a), although veiled in a language of rights and partnership, the heavy focus on individual behaviour and a pharmaceutical 'so…
Strings Attached
Religious ideas about health, sexuality, and the body have had great influence on the perceptions of HIV/AIDS in the African continent. At the same time, AIDS as a disease and as a realm of international aid interventions is heavily impacting on socio-religious formations and developments in Africa. Religion and AIDS are transforming African public and private domains together. Yet, scant attention is paid to the ways in which this intertwined en…
Strings Attached
Improving health facility delivery rates in Zanzibar, Tanzania through a large-scale digital community health volunteer programme
The utilization of community health worker (CHW) programmes to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes has become widely applied in low- and middle-income countries. While current research has focused on discerning the effect of these interventions, documenting the process of implementing, scaling and sustaining these programmes has been largely ignored. Here, we focused on the implementation of the Safer Deliveries CHW programme in Zanziba…
Rituals of care
A growing number of studies highlight high levels of misdiagnosis in the scale-up of HIV rapid testing programmes, which often remain invisible to individual testers. Drawing on interviews with HIV testers and observations in four health facilities in Zimbabwe, we show that testers navigated the translation of the standardised, dis-embodied norms of laboratory-based testing into the body work of point-of-care testing through ritualisation of labo…
The (In)visibility of Misdiagnosis in Point-of-Care HIV Testing in Zimbabwe
There is a global trend to introduce point-of-care diagnostic tests, enabling healthcare workers at any level to test, provide results, and initiate immediate treatment if necessary. This article explores how healthcare workers conducting rapid HIV tests - in contexts of limited external quality assurance mechanisms - ascertain the accuracy of their test results. Drawing on interview data and participant observations from health facilities in Zim…
Trust and the infodemic
Amidst polarisation, public health threats and economic uncertainty, there is a concern around the impact of an overabundance of information: the infodemic. In this paper we argue that:information threats are a symptom of eroded trust, not the cause. Instead of viewing the overabundance of information as the primary problem, it should be understood as a reflection of wider trust processes;focusing on rebuilding trust offers a more effective appro…
Understanding anthropological contributions to infectious disease outbreak preparedness and response
This review explores how anthropology has been applied in outbreak preparedness and response since the onset of COVID-19 in 2019, identifying key trends and providing recommendations to its integration into global health practice. Our search of four databases yielded 68 studies published between 2019 and August 2024. Most studies (71%) focused on COVID-19, followed by Ebola (17%). Nearly half examine African contexts (46%), with fewer studies in …
“This is what a war does”- Trust, information ecosystems and childhood vaccination among Ukrainian parents
Armed conflict not only disrupts health systems but reconfigures trust in vaccination and interactions with information. This study explored how the war in Ukraine has reshaped vaccine attitudes among parents living in Lviv, Ukraine and those displaced to Warsaw, Poland. Using a qualitative design, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 Ukrainian parents and 21 key informants, including healthcare workers, journalists, humanitarian actor…
Leveraging community insights and navigating logistical challenges
This case study describes how high vaccination coverage was achieved during the 2024 polio vaccination campaign in Gaza amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis marked by damaged critical infrastructure, an obstruction of the entry of health supplies, mass displacement and security concerns for health workers. Despite the immense challenges, 559 161 children were vaccinated in the first round (94% of the revised target of 591 714) and 556 774 in the s…
Sociology (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 obras)