A Mann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 32173 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Mann |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Mann |
| FIRMA | MANN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6347-9520 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Examining the effects of process-based therapy
Combining ATR far- and mid-infrared spectroscopy to distinguish native Australian plant exudates for cultural heritage analysis
Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives
Many countries are under pressure because of lack of healthcare staff to provide care to an increasingly aged population. Potential solutions are often sought through technological innovation, including social robots to cater to the patients' emotional needs. Despite significant financial investments in social robots, they have not been implemented at a larger scale. One reason commonly cited for this is the resistance of healthcare staff. Drawin…
Talking Pleasures, Writing Dialects
This book is written in English, so that it may reach an international academic audience. One of the concerns from which it stems, though, is that we are bound to lose a lot if all academic research comes to be outlined in English. This chapter by Anna Mann and Annemarie Mol demonstrates this using the case of schmecka – the practice and the word. It draws on fieldwork done in the Austrian region of Vorarlberg, with people jointly schmecka a home…
Citation as representation
To improve quality of life
Quality of life has become a central value in the provision of healthcare for patients with chronic conditions. This has engendered debates in critical medical sociology on the non-neutral effects that valuing health and illness, medical interventions, and health care delivery in terms of quality of life yields. Focusing on the case of nephrology, this paper presents qualitative data collected in Austria of two dialysis units in which nephrologis…
Critiques from within. A modest proposal for reclaiming critique for responsible innovation
The anything-but-neutral relations between science, technology and society, at the core of science and technology studies, have led to the development of different repertoires of critique. None of them fitted the configurations in the biomedical practices we came to study. There, biomedical experts presented us with an analysis of the power relations perpetuated through the mainstream practices in their fields and had built socio-material alterna…
Abandoning questionnaires
Care-concepts have proliferated over the past couple of years, and have been used tostudy all kinds of practices, situations and sites. This begs the question: What is gained bystudying practices in terms of care? The paper addresses this question by using a specificcare-approach, which is the study of daily life dealings (Mol et al., 2010). It mobilises thisapproach to investigate a particular object, namely a good provision of haemodialysistrea…
Talking Pleasures, Writing Dialects. Outlining Research on Schmecka
This text is written in English so that it may reach an international academic audience. However, if all academic research comes to be outlined in English we are to lose a lot. Here, we argue this by presenting the case of schmecka. Drawing on fieldwork done in the Austrian region of Vorarlberg, we suggest that the word schmecka differs from the factual ‘flavour perception’ investigated in physiology; from the culturally informed ‘sensory experie…
Sensory science research on taste. An ethnography of two laboratory experiments in Western Europe
Recent ethnographies from the anthropology of food and the senses have shown how moments in which people taste foods are shaped by scientific knowledge, methods, and rationales. Building on approaches developed in science and technology studies, this article offers an ethnography of the field to which this shaping power has been assigned: the scientific study of taste. Detailed tracing and analysis of two laboratory experiments on taste performed…
Ordering tasting in a restaurant
Sometimes there are moments in which German speakers will state that something schmeckt gut [tastes good]. Focusing on a family celebration in a restaurant in Austria, the paper considers how in three schmeckt gut moments, participants variously order "tasting" as a process of experiencing, socializing, and processing. It is argued that while it is possible to analyse how a person simultaneously experiences sensual qualities inherent in a particu…
Which Context Matters
What influences how people taste the food they eat? This paper investigates how sensual engagements with food, particularly tasting it, become contextualized in everyday life practices and social science theories. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Swiss hospital, the Kantonsspital Graubünden, the paper analyzes what doctors, patients and nurses bring up as shaping sensual engagements with food. It also investigates how sensual engagements with…
Refuge 30.1 (General Issue) Print Copy
This is an accessible copy of issue 30.1. It was certified by a CPWA-certified accessibility professional as meeting or exceeding all accessibility conformance requirements with respect to: WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA PDF/UA (David Berman Communications 13 October, 2025)
Mixing methods, tasting fingers
This article was published in the HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory [ © 2011 School of Social and Political Sciences ] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau1.1.009\tThe Journal's website is at: http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/view/hau1.1
In Vivo Antitrypanosomal Effects Of Some Ethnomedicinal Plants From Nupeland Of North Central Nigeria
Four medicinal plants Acacia nilotica, Bombax buonopozense, Terminalia avicennioides and Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides traditionally used for treatment of sleeping sickness in Nupeland were investigated for in vivo antitrypanosomal activity. Methanol extracts of different parts of each plant (stem barks and fruits) were obtained and evaluated for their in vivo antitrypanosomal activities against Trypanosoma brucei brucei. Phytochemical screening of …
A Randomised Controlled Trial of an Educational Intervention for Depression among Asian Women in Primary Care in the United Kingdom
Objective: To determine the effect of patient education on patient perspectives and outcome of depression in a sample of Asian women in primary care. Design: A randomised, clinical trial of “patient education” versus “usual care”. Setting: A general practice in London, which has a high proportion of Asians. Subjects: Seventy patients with psychiatric morbidity (a score of 3 or more on the General Health Questionnaire 12) were recruited for the tr…
The development of the Short Explanatory Model Interview (Semi) and its use among primary-care attenders with common mental disorders
Background. Recent anthropological studies have documented the importance of understanding the relation of culture to the experience of mental illness. The use of interviews that elicit explanatory models has facilitated such research, but currently available interviews are lengthy and impractical for epidemiological studies. This paper is a preliminary report on the development of a brief instrument to elicit explanatory models for use in field …
The Shona Symptom Questionnaire
The objective of this study was to develop an indigenous measure of common mental disorders (CMD) in the Shona language in Zimbabwe. Ethnographic and qualitative studies elicited idioms of distress of mental disorder leading to the preliminary Shona Symptom Questionnaire (SSQ), and items from the Self‐Report Questionnaire (SRQ) were added to it. The 56‐item Preliminary Shona Symptom Questionnaire (PSSQ) was administered to 302 randomly selected p…
Strategies for the prevention of psychiatric disorder in primary care in south London
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the potential impact of high risk and population based approaches to the prevention of psychiatric disorder, using a representative sample of general practice attenders as the target population. DESIGN: This was a prospective cohort study. SETTING: A health centre in south London. PARTICIPANTS: Three hundred and seven consecutive attenders aged 16-65, recruited at randomly selected general practice surgeries. MAIN RESU…
Program schedule
had a significant impact on the creation, development, and direction of research in dental anthropology in the U.S. and internationally. We have selected a small, but international group of dental anthropologists whose research methods and interests reflect, and have been impacted by Dahlberg's influence. The unifying theme of this symposium, dental morphology and evolution, is broadly conceived to include papers on dental genetics, development, …
Modernization and the Family
Modernization theory argues that familism entails a traditional or parochial orientation that inhibits economic progress. Informed by critiques of this approach by dependency and world-system theorists and drawing on a case study of Italian immigrants to Louisiana at the turn of the twentieth century, this study argues that familism can be a progressive force which facilitates economic accumulation and upward mobility under certain social conditi…
Socialisation Scheme With a High Staff-Patient Ratio
Six months after a comprehensive socialisation scheme began, a prospective controlled study was carried out. The patients were tested in three practical sections — Cooking; Maintenance of Home and Clothing; Other Skills (eg. form-filling); and with a Questionnaire. Forty-eight members of an experimental group received socialisation training after initial testing. They and the 20 controls who did not undergo training were re-evaluated three months…
Ordering tasting in a restaurant
Sometimes there are moments in which German speakers will state that something schmeckt gut [tastes good]. Focusing on a family celebration in a restaurant in Austria, the paper considers how in three schmeckt gut moments, participants variously order "tasting" as a process of experiencing, socializing, and processing. It is argued that while it is possible to analyse how a person simultaneously experiences sensual qualities inherent in a particu…
Talking Pleasures, Writing Dialects. Outlining Research on Schmecka
This text is written in English so that it may reach an international academic audience. However, if all academic research comes to be outlined in English we are to lose a lot. Here, we argue this by presenting the case of schmecka. Drawing on fieldwork done in the Austrian region of Vorarlberg, we suggest that the word schmecka differs from the factual ‘flavour perception’ investigated in physiology; from the culturally informed ‘sensory experie…
Sensory science research on taste. An ethnography of two laboratory experiments in Western Europe
Recent ethnographies from the anthropology of food and the senses have shown how moments in which people taste foods are shaped by scientific knowledge, methods, and rationales. Building on approaches developed in science and technology studies, this article offers an ethnography of the field to which this shaping power has been assigned: the scientific study of taste. Detailed tracing and analysis of two laboratory experiments on taste performed…
Which Context Matters
What influences how people taste the food they eat? This paper investigates how sensual engagements with food, particularly tasting it, become contextualized in everyday life practices and social science theories. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Swiss hospital, the Kantonsspital Graubünden, the paper analyzes what doctors, patients and nurses bring up as shaping sensual engagements with food. It also investigates how sensual engagements with…
Modernization and the Family
Modernization theory argues that familism entails a traditional or parochial orientation that inhibits economic progress. Informed by critiques of this approach by dependency and world-system theorists and drawing on a case study of Italian immigrants to Louisiana at the turn of the twentieth century, this study argues that familism can be a progressive force which facilitates economic accumulation and upward mobility under certain social conditi…
Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives
Many countries are under pressure because of lack of healthcare staff to provide care to an increasingly aged population. Potential solutions are often sought through technological innovation, including social robots to cater to the patients' emotional needs. Despite significant financial investments in social robots, they have not been implemented at a larger scale. One reason commonly cited for this is the resistance of healthcare staff. Drawin…
Citation as representation
To improve quality of life
Quality of life has become a central value in the provision of healthcare for patients with chronic conditions. This has engendered debates in critical medical sociology on the non-neutral effects that valuing health and illness, medical interventions, and health care delivery in terms of quality of life yields. Focusing on the case of nephrology, this paper presents qualitative data collected in Austria of two dialysis units in which nephrologis…
Socialisation Scheme With a High Staff-Patient Ratio
Six months after a comprehensive socialisation scheme began, a prospective controlled study was carried out. The patients were tested in three practical sections — Cooking; Maintenance of Home and Clothing; Other Skills (eg. form-filling); and with a Questionnaire. Forty-eight members of an experimental group received socialisation training after initial testing. They and the 20 controls who did not undergo training were re-evaluated three months…
Modernization and the Family
Modernization theory argues that familism entails a traditional or parochial orientation that inhibits economic progress. Informed by critiques of this approach by dependency and world-system theorists and drawing on a case study of Italian immigrants to Louisiana at the turn of the twentieth century, this study argues that familism can be a progressive force which facilitates economic accumulation and upward mobility under certain social conditi…
Program schedule
had a significant impact on the creation, development, and direction of research in dental anthropology in the U.S. and internationally. We have selected a small, but international group of dental anthropologists whose research methods and interests reflect, and have been impacted by Dahlberg's influence. The unifying theme of this symposium, dental morphology and evolution, is broadly conceived to include papers on dental genetics, development, …
The Shona Symptom Questionnaire
The objective of this study was to develop an indigenous measure of common mental disorders (CMD) in the Shona language in Zimbabwe. Ethnographic and qualitative studies elicited idioms of distress of mental disorder leading to the preliminary Shona Symptom Questionnaire (SSQ), and items from the Self‐Report Questionnaire (SRQ) were added to it. The 56‐item Preliminary Shona Symptom Questionnaire (PSSQ) was administered to 302 randomly selected p…
Strategies for the prevention of psychiatric disorder in primary care in south London
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the potential impact of high risk and population based approaches to the prevention of psychiatric disorder, using a representative sample of general practice attenders as the target population. DESIGN: This was a prospective cohort study. SETTING: A health centre in south London. PARTICIPANTS: Three hundred and seven consecutive attenders aged 16-65, recruited at randomly selected general practice surgeries. MAIN RESU…
The development of the Short Explanatory Model Interview (Semi) and its use among primary-care attenders with common mental disorders
Background. Recent anthropological studies have documented the importance of understanding the relation of culture to the experience of mental illness. The use of interviews that elicit explanatory models has facilitated such research, but currently available interviews are lengthy and impractical for epidemiological studies. This paper is a preliminary report on the development of a brief instrument to elicit explanatory models for use in field …
A Randomised Controlled Trial of an Educational Intervention for Depression among Asian Women in Primary Care in the United Kingdom
Objective: To determine the effect of patient education on patient perspectives and outcome of depression in a sample of Asian women in primary care. Design: A randomised, clinical trial of “patient education” versus “usual care”. Setting: A general practice in London, which has a high proportion of Asians. Subjects: Seventy patients with psychiatric morbidity (a score of 3 or more on the General Health Questionnaire 12) were recruited for the tr…
In Vivo Antitrypanosomal Effects Of Some Ethnomedicinal Plants From Nupeland Of North Central Nigeria
Four medicinal plants Acacia nilotica, Bombax buonopozense, Terminalia avicennioides and Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides traditionally used for treatment of sleeping sickness in Nupeland were investigated for in vivo antitrypanosomal activity. Methanol extracts of different parts of each plant (stem barks and fruits) were obtained and evaluated for their in vivo antitrypanosomal activities against Trypanosoma brucei brucei. Phytochemical screening of …
Mixing methods, tasting fingers
This article was published in the HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory [ © 2011 School of Social and Political Sciences ] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau1.1.009\tThe Journal's website is at: http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/view/hau1.1
Refuge 30.1 (General Issue) Print Copy
This is an accessible copy of issue 30.1. It was certified by a CPWA-certified accessibility professional as meeting or exceeding all accessibility conformance requirements with respect to: WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA PDF/UA (David Berman Communications 13 October, 2025)
Which Context Matters
What influences how people taste the food they eat? This paper investigates how sensual engagements with food, particularly tasting it, become contextualized in everyday life practices and social science theories. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Swiss hospital, the Kantonsspital Graubünden, the paper analyzes what doctors, patients and nurses bring up as shaping sensual engagements with food. It also investigates how sensual engagements with…
Talking Pleasures, Writing Dialects. Outlining Research on Schmecka
This text is written in English so that it may reach an international academic audience. However, if all academic research comes to be outlined in English we are to lose a lot. Here, we argue this by presenting the case of schmecka. Drawing on fieldwork done in the Austrian region of Vorarlberg, we suggest that the word schmecka differs from the factual ‘flavour perception’ investigated in physiology; from the culturally informed ‘sensory experie…
Sensory science research on taste. An ethnography of two laboratory experiments in Western Europe
Recent ethnographies from the anthropology of food and the senses have shown how moments in which people taste foods are shaped by scientific knowledge, methods, and rationales. Building on approaches developed in science and technology studies, this article offers an ethnography of the field to which this shaping power has been assigned: the scientific study of taste. Detailed tracing and analysis of two laboratory experiments on taste performed…
Ordering tasting in a restaurant
Sometimes there are moments in which German speakers will state that something schmeckt gut [tastes good]. Focusing on a family celebration in a restaurant in Austria, the paper considers how in three schmeckt gut moments, participants variously order "tasting" as a process of experiencing, socializing, and processing. It is argued that while it is possible to analyse how a person simultaneously experiences sensual qualities inherent in a particu…
Abandoning questionnaires
Care-concepts have proliferated over the past couple of years, and have been used tostudy all kinds of practices, situations and sites. This begs the question: What is gained bystudying practices in terms of care? The paper addresses this question by using a specificcare-approach, which is the study of daily life dealings (Mol et al., 2010). It mobilises thisapproach to investigate a particular object, namely a good provision of haemodialysistrea…
Critiques from within. A modest proposal for reclaiming critique for responsible innovation
The anything-but-neutral relations between science, technology and society, at the core of science and technology studies, have led to the development of different repertoires of critique. None of them fitted the configurations in the biomedical practices we came to study. There, biomedical experts presented us with an analysis of the power relations perpetuated through the mainstream practices in their fields and had built socio-material alterna…
Talking Pleasures, Writing Dialects
This book is written in English, so that it may reach an international academic audience. One of the concerns from which it stems, though, is that we are bound to lose a lot if all academic research comes to be outlined in English. This chapter by Anna Mann and Annemarie Mol demonstrates this using the case of schmecka – the practice and the word. It draws on fieldwork done in the Austrian region of Vorarlberg, with people jointly schmecka a home…
Citation as representation
To improve quality of life
Quality of life has become a central value in the provision of healthcare for patients with chronic conditions. This has engendered debates in critical medical sociology on the non-neutral effects that valuing health and illness, medical interventions, and health care delivery in terms of quality of life yields. Focusing on the case of nephrology, this paper presents qualitative data collected in Austria of two dialysis units in which nephrologis…
Examining the effects of process-based therapy
Combining ATR far- and mid-infrared spectroscopy to distinguish native Australian plant exudates for cultural heritage analysis
Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives
Many countries are under pressure because of lack of healthcare staff to provide care to an increasingly aged population. Potential solutions are often sought through technological innovation, including social robots to cater to the patients' emotional needs. Despite significant financial investments in social robots, they have not been implemented at a larger scale. One reason commonly cited for this is the resistance of healthcare staff. Drawin…
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