Andrea Sankar

Datos Biográficos

ID650710
NOMBREAndrea Sankar
NOMBRESAndrea
APELLIDOSankar
FIRMASANKAR A
AFILIACIONESWayne State University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS23
TOTAL DE CITAS29
TOTAL COMO AUTOR23
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1984
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H3

  • Integrating anthropology and social work education to address contemporary social issues

    Andrea Sankar, Andrea P Sankar et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2024Referencias: 52

    Doctoral students studying anthropology are increasingly interested in developing skills in quantitative methods, policy analysis and development, community organizing, and team research. The scientific community, granting agencies, and foundations have a growing focus on research and scholarship focused on ameliorating social problems. However, students often find that they need additional skills beyond academic anthropology to address these iss…

  • Responsible Driving In The Age Of Smartphones

    Yuson Jung, Andrea Sankar et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2023Referencias: 15

    Smartphones have become ubiquitous commodities in our contemporary lives and essential to our daily experiences. With limited public transportation in the United States and dependence on cars, the combination of smartphones and driving raises important questions of safety. We discuss our collaboration with Chevrolet-GM in Detroit in product development and user experience research, namely beta-testing a mobile phone app that was developed by Chev…

  • Sisters and Brothers, Lovers and Enemies

    Andrea SankarARTICLEMany Faces of Homosexuality2019Citada por: 3

    This article examines the structure and contents of relationships among members of a sisterhood in Hong Kong. These women, who at the time of the research were members of the Buddhist vegetarian hall, had been participants in what can be termed a marriage resistance movement, that took place in the Pearly River Delta surrounding Canton from approximately 1865 through 1935

  • Older and Younger African Americans’ Story Schemas and Experiences of Living with HIV/Aids

    Open AccessMark Luborsky, Andrea Nevedal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2017Referencias: 52

  • Engaging Opportunities in Urban Revitalization

    Open AccessSherylyn Briller, Sherylyn H Briller et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Anthropological Practice2013Referencias: 30

    As an iconic postindustrial city, Detroit is a rich site for considering community engagement, key social issues, and urban renewal. Increasing national and international attention has focused on Detroit as an urban exemplar where political economy, social context, social justice, and social change interconnect in novel ways such that true innovation might occur. Wayne State University (WSU)-located in the heart of Detroit-faces this sociopolitic…

  • Reflections from MAQ Editors 2006-2012, and Introduction to a Special Focus Section

    Open AccessMark Luborsky, Mark R Luborsky et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2012Referencias: 1

  • What do we know about older adults and HIV? a review of social and behavioral literature

    Andrea Sankar, Mark Luborsky et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2011

    The fastest growing segment of the United States HIV population is people aged 50 and older. This heterogeneous group includes people with diverse pathways into HIV positive status in later life, including aging with the disease as well as later life-acquired infections. As people with HIV live into older ages, solving problems of successful secondary prevention and ongoing treatment requires more specific knowledge of the particular aging-relate…

  • Patient–Provider Communication Differs for Black Compared to White HIV-Infected Patients

    Open AccessMary Catherine Beach, Somnath Saha et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2010

  • The Interrogative Imperative

    Open AccessMark Luborsky, Mark R Luborsky et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2009

  • Vital Queries in Medical Anthropology

    Open AccessMark Luborsky, Andrea SankarARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2008

  • Horizons and Transitions

    Open AccessMark Luborsky, Andrea SankarARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2007

  • Society for Medical Anthropology

    Open AccessJ S Taylor, Mark Luborsky et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006

  • Sero-positive African Americans’ Beliefs about Alcohol and Their Impact on Anti-retroviral Adherence

    Open AccessAndrea Sankar, Tracy Wunderlich et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2006

  • Developing a Community-Based Definition of Needs for Persons Living with Chronic HIV

    Andrea Sankar, Mark LuborskyARTICLEHuman Organization2003

    With the advent of antiretroviral therapy, HIV has become a chronic illness for those who have access to the medication. But unlike our understanding of acute disease experience which can be grasped within parameters defined by categories of medical diagnosis and treatment, understanding the experience of chronic illness requires that we expand our analytic frame to include variables and perspectives created by the beliefs, behaviors, context, an…

  • Medical Anthropology and African American Health

    Open AccessAndrea SankarARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2003Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Medical Anthropology and African American Health. Eric J. Bailey. Westport, CT: Berginand Garvey, 2000.255 pp

  • Exploring Issues of Importance to the Local Community through the University Museum The Exhibition Facing HIV/Aids

    Open AccessTamara L Bray, Andrea SankarARTICLEMuseum Anthropology2001Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

  • Women's Voices and Experiences of the Hill-Thomas Hearings

    Open AccessFrances Trix, Andrea SankarARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1998Citada por: 5Referencias: 8

    As activist research, this study of women's experiences of the Hill-Thomas hearings was conducted within three weeks of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Unlike polls at the time, interviews of 100 Detroit-area women (65 percent white, 35 percent African American) revealed a msyority of strong support for Hill, a default category of support for Thomas, ag…

  • The Home Care Experience

    Dorothy C Wertz, Jaber F Gubrium et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

    Introduction - Jaber F Gubrium and Andrea Sanker PART ONE: THE HOME AS SICKROOM The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation - Steven M Albert Culture and Disorder in the Home Care Experience - Robert L Rubenstein The Home as Sickroom Making Arrangements - Juliet M Corbin and Anselm Strauss The Key to Home Care The Defiance of Hope - Joel S Savishinsky Dementia Sufferers and their Carers in a London Borough PART…

  • The Home Care Experience

    Katherine Kaiser, Jaber F Gubrium et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1991

  • Gerontological research in China

    Open AccessAndrea SankarARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…1989Citada por: 11Referencias: 7

  • Out of the clinic into the home

    Open AccessAndrea SankarARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1986Citada por: 8Referencias: 11

  • Allegations in Withdrawn Motion Questioned

    Open AccessNorma Diamond, Hill Gates et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1984

  • Sisters and brothers, lovers and enemies

    Andrea Sankar

    This article examines the structure and content of relationships among members of a sisterhood in Hong Kong. These women, who at the time of the research were members of a Buddhist vegetarian hall, had been participants in what can be termed a marriage resistance movement, that took place in the Pearl River Delta surrounding Canton from approximately 1865 through 1935.