Ari Samsky
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81312 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ari Samsky |
| NOMBRES | Ari |
| APELLIDO | Samsky |
| FIRMA | SAMSKY A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Iowa |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Evidence‐Based Medicine
This entry defines evidence‐based medicine (EBM) in the context of anthropology. Evidence‐based medicine is a quantitative medical research method that emphasizes patient outcome and accountability. It uses analysis of large statistical samples (and often meta‐analysis of multiple independent studies) to persuade physicians that a particular clinical practice is superior to all others—for instance, that it is more cost effective or that it produc…
Biopolitics
This entry defines Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics. Biopolitics refers to state‐governing practices aimed at monitoring, counting, and controlling human populations. It represents an important historical shift away from classical European modes of governance, which focused on territory and sovereign right. The idea of biopolitics has profound historical and philosophical significance, and has been taken up by scholars from many disciplin…
The Drug Company Next Door
Scientific Sovereignty
This essay sketches two international, pharmaceutical company-sponsored drug donation programs and assesses this novel integration of corporations into global health. Based on ethnographic interviews with retired and current pharmaceutical executives and scientists, international humanitarian workers, and volunteers and drug recipients in the Morogoro region of Tanzania, this essay develops a concept of "scientific sovereignty," a process through…
Medical Research for Hire
Since We Are Taking the Drugs
This paper examines and compares conceptions of the place of labor, commodity, value, and gift in two pharmaceutical company-sponsored international drug donation programs. Drawing on ethnographic research done between 2006 and 2008, the paper tracks how medical-scientific architects of these donation programs (NGO and pharmaceutical executives, tropical medicine experts, Ministries of Health) understand the labor of the drug recipients, how they…
Scientific Sovereignty
This essay sketches two international, pharmaceutical company-sponsored drug donation programs and assesses this novel integration of corporations into global health. Based on ethnographic interviews with retired and current pharmaceutical executives and scientists, international humanitarian workers, and volunteers and drug recipients in the Morogoro region of Tanzania, this essay develops a concept of "scientific sovereignty," a process through…
Since We Are Taking the Drugs
This paper examines and compares conceptions of the place of labor, commodity, value, and gift in two pharmaceutical company-sponsored international drug donation programs. Drawing on ethnographic research done between 2006 and 2008, the paper tracks how medical-scientific architects of these donation programs (NGO and pharmaceutical executives, tropical medicine experts, Ministries of Health) understand the labor of the drug recipients, how they…
Medical Research for Hire
Medical Research for Hire
Since We Are Taking the Drugs
This paper examines and compares conceptions of the place of labor, commodity, value, and gift in two pharmaceutical company-sponsored international drug donation programs. Drawing on ethnographic research done between 2006 and 2008, the paper tracks how medical-scientific architects of these donation programs (NGO and pharmaceutical executives, tropical medicine experts, Ministries of Health) understand the labor of the drug recipients, how they…
Scientific Sovereignty
This essay sketches two international, pharmaceutical company-sponsored drug donation programs and assesses this novel integration of corporations into global health. Based on ethnographic interviews with retired and current pharmaceutical executives and scientists, international humanitarian workers, and volunteers and drug recipients in the Morogoro region of Tanzania, this essay develops a concept of "scientific sovereignty," a process through…
Evidence‐Based Medicine
This entry defines evidence‐based medicine (EBM) in the context of anthropology. Evidence‐based medicine is a quantitative medical research method that emphasizes patient outcome and accountability. It uses analysis of large statistical samples (and often meta‐analysis of multiple independent studies) to persuade physicians that a particular clinical practice is superior to all others—for instance, that it is more cost effective or that it produc…
Biopolitics
This entry defines Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics. Biopolitics refers to state‐governing practices aimed at monitoring, counting, and controlling human populations. It represents an important historical shift away from classical European modes of governance, which focused on territory and sovereign right. The idea of biopolitics has profound historical and philosophical significance, and has been taken up by scholars from many disciplin…
The Drug Company Next Door
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