Helen Macdonald
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85083 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helen Macdonald |
| NOMBRES | Helen |
| APELLIDO | Macdonald |
| FIRMA | MACDONALD H |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0708-4302 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic
Infected Kin
Reviewed by: Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho by Ellen Block and Will McGrath Helen Macdonald Ellen Block and Will McGrath. Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. 246 pp. An anxiety of anthropologists of southern Africa has long been how to give voice to those who have been rendered voiceless; in this case, Lesotho's long history of structural violence shaped by South Africa's hi…
Witchcraft Accusations from Central India
This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times. The author pieces together ‘fragments’ of stories gathered utilising ethnographic methods to examine the meanings associated with witches and witchcraft, and how they connect with social relations, gender, notions of agency, law, media and the…
Globalised tuberculosis control in local worlds
Despite a steady global decline in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB), progress towards health targets has been slow and a crisis of drug-resistant strains of TB continues unabated. The United Nations high-level meeting on TB in September 2018 resulted in a renewed push to invest in drugs, diagnostics and vaccines to “reach” those most vulnerable to the disease. Yet, an overriding focus on biomedical technologies to manage TB at the expense of me…
We are like bubblegum
Miners working on South African mines suffer from the highest rate of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The prevalence of tuberculosis among miners is four to seven times higher than for the general population of South Africa, a country with the second highest rate of tuberculosis in the world. It is against this background that we explore ideas about tuberculosis infection and management among gold and platinum miners in two South African minework…
Challenges in Exploratory Methods for Tuberculosis Research in South Africa
Haunted by a legacy of apartheid governance that left millions in material poverty, South Africa has among the highest tuberculosis (TB) morbidity and mortality rates in the world. Our Social Markers of TB research project shared a vision of working with ethnographic research methods to understand TB-infected persons, their families, care providers, and social networks. We argue that felt and enacted TB stigma and the related HIV-TB stigma impair…
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery." Australian Historical Studies, 47(2), pp. 326–327
Guarding the Public Interest
From the mid-twentieth century, England's coroners were crucial to the supply of organs to transplant, as much of this material was gleaned from the bodies of people who had been involved in accidents. In such situations the law required that a coroner's consent first be obtained lest removing the organs destroy evidence about the cause of the person's death. Surgeons challenged the legal requirement that they seek consent before taking organs, a…
Conscripting Organs
The period 1961-76 was one of marked contestation in Britain about how organs should be obtained from recently deceased people's bodies to transplant into ailing strangers. Most were being removed from hospital patients' corpses without these people's prior consent, under a law that enabled hospital authorities to so authorize the use of a body with one caveat: enquiries should first be made to learn whether the dead person had in life objected t…
Skillful Revelation
To understand the workings of medicine, healing, placebo, belief, and rationality, medical anthropologists need to pay attention to the complex relations of various forms of revelation, contemplation, and rejoining revelation that attach to illness and healing. In this article two performances of a healing technique located in the agricultural plain of Chhattisgarh, central India, are compared: one representing scientific rationality; the other '…
Considering Death
On May 29, 1969, London’s newspapers carried dramatic headlines: “Donor’s Heart ‘Switched Off’ by Doctors.” Margaret Sinsbury had died in Guy’s Hospital, after which her heart was removed and transplanted. This, the third British heart transplant, crystallized the deep concerns that were by then swirling around the wider transplant enterprise, notably whether the people from whom organs were being taken were dead or had been made so. Yet a year e…
H is for Hawk
As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T. H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her hom…
Distraction from the real difficulties
Increasingly, North based graduate students are seeking South based institutional homes whilst undertaking ethnographic research. Looking from a place in the global South, the article considers how requests to host such students influence, and are influenced by, both local and northern research ethics procedures. In particular the article focuses on the globalisation of the Institutional Review Board principle in defining much of the internationa…
Haunting Transplants
Soon after Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967, his patient Louis Washkansky declared himself to be the new ‘Frankenstein’ (Sun: 7 December 1967). That joke, though it confused Mary Shelley's doctor with the creature he had made, resonated with long-held misgivings about medical scientists' work at the boundary between life and death. Washkansky was not alone in relating organ transpla…
Elizabeth Stephens. Anatomy as Spectacle
Journal Article Elizabeth Stephens. Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present. Get access Elizabeth Stephens. Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present. (Representations: Health, Disability, Culture.) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2011. Pp. viii, 166. $90.00. Helen MacDonald Helen MacDonald University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
The Anatomy Inspector and the Government Corpse
The nineteenth-century laws under which Australian medical schools obtained bodies for their students to dissect were deliberately vague on certain matters. Significantly, they failed to define the meaning of the term ‘anatomical examination’, the practice that they were regulating. Was this confined to dissecting a corpse for medical training, or did it bring within the realm of law the multitude of activities that medical men undertook on the d…
Handled with discretion
The Indian state of Chhattisgarh has been continually confronted with violent assaults and murder targeting individuals who are believed to practice witchcraft. By sketching the murder of accused witch, Kulwantin Bai Nishad, in 1995, I highlight the way prevailing assumptions about witchcraft, long held by the media, police and state, were contested. Intersecting with a national and state discourse of modernist ideals, witch-related violence has …
A conversation
Subaltern Studies emerged at the end of the 1970s among a collective of English and Indian historians of South Asia, and developed into a creative and malleable reworking of knowledge(s). Importantly. the subalternists contributed to an interdisciplinarity that displayed a commitment to the recovery of subaltern or ‘indigenous’ histories and knowledges. The idea of identity-based knowledge is necessarily decentred in a transnational enterprise su…
Anatomy In The Antipodes
Humanity's discards”
In her book, Death, Dissection and the Destitute, Ruth Richardson explored the making of the British Anatomy Act 1832, under which the unclaimed bodies of people who died in institutions lawfully became subjects for dissection. This article briefly revisits the British anatomy debates that resulted in this decision being made, to set the scene for an examination of how dissection came to be regulated in New South Wales 50 years later. There, unli…
A Scandalous Act
Journal Article A Scandalous Act: Regulating Anatomy in a British Settler Colony, Tasmania 1869 Get access Helen MacDonald Helen MacDonald * *The Australian Centre , University of Melbourne , Victoria 3010 , Australia . E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2007, Pages 39–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl083 Publish…
The Construction of Troubled and Credible Patients
In this article, the authors select two categories of dying patients, "troubled" and "credible," from two larger studies conducted in three palliative care settings. They explore how nurses construct dying patients' moral identities and how they use emotion talk to interpret patients' behavior. The authors carried out a microanalysis of talk-in-action using discourse analysis and conversation analysis. Strategies used for the construction of mora…
Reading the ‘foreign skull’
The death of William Lanney in 1869 was thought to mark the virtual extinction of the Tasmanian Aboriginal race. European and colonial scientists longed to possess Lanney's bones for museum collections, and several of Hobart's medical men set about the business of harvesting them. In histories of racial relations in Tasmania, this episode has become an exemplar of the brutal process of settler colonialism in that place. However, the mutilation of…
A voice in control
One characteristic of violence is the unmaking of language and fracturing of the victim's social world. In recent theorising, narrative is posited to play an important role in restoring the victim to his/her status as a social person. Fiona Ross (2003) has argued that it is naïve to assume the ‘speaking self equates with the healed self. She shows that individuals can be harmed when they lose control over their narratives circulated in the public…
What makes you a scientist is the way you look at things
What makes you a scientist is the way you look at things
A Scandalous Act
Journal Article A Scandalous Act: Regulating Anatomy in a British Settler Colony, Tasmania 1869 Get access Helen MacDonald Helen MacDonald * *The Australian Centre , University of Melbourne , Victoria 3010 , Australia . E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2007, Pages 39–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl083 Publish…
The Construction of Troubled and Credible Patients
In this article, the authors select two categories of dying patients, "troubled" and "credible," from two larger studies conducted in three palliative care settings. They explore how nurses construct dying patients' moral identities and how they use emotion talk to interpret patients' behavior. The authors carried out a microanalysis of talk-in-action using discourse analysis and conversation analysis. Strategies used for the construction of mora…
Handled with discretion
The Indian state of Chhattisgarh has been continually confronted with violent assaults and murder targeting individuals who are believed to practice witchcraft. By sketching the murder of accused witch, Kulwantin Bai Nishad, in 1995, I highlight the way prevailing assumptions about witchcraft, long held by the media, police and state, were contested. Intersecting with a national and state discourse of modernist ideals, witch-related violence has …
The retrospective speech halo effect
We are like bubblegum
Miners working on South African mines suffer from the highest rate of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The prevalence of tuberculosis among miners is four to seven times higher than for the general population of South Africa, a country with the second highest rate of tuberculosis in the world. It is against this background that we explore ideas about tuberculosis infection and management among gold and platinum miners in two South African minework…
Guarding the Public Interest
From the mid-twentieth century, England's coroners were crucial to the supply of organs to transplant, as much of this material was gleaned from the bodies of people who had been involved in accidents. In such situations the law required that a coroner's consent first be obtained lest removing the organs destroy evidence about the cause of the person's death. Surgeons challenged the legal requirement that they seek consent before taking organs, a…
Skillful Revelation
To understand the workings of medicine, healing, placebo, belief, and rationality, medical anthropologists need to pay attention to the complex relations of various forms of revelation, contemplation, and rejoining revelation that attach to illness and healing. In this article two performances of a healing technique located in the agricultural plain of Chhattisgarh, central India, are compared: one representing scientific rationality; the other '…
Distraction from the real difficulties
Increasingly, North based graduate students are seeking South based institutional homes whilst undertaking ethnographic research. Looking from a place in the global South, the article considers how requests to host such students influence, and are influenced by, both local and northern research ethics procedures. In particular the article focuses on the globalisation of the Institutional Review Board principle in defining much of the internationa…
The Anatomy Inspector and the Government Corpse
The nineteenth-century laws under which Australian medical schools obtained bodies for their students to dissect were deliberately vague on certain matters. Significantly, they failed to define the meaning of the term ‘anatomical examination’, the practice that they were regulating. Was this confined to dissecting a corpse for medical training, or did it bring within the realm of law the multitude of activities that medical men undertook on the d…
A conversation
Subaltern Studies emerged at the end of the 1970s among a collective of English and Indian historians of South Asia, and developed into a creative and malleable reworking of knowledge(s). Importantly. the subalternists contributed to an interdisciplinarity that displayed a commitment to the recovery of subaltern or ‘indigenous’ histories and knowledges. The idea of identity-based knowledge is necessarily decentred in a transnational enterprise su…
Globalised tuberculosis control in local worlds
Despite a steady global decline in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB), progress towards health targets has been slow and a crisis of drug-resistant strains of TB continues unabated. The United Nations high-level meeting on TB in September 2018 resulted in a renewed push to invest in drugs, diagnostics and vaccines to “reach” those most vulnerable to the disease. Yet, an overriding focus on biomedical technologies to manage TB at the expense of me…
A voice in control
One characteristic of violence is the unmaking of language and fracturing of the victim's social world. In recent theorising, narrative is posited to play an important role in restoring the victim to his/her status as a social person. Fiona Ross (2003) has argued that it is naïve to assume the ‘speaking self equates with the healed self. She shows that individuals can be harmed when they lose control over their narratives circulated in the public…
The retrospective speech halo effect
Heritage, Art and the Law
What makes you a scientist is the way you look at things
Reading the ‘foreign skull’
The death of William Lanney in 1869 was thought to mark the virtual extinction of the Tasmanian Aboriginal race. European and colonial scientists longed to possess Lanney's bones for museum collections, and several of Hobart's medical men set about the business of harvesting them. In histories of racial relations in Tasmania, this episode has become an exemplar of the brutal process of settler colonialism in that place. However, the mutilation of…
A voice in control
One characteristic of violence is the unmaking of language and fracturing of the victim's social world. In recent theorising, narrative is posited to play an important role in restoring the victim to his/her status as a social person. Fiona Ross (2003) has argued that it is naïve to assume the ‘speaking self equates with the healed self. She shows that individuals can be harmed when they lose control over their narratives circulated in the public…
The Construction of Troubled and Credible Patients
In this article, the authors select two categories of dying patients, "troubled" and "credible," from two larger studies conducted in three palliative care settings. They explore how nurses construct dying patients' moral identities and how they use emotion talk to interpret patients' behavior. The authors carried out a microanalysis of talk-in-action using discourse analysis and conversation analysis. Strategies used for the construction of mora…
Humanity's discards”
In her book, Death, Dissection and the Destitute, Ruth Richardson explored the making of the British Anatomy Act 1832, under which the unclaimed bodies of people who died in institutions lawfully became subjects for dissection. This article briefly revisits the British anatomy debates that resulted in this decision being made, to set the scene for an examination of how dissection came to be regulated in New South Wales 50 years later. There, unli…
A Scandalous Act
Journal Article A Scandalous Act: Regulating Anatomy in a British Settler Colony, Tasmania 1869 Get access Helen MacDonald Helen MacDonald * *The Australian Centre , University of Melbourne , Victoria 3010 , Australia . E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2007, Pages 39–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl083 Publish…
Anatomy In The Antipodes
The Anatomy Inspector and the Government Corpse
The nineteenth-century laws under which Australian medical schools obtained bodies for their students to dissect were deliberately vague on certain matters. Significantly, they failed to define the meaning of the term ‘anatomical examination’, the practice that they were regulating. Was this confined to dissecting a corpse for medical training, or did it bring within the realm of law the multitude of activities that medical men undertook on the d…
Handled with discretion
The Indian state of Chhattisgarh has been continually confronted with violent assaults and murder targeting individuals who are believed to practice witchcraft. By sketching the murder of accused witch, Kulwantin Bai Nishad, in 1995, I highlight the way prevailing assumptions about witchcraft, long held by the media, police and state, were contested. Intersecting with a national and state discourse of modernist ideals, witch-related violence has …
A conversation
Subaltern Studies emerged at the end of the 1970s among a collective of English and Indian historians of South Asia, and developed into a creative and malleable reworking of knowledge(s). Importantly. the subalternists contributed to an interdisciplinarity that displayed a commitment to the recovery of subaltern or ‘indigenous’ histories and knowledges. The idea of identity-based knowledge is necessarily decentred in a transnational enterprise su…
Haunting Transplants
Soon after Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967, his patient Louis Washkansky declared himself to be the new ‘Frankenstein’ (Sun: 7 December 1967). That joke, though it confused Mary Shelley's doctor with the creature he had made, resonated with long-held misgivings about medical scientists' work at the boundary between life and death. Washkansky was not alone in relating organ transpla…
Elizabeth Stephens. Anatomy as Spectacle
Journal Article Elizabeth Stephens. Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present. Get access Elizabeth Stephens. Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the Present. (Representations: Health, Disability, Culture.) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2011. Pp. viii, 166. $90.00. Helen MacDonald Helen MacDonald University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Distraction from the real difficulties
Increasingly, North based graduate students are seeking South based institutional homes whilst undertaking ethnographic research. Looking from a place in the global South, the article considers how requests to host such students influence, and are influenced by, both local and northern research ethics procedures. In particular the article focuses on the globalisation of the Institutional Review Board principle in defining much of the internationa…
Considering Death
On May 29, 1969, London’s newspapers carried dramatic headlines: “Donor’s Heart ‘Switched Off’ by Doctors.” Margaret Sinsbury had died in Guy’s Hospital, after which her heart was removed and transplanted. This, the third British heart transplant, crystallized the deep concerns that were by then swirling around the wider transplant enterprise, notably whether the people from whom organs were being taken were dead or had been made so. Yet a year e…
H is for Hawk
As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T. H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her hom…
Guarding the Public Interest
From the mid-twentieth century, England's coroners were crucial to the supply of organs to transplant, as much of this material was gleaned from the bodies of people who had been involved in accidents. In such situations the law required that a coroner's consent first be obtained lest removing the organs destroy evidence about the cause of the person's death. Surgeons challenged the legal requirement that they seek consent before taking organs, a…
Conscripting Organs
The period 1961-76 was one of marked contestation in Britain about how organs should be obtained from recently deceased people's bodies to transplant into ailing strangers. Most were being removed from hospital patients' corpses without these people's prior consent, under a law that enabled hospital authorities to so authorize the use of a body with one caveat: enquiries should first be made to learn whether the dead person had in life objected t…
Skillful Revelation
To understand the workings of medicine, healing, placebo, belief, and rationality, medical anthropologists need to pay attention to the complex relations of various forms of revelation, contemplation, and rejoining revelation that attach to illness and healing. In this article two performances of a healing technique located in the agricultural plain of Chhattisgarh, central India, are compared: one representing scientific rationality; the other '…
Challenges in Exploratory Methods for Tuberculosis Research in South Africa
Haunted by a legacy of apartheid governance that left millions in material poverty, South Africa has among the highest tuberculosis (TB) morbidity and mortality rates in the world. Our Social Markers of TB research project shared a vision of working with ethnographic research methods to understand TB-infected persons, their families, care providers, and social networks. We argue that felt and enacted TB stigma and the related HIV-TB stigma impair…
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery." Australian Historical Studies, 47(2), pp. 326–327
Globalised tuberculosis control in local worlds
Despite a steady global decline in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB), progress towards health targets has been slow and a crisis of drug-resistant strains of TB continues unabated. The United Nations high-level meeting on TB in September 2018 resulted in a renewed push to invest in drugs, diagnostics and vaccines to “reach” those most vulnerable to the disease. Yet, an overriding focus on biomedical technologies to manage TB at the expense of me…
We are like bubblegum
Miners working on South African mines suffer from the highest rate of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The prevalence of tuberculosis among miners is four to seven times higher than for the general population of South Africa, a country with the second highest rate of tuberculosis in the world. It is against this background that we explore ideas about tuberculosis infection and management among gold and platinum miners in two South African minework…
Witchcraft Accusations from Central India
This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times. The author pieces together ‘fragments’ of stories gathered utilising ethnographic methods to examine the meanings associated with witches and witchcraft, and how they connect with social relations, gender, notions of agency, law, media and the…
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