J D Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1043360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J D Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | J D |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4170-507X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Eclectic Reader
Eclecticism has been among the most central concerns in the sociology of cultural consumption for 30 years, but hardly any research has been done on the eclecticism of readers. We have been using data from Goodreads to address this blind spot. Our research enables us to describe some general patterns of breadth vs narrowness in the reading habits of highly active Goodreads users, which largely resemble the socially hierarchized schema of omnivore…
Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction by Richard Jean So (review)
Reviewed by: Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction by Richard Jean So J. D. Porter Rhard Jean So. Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction. New York: Columbia UP, 2020. 240 pp. $30.00. Richard Jean So’s Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction is one of the most important books yet written in literary digital humanities (DH). As arguably the f…
A quantitative history of ordinary language philosophy
There is a standard story told about the rise and fall of ordinary language philosophy: it was a widespread, if not dominant, approach to philosophy in Great Britain in the aftermath of World War II up until the early 1960s, but with the development of systematic approaches to the study of language—formal semantic theories on one hand and Gricean pragmatics on the other—ordinary language philosophy more or less disappeared. In this paper we prese…
Keepers of Memory: The Holocaust and Transgenerational Identity
Representing Race and Ethnicity in American Fiction, 1789-1920
Our project, which aims to reconstruct racial discourse in American literature, tracks three critical aspects of the representation of race and ethnicity in a corpus of over 18,000 American novels published between 1789 and 1920. First, we provide a historically sensitive account of the ethnicities that most occupied the nation’s racial imaginary, registering how different ethnic groups were perceived to be biologically, geographically, or social…
Who is answerable to whom? Exploring the complex relationship between researchers, community and Community Advisory Board (CAB) members in two research studies in Zambia
This paper explores the accountability relationships that arise between researchers, the community and community representative structures known as Community Advisory Boards (CABs). It draws on ethnographic and case study research that documented the history, recruitment, composition and representativeness of two CABs and their relationships with researchers and communities, carried out in two studies in Zambia between 2010 and 2014. The findings…
Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music by John Lowney
Reviewed by: Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music by John Lowney J. D. Porter John Lowney. Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2017..246 pp. $28.00. Much recent scholarship in global modernism has turned away from explaining the modernist credentials of this or that author from the literary “periphery” and toward explai…
Poverty, disease, and urban governance in late nineteenth-century Osaka
Economic evaluation of a combined microfinance and gender training intervention for the prevention of intimate partner violence in rural South Africa
OBJECTIVE: Assess the cost-effectiveness of an intervention combining microfinance with gender and HIV training for the prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV) in South Africa. METHODS: We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a cluster-randomized trial. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of the intervention in both the trial and initial scale-up phase. RESULTS: We estimated the cost per DALY gained as US$7688 for the trial phas…
The Social Determinants of Tuberculosis: From Evidence to Action
Growing consensus indicates that progress in tuberculosis control in the low- and middle-income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control programs, diagnostics, and treatment but also action on the social determinants of tuberculosis. However, practical ideas for action are scarcer than is notional support for this idea. We developed a framework based on the recent World Health Organization Commission on Social …
Assessing the incremental effects of combining economic and health interventions: The Image study in South Africa
OBJECTIVE: To explore whether adding a gender and HIV training programme to microfinance initiatives can lead to health and social benefits beyond those achieved by microfinance alone. METHODS: Cross-sectional data were derived from three randomly selected matched clusters in rural South Africa: (i) four villages with 2-year exposure to the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE), a combined microfinance-health training …
The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether the prevalence of HIV infection among young people, and sexual behaviours associated with increased HIV risk, are differentially distributed between students and those not attending school or college. DESIGN: A random population sample of unmarried young people (916 males, 1003 females) aged 14-25 years from rural South Africa in 2001. METHODS: Data on school attendance and HIV risk characteristics came from str…
Disappearing, displaced, and undervalued: A call to action for Indigenous health worldwide
Descriptive Ethics: A Qualitative Study of Local Research Ethics Committees in Mexico
Objective: To describe how local research ethics committees (LRECs) consider and apply research ethics in the evaluation of biomedical research proposals. Design: A qualitative study was conducted using purposeful sampling, focus groups and a grounded theory approach to generate data and to analyse the work of the LRECs. Setting and participants: 11 LRECs of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS). Results: LRECs considered ethics to be i…
Infectious Disease Policy: Towards the Production of Health
This paper reflects on current infectious disease control methods, their biomedical history and the management structures they are driven by. It asks whether a broader concept of 'infectious disease policy', with an emphasis on 'process' rather than outcomes, will help to re-frame the control discourse to ensure that infectious disease control is not only a method for preventing and treating infectious diseases, but is also a path for the creatio…
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality and Opportunity
Stations and Callings: Making it Through the School System
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality and Opportunity
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality, and Opportunity
The 1971 Census and the Socioeconomic Classification of Occupations
A partirdu recensement de 1971, la classification des professions a subi des changements importants; donc, les sociologues devraient developper des méthodes nouvelles pour entreprendre l'analyse des résultats. Lesauteurs discutent et évaluent la nouvelle classification et la « Classification canadienne descriptive des professions », et proposent une réorganisation des groupes de base à fin de formuler une classification socio‐économique des profe…
The Limits of Sociology
Conceptual and Theoretical Problems in the Vertical Mosaic: A Rejoinder
The 1971 Census and the Socioeconomic Classification of Occupations
A partirdu recensement de 1971, la classification des professions a subi des changements importants; donc, les sociologues devraient developper des méthodes nouvelles pour entreprendre l'analyse des résultats. Lesauteurs discutent et évaluent la nouvelle classification et la « Classification canadienne descriptive des professions », et proposent une réorganisation des groupes de base à fin de formuler une classification socio‐économique des profe…
The Social Determinants of Tuberculosis: From Evidence to Action
Growing consensus indicates that progress in tuberculosis control in the low- and middle-income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control programs, diagnostics, and treatment but also action on the social determinants of tuberculosis. However, practical ideas for action are scarcer than is notional support for this idea. We developed a framework based on the recent World Health Organization Commission on Social …
The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether the prevalence of HIV infection among young people, and sexual behaviours associated with increased HIV risk, are differentially distributed between students and those not attending school or college. DESIGN: A random population sample of unmarried young people (916 males, 1003 females) aged 14-25 years from rural South Africa in 2001. METHODS: Data on school attendance and HIV risk characteristics came from str…
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality, and Opportunity
Infectious Disease Policy: Towards the Production of Health
This paper reflects on current infectious disease control methods, their biomedical history and the management structures they are driven by. It asks whether a broader concept of 'infectious disease policy', with an emphasis on 'process' rather than outcomes, will help to re-frame the control discourse to ensure that infectious disease control is not only a method for preventing and treating infectious diseases, but is also a path for the creatio…
Economic evaluation of a combined microfinance and gender training intervention for the prevention of intimate partner violence in rural South Africa
OBJECTIVE: Assess the cost-effectiveness of an intervention combining microfinance with gender and HIV training for the prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV) in South Africa. METHODS: We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a cluster-randomized trial. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of the intervention in both the trial and initial scale-up phase. RESULTS: We estimated the cost per DALY gained as US$7688 for the trial phas…
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality and Opportunity
Conceptual and Theoretical Problems in the Vertical Mosaic: A Rejoinder
Conceptual and Theoretical Problems in the Vertical Mosaic: A Rejoinder
The Limits of Sociology
The 1971 Census and the Socioeconomic Classification of Occupations
A partirdu recensement de 1971, la classification des professions a subi des changements importants; donc, les sociologues devraient developper des méthodes nouvelles pour entreprendre l'analyse des résultats. Lesauteurs discutent et évaluent la nouvelle classification et la « Classification canadienne descriptive des professions », et proposent une réorganisation des groupes de base à fin de formuler une classification socio‐économique des profe…
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality and Opportunity
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality, and Opportunity
Stations and Callings: Making it Through the School System
The Measure of Canadian Society: Education, Equality and Opportunity
Infectious Disease Policy: Towards the Production of Health
This paper reflects on current infectious disease control methods, their biomedical history and the management structures they are driven by. It asks whether a broader concept of 'infectious disease policy', with an emphasis on 'process' rather than outcomes, will help to re-frame the control discourse to ensure that infectious disease control is not only a method for preventing and treating infectious diseases, but is also a path for the creatio…
Disappearing, displaced, and undervalued: A call to action for Indigenous health worldwide
Descriptive Ethics: A Qualitative Study of Local Research Ethics Committees in Mexico
Objective: To describe how local research ethics committees (LRECs) consider and apply research ethics in the evaluation of biomedical research proposals. Design: A qualitative study was conducted using purposeful sampling, focus groups and a grounded theory approach to generate data and to analyse the work of the LRECs. Setting and participants: 11 LRECs of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS). Results: LRECs considered ethics to be i…
The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether the prevalence of HIV infection among young people, and sexual behaviours associated with increased HIV risk, are differentially distributed between students and those not attending school or college. DESIGN: A random population sample of unmarried young people (916 males, 1003 females) aged 14-25 years from rural South Africa in 2001. METHODS: Data on school attendance and HIV risk characteristics came from str…
Assessing the incremental effects of combining economic and health interventions: The Image study in South Africa
OBJECTIVE: To explore whether adding a gender and HIV training programme to microfinance initiatives can lead to health and social benefits beyond those achieved by microfinance alone. METHODS: Cross-sectional data were derived from three randomly selected matched clusters in rural South Africa: (i) four villages with 2-year exposure to the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE), a combined microfinance-health training …
Economic evaluation of a combined microfinance and gender training intervention for the prevention of intimate partner violence in rural South Africa
OBJECTIVE: Assess the cost-effectiveness of an intervention combining microfinance with gender and HIV training for the prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV) in South Africa. METHODS: We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a cluster-randomized trial. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of the intervention in both the trial and initial scale-up phase. RESULTS: We estimated the cost per DALY gained as US$7688 for the trial phas…
The Social Determinants of Tuberculosis: From Evidence to Action
Growing consensus indicates that progress in tuberculosis control in the low- and middle-income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control programs, diagnostics, and treatment but also action on the social determinants of tuberculosis. However, practical ideas for action are scarcer than is notional support for this idea. We developed a framework based on the recent World Health Organization Commission on Social …
Poverty, disease, and urban governance in late nineteenth-century Osaka
Who is answerable to whom? Exploring the complex relationship between researchers, community and Community Advisory Board (CAB) members in two research studies in Zambia
This paper explores the accountability relationships that arise between researchers, the community and community representative structures known as Community Advisory Boards (CABs). It draws on ethnographic and case study research that documented the history, recruitment, composition and representativeness of two CABs and their relationships with researchers and communities, carried out in two studies in Zambia between 2010 and 2014. The findings…
Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music by John Lowney
Reviewed by: Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music by John Lowney J. D. Porter John Lowney. Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2017..246 pp. $28.00. Much recent scholarship in global modernism has turned away from explaining the modernist credentials of this or that author from the literary “periphery” and toward explai…
Representing Race and Ethnicity in American Fiction, 1789-1920
Our project, which aims to reconstruct racial discourse in American literature, tracks three critical aspects of the representation of race and ethnicity in a corpus of over 18,000 American novels published between 1789 and 1920. First, we provide a historically sensitive account of the ethnicities that most occupied the nation’s racial imaginary, registering how different ethnic groups were perceived to be biologically, geographically, or social…
Keepers of Memory: The Holocaust and Transgenerational Identity
Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction by Richard Jean So (review)
Reviewed by: Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction by Richard Jean So J. D. Porter Rhard Jean So. Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction. New York: Columbia UP, 2020. 240 pp. $30.00. Richard Jean So’s Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction is one of the most important books yet written in literary digital humanities (DH). As arguably the f…
A quantitative history of ordinary language philosophy
There is a standard story told about the rise and fall of ordinary language philosophy: it was a widespread, if not dominant, approach to philosophy in Great Britain in the aftermath of World War II up until the early 1960s, but with the development of systematic approaches to the study of language—formal semantic theories on one hand and Gricean pragmatics on the other—ordinary language philosophy more or less disappeared. In this paper we prese…
The Eclectic Reader
Eclecticism has been among the most central concerns in the sociology of cultural consumption for 30 years, but hardly any research has been done on the eclecticism of readers. We have been using data from Goodreads to address this blind spot. Our research enables us to describe some general patterns of breadth vs narrowness in the reading habits of highly active Goodreads users, which largely resemble the socially hierarchized schema of omnivore…
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