Susan M Digiacomo
Biographic Data
| ID | 107022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan M Digiacomo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Digiacomo |
| SIGNATURE | DIGIACOMO S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0045-163X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Clinical 'Sound Bites: Temporality and Meaning in the Treatment and Experience of Cancer
This paper develops a series of research questions regarding temporality in illness experience -specifically, the illness experience of cancer patients. The research, to be carried out in one of Boston's Harvard Medical School- affiliated teaching hospitals, is planned over approximately one year beginning late this spring, and has two dimensions. The first stage deals with the perspective from the patient's side of the desk. The Patient network,…
The Fate of the Nation-State
Audit Culture and the Politics of Accountability: A Comparative Perspective
Audit culture is examined comparatively in US academic life and in Catalan universities, medical research institutions and scientific publishing. In the case of Catalan universities, audit is shown to be a political practice as well, serving the centralising interests of the Spanish state at the expense of Catalan home rule. Despite the variation in formal practices and institutional contexts, then, the similarities in both the appearance and eff…
Consider Translation: A Roundtable Discussion 1
Applying Latent Growth Curve Modeling to the Investigation of Individual Differences in Cardiovascular Recovery From Stress
LGC modeling yields an understanding of the processes and predictors of change that is not attainable through traditional statistical methods. Although our application concerns cardiovascular recovery from stress, LGC modeling has many other potential applications in psychosomatic research
Commentary: Terrorism and Spanish Democracy
Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender. Hans A. Baer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 248 pp
Translation and/as Ethnographic Practice
Ethical Currents: Lessons from the Sweatshop
"Can There Be a "Cultural Epidemiology
A brief excursion through the history of social medicine suggests that, at least in principle, epidemiology and anthropology are natural allies in the study of disease in human populations. In practice, however, this alliance has been limited and remains problematic. This article examines the possibilities for interdisciplinary research, taking cancer epidemiology as a case in point. I argue, on the basis of participant-observation over a period …
The New Internal Colonialism
■ Anthropology's claims not only to special insight into systems of struc tural inequality, but a special mandate to expose and condemn them, become problematic in light of the discipline's studied inattention to the emergence of a large and growing underclass of underemployed and marginal professionals within its own ranks. Corporate outsourcing, downsizing and union-busting have analogues in the exploitative hiring practices of the academy, whe…
Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions
Writing at the Margins: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine
Metaphor as illness: Postmodern dilemmas in the representation of body, mind and disorder
The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology. Not limited to integrating class analysis and cultural interpretation, the "mindful body" paradigm also aims at empowering the ill, whose experience is denied by biomedical and psychiatric categories that locate disease either in the body or in the mind…
All of a Piece: A Life with Multiple Sclerosis . Barbara D. Webster
Borrowed Time: Artificial Organs and the Politics of Extending Lives . Alonzo L. Plough
Culturally Routinized Fanaticism
La Caseta i l'Hortet: Rural Imagery in Catalan Urban Politics
Links between city and countryside in the construction of Catalan national identity are explored through a systematic and contextualized unpacking ofan image that appeared in two pivotal election campaigns. Francesc Macia, the central figure of Catalonia's return to self-government under the Second Republic, offered the voters of 1931 a modelfor a Catalan nation based on the values of a free peasantry and ruralfamily structures. By 1980 that elec…
Reply to Wang
Luck on the Road: Problems of Fieldwork among the Gypsies
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Susan DiGiacomo; "Luck on the Road": Problems of Fieldwork among the Gypsies. Human Organization 1 December 1983; 42 (4): 337–340. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.42.4.r53h22808458p420 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Man…
"Can There Be a "Cultural Epidemiology
A brief excursion through the history of social medicine suggests that, at least in principle, epidemiology and anthropology are natural allies in the study of disease in human populations. In practice, however, this alliance has been limited and remains problematic. This article examines the possibilities for interdisciplinary research, taking cancer epidemiology as a case in point. I argue, on the basis of participant-observation over a period …
Metaphor as illness: Postmodern dilemmas in the representation of body, mind and disorder
The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology. Not limited to integrating class analysis and cultural interpretation, the "mindful body" paradigm also aims at empowering the ill, whose experience is denied by biomedical and psychiatric categories that locate disease either in the body or in the mind…
The New Internal Colonialism
■ Anthropology's claims not only to special insight into systems of struc tural inequality, but a special mandate to expose and condemn them, become problematic in light of the discipline's studied inattention to the emergence of a large and growing underclass of underemployed and marginal professionals within its own ranks. Corporate outsourcing, downsizing and union-busting have analogues in the exploitative hiring practices of the academy, whe…
Audit Culture and the Politics of Accountability: A Comparative Perspective
Audit culture is examined comparatively in US academic life and in Catalan universities, medical research institutions and scientific publishing. In the case of Catalan universities, audit is shown to be a political practice as well, serving the centralising interests of the Spanish state at the expense of Catalan home rule. Despite the variation in formal practices and institutional contexts, then, the similarities in both the appearance and eff…
La Caseta i l'Hortet: Rural Imagery in Catalan Urban Politics
Links between city and countryside in the construction of Catalan national identity are explored through a systematic and contextualized unpacking ofan image that appeared in two pivotal election campaigns. Francesc Macia, the central figure of Catalonia's return to self-government under the Second Republic, offered the voters of 1931 a modelfor a Catalan nation based on the values of a free peasantry and ruralfamily structures. By 1980 that elec…
Luck on the Road: Problems of Fieldwork among the Gypsies
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Susan DiGiacomo; "Luck on the Road": Problems of Fieldwork among the Gypsies. Human Organization 1 December 1983; 42 (4): 337–340. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.42.4.r53h22808458p420 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Man…
Reply to Wang
La Caseta i l'Hortet: Rural Imagery in Catalan Urban Politics
Links between city and countryside in the construction of Catalan national identity are explored through a systematic and contextualized unpacking ofan image that appeared in two pivotal election campaigns. Francesc Macia, the central figure of Catalonia's return to self-government under the Second Republic, offered the voters of 1931 a modelfor a Catalan nation based on the values of a free peasantry and ruralfamily structures. By 1980 that elec…
Culturally Routinized Fanaticism
Borrowed Time: Artificial Organs and the Politics of Extending Lives . Alonzo L. Plough
All of a Piece: A Life with Multiple Sclerosis . Barbara D. Webster
Metaphor as illness: Postmodern dilemmas in the representation of body, mind and disorder
The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology. Not limited to integrating class analysis and cultural interpretation, the "mindful body" paradigm also aims at empowering the ill, whose experience is denied by biomedical and psychiatric categories that locate disease either in the body or in the mind…
Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions
Writing at the Margins: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine
The New Internal Colonialism
■ Anthropology's claims not only to special insight into systems of struc tural inequality, but a special mandate to expose and condemn them, become problematic in light of the discipline's studied inattention to the emergence of a large and growing underclass of underemployed and marginal professionals within its own ranks. Corporate outsourcing, downsizing and union-busting have analogues in the exploitative hiring practices of the academy, whe…
"Can There Be a "Cultural Epidemiology
A brief excursion through the history of social medicine suggests that, at least in principle, epidemiology and anthropology are natural allies in the study of disease in human populations. In practice, however, this alliance has been limited and remains problematic. This article examines the possibilities for interdisciplinary research, taking cancer epidemiology as a case in point. I argue, on the basis of participant-observation over a period …
Ethical Currents: Lessons from the Sweatshop
Translation and/as Ethnographic Practice
Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender. Hans A. Baer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 248 pp
Consider Translation: A Roundtable Discussion 1
Applying Latent Growth Curve Modeling to the Investigation of Individual Differences in Cardiovascular Recovery From Stress
LGC modeling yields an understanding of the processes and predictors of change that is not attainable through traditional statistical methods. Although our application concerns cardiovascular recovery from stress, LGC modeling has many other potential applications in psychosomatic research
Commentary: Terrorism and Spanish Democracy
Audit Culture and the Politics of Accountability: A Comparative Perspective
Audit culture is examined comparatively in US academic life and in Catalan universities, medical research institutions and scientific publishing. In the case of Catalan universities, audit is shown to be a political practice as well, serving the centralising interests of the Spanish state at the expense of Catalan home rule. Despite the variation in formal practices and institutional contexts, then, the similarities in both the appearance and eff…
The Fate of the Nation-State
Clinical 'Sound Bites: Temporality and Meaning in the Treatment and Experience of Cancer
This paper develops a series of research questions regarding temporality in illness experience -specifically, the illness experience of cancer patients. The research, to be carried out in one of Boston's Harvard Medical School- affiliated teaching hospitals, is planned over approximately one year beginning late this spring, and has two dimensions. The first stage deals with the perspective from the patient's side of the desk. The Patient network,…
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