René Gerrets
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 112270 |
|---|---|
| NOME | René Gerrets |
| PRENOMES | René |
| SOBRENOME | Gerrets |
| ASSINATURA | GERRETS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0516-9377 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Kansa talk
This paper reports and examines the results of qualitative research on the use of local cancer terminology in urban Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Following recent calls to unify evidence and dignity-based practices in global health, this research locates local medical sociolinguistics as a key place of entry into creating epistemologically autonomous public health practices. We used semistructured ethnographic interviews to reveal both the contextual and b…
Misdirection in Global Health
There Were Moments We Wished She Could Just Die
Nodding Syndrome (NS) occurs within a wide spectrum of epilepsies seen in onchocerciasis endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. It has debilitating consequences on affected individuals and increases the socio-economic, physical and psychological burden on care-givers and their households, diminishing their standing within the community. Social science research on the disproportionate burden of the disease on females is limited. Based on ethnographi…
Understanding Malaria Persistence
Despite the scale-up of vector control, diagnosis and treatment, and health information campaigns, malaria persists in the forested areas of South-Central Vietnam, home to ethnic minority populations. A mixed-methods study using an exploratory sequential design was conducted in 10 Ra-glai villages in Bac Ai district of Ninh Thuan province to examine which social factors limited the effectiveness of the national malaria elimination strategy in the…
Complexities in Defining the Unit of Intervention for Reactive Community-Based Malaria Treatment in the Gambia
With significant declines in malaria, infections are increasingly clustered in households, or groups of households where malaria transmission is higher than in surrounding household/villages. To decrease transmission in such cases, reactive interventions target household members of clinical malaria cases, with the intervention unit (e.g., the “household/s”) derived from an epidemiological and operational perspective. A lack of unanimity regarding…
The Community Lab of Ideas for Health
Background: Community participation in global health interventions may improve outcomes and solve complex health issues. Although numerous community participatory approaches have been developed and introduced, there has been little focus on “how” and “who” to involve in the implementation of community-based clinical trials where unequal distribution of power between implementers and communities pre-exists. Addressing how to achieve community-base…
Amani - Auf den Spuren einer kolonialen Forschungsstation in Tansania
Die Forschungsstation Amani in Tansanias Usambara-Bergen liegt heute weitgehend brach - gegründet als landwirtschaftliches Institut während der deutschen Besatzung war sie später führendes britisches und tansanisches Institut für tropenmedizinische Forschung. Wie leben Mitarbeiter und Bewohner nun mit den Überresten dieses wissenschaftlich-modernistischen Projektes? Und was können Sozialanthropologen, Historiker und Künstler gemeinsam mit solch e…
Remembering Africanization
The 'Africanization' of science after decolonization was replete with dreams. Claims to Africa's place in the high-modern world, expectations of national technological and economic progress, and individual dreams of scientific discovery, professional development and fulfilled careers drove scientific work and lives. The term Africanization, coined by the colonizers, reproduced colonial notions of race but also stimulated the imagination of mid-tw…
Conceptions within misconceptions
Ensuring that biomedical information about research procedures is adequately understood by participants and their communities is key for conducting ethical research. This article explores participants' understanding of trial procedures for an experimental vaccine against Ebola virus disease (EVD) in a West African context. We found that some trial participants believed there was a chance of contracting Ebola and other sicknesses from the vaccine,…
The masking and making of fieldworkers and data in postcolonial Global Health research contexts
This paper centres on the roles and contributions of fieldworkers-local data-collectors in Global Health research in postcolonial contexts. It is informed by two separate ethnographies, conducted in two different East African biomedical research institutions. It discusses how common characterisations of fieldworkers as 'low-skilled' and 'local' make them attractive to research institutions in two important ways - as community-embedded data-collec…
Why the pseudo matters to global health
This introductory article presents the concept of the pseudo as a means of challenging the confidence with which many within global health approach ideas and praxis in terms of binary oppositions, such as real or fake. We argue that this confidence, in clearly discernible dichotomies, ignores the core theme inspiring this special issue: that of the ‘in-between phenomena’ – the fake-in-the-real, the authentic-in-the-inauthentic, and so forth. Inst…
Community sensitization and decision‐making for trial participation
Community sensitization is effective in providing first-hand, reliable information to communities as the information is cascaded to those who could not attend the sessions. However, further research is needed to assess how the informal spread of information further shapes people's expectations, how the process engages with existing social relations and hierarchies (e.g. local political power structures; permissions of heads of households) and how…
Tuberculosis patients and resilience
Tuberculosis patients’ pre-hospital delay and non-compliance with a longstanding DOT programme
Mixed methods analysis demonstrated the importance of in-depth information ascertained by qualitative approaches to understand how cultural, socio-economic and organisational factors are influencing patients' pre-hospital delay and treatment compliance. To strengthen the Zambian NTP, combating stigma is of utmost priority coupled with programmes addressing poverty. Organisational barriers and co-operation between (private) clinics and traditional…
Visual Ethnography
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Anne Lia Cremers, René Gerrets, Martin Peter Grobusch; Visual Ethnography: Bridging Anthropology and Public Health. Practicing Anthropology 1 September 2016; 38 (4): 7–11. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.38.4.7 Download citation …
Morals, morale and motivations in data fabrication
Data fabrication, incorrect collection strategies and poor data management, are considered detrimental to high-quality scientific research. While poor data management have been occasionally excused, fabrication constitutes a cardinal sin - scientific misconduct. Scholarly examinations of fabrication usually seek to expose and capture its prevalence and, less frequently, its consequences and causes. Most accounts centre on high-income countries, i…
Exploring a Dutch paradox
Despite the Netherlands' reputation as a world leader with respect to gay rights, homosexual Dutch men have much higher rates of mood disorders, anxiety disorders and suicide attempts than heterosexual Dutch men. Epidemiologists report similar disparities elsewhere in Western Europe and North America. These findings have been the focus of a blossoming psychological literature, inspired by minority stress theory and deploying quantitative methods.…
Report on the current research programme Biomedicine in Africa
This research programme examines how the science and practice of biomedicine is shaped through its engagements in various African contexts. We regard biomedicine as a circulating set of technologies, practices, and ideas that -as a by-product of prevention and healing -links individual bodies to the political order. We take Africa to be central for understanding global shifts in the making of bodies and subjectivities as well as of social, politi…
Relatório sobre o programa de pesquisa atual “Biomedicina na África”
individuais ordem poltica. Consideramos a frica como um ponto central para entendermos as mudanas globais na
Morals, morale and motivations in data fabrication
Data fabrication, incorrect collection strategies and poor data management, are considered detrimental to high-quality scientific research. While poor data management have been occasionally excused, fabrication constitutes a cardinal sin - scientific misconduct. Scholarly examinations of fabrication usually seek to expose and capture its prevalence and, less frequently, its consequences and causes. Most accounts centre on high-income countries, i…
Remembering Africanization
The 'Africanization' of science after decolonization was replete with dreams. Claims to Africa's place in the high-modern world, expectations of national technological and economic progress, and individual dreams of scientific discovery, professional development and fulfilled careers drove scientific work and lives. The term Africanization, coined by the colonizers, reproduced colonial notions of race but also stimulated the imagination of mid-tw…
Report on the current research programme Biomedicine in Africa
This research programme examines how the science and practice of biomedicine is shaped through its engagements in various African contexts. We regard biomedicine as a circulating set of technologies, practices, and ideas that -as a by-product of prevention and healing -links individual bodies to the political order. We take Africa to be central for understanding global shifts in the making of bodies and subjectivities as well as of social, politi…
Relatório sobre o programa de pesquisa atual “Biomedicina na África”
individuais ordem poltica. Consideramos a frica como um ponto central para entendermos as mudanas globais na
Exploring a Dutch paradox
Despite the Netherlands' reputation as a world leader with respect to gay rights, homosexual Dutch men have much higher rates of mood disorders, anxiety disorders and suicide attempts than heterosexual Dutch men. Epidemiologists report similar disparities elsewhere in Western Europe and North America. These findings have been the focus of a blossoming psychological literature, inspired by minority stress theory and deploying quantitative methods.…
Tuberculosis patients’ pre-hospital delay and non-compliance with a longstanding DOT programme
Mixed methods analysis demonstrated the importance of in-depth information ascertained by qualitative approaches to understand how cultural, socio-economic and organisational factors are influencing patients' pre-hospital delay and treatment compliance. To strengthen the Zambian NTP, combating stigma is of utmost priority coupled with programmes addressing poverty. Organisational barriers and co-operation between (private) clinics and traditional…
Visual Ethnography
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Anne Lia Cremers, René Gerrets, Martin Peter Grobusch; Visual Ethnography: Bridging Anthropology and Public Health. Practicing Anthropology 1 September 2016; 38 (4): 7–11. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.38.4.7 Download citation …
Morals, morale and motivations in data fabrication
Data fabrication, incorrect collection strategies and poor data management, are considered detrimental to high-quality scientific research. While poor data management have been occasionally excused, fabrication constitutes a cardinal sin - scientific misconduct. Scholarly examinations of fabrication usually seek to expose and capture its prevalence and, less frequently, its consequences and causes. Most accounts centre on high-income countries, i…
Community sensitization and decision‐making for trial participation
Community sensitization is effective in providing first-hand, reliable information to communities as the information is cascaded to those who could not attend the sessions. However, further research is needed to assess how the informal spread of information further shapes people's expectations, how the process engages with existing social relations and hierarchies (e.g. local political power structures; permissions of heads of households) and how…
Tuberculosis patients and resilience
Conceptions within misconceptions
Ensuring that biomedical information about research procedures is adequately understood by participants and their communities is key for conducting ethical research. This article explores participants' understanding of trial procedures for an experimental vaccine against Ebola virus disease (EVD) in a West African context. We found that some trial participants believed there was a chance of contracting Ebola and other sicknesses from the vaccine,…
The masking and making of fieldworkers and data in postcolonial Global Health research contexts
This paper centres on the roles and contributions of fieldworkers-local data-collectors in Global Health research in postcolonial contexts. It is informed by two separate ethnographies, conducted in two different East African biomedical research institutions. It discusses how common characterisations of fieldworkers as 'low-skilled' and 'local' make them attractive to research institutions in two important ways - as community-embedded data-collec…
Why the pseudo matters to global health
This introductory article presents the concept of the pseudo as a means of challenging the confidence with which many within global health approach ideas and praxis in terms of binary oppositions, such as real or fake. We argue that this confidence, in clearly discernible dichotomies, ignores the core theme inspiring this special issue: that of the ‘in-between phenomena’ – the fake-in-the-real, the authentic-in-the-inauthentic, and so forth. Inst…
Amani - Auf den Spuren einer kolonialen Forschungsstation in Tansania
Die Forschungsstation Amani in Tansanias Usambara-Bergen liegt heute weitgehend brach - gegründet als landwirtschaftliches Institut während der deutschen Besatzung war sie später führendes britisches und tansanisches Institut für tropenmedizinische Forschung. Wie leben Mitarbeiter und Bewohner nun mit den Überresten dieses wissenschaftlich-modernistischen Projektes? Und was können Sozialanthropologen, Historiker und Künstler gemeinsam mit solch e…
Remembering Africanization
The 'Africanization' of science after decolonization was replete with dreams. Claims to Africa's place in the high-modern world, expectations of national technological and economic progress, and individual dreams of scientific discovery, professional development and fulfilled careers drove scientific work and lives. The term Africanization, coined by the colonizers, reproduced colonial notions of race but also stimulated the imagination of mid-tw…
Understanding Malaria Persistence
Despite the scale-up of vector control, diagnosis and treatment, and health information campaigns, malaria persists in the forested areas of South-Central Vietnam, home to ethnic minority populations. A mixed-methods study using an exploratory sequential design was conducted in 10 Ra-glai villages in Bac Ai district of Ninh Thuan province to examine which social factors limited the effectiveness of the national malaria elimination strategy in the…
Complexities in Defining the Unit of Intervention for Reactive Community-Based Malaria Treatment in the Gambia
With significant declines in malaria, infections are increasingly clustered in households, or groups of households where malaria transmission is higher than in surrounding household/villages. To decrease transmission in such cases, reactive interventions target household members of clinical malaria cases, with the intervention unit (e.g., the “household/s”) derived from an epidemiological and operational perspective. A lack of unanimity regarding…
The Community Lab of Ideas for Health
Background: Community participation in global health interventions may improve outcomes and solve complex health issues. Although numerous community participatory approaches have been developed and introduced, there has been little focus on “how” and “who” to involve in the implementation of community-based clinical trials where unequal distribution of power between implementers and communities pre-exists. Addressing how to achieve community-base…
Misdirection in Global Health
There Were Moments We Wished She Could Just Die
Nodding Syndrome (NS) occurs within a wide spectrum of epilepsies seen in onchocerciasis endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. It has debilitating consequences on affected individuals and increases the socio-economic, physical and psychological burden on care-givers and their households, diminishing their standing within the community. Social science research on the disproportionate burden of the disease on females is limited. Based on ethnographi…
Kansa talk
This paper reports and examines the results of qualitative research on the use of local cancer terminology in urban Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Following recent calls to unify evidence and dignity-based practices in global health, this research locates local medical sociolinguistics as a key place of entry into creating epistemologically autonomous public health practices. We used semistructured ethnographic interviews to reveal both the contextual and b…
Medicine (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Global Health and Surgery (6 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Nursing (5 obras) · Public health (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Ethnography (4 obras)