Allen L Tran
Biographic Data
| ID | 128226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen L Tran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Tran |
| SIGNATURE | TRAN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fighting for Health
Sharing the Burden of Care
Recent scholarship on the treatment of chronic diseases in neoliberalizing contexts frame patients as individuated selves enacting biopolitical imperatives toward self-care. However, in public psychiatric and oncology hospitals in contemporary southern Vietnam, it is instead the family unit, rather than the individual patient, that is “responsibilized” to enable access to medical care. Indeed, the norms and structures of Vietnam’s healthcare syst…
A Life of Worry
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Who, what, and how we fear reflects who we are. In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing bombing raids, political persecution, and starvation to worrying about decisions over the best career path or cell phone plan. This shift in the landscape of peopl…
A Life of Worry
In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing war and famine to fretting over the best cell phone plan. This shift in the landscape of people’s anxieties is the result of policies that made Vietnam the second-fastest-growing economy in the world and a triumph of late capitalist development. Yet as much as people marvel at the speed of progress, all this change— even for the better—can be difficult to handle. A Life of Worr…
Drug adherence, medical pluralism, and psychopharmaceutical selfhood in postreform Vietnam
This article examines drug adherence in relation to changing patterns of medical pluralism and neoliberal reforms among psychiatric patients in postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We conducted 39 in-depth interviews and 21 follow-up interviews with individuals prescribed psychiatric medication on an outpatient basis in 2016 to identify patterns of nonadherence, which was operationalized as taking medications according to doctors' prescriptions …
The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This article examines the role of anxieties about romantic love in the modernist self-making projects of Vietnam's growing middle class. Romantic ideals and discourses that emerged from Vietnam's neoliberal reforms emphasize personal compatibility through emotional intimacy and communication. Middle-class residents of Ho Chi Minh City increasingly privilege the emotions in daily life and define themselves and their relationships in an affective r…
Neurasthenia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and the Medicalization of Worry in a Vietnamese Psychiatric Hospital
This article examines two forms of the medicalization of worry in an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Biomedical psychiatrists understand patients' symptoms as manifestations of the excessive worry associated with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Drawing on an ethnopsychology of emotion that reflects increasingly popular models of neoliberal selfhood, these psychiatrists encourage patients to frame psychic distress i…
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detai…
Haunting Images
Rich Sentiments and the Cultural Politics of Emotion in Postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Linking socioeconomic and personal transformations, recent scholarship on neoliberalism in East and Southeast Asia has examined the role of various emotional experiences in reconfiguring selfhood toward values of personal responsibility and self-care. However, studies rarely focus on how such experiences come to be understood as specifically emotional themselves. In this article, I examine the growing use of emotion (cảm xúc) as a conceptual cate…
Mai Lan Gustafsson War and Shadows
Book Review| June 01 2011 Mai Lan Gustafsson War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam Mai Lan Gustafsson. War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. 224. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Allen L. Tran Allen L. Tran University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2011) 6 (2): 144–146. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.201…
Ways of Asking, Ways of Telling
The interpretive understanding that can be derived from interviews is highly influenced by methods of data collection, be they structured or semistructured, ethnographic, clinical, life-history or survey interviews. This article responds to calls for research into the interview process by analyzing data produced by two distinctly different types of interview, a semistructured ethnographic interview and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM, c…
Rich Sentiments and the Cultural Politics of Emotion in Postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Linking socioeconomic and personal transformations, recent scholarship on neoliberalism in East and Southeast Asia has examined the role of various emotional experiences in reconfiguring selfhood toward values of personal responsibility and self-care. However, studies rarely focus on how such experiences come to be understood as specifically emotional themselves. In this article, I examine the growing use of emotion (cảm xúc) as a conceptual cate…
Neurasthenia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and the Medicalization of Worry in a Vietnamese Psychiatric Hospital
This article examines two forms of the medicalization of worry in an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Biomedical psychiatrists understand patients' symptoms as manifestations of the excessive worry associated with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Drawing on an ethnopsychology of emotion that reflects increasingly popular models of neoliberal selfhood, these psychiatrists encourage patients to frame psychic distress i…
Haunting Images
The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This article examines the role of anxieties about romantic love in the modernist self-making projects of Vietnam's growing middle class. Romantic ideals and discourses that emerged from Vietnam's neoliberal reforms emphasize personal compatibility through emotional intimacy and communication. Middle-class residents of Ho Chi Minh City increasingly privilege the emotions in daily life and define themselves and their relationships in an affective r…
Drug adherence, medical pluralism, and psychopharmaceutical selfhood in postreform Vietnam
This article examines drug adherence in relation to changing patterns of medical pluralism and neoliberal reforms among psychiatric patients in postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We conducted 39 in-depth interviews and 21 follow-up interviews with individuals prescribed psychiatric medication on an outpatient basis in 2016 to identify patterns of nonadherence, which was operationalized as taking medications according to doctors' prescriptions …
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detai…
Ways of Asking, Ways of Telling
The interpretive understanding that can be derived from interviews is highly influenced by methods of data collection, be they structured or semistructured, ethnographic, clinical, life-history or survey interviews. This article responds to calls for research into the interview process by analyzing data produced by two distinctly different types of interview, a semistructured ethnographic interview and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM, c…
Mai Lan Gustafsson War and Shadows
Book Review| June 01 2011 Mai Lan Gustafsson War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam Mai Lan Gustafsson. War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. 224. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Allen L. Tran Allen L. Tran University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2011) 6 (2): 144–146. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.201…
Haunting Images
Rich Sentiments and the Cultural Politics of Emotion in Postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Linking socioeconomic and personal transformations, recent scholarship on neoliberalism in East and Southeast Asia has examined the role of various emotional experiences in reconfiguring selfhood toward values of personal responsibility and self-care. However, studies rarely focus on how such experiences come to be understood as specifically emotional themselves. In this article, I examine the growing use of emotion (cảm xúc) as a conceptual cate…
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detai…
Neurasthenia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and the Medicalization of Worry in a Vietnamese Psychiatric Hospital
This article examines two forms of the medicalization of worry in an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Biomedical psychiatrists understand patients' symptoms as manifestations of the excessive worry associated with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Drawing on an ethnopsychology of emotion that reflects increasingly popular models of neoliberal selfhood, these psychiatrists encourage patients to frame psychic distress i…
The anxiety of romantic love in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This article examines the role of anxieties about romantic love in the modernist self-making projects of Vietnam's growing middle class. Romantic ideals and discourses that emerged from Vietnam's neoliberal reforms emphasize personal compatibility through emotional intimacy and communication. Middle-class residents of Ho Chi Minh City increasingly privilege the emotions in daily life and define themselves and their relationships in an affective r…
Drug adherence, medical pluralism, and psychopharmaceutical selfhood in postreform Vietnam
This article examines drug adherence in relation to changing patterns of medical pluralism and neoliberal reforms among psychiatric patients in postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We conducted 39 in-depth interviews and 21 follow-up interviews with individuals prescribed psychiatric medication on an outpatient basis in 2016 to identify patterns of nonadherence, which was operationalized as taking medications according to doctors' prescriptions …
A Life of Worry
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Who, what, and how we fear reflects who we are. In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing bombing raids, political persecution, and starvation to worrying about decisions over the best career path or cell phone plan. This shift in the landscape of peopl…
A Life of Worry
In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing war and famine to fretting over the best cell phone plan. This shift in the landscape of people’s anxieties is the result of policies that made Vietnam the second-fastest-growing economy in the world and a triumph of late capitalist development. Yet as much as people marvel at the speed of progress, all this change— even for the better—can be difficult to handle. A Life of Worr…
Sharing the Burden of Care
Recent scholarship on the treatment of chronic diseases in neoliberalizing contexts frame patients as individuated selves enacting biopolitical imperatives toward self-care. However, in public psychiatric and oncology hospitals in contemporary southern Vietnam, it is instead the family unit, rather than the individual patient, that is “responsibilized” to enable access to medical care. Indeed, the norms and structures of Vietnam’s healthcare syst…
Fighting for Health
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Anxiety (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Vietnamese (4 works)