Vincen Gregory Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1725121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincen Gregory Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincen Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU V G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ateneo de Manila University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5076-383X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Miracle cures, wonder drugs, and unproven treatments for Covid-19
Neither legal nor illegal
Traditional medicine in Filipino patients' therapeutic itineraries
Pharmaceutical messianism and the politics of Covid-19 in the United States
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials in the United States - from the President to governors, mayors, lawmakers, and even school district commissioners - touted unproven treatments for COVID-19 alongside, and sometimes as opposed to, mask and vaccine mandates. Utilising the framework of 'pharmaceutical messianism', our article focuses on three such cures - hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and monoclonal antibodies - to explore how pha…
Pampalibog
This article draws from qualitative interviews to provide the first in-depth exploration of reasons for engaging in chemsex in the Philippines. It articulates the many forms that drugs assume as pampalibog, or enhancers of libido, demonstrating the multidimensional pleasures of chemsex along overlapping sensorial and affective planes. By showing the inextricability of the corporeal to the affective, and of the emotional to the erotic, we contend …
Online qualitative research with vulnerable populations in the Philippines
Our article draws on two multi-sited studies to present the ethical and methodological challenges of conducting online qualitative research among vulnerable populations in the Philippines—specifically, among people who use drugs—during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the global scholarship has long articulated the difficulties inherent to pursuing research on such populations, we show how the specific milieu of the Philippines in the last three year…
Kontra-partido’
A long-recognized problem of healthcare devolution in many developing countries is its inextricability from the influences of local politics. This has been particularly self-evident in the Philippines, where, since the adoption of the Local Government Code of 1991, the devolution of health governance, planning, administration and service delivery has placed the health system largely under the control of individual provinces, cities, municipalitie…
Taking Flight
Chemsex - the use of specific, illicit substances to facilitate and enhance sexual encounters - has been documented extensively across the Global North using qualitative methodologies. Elsewhere, however, little is known about the phenomenon. Our article addresses this gap in the scholarly literature by exploring how chemsex encounters transpire in the Philippines. Through semi-structured interviews, we demonstrate the spatiotemporal nature of ch…
Drugs and the Marcos Dictatorship
This article identifies the early dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos as a significant moment in drug policy in the Philippines, as well as the wider Southeast Asian region. Using methods of critical discourse analysis and the notion of episodic history, it shows how the Marcos government capitalized on the idea of a ‘drug menace’ and narrativized the ideal of ‘discipline’ to justify its authoritarian regime and establish a heavily …
Loob’ and ‘labas’
Pharmaceutical messianism and the Covid-19 pandemic
Communicating Covid-19 vaccines
box In 2016, the Philippines embarked on an unprecedented mass immunisation campaign against dengue fever, becoming the first Asian nation to authorise the commercial use of Dengvaxia, the dengue vaccine manufactured by the French pharmaceutical Sanofi Pasteur.1 In December 2017, nearly 2 years since the campaign started, Sanofi announced that Dengvaxia may actually cause ‘more severe disease’ in those who have not had previous dengue infection.2…
Medical populism and the politics of dengue epidemics in the Global South
With millions of cases and thousands of deaths every year in Asia and Latin America, dengue fever continues to be of global public health significance. This article uses the concept of 'medical populism' to analyse the political construction of the 2019 dengue epidemics in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Honduras. Through this framework, we examine the narratives of these outbreaks by reconstructing how political actors simplified the discourse,…
Shabu is different”
Pharmaceutical messianism and the Covid-19 pandemic
Loob’ and ‘labas’
Taking Flight
Chemsex - the use of specific, illicit substances to facilitate and enhance sexual encounters - has been documented extensively across the Global North using qualitative methodologies. Elsewhere, however, little is known about the phenomenon. Our article addresses this gap in the scholarly literature by exploring how chemsex encounters transpire in the Philippines. Through semi-structured interviews, we demonstrate the spatiotemporal nature of ch…
Drugs and the Marcos Dictatorship
This article identifies the early dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos as a significant moment in drug policy in the Philippines, as well as the wider Southeast Asian region. Using methods of critical discourse analysis and the notion of episodic history, it shows how the Marcos government capitalized on the idea of a ‘drug menace’ and narrativized the ideal of ‘discipline’ to justify its authoritarian regime and establish a heavily …
Communicating Covid-19 vaccines
box In 2016, the Philippines embarked on an unprecedented mass immunisation campaign against dengue fever, becoming the first Asian nation to authorise the commercial use of Dengvaxia, the dengue vaccine manufactured by the French pharmaceutical Sanofi Pasteur.1 In December 2017, nearly 2 years since the campaign started, Sanofi announced that Dengvaxia may actually cause ‘more severe disease’ in those who have not had previous dengue infection.2…
Medical populism and the politics of dengue epidemics in the Global South
With millions of cases and thousands of deaths every year in Asia and Latin America, dengue fever continues to be of global public health significance. This article uses the concept of 'medical populism' to analyse the political construction of the 2019 dengue epidemics in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Honduras. Through this framework, we examine the narratives of these outbreaks by reconstructing how political actors simplified the discourse,…
Shabu is different”
Loob’ and ‘labas’
Pharmaceutical messianism and the Covid-19 pandemic
Online qualitative research with vulnerable populations in the Philippines
Our article draws on two multi-sited studies to present the ethical and methodological challenges of conducting online qualitative research among vulnerable populations in the Philippines—specifically, among people who use drugs—during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the global scholarship has long articulated the difficulties inherent to pursuing research on such populations, we show how the specific milieu of the Philippines in the last three year…
Kontra-partido’
A long-recognized problem of healthcare devolution in many developing countries is its inextricability from the influences of local politics. This has been particularly self-evident in the Philippines, where, since the adoption of the Local Government Code of 1991, the devolution of health governance, planning, administration and service delivery has placed the health system largely under the control of individual provinces, cities, municipalitie…
Taking Flight
Chemsex - the use of specific, illicit substances to facilitate and enhance sexual encounters - has been documented extensively across the Global North using qualitative methodologies. Elsewhere, however, little is known about the phenomenon. Our article addresses this gap in the scholarly literature by exploring how chemsex encounters transpire in the Philippines. Through semi-structured interviews, we demonstrate the spatiotemporal nature of ch…
Drugs and the Marcos Dictatorship
This article identifies the early dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos as a significant moment in drug policy in the Philippines, as well as the wider Southeast Asian region. Using methods of critical discourse analysis and the notion of episodic history, it shows how the Marcos government capitalized on the idea of a ‘drug menace’ and narrativized the ideal of ‘discipline’ to justify its authoritarian regime and establish a heavily …
Pharmaceutical messianism and the politics of Covid-19 in the United States
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials in the United States - from the President to governors, mayors, lawmakers, and even school district commissioners - touted unproven treatments for COVID-19 alongside, and sometimes as opposed to, mask and vaccine mandates. Utilising the framework of 'pharmaceutical messianism', our article focuses on three such cures - hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and monoclonal antibodies - to explore how pha…
Pampalibog
This article draws from qualitative interviews to provide the first in-depth exploration of reasons for engaging in chemsex in the Philippines. It articulates the many forms that drugs assume as pampalibog, or enhancers of libido, demonstrating the multidimensional pleasures of chemsex along overlapping sensorial and affective planes. By showing the inextricability of the corporeal to the affective, and of the emotional to the erotic, we contend …
Neither legal nor illegal
Traditional medicine in Filipino patients' therapeutic itineraries
Miracle cures, wonder drugs, and unproven treatments for Covid-19
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Public health (6 works) · Pandemic (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works)