E Varley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 20734 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E Varley |
| NOMBRES | E |
| APELLIDO | Varley |
| FIRMA | VARLEY E |
| AFILIACIONES | Brandon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1752-5511 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Chronicling Care
Weeping wombs
In Gilgit, capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan region in northern Pakistan, leucorrhea - vaginal discharge known in the vernacular as safaid pani, or 'white water' - serves as both a medical diagnosis and signifier of the chronicity of the reproductive, social, and emotional burdens endured by women. While ethnomedical providers explained safaid pani as resulting from relatively benign forms of 'weakness', which required minimal dietary or ethno-bota…
Hospital Paperworlds
Global health metrics come into being in complex circumstances. Through ethnography that focuses closely on the forces driving uneven obstetric case reporting in a government hospital in northern Pakistan, this article challenges the integrity of the health care system documentation on which the state and non-state interventions and evaluations rely. Incomplete and skipped case records not only resulted from the time constraints posed by work on …
Bodies in peril
Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in maternity settings in Tanzania and Pakistan, we argue that 'bodywork' condenses all politically and practically at stake for maternal healthcare providers. Our research confronts how global health programmes expect paramedical providers working on the frontlines of obstetrics to implement interventions without also attending to violent everyday realities of providing care amidst structural constraint…
Introduction
Drawing on the work of Ivan Illich, our special issue reanimates iatrogenesis as a vital concept for the social sciences of medicine. It calls for medicine to expand its engagement of the injustices that unfold from clinical processes, practices, and protocols into patient lifeworlds and subjectivities beyond the clinic. The capacious view of iatrogenesis revealed by this special issue collection affords fuller and more heterogeneous insights on …
Monsoons and medicine
Through the medium of a hospital ethnography, this paper explores the debilitating impacts of the 2010 monsoon floods on Gilgit-Baltistan’s public health sector, and interrogates how its escalating harms coalesced with long-standing state neglects to generate medical precarity and loss, and spark debate concerning Pakistan’s responsiveness and commitments to this politically marginalized and remote region. In Gilgit Town, the region’s administrat…
Attending to the Dark Side of Medicine
Spectral Ties
In this article, we trace encounters between humans and phantasmic entities in hospitals in Indian-occupied and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. In Pakistan, the presence of spectral beings ( jinni ) in hospitals is linked to state and sectarian violence, which precipitates ruptures between jinni and human worlds. Such breaches permit jinni to manifest in the medical present, where insecure actors harness them to ventriloquize unspoken anxieties. In …
Abandonments, Solidarities and Logics of Care
Education for Development in Northern Pakistan
Reviewed: Education for Development in Northern Pakistan: Opportunities and Constraints for Rural Households By Andreas Benz. Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxxii + 434 pp. PKR 1850.00, € 27.99, US$ 45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-906917-0
Chapter 1 Black Magic, Divination and Remedial Reproductive Agency in Northern Pakistan
Islamic logics, reproductive rationalities
This paper explores the use of Islamic doctrine and jurisprudence by family planning organizations in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. It examines how particular interpretations of Islam are promoted in order to encourage fertility reductions, and the ways Muslim clerics, women and their families react to this process. The paper first discusses how Pakistan's demographic crisis, as the world's sixth most populous nation, has been…
Targeted doctors, missing patients
Targeted doctors, missing patients
Spectral Ties
In this article, we trace encounters between humans and phantasmic entities in hospitals in Indian-occupied and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. In Pakistan, the presence of spectral beings ( jinni ) in hospitals is linked to state and sectarian violence, which precipitates ruptures between jinni and human worlds. Such breaches permit jinni to manifest in the medical present, where insecure actors harness them to ventriloquize unspoken anxieties. In …
Islamic logics, reproductive rationalities
This paper explores the use of Islamic doctrine and jurisprudence by family planning organizations in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. It examines how particular interpretations of Islam are promoted in order to encourage fertility reductions, and the ways Muslim clerics, women and their families react to this process. The paper first discusses how Pakistan's demographic crisis, as the world's sixth most populous nation, has been…
Attending to the Dark Side of Medicine
Hospital Paperworlds
Global health metrics come into being in complex circumstances. Through ethnography that focuses closely on the forces driving uneven obstetric case reporting in a government hospital in northern Pakistan, this article challenges the integrity of the health care system documentation on which the state and non-state interventions and evaluations rely. Incomplete and skipped case records not only resulted from the time constraints posed by work on …
Monsoons and medicine
Through the medium of a hospital ethnography, this paper explores the debilitating impacts of the 2010 monsoon floods on Gilgit-Baltistan’s public health sector, and interrogates how its escalating harms coalesced with long-standing state neglects to generate medical precarity and loss, and spark debate concerning Pakistan’s responsiveness and commitments to this politically marginalized and remote region. In Gilgit Town, the region’s administrat…
Targeted doctors, missing patients
Chapter 1 Black Magic, Divination and Remedial Reproductive Agency in Northern Pakistan
Islamic logics, reproductive rationalities
This paper explores the use of Islamic doctrine and jurisprudence by family planning organizations in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. It examines how particular interpretations of Islam are promoted in order to encourage fertility reductions, and the ways Muslim clerics, women and their families react to this process. The paper first discusses how Pakistan's demographic crisis, as the world's sixth most populous nation, has been…
Education for Development in Northern Pakistan
Reviewed: Education for Development in Northern Pakistan: Opportunities and Constraints for Rural Households By Andreas Benz. Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxxii + 434 pp. PKR 1850.00, € 27.99, US$ 45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-906917-0
Abandonments, Solidarities and Logics of Care
Spectral Ties
In this article, we trace encounters between humans and phantasmic entities in hospitals in Indian-occupied and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. In Pakistan, the presence of spectral beings ( jinni ) in hospitals is linked to state and sectarian violence, which precipitates ruptures between jinni and human worlds. Such breaches permit jinni to manifest in the medical present, where insecure actors harness them to ventriloquize unspoken anxieties. In …
Monsoons and medicine
Through the medium of a hospital ethnography, this paper explores the debilitating impacts of the 2010 monsoon floods on Gilgit-Baltistan’s public health sector, and interrogates how its escalating harms coalesced with long-standing state neglects to generate medical precarity and loss, and spark debate concerning Pakistan’s responsiveness and commitments to this politically marginalized and remote region. In Gilgit Town, the region’s administrat…
Attending to the Dark Side of Medicine
Introduction
Drawing on the work of Ivan Illich, our special issue reanimates iatrogenesis as a vital concept for the social sciences of medicine. It calls for medicine to expand its engagement of the injustices that unfold from clinical processes, practices, and protocols into patient lifeworlds and subjectivities beyond the clinic. The capacious view of iatrogenesis revealed by this special issue collection affords fuller and more heterogeneous insights on …
Bodies in peril
Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in maternity settings in Tanzania and Pakistan, we argue that 'bodywork' condenses all politically and practically at stake for maternal healthcare providers. Our research confronts how global health programmes expect paramedical providers working on the frontlines of obstetrics to implement interventions without also attending to violent everyday realities of providing care amidst structural constraint…
Weeping wombs
In Gilgit, capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan region in northern Pakistan, leucorrhea - vaginal discharge known in the vernacular as safaid pani, or 'white water' - serves as both a medical diagnosis and signifier of the chronicity of the reproductive, social, and emotional burdens endured by women. While ethnomedical providers explained safaid pani as resulting from relatively benign forms of 'weakness', which required minimal dietary or ethno-bota…
Hospital Paperworlds
Global health metrics come into being in complex circumstances. Through ethnography that focuses closely on the forces driving uneven obstetric case reporting in a government hospital in northern Pakistan, this article challenges the integrity of the health care system documentation on which the state and non-state interventions and evaluations rely. Incomplete and skipped case records not only resulted from the time constraints posed by work on …
Chronicling Care
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