Amanda M Gengler
Biographic Data
| ID | 222776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda M Gengler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gengler |
| SIGNATURE | GENGLER A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1755-2886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Emotional Fortification: Pediatricians as a Core Resource for Managing Parental Stress and Anxiety
Consult your child's pediatrician for guidance"-this is a refrain parents hear repeatedly. Drawing on 43 interviews with 11 pediatricians and 32 parents of minor children, I find that many parents turn to pediatric providers to help them resolve a wide range of everyday anxieties related to childrearing. Many pediatricians, in turn, view providing substantial emotional support to parents as a central component of their jobs. I conceptualize this …
“The medicine is the easy part”: Pediatric physicians’ emotional labor in end-of-life care
Physicians who care for children with life-threatening conditions are uniquely positioned to support families through the dying phase when treatment efforts have failed. Taking on this role for families requires a great deal of time and strategic emotional labor. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 12 physicians across two different children's hospitals on the east coast, I find that these physicians conceptualize this work as a fundamental respo…
Emotions and Medical Decision-Making
Sociologists have written surprisingly little about the role emotions play in medical decision-making, largely ceding this terrain to psychologists who conceptualize emotional influences on decision-making in primarily cognitive and individualistic terms. In this article, I use ethnographic data gathered from parents and physicians caring for children with life-threatening conditions to illustrate how emotions enter the medical decision-making pr…
Methodological Impression Management in Ethnographic Research
In this article, we contend that turning a sharp dramaturgical lens on the dynamics of fieldwork clarifies a number of longstanding ethical challenges in ethnography-challenges that have shifted and deepened in the new technological landscape in which ethnographers work. We encourage fieldworkers to adopt an intentional approach to what we call methodological impression management to navigate the research process more strategically. Drawing on ou…
The Complexities and Contradictions of Resistance: An Intersectional Perspective
What Difference Does Difference Make? The Persistence of Inequalities in Healthcare Delivery
Scholars across many disciplines have amassed a mountain of research documenting how social differences along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality shape how those who need medical attention are cared for in the US healthcare system. Here, we aim to succinctly review a selection of studies that have considered the many ways both patients' and healthcare providers' social identities can impact care delivery. After establishing how these diff…
He's Doing Fine: Hope Work and Emotional Threat Management Among Families of Seriously Ill Children
In this study, I examine how people in emotionally fraught circumstances strategically structure social interactions in order to protect fragile emotional states. Data come from interviews and observations with 18 families of children being treated for life-threatening conditions at an elite university research hospital. I show how families worked to ward off emotional threats to their ability to maintain hope that their children would recover by…
I Want You to Save My Kid: Illness Management Strategies, Access, and Inequality at an Elite University Research Hospital
Using data drawn from interviews and observations with 18 families whose children were diagnosed with life-threatening, often rare diseases, I examine how families accessed and negotiated medical care at a top 10-ranked university research hospital. Access to highly specialized and technologically advanced care was essential in these critical cases. Combining analysis of these high-stakes cases with recent work highlighting the interactional dyna…
Defying (Dis)Empowerment in a Battered Women's Shelter: Moral Rhetorics, Intersectionality, and Processes of Control and Resistance
Power has been fruitfully conceptualized as a relationship between two or more actors or groups (Janeway 1980; Lukes 2005). Much of this work has treated power relations in generic terms (e.g., Foucault 1978; Scott 1990), paying little attention to how actors' positions in structures of inequality shape the interactional resources available to them as they devise strategies of control and resistance in interaction with one another. Here, I argue …
I Want You to Save My Kid: Illness Management Strategies, Access, and Inequality at an Elite University Research Hospital
Using data drawn from interviews and observations with 18 families whose children were diagnosed with life-threatening, often rare diseases, I examine how families accessed and negotiated medical care at a top 10-ranked university research hospital. Access to highly specialized and technologically advanced care was essential in these critical cases. Combining analysis of these high-stakes cases with recent work highlighting the interactional dyna…
Defying (Dis)Empowerment in a Battered Women's Shelter: Moral Rhetorics, Intersectionality, and Processes of Control and Resistance
Power has been fruitfully conceptualized as a relationship between two or more actors or groups (Janeway 1980; Lukes 2005). Much of this work has treated power relations in generic terms (e.g., Foucault 1978; Scott 1990), paying little attention to how actors' positions in structures of inequality shape the interactional resources available to them as they devise strategies of control and resistance in interaction with one another. Here, I argue …
Emotions and Medical Decision-Making
Sociologists have written surprisingly little about the role emotions play in medical decision-making, largely ceding this terrain to psychologists who conceptualize emotional influences on decision-making in primarily cognitive and individualistic terms. In this article, I use ethnographic data gathered from parents and physicians caring for children with life-threatening conditions to illustrate how emotions enter the medical decision-making pr…
What Difference Does Difference Make? The Persistence of Inequalities in Healthcare Delivery
Scholars across many disciplines have amassed a mountain of research documenting how social differences along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality shape how those who need medical attention are cared for in the US healthcare system. Here, we aim to succinctly review a selection of studies that have considered the many ways both patients' and healthcare providers' social identities can impact care delivery. After establishing how these diff…
Methodological Impression Management in Ethnographic Research
In this article, we contend that turning a sharp dramaturgical lens on the dynamics of fieldwork clarifies a number of longstanding ethical challenges in ethnography-challenges that have shifted and deepened in the new technological landscape in which ethnographers work. We encourage fieldworkers to adopt an intentional approach to what we call methodological impression management to navigate the research process more strategically. Drawing on ou…
He's Doing Fine: Hope Work and Emotional Threat Management Among Families of Seriously Ill Children
In this study, I examine how people in emotionally fraught circumstances strategically structure social interactions in order to protect fragile emotional states. Data come from interviews and observations with 18 families of children being treated for life-threatening conditions at an elite university research hospital. I show how families worked to ward off emotional threats to their ability to maintain hope that their children would recover by…
Defying (Dis)Empowerment in a Battered Women's Shelter: Moral Rhetorics, Intersectionality, and Processes of Control and Resistance
Power has been fruitfully conceptualized as a relationship between two or more actors or groups (Janeway 1980; Lukes 2005). Much of this work has treated power relations in generic terms (e.g., Foucault 1978; Scott 1990), paying little attention to how actors' positions in structures of inequality shape the interactional resources available to them as they devise strategies of control and resistance in interaction with one another. Here, I argue …
I Want You to Save My Kid: Illness Management Strategies, Access, and Inequality at an Elite University Research Hospital
Using data drawn from interviews and observations with 18 families whose children were diagnosed with life-threatening, often rare diseases, I examine how families accessed and negotiated medical care at a top 10-ranked university research hospital. Access to highly specialized and technologically advanced care was essential in these critical cases. Combining analysis of these high-stakes cases with recent work highlighting the interactional dyna…
What Difference Does Difference Make? The Persistence of Inequalities in Healthcare Delivery
Scholars across many disciplines have amassed a mountain of research documenting how social differences along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality shape how those who need medical attention are cared for in the US healthcare system. Here, we aim to succinctly review a selection of studies that have considered the many ways both patients' and healthcare providers' social identities can impact care delivery. After establishing how these diff…
He's Doing Fine: Hope Work and Emotional Threat Management Among Families of Seriously Ill Children
In this study, I examine how people in emotionally fraught circumstances strategically structure social interactions in order to protect fragile emotional states. Data come from interviews and observations with 18 families of children being treated for life-threatening conditions at an elite university research hospital. I show how families worked to ward off emotional threats to their ability to maintain hope that their children would recover by…
The Complexities and Contradictions of Resistance: An Intersectional Perspective
Methodological Impression Management in Ethnographic Research
In this article, we contend that turning a sharp dramaturgical lens on the dynamics of fieldwork clarifies a number of longstanding ethical challenges in ethnography-challenges that have shifted and deepened in the new technological landscape in which ethnographers work. We encourage fieldworkers to adopt an intentional approach to what we call methodological impression management to navigate the research process more strategically. Drawing on ou…
Emotions and Medical Decision-Making
Sociologists have written surprisingly little about the role emotions play in medical decision-making, largely ceding this terrain to psychologists who conceptualize emotional influences on decision-making in primarily cognitive and individualistic terms. In this article, I use ethnographic data gathered from parents and physicians caring for children with life-threatening conditions to illustrate how emotions enter the medical decision-making pr…
“The medicine is the easy part”: Pediatric physicians’ emotional labor in end-of-life care
Physicians who care for children with life-threatening conditions are uniquely positioned to support families through the dying phase when treatment efforts have failed. Taking on this role for families requires a great deal of time and strategic emotional labor. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 12 physicians across two different children's hospitals on the east coast, I find that these physicians conceptualize this work as a fundamental respo…
Emotional Fortification: Pediatricians as a Core Resource for Managing Parental Stress and Anxiety
Consult your child's pediatrician for guidance"-this is a refrain parents hear repeatedly. Drawing on 43 interviews with 11 pediatricians and 32 parents of minor children, I find that many parents turn to pediatric providers to help them resolve a wide range of everyday anxieties related to childrearing. Many pediatricians, in turn, view providing substantial emotional support to parents as a central component of their jobs. I conceptualize this …
Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)