Richard C Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 226702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard C Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard C |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2577-9810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 307 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Experiment Perilous
This is a brilliant work of lasting value to both sociology and anthropology by a person combining the talent of keen observer with the highest level of theoretical sophistication. . . a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and structure of a significant social situation."--David M. Schneider, The University of Chicago. Experiment Perilous covers a three-year period In the lives of the patients and physicians in a small and inten…
A Disconcerting Pact with Gravity
In his 1950 poem “Blondin,” about the famous nineteenth-century French tightrope walker Charles Blondin, Walter De La Mare compares this “death-defying acrobat” to “ ... some old saint on his old rop
New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, “Plesiadapiformes”) and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapidae are a family of Paleogene mammals thought to have phylogenetic affinities with modern Primates. We describe previously unpublished dentitions and the first skull and isolated petrosals of the plesiadapid Pronothodectes gaoi , collected from middle Tiffanian localities of the Paskapoo Formation in Alberta. Other species of Pronothodectes , traditionally considered the most basal members of the Plesiadapidae, occur at earlier, Torrejo…
Dear Mr. Whitworth/Dear Professor Fox”
Heroic Action and Its Discontents
Nationals" and "Expatriates
The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is strongly committed to principles of universalism, egalitarianism, and equity, in both its internal and external relations. Nevertheless, the organization distinguishes between so-called "national" staff members (those who are indigenous to the countries where MSF projects are located), and "expatriate" staff (those who are involved in projects outside their countries …
Khayelitsha Journal
Observations and Reflections of a Perpetual Fieldworker
This article is based on the author's five decades of experience as a "perpetual fieldworker, engaged ethnographer," and teacher of field methods of social research. After dealing with what she perceives as a false dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative methods of research, she considers some of the cognitive characteristics of ethnographic research and distinctive properties of field data. She pays special attention to the complex role o…
Medical Uncertainty Revisited
More Than Bioethics
In the Belgian Chateau
The house of Belgium and its many houses, institutional and personal, literal and metaphoric are captured in a blend of social and cultural analysis that offers a microcosm of European society since World War II. Sensitive, perceptive, revealing, and delightfully readable. - Eugen Weber
Medical humanitarianism and human rights
The Puzzle Man
We knew Starzl was both appreciatively and unappreciatively renowned for these qualities within the small, tight world of the pioneering generation of transplanters to which he belonged, and to which we had been given access for the pursuit of our medical sociological research. We were less prepared for the other glimpses of him that this first visit afforded us: Tom Starzl, gazing out of The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon. By Tho…
Spare Parts
Introduction: Rebuilding people PART I: ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION: Patterns and issues in the 1980s Of wonder drugs, the transplant boom, and moratoria Organ transplantation as gift exchange Alterations in the theme of the gift Transplantation and the medical commons PART II: THE JARVIK-7 ARTIFICIAL HEART EXPERIMENT: Desperate Appliance: A short history of the development and use of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart Made in the U.S.A.: American features …
Spare Parts
Spare Parts centres on the developments that have occurred in the field of organ transplantation during the 1980s and early 1990s, and on the rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in that period. It is vividly written in a narrative ethnographic style. The interconnected stories of organ transplantation and the artificial heart are recounted in an interpretive framework that attributes their most enduring significance to the triple theme…
Leaving the Field
They have watched, as insiders, the first fumbling attempts to\ntransplant kidneys, then hearts, then live-donated lobes of liver and lung.\nNow the two sociologists most closely identified with organ transplantation\nhave concluded that they must leave the field....The field of organ\nreplacement now epitomizes a very different and powerful tendency in the\nAmerican health care system and in the value and belief system of our\nsociety's culture:…
Reflections and Opportunities in the Sociology of Medicine
Une sociologue americaine de la medecine s'epanche a l'occasion de son discours de reception de la Leo G. Reeder Award. Tour d'horizon des tendances actuelles de la sociologie medicale americaine par rapport a la recherche dans le domaine du genie biomedicale, aux grands problemes contemporains de la bioethique, et au vieillissement de la population. Un regret: la sociologie americaine devrait, a l'instar de l'europeenne se pencher davantage sur …
Is religion important in Belgium
Religion is no longer important in Belgium!', they declared. Wherever I travelled in Belgium over the course of 1976-1977, the year of my sabbatical leave from an American university, and my eighteenth consecutive year of fieldwork in Belgian society, friends, colleagues, and informants announced this.I was particularly puzzled by this statement because I had always considered Belgium to be a society deeply imprinted by religion: by its diffuse C…
Essays in Medical Sociology
Is There a Sociology of Death
The Sting of Death in American Society
A collective interest in death and dying has progressively developed in American society since the 1960s. Among the factors associated with it are demographic shifts; medical, scientific, and technological advances; changes in the statuses, roles, and outlook of medical professionals, patients, and women; and the affirmation and broadening of individual rights. Life-and-death issues have moved increasingly from private to public spheres of the so…
Essays in Medical Sociology
This outstanding collection of essays by Renee C. Fox encompasses almost thirty years of original, pioneering research in the sociology of medicine. Based on fieldwork in a variety of medical settings in the United States, Belgium, Zaire, these ethnographic essays examine chronic terminal illness, medical research, therapeutic innovation, medical education socialization, bio-ethics. Within this framework, three empirical cases have been singled o…
The Evolution of Medical Uncertainty
Modern developments of scientific medicine have uncovered and created uncertainties and risks that were previously not known or experienced; the stakes have become very much higher. The rise in public expectation, however, is paralleled by a lowered tolerance of uncertainty. Metaphors of "deliverance" and "disaster" abound in discussions of scientific discovery, reflecting differing conceptions and philosophies about errors and mistakes, and the …
Two Decades of Sociology, Volume 4
Why Belgium
Why belgium?' is the question that American and Belgian colleagues and friends have asked me recurrently since I began doing research in that society in 1959. Ever since then, Belgium has been one of the consistent sites of my sociological inquiry, reflection and analysis. (Zäire, Belgium's former colony in Central Africa, became another such site, beginning in 1962). With a mixture of real interest, conventional politeness, perplexity and, on th…
Religious Movements in Central Africa
A shared sense of discovery and frustration prompts us to write this article. Independently, from our anthropological, historical and sociological research in Zaire over a period of many years, we have been impressed with the pivotal role of religion and magic in that society. The recurrence and development of religious movements in Zaire throughout its known history is an archetypical expression of that predominance. In our view, these movements…
Illness, Therapy and the Modern Urban American Family
Medical humanitarianism and human rights
Experiment Perilous
This is a brilliant work of lasting value to both sociology and anthropology by a person combining the talent of keen observer with the highest level of theoretical sophistication. . . a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and structure of a significant social situation. --David M. Schneider, The University of Chicago
The Second Independence
The particular rebellion in the Congo with which we are concerned in this article is the one that began in the Kwilu Province in January 1964 and, as such, was the first in a chain of rebellions that have erupted in the Congo in the course of the past year
Essays in Medical Sociology
This outstanding collection of essays by Renee C. Fox encompasses almost thirty years of original, pioneering research in the sociology of medicine. Based on fieldwork in a variety of medical settings in the United States, Belgium, Zaire, these ethnographic essays examine chronic terminal illness, medical research, therapeutic innovation, medical education socialization, bio-ethics. Within this framework, three empirical cases have been singled o…
Observations and Reflections of a Perpetual Fieldworker
This article is based on the author's five decades of experience as a "perpetual fieldworker, engaged ethnographer," and teacher of field methods of social research. After dealing with what she perceives as a false dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative methods of research, she considers some of the cognitive characteristics of ethnographic research and distinctive properties of field data. She pays special attention to the complex role o…
New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, “Plesiadapiformes”) and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapidae are a family of Paleogene mammals thought to have phylogenetic affinities with modern Primates. We describe previously unpublished dentitions and the first skull and isolated petrosals of the plesiadapid Pronothodectes gaoi , collected from middle Tiffanian localities of the Paskapoo Formation in Alberta. Other species of Pronothodectes , traditionally considered the most basal members of the Plesiadapidae, occur at earlier, Torrejo…
Advanced Medical Technology-Social and Ethical Implications
During the past decade, from the mid1960s to the present, there has been a progressive outpouring of publications on the social, ethical, theological, and legal implications of developments in biomedical research and technology. The appearance of this now vast literature has coincided with the emergence of a new area of inquiry and action that has come to be known as bioethics.' In the words of Daniel Callahan (1973e), a philosopher-ethicist who …
Reflections and Opportunities in the Sociology of Medicine
Une sociologue americaine de la medecine s'epanche a l'occasion de son discours de reception de la Leo G. Reeder Award. Tour d'horizon des tendances actuelles de la sociologie medicale americaine par rapport a la recherche dans le domaine du genie biomedicale, aux grands problemes contemporains de la bioethique, et au vieillissement de la population. Un regret: la sociologie americaine devrait, a l'instar de l'europeenne se pencher davantage sur …
Nationals" and "Expatriates
The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is strongly committed to principles of universalism, egalitarianism, and equity, in both its internal and external relations. Nevertheless, the organization distinguishes between so-called "national" staff members (those who are indigenous to the countries where MSF projects are located), and "expatriate" staff (those who are involved in projects outside their countries …
The Doctor and His Patient
The Case of the Floppy-Eared Rabbits
Two distinguished medical scientists independently observed the same phenomenon in the course of their research: reversible collapse of rabbits' ears after injection of the enzyme papain. One went on to make a discovery based on this serendipitous or chance occurrence; the other did not. Intensive tandem interviews were conducted with each of these scientist in order to discover similarities and differences in their experiences with the floppy-ea…
Role strains of a health care team in a poverty community
Why Belgium
Why belgium?' is the question that American and Belgian colleagues and friends have asked me recurrently since I began doing research in that society in 1959. Ever since then, Belgium has been one of the consistent sites of my sociological inquiry, reflection and analysis. (Zäire, Belgium's former colony in Central Africa, became another such site, beginning in 1962). With a mixture of real interest, conventional politeness, perplexity and, on th…
Is religion important in Belgium
Religion is no longer important in Belgium!', they declared. Wherever I travelled in Belgium over the course of 1976-1977, the year of my sabbatical leave from an American university, and my eighteenth consecutive year of fieldwork in Belgian society, friends, colleagues, and informants announced this.I was particularly puzzled by this statement because I had always considered Belgium to be a society deeply imprinted by religion: by its diffuse C…
The Sting of Death in American Society
A collective interest in death and dying has progressively developed in American society since the 1960s. Among the factors associated with it are demographic shifts; medical, scientific, and technological advances; changes in the statuses, roles, and outlook of medical professionals, patients, and women; and the affirmation and broadening of individual rights. Life-and-death issues have moved increasingly from private to public spheres of the so…
The Courage to Fail
As a summary of the history of a subject of ever-increasing importance today, this book can be recommended.Dr. Coley brings his narrative up to date, with a terminal chapter on "some techniques of modem biochemistry" and a peep into the future.His book will, therefore, prove useful to the practising biochemist as well as to those more professionally concerned with the history of the subject.Another, and important, attraction to the student is the…
Experiment Perilous
This is a brilliant work of lasting value to both sociology and anthropology by a person combining the talent of keen observer with the highest level of theoretical sophistication. . . a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and structure of a significant social situation."--David M. Schneider, The University of Chicago. Experiment Perilous covers a three-year period In the lives of the patients and physicians in a small and inten…
Khayelitsha Journal
Illness, Therapy and the Modern Urban American Family
The Case of the Floppy-Eared Rabbits
Two distinguished medical scientists independently observed the same phenomenon in the course of their research: reversible collapse of rabbits' ears after injection of the enzyme papain. One went on to make a discovery based on this serendipitous or chance occurrence; the other did not. Intensive tandem interviews were conducted with each of these scientist in order to discover similarities and differences in their experiences with the floppy-ea…
Personality Patterns of Psychiatrists
Experiment Perilous
Experiment Perilous
Teaching Comprehensive Medical Care
Experiment Perilous
This is a brilliant work of lasting value to both sociology and anthropology by a person combining the talent of keen observer with the highest level of theoretical sophistication. . . a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and structure of a significant social situation. --David M. Schneider, The University of Chicago
The Doctor and His Patient
The Second Independence
The particular rebellion in the Congo with which we are concerned in this article is the one that began in the Kwilu Province in January 1964 and, as such, was the first in a chain of rebellions that have erupted in the Congo in the course of the past year
Role strains of a health care team in a poverty community
Urban India
Chronicle of a Cadaver Transplant
gency cases receiving their initial medical care at another hospital. ... The patient (possible donor) is brought to the emergency room of that hospital critically ill. The family is informed within a limited amount of time that there is no hope for the patient's survival-or family members may take this presumption independently.... Serious thought about donorship usually begins slightly following the impact of pending death. Although family memb…
The Courage to Fail
As a summary of the history of a subject of ever-increasing importance today, this book can be recommended.Dr. Coley brings his narrative up to date, with a terminal chapter on "some techniques of modem biochemistry" and a peep into the future.His book will, therefore, prove useful to the practising biochemist as well as to those more professionally concerned with the history of the subject.Another, and important, attraction to the student is the…
Long-Term Dialysis Programs
Gerald Perkoff, Eduardo Slatopolsky, Aubrey Morrison, Patricia McKevitt, Penny Franzen, , Long-Term Dialysis Programs: New Selection Criteria, New Problems, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jun., 1976), pp. 8-13
Advanced Medical Technology-Social and Ethical Implications
During the past decade, from the mid1960s to the present, there has been a progressive outpouring of publications on the social, ethical, theological, and legal implications of developments in biomedical research and technology. The appearance of this now vast literature has coincided with the emergence of a new area of inquiry and action that has come to be known as bioethics.' In the words of Daniel Callahan (1973e), a philosopher-ethicist who …
Religious Movements in Central Africa
A shared sense of discovery and frustration prompts us to write this article. Independently, from our anthropological, historical and sociological research in Zaire over a period of many years, we have been impressed with the pivotal role of religion and magic in that society. The recurrence and development of religious movements in Zaire throughout its known history is an archetypical expression of that predominance. In our view, these movements…
Why Belgium
Why belgium?' is the question that American and Belgian colleagues and friends have asked me recurrently since I began doing research in that society in 1959. Ever since then, Belgium has been one of the consistent sites of my sociological inquiry, reflection and analysis. (Zäire, Belgium's former colony in Central Africa, became another such site, beginning in 1962). With a mixture of real interest, conventional politeness, perplexity and, on th…
The Evolution of Medical Uncertainty
Modern developments of scientific medicine have uncovered and created uncertainties and risks that were previously not known or experienced; the stakes have become very much higher. The rise in public expectation, however, is paralleled by a lowered tolerance of uncertainty. Metaphors of "deliverance" and "disaster" abound in discussions of scientific discovery, reflecting differing conceptions and philosophies about errors and mistakes, and the …
Two Decades of Sociology, Volume 4
Essays in Medical Sociology
Is There a Sociology of Death
The Sting of Death in American Society
A collective interest in death and dying has progressively developed in American society since the 1960s. Among the factors associated with it are demographic shifts; medical, scientific, and technological advances; changes in the statuses, roles, and outlook of medical professionals, patients, and women; and the affirmation and broadening of individual rights. Life-and-death issues have moved increasingly from private to public spheres of the so…
Essays in Medical Sociology
This outstanding collection of essays by Renee C. Fox encompasses almost thirty years of original, pioneering research in the sociology of medicine. Based on fieldwork in a variety of medical settings in the United States, Belgium, Zaire, these ethnographic essays examine chronic terminal illness, medical research, therapeutic innovation, medical education socialization, bio-ethics. Within this framework, three empirical cases have been singled o…
Is religion important in Belgium
Religion is no longer important in Belgium!', they declared. Wherever I travelled in Belgium over the course of 1976-1977, the year of my sabbatical leave from an American university, and my eighteenth consecutive year of fieldwork in Belgian society, friends, colleagues, and informants announced this.I was particularly puzzled by this statement because I had always considered Belgium to be a society deeply imprinted by religion: by its diffuse C…
Reflections and Opportunities in the Sociology of Medicine
Une sociologue americaine de la medecine s'epanche a l'occasion de son discours de reception de la Leo G. Reeder Award. Tour d'horizon des tendances actuelles de la sociologie medicale americaine par rapport a la recherche dans le domaine du genie biomedicale, aux grands problemes contemporains de la bioethique, et au vieillissement de la population. Un regret: la sociologie americaine devrait, a l'instar de l'europeenne se pencher davantage sur …
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