P H Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 33097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P H Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | P H |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5488-1056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The rites of normality
This auto‐ethnographic case study offers a co‐phenomenological account of Marcela's technocratic birth, tracing how biomedical rituals, institutional rhythms, and the metaphysics of ‘normality’ shaped a cascade of interventions following a gestational diabetes diagnosis and early induction. Drawing on anthropological and sociological theory, the article interrogates how routinised paternalism, risk logics, and the ‘technocratic model’ of birth in…
Good citizens, perfect patients, and family reputation
Stigma and isolation are common in people with tuberculosis (TB). Social isolation contributes to reduced health outcomes and TB treatment adherence. Stigma and the drivers of isolation in people with Drug-Resistant (DR)-TB may include modifiable advice and practices of family and Health Care Workers (HCW). This study aimed to understand the drivers of isolation and stigma from the perspective of people with DR-TB in Vietnam. A greater understand…
The Eco-Certified Child
The Eco-Certified Child: Citizenship and education for sustainability and environment - Malin Ideland, (2019). The Eco-Certified Child: Citizenship and education for sustainability and environment, Palgrave Macmillan. - Volume 37 Issue 1
Environmental education and ecotourism - Fernando Ramírez and Josefina Santana , (2019). Environmental education and ecotourism. Springer
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A critical review of interdisciplinary perspectives on the paradox of prosocial compared to antisocial manifestations of empathy
Empathy is the ability to experience affective and cognitive states of another person, whilst maintaining a distinct self, in order to understand the other. It is a multidimensional phenomenon, ranging from vicarious distress to near complete understanding, with many shades in between. As an almost universal and integral human construct, empathy has been considered in many disciplines and contexts, from evolution to gender, politics, economics, e…
Cures, Tuberculosis, and Deterritorialized Biomedical Narratives
In the essay “Cures” (Public Culture, September 2016), Bharat Venkat examines how biomedical scientists, since the time of Robert Koch (1843–1910), have contested what counts as trustworthy evidence of a cure for tuberculosis. Widespread cultural shifts accompanied these medical debates and developments. Randomized controlled trials now dominate as an evidentiary form in tuberculosis control with implications for how global health efforts roll ou…
Neurosocialities
Neurosocialities: anthropological engagements with the neurosciences
Reciprocity-Building and the Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Tuberculosis Research
Biodiversity, drug discovery, and the future of global health
ooking to nature for medicine is nothing new -we have been doing it for tens of thousands of years and although modern pharmaceutical science has come a long way from those ancient roots, nature is and will always be an important source of useful compounds and inspiration. Dismissing nature in this regard is a huge mistake as evolution is the greatest problem solver and the myriad compounds produced by the immense variety of species we share the …
Sound Rising from the Paper
Bruce M. Z. Cohen, Psychiatric Hegemony
Mental illness has extended well beyond being a clinical concern to becoming a dramatically epidemiological problem. Which discipline is best positioned to study and explain this epidemiological transition when even basic questions about aetiology, disease course and methods of treatment remain hotly contested? Taking seriously scientific examinations that question the validity of mental illness diagnostics and treatment, Bruce Cohen takes a soci…
James C. McCann
Mapping the illness trajectories of insomnia
The insomnia illness experience can be conceptualised as a form of biographical disruption. Using a critical interpretive phenomenological lens 51 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients from specialist sleep and psychology clinics (n = 22) and the general community (n = 29). Patients' narratives revealed key phases of their illness trajectories as they recognise, rethink and respond to insomnia. Their biographical events…
Social, Historical and Cultural Dimensions of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) researchers and clinicians, by virtue of the social disease they study, are drawn into an engagement with ways of understanding illness that extend beyond the strictly biomedical model. Primers on social science concepts directly relevant to TB, however, are lacking. The particularities of TB disease mean that certain social science concepts are more relevant than others. Concepts such as structural violence can seem complicated…
The anthropology of multispecies assemblages
Fight-dancing and the festival
Festivals bring people together in affirmations of community. This article looks at two festivals in coastal locations in Indonesia and Brazil with a close inspection of performances of fight-dancing included within both festivals. The improvisatory or choreographed organization of the fight-dancing performances echoes the manner in which the festivals themselves are assembled. As these festivals grow in popularity, the process of inventing tradi…
Tuberculosis in India
Tuberculosis in India: a case of innovation and control, by Nora Engel." Anthropology & Medicine, 23(3), pp. 360–361
Disease and Crime
Part of the Routledge Studies in Cultural History series, Disease and Crime is a well-integrated collection of essays that span the (post-) colonial histories of medicine, law and politics in East
Apprenticeship as method
Apprenticeship, the process of developing from novice to proficiency under the guidance of a skilled expert, varies across cultures and among different skilled communities, but for many communities of practice, apprenticeship offers an ideal ethnographic point of entry. For certain kinds of anthropological fieldwork, such as studies of bodily arts, apprenticeship may offer an essential research method. In this article, three anthropologists discu…
Free Market Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that has led to the deaths of writers such as Katherine Mansfeld (Lederman 36), perversely shaped ideals of feminine beauty (Romanska), and fueled the charitab
Sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis: night-mares, nocebos, and the mind-body connection, by Shelley R. Adler, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2011, 168 pp., ISBN 978-0-8135-4886-9 When considering the same psych
Music, dance and the total art work
Euro-American performance arts are exceptional among the world's cultures in that music and dance are separable and constitute independent disciplines. In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a distinct consciousness emerged that demonstrated an awareness of the varying and protean relationships that music and dance can share. While some artists were keen to develop their particular medium to its fullest potential, others were keen …
Embodied Communities
The power of place
The power of place: geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape, by Harm de Blij." Anthropology & Medicine, 16(3), pp. 333–336
The Representation of Disabled People
This paper addresses the general subject of the representation of disabled people. The purpose is to show why disabled people need to speak for themselves, how they can work with other organisations, and how disabled people's organisations are, and can remain, truly representative. The paper discusses: (1) the representation of disabled people; (2) how do disability groups relate to able-bodied organisations, policy-makers, etc?; and (3) how can …
Apprenticeship as method
Apprenticeship, the process of developing from novice to proficiency under the guidance of a skilled expert, varies across cultures and among different skilled communities, but for many communities of practice, apprenticeship offers an ideal ethnographic point of entry. For certain kinds of anthropological fieldwork, such as studies of bodily arts, apprenticeship may offer an essential research method. In this article, three anthropologists discu…
Music, dance and the total art work
Euro-American performance arts are exceptional among the world's cultures in that music and dance are separable and constitute independent disciplines. In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a distinct consciousness emerged that demonstrated an awareness of the varying and protean relationships that music and dance can share. While some artists were keen to develop their particular medium to its fullest potential, others were keen …
Mapping the illness trajectories of insomnia
The insomnia illness experience can be conceptualised as a form of biographical disruption. Using a critical interpretive phenomenological lens 51 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients from specialist sleep and psychology clinics (n = 22) and the general community (n = 29). Patients' narratives revealed key phases of their illness trajectories as they recognise, rethink and respond to insomnia. Their biographical events…
Disease and Crime
Part of the Routledge Studies in Cultural History series, Disease and Crime is a well-integrated collection of essays that span the (post-) colonial histories of medicine, law and politics in East
Fight-dancing and the festival
Festivals bring people together in affirmations of community. This article looks at two festivals in coastal locations in Indonesia and Brazil with a close inspection of performances of fight-dancing included within both festivals. The improvisatory or choreographed organization of the fight-dancing performances echoes the manner in which the festivals themselves are assembled. As these festivals grow in popularity, the process of inventing tradi…
Neurosocialities
Neurosocialities: anthropological engagements with the neurosciences
The Representation of Disabled People
This paper addresses the general subject of the representation of disabled people. The purpose is to show why disabled people need to speak for themselves, how they can work with other organisations, and how disabled people's organisations are, and can remain, truly representative. The paper discusses: (1) the representation of disabled people; (2) how do disability groups relate to able-bodied organisations, policy-makers, etc?; and (3) how can …
The power of place
The power of place: geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape, by Harm de Blij." Anthropology & Medicine, 16(3), pp. 333–336
Sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis: night-mares, nocebos, and the mind-body connection, by Shelley R. Adler, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2011, 168 pp., ISBN 978-0-8135-4886-9 When considering the same psych
Music, dance and the total art work
Euro-American performance arts are exceptional among the world's cultures in that music and dance are separable and constitute independent disciplines. In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a distinct consciousness emerged that demonstrated an awareness of the varying and protean relationships that music and dance can share. While some artists were keen to develop their particular medium to its fullest potential, others were keen …
Embodied Communities
Free Market Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that has led to the deaths of writers such as Katherine Mansfeld (Lederman 36), perversely shaped ideals of feminine beauty (Romanska), and fueled the charitab
Disease and Crime
Part of the Routledge Studies in Cultural History series, Disease and Crime is a well-integrated collection of essays that span the (post-) colonial histories of medicine, law and politics in East
Apprenticeship as method
Apprenticeship, the process of developing from novice to proficiency under the guidance of a skilled expert, varies across cultures and among different skilled communities, but for many communities of practice, apprenticeship offers an ideal ethnographic point of entry. For certain kinds of anthropological fieldwork, such as studies of bodily arts, apprenticeship may offer an essential research method. In this article, three anthropologists discu…
Social, Historical and Cultural Dimensions of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) researchers and clinicians, by virtue of the social disease they study, are drawn into an engagement with ways of understanding illness that extend beyond the strictly biomedical model. Primers on social science concepts directly relevant to TB, however, are lacking. The particularities of TB disease mean that certain social science concepts are more relevant than others. Concepts such as structural violence can seem complicated…
The anthropology of multispecies assemblages
Fight-dancing and the festival
Festivals bring people together in affirmations of community. This article looks at two festivals in coastal locations in Indonesia and Brazil with a close inspection of performances of fight-dancing included within both festivals. The improvisatory or choreographed organization of the fight-dancing performances echoes the manner in which the festivals themselves are assembled. As these festivals grow in popularity, the process of inventing tradi…
Tuberculosis in India
Tuberculosis in India: a case of innovation and control, by Nora Engel." Anthropology & Medicine, 23(3), pp. 360–361
Reciprocity-Building and the Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Tuberculosis Research
Biodiversity, drug discovery, and the future of global health
ooking to nature for medicine is nothing new -we have been doing it for tens of thousands of years and although modern pharmaceutical science has come a long way from those ancient roots, nature is and will always be an important source of useful compounds and inspiration. Dismissing nature in this regard is a huge mistake as evolution is the greatest problem solver and the myriad compounds produced by the immense variety of species we share the …
Sound Rising from the Paper
Bruce M. Z. Cohen, Psychiatric Hegemony
Mental illness has extended well beyond being a clinical concern to becoming a dramatically epidemiological problem. Which discipline is best positioned to study and explain this epidemiological transition when even basic questions about aetiology, disease course and methods of treatment remain hotly contested? Taking seriously scientific examinations that question the validity of mental illness diagnostics and treatment, Bruce Cohen takes a soci…
James C. McCann
Mapping the illness trajectories of insomnia
The insomnia illness experience can be conceptualised as a form of biographical disruption. Using a critical interpretive phenomenological lens 51 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients from specialist sleep and psychology clinics (n = 22) and the general community (n = 29). Patients' narratives revealed key phases of their illness trajectories as they recognise, rethink and respond to insomnia. Their biographical events…
Cures, Tuberculosis, and Deterritorialized Biomedical Narratives
In the essay “Cures” (Public Culture, September 2016), Bharat Venkat examines how biomedical scientists, since the time of Robert Koch (1843–1910), have contested what counts as trustworthy evidence of a cure for tuberculosis. Widespread cultural shifts accompanied these medical debates and developments. Randomized controlled trials now dominate as an evidentiary form in tuberculosis control with implications for how global health efforts roll ou…
Neurosocialities
Neurosocialities: anthropological engagements with the neurosciences
Environmental education and ecotourism - Fernando Ramírez and Josefina Santana , (2019). Environmental education and ecotourism. Springer
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A critical review of interdisciplinary perspectives on the paradox of prosocial compared to antisocial manifestations of empathy
Empathy is the ability to experience affective and cognitive states of another person, whilst maintaining a distinct self, in order to understand the other. It is a multidimensional phenomenon, ranging from vicarious distress to near complete understanding, with many shades in between. As an almost universal and integral human construct, empathy has been considered in many disciplines and contexts, from evolution to gender, politics, economics, e…
The Eco-Certified Child
The Eco-Certified Child: Citizenship and education for sustainability and environment - Malin Ideland, (2019). The Eco-Certified Child: Citizenship and education for sustainability and environment, Palgrave Macmillan. - Volume 37 Issue 1
Good citizens, perfect patients, and family reputation
Stigma and isolation are common in people with tuberculosis (TB). Social isolation contributes to reduced health outcomes and TB treatment adherence. Stigma and the drivers of isolation in people with Drug-Resistant (DR)-TB may include modifiable advice and practices of family and Health Care Workers (HCW). This study aimed to understand the drivers of isolation and stigma from the perspective of people with DR-TB in Vietnam. A greater understand…
The rites of normality
This auto‐ethnographic case study offers a co‐phenomenological account of Marcela's technocratic birth, tracing how biomedical rituals, institutional rhythms, and the metaphysics of ‘normality’ shaped a cascade of interventions following a gestational diabetes diagnosis and early induction. Drawing on anthropological and sociological theory, the article interrogates how routinised paternalism, risk logics, and the ‘technocratic model’ of birth in…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History of Science and Medicine (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)