Elizabeth J Cartwright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3572649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth J Cartwright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cartwright |
| SIGNATURE | CARTWRIGHT E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Idaho State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6836-7795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Adapting rapid ethnographic research in an evolving emergency
To ensure the real-world utility of emergency ethnographic research, plans must evolve as circumstances shift. The CommuniVax coalition's work provides a case study of this scenario. Using rapid ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and other methods, the six local CommuniVax teams sought to comprehend and improve COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. To this end, they responded nimbly to varying community priorities, the pandemic's shifting natur…
An audacious approach to incorporating students into the ethnographic research process
In this paper, we discuss the experience of the Idaho CommuniVax local team and how a large-scale incorporation of college students into its ethnographic research process ensured bona-fide community engagement and a deeper understanding of the experiences of Hispanic community members as they considered COVID-19 vaccination within the broader context of non-Hispanic, rural, agricultural southeastern Idaho. We detail the logic behind the steps we …
Thinking through the Photo Essay
As photography becomes more prevalent in ethnographic research, scholars should more seriously consider the photo essay as a medium for sharing their work. In this Position Piece, we present guidelines for the creation of ethnographic photo essays for medical anthropology that do not simply combine image and text, but create a balance that allows words to provide context for the image(s) and images to reinforce or challenge the text. We feel ther…
The Medical Anthropology of Climate Change
Anthropological research can provide the time depth needed for a rich understanding of the health effects of atmospheric and ocean warming, shifting weather patterns, and the breakdown of biological and social systems large and small. Medical anthropologists are poised to document the human costs of floods, fires, droughts and other catastrophic events, as well as the slowly shifting supplies of fresh water, clean air, and adequate food. Our anth…
Peaches for Lunch
In this article, I describe the process of systematically including nonverbal data in medical anthropology research. I demonstrate the process of visualizing and coding videotaped moments of life and show how we can analyze what is being done along with what is being said. I ground my discussion in toddler language socialization and then expand my observations to the realm of language pathologies. Aphasia from strokes, speech difficulties in neur…
Dissecting Images
When Foucault spiraled into the historical depths of the rise of the modern clinic and the double-edged sword of biopower, he foregrounded the primacy of the medical gaze (Foucault 1973). With each
Anthropological Perspectives on Participation in CBPR
In this article, we anthropologically explore one part of the process of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): participation. Participation in CBPR is usually conceptualized as whether, and the degree to which, community members are involved in the research process. Our focus regarding participation is less on quantity and more on quality of the interaction between community members and researchers; within this context, we elaborate the …
Diagnosing the Structure
Additional informationNotes on contributorsElizabeth CartwrightELIZABETH CARTWRIGHT, RN, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Nursing, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA. She directs the Hispanic Health Projects—a multi-disciplinary, community-based, participatory research group at ISU. Her interests include social justice, immigration, and innovative research methodologies.Lenore MandersonLENORE MANDER…
Immigrant Dreams
This article contextualizes the results from a mixed methods study of the living and working conditions of Latino agricultural workers in northern Montana. The results of both the health needs assessment survey and the retrospective life-histories of these migrant farmworkers paint a picture of a population that is barely surviving in the United States, even after decades of living and working here. This article interrogates Singer's notions of “…
Patients without Borders
The rapidly growing medical travel industry has implications for the health systems of both sending and receiving countries. This article outlines the political economy of the industry and the potential opportunities and disadvantages it poses for access, equity, and the right to health. Although the trade carries economic benefits for countries receiving foreign medical patients, it comes at a cost to the provision of public health, through dist…
Bodily Remembering
Saving the Children for the Tobacco Industry
In this article we juxtapose the recent success of child survival programs with the growing health problems and environmental destruction related to tobacco consumption and cultivation as a form of defective modernization. Data on tobacco cultivation and its impact on ecology, global smoking trends, the economics of the tobacco industry, cigarette marketing, and projected levels of morbidity are all reviewed. We focus on the effects of smoking no…
Saving the Children for the Tobacco Industry
In this article we juxtapose the recent success of child survival programs with the growing health problems and environmental destruction related to tobacco consumption and cultivation as a form of defective modernization. Data on tobacco cultivation and its impact on ecology, global smoking trends, the economics of the tobacco industry, cigarette marketing, and projected levels of morbidity are all reviewed. We focus on the effects of smoking no…
Patients without Borders
The rapidly growing medical travel industry has implications for the health systems of both sending and receiving countries. This article outlines the political economy of the industry and the potential opportunities and disadvantages it poses for access, equity, and the right to health. Although the trade carries economic benefits for countries receiving foreign medical patients, it comes at a cost to the provision of public health, through dist…
Immigrant Dreams
This article contextualizes the results from a mixed methods study of the living and working conditions of Latino agricultural workers in northern Montana. The results of both the health needs assessment survey and the retrospective life-histories of these migrant farmworkers paint a picture of a population that is barely surviving in the United States, even after decades of living and working here. This article interrogates Singer's notions of “…
Diagnosing the Structure
Additional informationNotes on contributorsElizabeth CartwrightELIZABETH CARTWRIGHT, RN, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Nursing, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA. She directs the Hispanic Health Projects—a multi-disciplinary, community-based, participatory research group at ISU. Her interests include social justice, immigration, and innovative research methodologies.Lenore MandersonLENORE MANDER…
Anthropological Perspectives on Participation in CBPR
In this article, we anthropologically explore one part of the process of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): participation. Participation in CBPR is usually conceptualized as whether, and the degree to which, community members are involved in the research process. Our focus regarding participation is less on quantity and more on quality of the interaction between community members and researchers; within this context, we elaborate the …
Adapting rapid ethnographic research in an evolving emergency
To ensure the real-world utility of emergency ethnographic research, plans must evolve as circumstances shift. The CommuniVax coalition's work provides a case study of this scenario. Using rapid ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and other methods, the six local CommuniVax teams sought to comprehend and improve COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. To this end, they responded nimbly to varying community priorities, the pandemic's shifting natur…
An audacious approach to incorporating students into the ethnographic research process
In this paper, we discuss the experience of the Idaho CommuniVax local team and how a large-scale incorporation of college students into its ethnographic research process ensured bona-fide community engagement and a deeper understanding of the experiences of Hispanic community members as they considered COVID-19 vaccination within the broader context of non-Hispanic, rural, agricultural southeastern Idaho. We detail the logic behind the steps we …
Dissecting Images
When Foucault spiraled into the historical depths of the rise of the modern clinic and the double-edged sword of biopower, he foregrounded the primacy of the medical gaze (Foucault 1973). With each
Thinking through the Photo Essay
As photography becomes more prevalent in ethnographic research, scholars should more seriously consider the photo essay as a medium for sharing their work. In this Position Piece, we present guidelines for the creation of ethnographic photo essays for medical anthropology that do not simply combine image and text, but create a balance that allows words to provide context for the image(s) and images to reinforce or challenge the text. We feel ther…
The Medical Anthropology of Climate Change
Anthropological research can provide the time depth needed for a rich understanding of the health effects of atmospheric and ocean warming, shifting weather patterns, and the breakdown of biological and social systems large and small. Medical anthropologists are poised to document the human costs of floods, fires, droughts and other catastrophic events, as well as the slowly shifting supplies of fresh water, clean air, and adequate food. Our anth…
Saving the Children for the Tobacco Industry
In this article we juxtapose the recent success of child survival programs with the growing health problems and environmental destruction related to tobacco consumption and cultivation as a form of defective modernization. Data on tobacco cultivation and its impact on ecology, global smoking trends, the economics of the tobacco industry, cigarette marketing, and projected levels of morbidity are all reviewed. We focus on the effects of smoking no…
Bodily Remembering
Patients without Borders
The rapidly growing medical travel industry has implications for the health systems of both sending and receiving countries. This article outlines the political economy of the industry and the potential opportunities and disadvantages it poses for access, equity, and the right to health. Although the trade carries economic benefits for countries receiving foreign medical patients, it comes at a cost to the provision of public health, through dist…
Diagnosing the Structure
Additional informationNotes on contributorsElizabeth CartwrightELIZABETH CARTWRIGHT, RN, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Nursing, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA. She directs the Hispanic Health Projects—a multi-disciplinary, community-based, participatory research group at ISU. Her interests include social justice, immigration, and innovative research methodologies.Lenore MandersonLENORE MANDER…
Immigrant Dreams
This article contextualizes the results from a mixed methods study of the living and working conditions of Latino agricultural workers in northern Montana. The results of both the health needs assessment survey and the retrospective life-histories of these migrant farmworkers paint a picture of a population that is barely surviving in the United States, even after decades of living and working here. This article interrogates Singer's notions of “…
Anthropological Perspectives on Participation in CBPR
In this article, we anthropologically explore one part of the process of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): participation. Participation in CBPR is usually conceptualized as whether, and the degree to which, community members are involved in the research process. Our focus regarding participation is less on quantity and more on quality of the interaction between community members and researchers; within this context, we elaborate the …
Peaches for Lunch
In this article, I describe the process of systematically including nonverbal data in medical anthropology research. I demonstrate the process of visualizing and coding videotaped moments of life and show how we can analyze what is being done along with what is being said. I ground my discussion in toddler language socialization and then expand my observations to the realm of language pathologies. Aphasia from strokes, speech difficulties in neur…
Dissecting Images
When Foucault spiraled into the historical depths of the rise of the modern clinic and the double-edged sword of biopower, he foregrounded the primacy of the medical gaze (Foucault 1973). With each
The Medical Anthropology of Climate Change
Anthropological research can provide the time depth needed for a rich understanding of the health effects of atmospheric and ocean warming, shifting weather patterns, and the breakdown of biological and social systems large and small. Medical anthropologists are poised to document the human costs of floods, fires, droughts and other catastrophic events, as well as the slowly shifting supplies of fresh water, clean air, and adequate food. Our anth…
Thinking through the Photo Essay
As photography becomes more prevalent in ethnographic research, scholars should more seriously consider the photo essay as a medium for sharing their work. In this Position Piece, we present guidelines for the creation of ethnographic photo essays for medical anthropology that do not simply combine image and text, but create a balance that allows words to provide context for the image(s) and images to reinforce or challenge the text. We feel ther…
Adapting rapid ethnographic research in an evolving emergency
To ensure the real-world utility of emergency ethnographic research, plans must evolve as circumstances shift. The CommuniVax coalition's work provides a case study of this scenario. Using rapid ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and other methods, the six local CommuniVax teams sought to comprehend and improve COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. To this end, they responded nimbly to varying community priorities, the pandemic's shifting natur…
An audacious approach to incorporating students into the ethnographic research process
In this paper, we discuss the experience of the Idaho CommuniVax local team and how a large-scale incorporation of college students into its ethnographic research process ensured bona-fide community engagement and a deeper understanding of the experiences of Hispanic community members as they considered COVID-19 vaccination within the broader context of non-Hispanic, rural, agricultural southeastern Idaho. We detail the logic behind the steps we …
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