Heather A Howard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather A Howard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather A |
| FAMILY NAME | Howard |
| SIGNATURE | HOWARD H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
History, Truth, and Reconciliation in Settler Health Care
Disaggregating diabetes
Interest in disaggregating diabetes into numerous subtypes is growing as patients and providers recognize the limitations of standard diabetes typologies. As anthropologists, we draw attention to how 'subtyping' may reduce stigma derived from the connection between obesity and 'type 2 diabetes'. We highlight the complexities that drive diabetes and argue that an exclusive or dominant focus on diet and obesity obfuscates other underlying risks. Ye…
Corporate Logic in Clinical Care
As large corporations come to dominate U.S. health care, clinical medicine is increasingly market-driven and governed by business principles. We examine ways in which health insurers and health care systems are transforming the goals and means of clinical practice. Based on ethnographic research of diabetes management in a large health care system, we argue that together these organizations redefine clinical care in terms that prioritize financia…
Racialized Risk in Clinical Care
Racial/ethnic identity is contingent and arbitrary, yet it is commonly used to evaluate disease risk and treatment response. Drawing on open-ended interviews with patients and clinicians in two US clinics, we explore how racialized risk is conceptualized and how it impacts patient care and experience. We found that racial/ethnic risk was a common but poorly defined construct for both patients and clinicians, who intermingled concepts of genetics,…
Settler Colonial Biogovernance and the Logic of a Surgical Cure for Diabetes
Electronic Health Records and the Disappearing Patient
With rapid consolidation of American medicine into large-scale corporations, corporate strategies are coming to the forefront in health care delivery, requiring a dramatic increase in the amount and detail of documentation, implemented through use of electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs are structured to prioritize the interests of a myriad of political and corporate stakeholders, resulting in a complex, multi-layered, and cumbersome health rec…
Care Managers and Knowledge Shift in Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation
Primary care practices across the United States are implementing a new model of care, the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), in an effort to improve care to patients and, consequently, control health care costs. The addition of care managers is a key aspect of PCMH implementation with important implications for the production and reproduction of authoritative knowledge in primary care. Redistribution of patient interaction from the primary car…
Canadian Residential Schools and Urban Indigenous Knowledge Production about Diabetes
The construction of illness as an inscription on the body of colonization figures importantly among Indigenous community-based service and health care providers. While residential schools and diabetes have both been characterized as products of colonization, little work has been done to examine how they are connected to and informative for health provider practice. The research data presented in this article come from a collaborative urban Indige…
Weaving Worlds Directed by Bennie Klain
Keeping the Campfires Going
Keeping the Campfires Going
Electronic Health Records and the Disappearing Patient
With rapid consolidation of American medicine into large-scale corporations, corporate strategies are coming to the forefront in health care delivery, requiring a dramatic increase in the amount and detail of documentation, implemented through use of electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs are structured to prioritize the interests of a myriad of political and corporate stakeholders, resulting in a complex, multi-layered, and cumbersome health rec…
Corporate Logic in Clinical Care
As large corporations come to dominate U.S. health care, clinical medicine is increasingly market-driven and governed by business principles. We examine ways in which health insurers and health care systems are transforming the goals and means of clinical practice. Based on ethnographic research of diabetes management in a large health care system, we argue that together these organizations redefine clinical care in terms that prioritize financia…
Canadian Residential Schools and Urban Indigenous Knowledge Production about Diabetes
The construction of illness as an inscription on the body of colonization figures importantly among Indigenous community-based service and health care providers. While residential schools and diabetes have both been characterized as products of colonization, little work has been done to examine how they are connected to and informative for health provider practice. The research data presented in this article come from a collaborative urban Indige…
Racialized Risk in Clinical Care
Racial/ethnic identity is contingent and arbitrary, yet it is commonly used to evaluate disease risk and treatment response. Drawing on open-ended interviews with patients and clinicians in two US clinics, we explore how racialized risk is conceptualized and how it impacts patient care and experience. We found that racial/ethnic risk was a common but poorly defined construct for both patients and clinicians, who intermingled concepts of genetics,…
Settler Colonial Biogovernance and the Logic of a Surgical Cure for Diabetes
History, Truth, and Reconciliation in Settler Health Care
Disaggregating diabetes
Interest in disaggregating diabetes into numerous subtypes is growing as patients and providers recognize the limitations of standard diabetes typologies. As anthropologists, we draw attention to how 'subtyping' may reduce stigma derived from the connection between obesity and 'type 2 diabetes'. We highlight the complexities that drive diabetes and argue that an exclusive or dominant focus on diet and obesity obfuscates other underlying risks. Ye…
Keeping the Campfires Going
Keeping the Campfires Going
Weaving Worlds Directed by Bennie Klain
Canadian Residential Schools and Urban Indigenous Knowledge Production about Diabetes
The construction of illness as an inscription on the body of colonization figures importantly among Indigenous community-based service and health care providers. While residential schools and diabetes have both been characterized as products of colonization, little work has been done to examine how they are connected to and informative for health provider practice. The research data presented in this article come from a collaborative urban Indige…
Care Managers and Knowledge Shift in Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation
Primary care practices across the United States are implementing a new model of care, the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), in an effort to improve care to patients and, consequently, control health care costs. The addition of care managers is a key aspect of PCMH implementation with important implications for the production and reproduction of authoritative knowledge in primary care. Redistribution of patient interaction from the primary car…
Electronic Health Records and the Disappearing Patient
With rapid consolidation of American medicine into large-scale corporations, corporate strategies are coming to the forefront in health care delivery, requiring a dramatic increase in the amount and detail of documentation, implemented through use of electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs are structured to prioritize the interests of a myriad of political and corporate stakeholders, resulting in a complex, multi-layered, and cumbersome health rec…
Settler Colonial Biogovernance and the Logic of a Surgical Cure for Diabetes
Disaggregating diabetes
Interest in disaggregating diabetes into numerous subtypes is growing as patients and providers recognize the limitations of standard diabetes typologies. As anthropologists, we draw attention to how 'subtyping' may reduce stigma derived from the connection between obesity and 'type 2 diabetes'. We highlight the complexities that drive diabetes and argue that an exclusive or dominant focus on diet and obesity obfuscates other underlying risks. Ye…
Corporate Logic in Clinical Care
As large corporations come to dominate U.S. health care, clinical medicine is increasingly market-driven and governed by business principles. We examine ways in which health insurers and health care systems are transforming the goals and means of clinical practice. Based on ethnographic research of diabetes management in a large health care system, we argue that together these organizations redefine clinical care in terms that prioritize financia…
Racialized Risk in Clinical Care
Racial/ethnic identity is contingent and arbitrary, yet it is commonly used to evaluate disease risk and treatment response. Drawing on open-ended interviews with patients and clinicians in two US clinics, we explore how racialized risk is conceptualized and how it impacts patient care and experience. We found that racial/ethnic risk was a common but poorly defined construct for both patients and clinicians, who intermingled concepts of genetics,…
History, Truth, and Reconciliation in Settler Health Care
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