Joan Cassell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Cassell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassell |
| SIGNATURE | CASSELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
And a Time to Die
Miracles of Modern Medicine/Casualties of Modern Medicine
The author uses an autoethnographic account of a close friend's emergency cardiac surgery, and its disastrous outcome, to explore and critique the contemporary search for medical "miracles" and the patchwork and inequitable system of medical reimbursement in the United States
Stories, Moral Judgment, and Medical Care in an Intensive Care Unit
A division of labor exists between nurses and doctors in a surgical intensive care unit. Nurses perform a culturally identified feminine expressive role, caring about patients as well as for them. Doctors perform a culturally identified masculine instrumental role, concerned with curing patients' bodies. The nurses are interested in the patients' stories; the doctors attempt to ignore the stories to concentrate on returning patients to function. …
Perturbing the System
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Joan Cassell; Perturbing the System: "Hard Science," "Soft Science," and Social Science, The Anxiety and Madness of Method. Human Organization 1 June 2002; 61 (2): 177–185. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.61.2.1bckque4a227mm6w Downloa…
Social Scientists Studying Doctors
(2002). Social Scientists Studying Doctors: 1951 to 2001. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 243-262
Sex and Medicine
Authenticating (and Inauthenticating) Local Moral Worlds
Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless. Robert Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 308 pp.Women in the American Welfare Trap. Catherine Pélissier Kingfisher. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 206 pp.Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in. Manhattan Residence. Alisse Waterston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 235 pp.Sidewalk. Mitchell Duneier. with photographs by Ovi…
Federal Ruling Threatens Confidentiality
environmental degradation.This has been used to bolster arguments for the participation of local communities in environmental management and their continued presence in their ancestral landscapes, rather than basing conservation efforts on the exclusion of communities from those landscapes altogether.In this way, we can show how recent efforts to re-examine the idea of wilderness have led to more equitable environmental decision-making.The Global…
Sex and Medicine
Are Women Surgeons Different
Presence in the Flesh
Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine. Katharine Young. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.200 pp
Doing Gender, Doing Surgery
A central issue in the study of gender is whether women and men are fundamentally different or essentially the same. Difference theorists contend that women are, or tend to be, more nurturing, caring, and cooperative, as opposed to men, who are more independent, detached, and hierarchical. Inquiring whether women surgeons differ from their male colleagues, however, produced ambiguous and confusing data. More successful was an approach that examin…
The Woman in the Surgeon's Body
Praxis is not simply about learning cultural rules by rote, it is about coming to an understanding of social distinctions through your body.Much of clinical and practical knowledge [in medicine] is embodied knowledge-knowledge sensed through and with the body. This includes senses of sight, sound, touch, smell
Confessions of a Marginal Woman
Comment on “Women as Fathers”
The Looking Glass Self
It follows that the body is the most indisputable materialization of class taste, which it manifests in several ways. It does this first in the seemingly most natural features of the body. . . Timidity grows with the disparity between the ideal body and the real body, the dream body and the 'looking-glass self' reflected in the reactions of others (Bourdieu 1984, p. 190, 207).1
Children in the Field
1. Oh No, They're Not My Shoes!: Fieldwork in the blue Mountains of Jamaica - Joan Cassell 2. Children in the Amazon - Christine Hugh-Jones 3. A Tale of Simeon: Reflections on Raising a Child while Conducting Fieldwork in Rural South India - Mimi Nichter and Mark Nichter 4. Daddy's Little Wedges: On Being a Child in France - Jonathan Wylie 5. Birthing in the Bush: Participant Observation in Trinidad - Morton Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass 6. Thre…
Comment 3
Hand-Book on Ethical Issues in Anthropology
On control, certitude, and the ?paranoia? of surgeons
Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology [Introductory material]
Dismembering the Image of God
Joan Cassell is Senior Research Associate at the Research Institute for the Study of Man, New York City. This paper is about the temperament of surgeons, about men and in the U.S. they are primarily men who aspire to be heroes, to vanquish death and defeat disease, and who scorn as 'wimps' those with lesser aspirations. For the past two years, I have been doing fieldwork among surgeons.1 I have focused where they focus on the operating room but I…
A Lack Of dilemmas
How to Hold a Workshop on the Ethical Problems of Fieldwork
Fieldworkers and Their Hosts
Myron Glazer (The Threat of the Stranger, Hastings Center Report, October 1980, pp. 25-31) makes a point of the vulnerability of both fieldworkers and hosts, and seems to believe that some form of reciprocal giving will eliminate their fears of being harmed. But what if the real ethical problem in fieldwork is not the fear of harm-or even harm itself-but the fact that research can wrong those studied? Unlike the injuries of experimental research,…
Ethical Principles for Conducting Fieldwork
Federal regulations to protect human subjects assume a particular relationship between experimenter and subject based upon biomedical research. Because this relationship is not found in every type of research, the regulations are not universally applicable. Relationships between those who study and those who are studied vary with the kind of research. Such variations depend on the relative power and control of the researcher, the direction of int…
Dismembering the Image of God
Joan Cassell is Senior Research Associate at the Research Institute for the Study of Man, New York City. This paper is about the temperament of surgeons, about men and in the U.S. they are primarily men who aspire to be heroes, to vanquish death and defeat disease, and who scorn as 'wimps' those with lesser aspirations. For the past two years, I have been doing fieldwork among surgeons.1 I have focused where they focus on the operating room but I…
The Woman in the Surgeon's Body
Praxis is not simply about learning cultural rules by rote, it is about coming to an understanding of social distinctions through your body.Much of clinical and practical knowledge [in medicine] is embodied knowledge-knowledge sensed through and with the body. This includes senses of sight, sound, touch, smell
Children in the Field
1. Oh No, They're Not My Shoes!: Fieldwork in the blue Mountains of Jamaica - Joan Cassell 2. Children in the Amazon - Christine Hugh-Jones 3. A Tale of Simeon: Reflections on Raising a Child while Conducting Fieldwork in Rural South India - Mimi Nichter and Mark Nichter 4. Daddy's Little Wedges: On Being a Child in France - Jonathan Wylie 5. Birthing in the Bush: Participant Observation in Trinidad - Morton Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass 6. Thre…
Stories, Moral Judgment, and Medical Care in an Intensive Care Unit
A division of labor exists between nurses and doctors in a surgical intensive care unit. Nurses perform a culturally identified feminine expressive role, caring about patients as well as for them. Doctors perform a culturally identified masculine instrumental role, concerned with curing patients' bodies. The nurses are interested in the patients' stories; the doctors attempt to ignore the stories to concentrate on returning patients to function. …
The Relationship of Observer to Observed in Peer Group Research
Sex and Medicine
Hand-Book on Ethical Issues in Anthropology
Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology [Introductory material]
Miracles of Modern Medicine/Casualties of Modern Medicine
The author uses an autoethnographic account of a close friend's emergency cardiac surgery, and its disastrous outcome, to explore and critique the contemporary search for medical "miracles" and the patchwork and inequitable system of medical reimbursement in the United States
Presence in the Flesh
Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine. Katharine Young. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.200 pp
Confessions of a Marginal Woman
The Looking Glass Self
It follows that the body is the most indisputable materialization of class taste, which it manifests in several ways. It does this first in the seemingly most natural features of the body. . . Timidity grows with the disparity between the ideal body and the real body, the dream body and the 'looking-glass self' reflected in the reactions of others (Bourdieu 1984, p. 190, 207).1
Red herrings and anecdotes
Externalities of Change
Using data from a study of contemporary feminism, the author examines the symbolic inversion of expected female clothing and role behavior observed among Women's Liberation participants. As a form of nonverbal communication, this behavior conveys messages of which sender and recipient may be only partially aware. Such communication, which may be powerful and provocative, can elicit hostile or repressive measures from outside groups, acting as a s…
Externalities of Change
Using data from a study of contemporary feminism, the author examines the symbolic inversion of expected female clothing and role behavior observed among Women's Liberation participants. As a form of nonverbal communication, this behavior conveys messages of which sender and recipient may be only partially aware. Such communication, which may be powerful and provocative, can elicit hostile or repressive measures from outside groups, acting as a s…
The Relationship of Observer to Observed in Peer Group Research
Gender as It Might Be
Red herrings and anecdotes
Ethical Principles for Conducting Fieldwork
Federal regulations to protect human subjects assume a particular relationship between experimenter and subject based upon biomedical research. Because this relationship is not found in every type of research, the regulations are not universally applicable. Relationships between those who study and those who are studied vary with the kind of research. Such variations depend on the relative power and control of the researcher, the direction of int…
Fieldworkers and Their Hosts
Myron Glazer (The Threat of the Stranger, Hastings Center Report, October 1980, pp. 25-31) makes a point of the vulnerability of both fieldworkers and hosts, and seems to believe that some form of reciprocal giving will eliminate their fears of being harmed. But what if the real ethical problem in fieldwork is not the fear of harm-or even harm itself-but the fact that research can wrong those studied? Unlike the injuries of experimental research,…
Technical and Moral Error in Medicine and in Fieldwork
A Lack Of dilemmas
How to Hold a Workshop on the Ethical Problems of Fieldwork
Dismembering the Image of God
Joan Cassell is Senior Research Associate at the Research Institute for the Study of Man, New York City. This paper is about the temperament of surgeons, about men and in the U.S. they are primarily men who aspire to be heroes, to vanquish death and defeat disease, and who scorn as 'wimps' those with lesser aspirations. For the past two years, I have been doing fieldwork among surgeons.1 I have focused where they focus on the operating room but I…
On control, certitude, and the ?paranoia? of surgeons
Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology [Introductory material]
Comment 3
Hand-Book on Ethical Issues in Anthropology
Children in the Field
1. Oh No, They're Not My Shoes!: Fieldwork in the blue Mountains of Jamaica - Joan Cassell 2. Children in the Amazon - Christine Hugh-Jones 3. A Tale of Simeon: Reflections on Raising a Child while Conducting Fieldwork in Rural South India - Mimi Nichter and Mark Nichter 4. Daddy's Little Wedges: On Being a Child in France - Jonathan Wylie 5. Birthing in the Bush: Participant Observation in Trinidad - Morton Klass and Sheila Solomon Klass 6. Thre…
Comment on “Women as Fathers”
The Looking Glass Self
It follows that the body is the most indisputable materialization of class taste, which it manifests in several ways. It does this first in the seemingly most natural features of the body. . . Timidity grows with the disparity between the ideal body and the real body, the dream body and the 'looking-glass self' reflected in the reactions of others (Bourdieu 1984, p. 190, 207).1
Confessions of a Marginal Woman
The Woman in the Surgeon's Body
Praxis is not simply about learning cultural rules by rote, it is about coming to an understanding of social distinctions through your body.Much of clinical and practical knowledge [in medicine] is embodied knowledge-knowledge sensed through and with the body. This includes senses of sight, sound, touch, smell
Doing Gender, Doing Surgery
A central issue in the study of gender is whether women and men are fundamentally different or essentially the same. Difference theorists contend that women are, or tend to be, more nurturing, caring, and cooperative, as opposed to men, who are more independent, detached, and hierarchical. Inquiring whether women surgeons differ from their male colleagues, however, produced ambiguous and confusing data. More successful was an approach that examin…
Are Women Surgeons Different
Presence in the Flesh
Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine. Katharine Young. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.200 pp
Federal Ruling Threatens Confidentiality
environmental degradation.This has been used to bolster arguments for the participation of local communities in environmental management and their continued presence in their ancestral landscapes, rather than basing conservation efforts on the exclusion of communities from those landscapes altogether.In this way, we can show how recent efforts to re-examine the idea of wilderness have led to more equitable environmental decision-making.The Global…
Sex and Medicine
Sex and Medicine
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