Elena Popa
Biographic Data
| ID | 361813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Popa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Popa |
| SIGNATURE | POPA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Asian University for Women |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0494-1401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Undiagnosed Lives
Academic and media accounts have neglected Romani women's issues with infertility. Historically, they have been discriminated against and stereotyped as hyperfertile, which excluded them from narratives on women's struggles with reproductive health. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in France, this article makes visible the neglected issue of infertility. It argues that structural vulnerability dramatically restricts Romani women's access to heal…
Causal Pluralism and Public Health Ethics Trade‐Offs
This paper aims to specify causal pluralism through considerations from public health ethics for causal analyses featuring social determinants of health. We will argue that choosing approaches to causality within a pluralistic framework can be informed by ethical considerations. More specifically, we will show how different conceptions of justice set different explanatory demands and how those demands constrain which causal concepts are appropria…
‘You are Romanian. This is going to be a problem
Despite the growing scholarship on Romanian migration after the fall of state socialism in 1989, Romanian women’s migration to France remains largely unexplored. Studies have tended to focus on economic, rural, and low-skilled women’s migration to destinations with gendered labour demands. Based on ethnographic research, this article examines urban, student, and educated women’s migration, by exploring their aspirations and desires to migrate and…
Values in public health
Research on the role of values in science and objectivity has typically approached trust through its epistemic aspects. Yet, recent work on public trust in science has emphasized the role of non-epistemic values in building and maintaining trust. This paper will use a concept of trust that adds concerns about justice to epistemic conditions to investigate this problem in relation to public health. I will argue that trust-conducive values, particu…
Just pluralism
This paper will investigate justice requirements that a pluralist stance on concepts of mental disorder should meet for use on a global scale. This is important given that different concepts of mental disorder are connected to particular interventions which may be more or less successful in specific contexts. While taking a broadly normative view on mental disorders, I will describe relevant concepts in a more fine grained manner, referring to th…
Ruderal City
Policy change without ethical analysis? Commentary on the publication of Smajdor
PEX6 Mutation in a Child with Infantile Refsum Disease—A Case Report and Literature Review
The aim of this paper is to describe the temporal progression and clinical picture of a 2-year-old child with infantile Refsum disease, as well as the diagnostic procedures performed; this case presented multiple hematologic, metabolic, and developmental complications and progressive disabilities. Genetic testing revealed a mutation of the PEX6 (Peroxisomal Biogenesis Factor 6) gene, and the metabolic profile was consistent with the diagnosis. Pa…
Getting counterfactuals right
Causation without the causal theory of action
This paper takes a critical stance on Tallis’s separation of causation and agency. While his critique of the causal theory of action and the assumptions about causation underlying different versions of determinism, including the one based on neuroscience is right, his rejection of causation (of all sorts) has implausible consequences. Denying the link between action and causation amounts to overlooking the role action plays in causal inference an…
Human Goals Are Constitutive of Agency in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to Covid-19
Materializing Difference
Reviewed by: Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma by Péter Berta Elena Popa Péter Berta. Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 390 pp. Located in the region of Transylvania, the Gabors are one of the many Roma ethnic populations in Romania. They are generally trilingual and have similar living standards…
A Psychological Approach to Causal Understanding and the Temporal Asymmetry
Mental health, normativity, and local knowledge in global perspective
Artificial life and ‘nature’s purposes
This paper investigates the concept of behavioral autonomy in Artificial Life by drawing a parallel to the use of teleological notions in the study of biological life. Contrary to one of the leading assumptions in Artificial Life research, I argue that there is a significant difference in how autonomous behavior is understood in artificial and biological life forms: the former is underlain by human goals in a way that the latter is not. While beh…
Beauvoir’s ethics, meaning, and competition
This paper discusses Simone de Beauvoir’s views on the meaning of life as presented in The Ethics of Ambiguity . I argue that Beauvoir’s view matches contemporary hybrid views on the meaning of life, incorporating both subjective and objective elements, while connecting them in a distinct way—through the tension between self and other. I then analyze the meaning of excessively competitive projects through Beauvoir’s ethics and conclude that succe…
Romanian Mobilities Series
Values in public health
Research on the role of values in science and objectivity has typically approached trust through its epistemic aspects. Yet, recent work on public trust in science has emphasized the role of non-epistemic values in building and maintaining trust. This paper will use a concept of trust that adds concerns about justice to epistemic conditions to investigate this problem in relation to public health. I will argue that trust-conducive values, particu…
Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to Covid-19
Mental health, normativity, and local knowledge in global perspective
Artificial life and ‘nature’s purposes
This paper investigates the concept of behavioral autonomy in Artificial Life by drawing a parallel to the use of teleological notions in the study of biological life. Contrary to one of the leading assumptions in Artificial Life research, I argue that there is a significant difference in how autonomous behavior is understood in artificial and biological life forms: the former is underlain by human goals in a way that the latter is not. While beh…
Romanian Mobilities Series
Beauvoir’s ethics, meaning, and competition
This paper discusses Simone de Beauvoir’s views on the meaning of life as presented in The Ethics of Ambiguity . I argue that Beauvoir’s view matches contemporary hybrid views on the meaning of life, incorporating both subjective and objective elements, while connecting them in a distinct way—through the tension between self and other. I then analyze the meaning of excessively competitive projects through Beauvoir’s ethics and conclude that succe…
A Psychological Approach to Causal Understanding and the Temporal Asymmetry
Mental health, normativity, and local knowledge in global perspective
Artificial life and ‘nature’s purposes
This paper investigates the concept of behavioral autonomy in Artificial Life by drawing a parallel to the use of teleological notions in the study of biological life. Contrary to one of the leading assumptions in Artificial Life research, I argue that there is a significant difference in how autonomous behavior is understood in artificial and biological life forms: the former is underlain by human goals in a way that the latter is not. While beh…
Human Goals Are Constitutive of Agency in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to Covid-19
Materializing Difference
Reviewed by: Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma by Péter Berta Elena Popa Péter Berta. Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 390 pp. Located in the region of Transylvania, the Gabors are one of the many Roma ethnic populations in Romania. They are generally trilingual and have similar living standards…
Getting counterfactuals right
Causation without the causal theory of action
This paper takes a critical stance on Tallis’s separation of causation and agency. While his critique of the causal theory of action and the assumptions about causation underlying different versions of determinism, including the one based on neuroscience is right, his rejection of causation (of all sorts) has implausible consequences. Denying the link between action and causation amounts to overlooking the role action plays in causal inference an…
Policy change without ethical analysis? Commentary on the publication of Smajdor
PEX6 Mutation in a Child with Infantile Refsum Disease—A Case Report and Literature Review
The aim of this paper is to describe the temporal progression and clinical picture of a 2-year-old child with infantile Refsum disease, as well as the diagnostic procedures performed; this case presented multiple hematologic, metabolic, and developmental complications and progressive disabilities. Genetic testing revealed a mutation of the PEX6 (Peroxisomal Biogenesis Factor 6) gene, and the metabolic profile was consistent with the diagnosis. Pa…
‘You are Romanian. This is going to be a problem
Despite the growing scholarship on Romanian migration after the fall of state socialism in 1989, Romanian women’s migration to France remains largely unexplored. Studies have tended to focus on economic, rural, and low-skilled women’s migration to destinations with gendered labour demands. Based on ethnographic research, this article examines urban, student, and educated women’s migration, by exploring their aspirations and desires to migrate and…
Values in public health
Research on the role of values in science and objectivity has typically approached trust through its epistemic aspects. Yet, recent work on public trust in science has emphasized the role of non-epistemic values in building and maintaining trust. This paper will use a concept of trust that adds concerns about justice to epistemic conditions to investigate this problem in relation to public health. I will argue that trust-conducive values, particu…
Just pluralism
This paper will investigate justice requirements that a pluralist stance on concepts of mental disorder should meet for use on a global scale. This is important given that different concepts of mental disorder are connected to particular interventions which may be more or less successful in specific contexts. While taking a broadly normative view on mental disorders, I will describe relevant concepts in a more fine grained manner, referring to th…
Ruderal City
Causal Pluralism and Public Health Ethics Trade‐Offs
This paper aims to specify causal pluralism through considerations from public health ethics for causal analyses featuring social determinants of health. We will argue that choosing approaches to causality within a pluralistic framework can be informed by ethical considerations. More specifically, we will show how different conceptions of justice set different explanatory demands and how those demands constrain which causal concepts are appropria…
Undiagnosed Lives
Academic and media accounts have neglected Romani women's issues with infertility. Historically, they have been discriminated against and stereotyped as hyperfertile, which excluded them from narratives on women's struggles with reproductive health. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in France, this article makes visible the neglected issue of infertility. It argues that structural vulnerability dramatically restricts Romani women's access to heal…
Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Causal inference (4 works) · Causal model (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works)