Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary-Jo Delvecchio |
| FAMILY NAME | Good |
| SIGNATURE | GOOD M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard Medical School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ethnography from Medical Elsewheres
Cultural explanations of psychotic illness and care-seeking of family caregivers in Java, Indonesia
The cultural understanding of illness among caregivers of first-episode psychotic persons is a crucial issue. Not only does it influence caregivers' care-seeking behavior and length of time until receiving medical treatment (known as the 'duration of untreated psychosis' or DUP), but it also predicts the outcome of the illness. This article aims to explore cultural understanding and care-seeking behavior among caregivers of psychotic patients in …
Transcending the Profession
Classical medical sociological theory argues patients trust doctors in part because they are professionals. Yet in the past half-century, medicine has seen a crisis of trust as well as fundamental changes to the nature of professionalism. To probe the relationship between professionalism and trust today, we analyzed interviews with 50 psychiatric patients receiving care in diverse clinical settings. We found patients experience trust when they pe…
Shattering culture
The concept of culture as an analytic concept has increasingly been questioned by social scientists, just as health care institutions and clinicians have increasingly routinized concepts and uses of culture as means for improving the quality of care for racial and ethnic minorities. This paper examines this tension, asking whether it is possible to use cultural categories to develop evidenced-based practice guidelines in mental health services wh…
Embodied Life
Medical humanitarianism
Culture, Race, and Hierarchy
Perspectives on trauma and healing from anthropology and social and affective neuroscience
The Inner Life of Medicine
In memory of Charles Leslie
Conflict Nightmares and Trauma in Aceh
Postcolonial Disorders
This book reflects on the nature of subjectivity in everyday modes of experience, the social and psychological dimensions of individual lives, the psychological qualities of social life, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection found in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is divided into three parts. The first explores the tension between our understandings of the dual mea…
Postcolonial Disorders
Postcolonial Disorders
This book reflects on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill…
The Subject of Mental IllnessPsychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia
This chapter studies the relationship between the subjective experience of psychotic illness and political subjectivity, and the madness of the psychotic and that of violent crowds in modern Indonesia. It reveals deep fractures in the symbolic ordering of sufferers' relation to families and the world of commodity capitalism and the medicoscientific order of reality. The chapter also shows how the experiences of acute psychoses are mixed up with I…
The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical EmbraceSubjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients
Transitions
Passing the Torch
Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality
Introduction
Narrative nuances on good and bad deaths
Temps narratif et incertitude en médecine clinique
Temps narratif et incertitude en médecine clinique Les stratégies narratives auxquelles recourent les médecins traitants pour esquiver les incertitudes qu'ils affrontent au moment de poser un diagnostic, d'établir un pronostic ou de se prononcer sur l'efficacité d'un traitement semblent varier selon la spécialité médicale, les qualités temporelles de la pratique clinique et les processus morbides en cause. Cet essai propose deux concepts issus de…
Au mode subjonctif. La construction narrative des crises d'épilepsie en Turquie
Au mode subjonctif La construction narrative des crises d'épilepsie en Turquie Cet article présente une analyse culturelle des crises en Turquie, à l'aide d'entrevues individuelles et familiales auprès d'un échantillon constitué de personnes diagnostiquées comme souffrant d'épilepsie ou de crises psychogènes. L'article brosse une brève critique des stratégies d'analyse qui juxtaposent « croyances » culturelles et « connaissance » médicale à propo…
The Biotechnical Embrace
American Medicine
Postcolonial Disorders
This book reflects on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill…
Cultural studies of biomedicine
Narrative nuances on good and bad deaths
Shattering culture
The concept of culture as an analytic concept has increasingly been questioned by social scientists, just as health care institutions and clinicians have increasingly routinized concepts and uses of culture as means for improving the quality of care for racial and ethnic minorities. This paper examines this tension, asking whether it is possible to use cultural categories to develop evidenced-based practice guidelines in mental health services wh…
Women, poverty and Aids
Medical humanitarianism
Physicians' Discourses on Malpractice and the Meaning of Medical Malpractice
Recent analyses of the professions have considered the question of the changing nature of professional power. This study is an interpretive analysis of the meaning of physicians' discourse in the face of a perceived challenge to the traditional boundaries of clinical practice from malpractice suits. The data for this analysis were drawn from interviews with physicians from three specialties and from documents produced by the AMA/Specialty Society…
Cultural explanations of psychotic illness and care-seeking of family caregivers in Java, Indonesia
The cultural understanding of illness among caregivers of first-episode psychotic persons is a crucial issue. Not only does it influence caregivers' care-seeking behavior and length of time until receiving medical treatment (known as the 'duration of untreated psychosis' or DUP), but it also predicts the outcome of the illness. This article aims to explore cultural understanding and care-seeking behavior among caregivers of psychotic patients in …
Social status and fertility
Studies of the relationship between social status and fertility in developing societies have shown diverse results. This study suggests that such findings result in part from problems in the conceptualization of social stratification and social status. In developing societies such as Iran the differentiation of modern and traditional cultural (and occupational) groups within social classes has resulted in the emergence of a dual hierarchy. Measur…
Transcending the Profession
Classical medical sociological theory argues patients trust doctors in part because they are professionals. Yet in the past half-century, medicine has seen a crisis of trust as well as fundamental changes to the nature of professionalism. To probe the relationship between professionalism and trust today, we analyzed interviews with 50 psychiatric patients receiving care in diverse clinical settings. We found patients experience trust when they pe…
Perspectives on trauma and healing from anthropology and social and affective neuroscience
Au mode subjonctif. La construction narrative des crises d'épilepsie en Turquie
Au mode subjonctif La construction narrative des crises d'épilepsie en Turquie Cet article présente une analyse culturelle des crises en Turquie, à l'aide d'entrevues individuelles et familiales auprès d'un échantillon constitué de personnes diagnostiquées comme souffrant d'épilepsie ou de crises psychogènes. L'article brosse une brève critique des stratégies d'analyse qui juxtaposent « croyances » culturelles et « connaissance » médicale à propo…
Of blood and babies
In memory of Charles Leslie
Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality
Of blood and babies
Social status and fertility
Studies of the relationship between social status and fertility in developing societies have shown diverse results. This study suggests that such findings result in part from problems in the conceptualization of social stratification and social status. In developing societies such as Iran the differentiation of modern and traditional cultural (and occupational) groups within social classes has resulted in the emergence of a dual hierarchy. Measur…
The Meaning of Symptoms
Reflexivity and countertransference in a psychiatric cultural consultation clinic
Roots of Revolution
Introduction
Ritual, the state, and the transformation of emotional discourse in Iranian society
Disabling practitioners
Ongoing work with first and second-year medical students suggests that American medical culture is characterized by a juxtaposition of notions of "competence" and "caring," and that the training of students to be competent physicians requires a reconstruction of "common sense" views of the patient, of sickness, and of the personal boundaries of the medical student. Contradictions that arise from efforts to maintain qualities of caring while under…
The Practice of Biomedicine and the Discourse on Hope
Since 1971 and the passage of the National Cancer Act, we have witnessed in the United States an extraordinary burgeoning of specialization in medical, surgical and radiation oncology and of the complementary fields of research oncology, including clinical trials and clinical epidemiology. The creation of these new specialties, the concomitant commitment of government funds to the National Cancer Institute for biomedical research in oncology, the…
Women, poverty and Aids
Pain as Human Experience
Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human body and mind is possible apart from subjective experience and social context. Sufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession seemingly unable to explain or effectively treat their illness. The authors of this innovative volume offer an entirely different, ethnographic approach, searc…
CHAPTER ONE Pain as Human Experience
Cultural studies of biomedicine
Physicians' Discourses on Malpractice and the Meaning of Medical Malpractice
Recent analyses of the professions have considered the question of the changing nature of professional power. This study is an interpretive analysis of the meaning of physicians' discourse in the face of a perceived challenge to the traditional boundaries of clinical practice from malpractice suits. The data for this analysis were drawn from interviews with physicians from three specialties and from documents produced by the AMA/Specialty Society…
American Medicine
The Biotechnical Embrace
Introduction
Narrative nuances on good and bad deaths
Temps narratif et incertitude en médecine clinique
Temps narratif et incertitude en médecine clinique Les stratégies narratives auxquelles recourent les médecins traitants pour esquiver les incertitudes qu'ils affrontent au moment de poser un diagnostic, d'établir un pronostic ou de se prononcer sur l'efficacité d'un traitement semblent varier selon la spécialité médicale, les qualités temporelles de la pratique clinique et les processus morbides en cause. Cet essai propose deux concepts issus de…
Au mode subjonctif. La construction narrative des crises d'épilepsie en Turquie
Au mode subjonctif La construction narrative des crises d'épilepsie en Turquie Cet article présente une analyse culturelle des crises en Turquie, à l'aide d'entrevues individuelles et familiales auprès d'un échantillon constitué de personnes diagnostiquées comme souffrant d'épilepsie ou de crises psychogènes. L'article brosse une brève critique des stratégies d'analyse qui juxtaposent « croyances » culturelles et « connaissance » médicale à propo…
Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality
Passing the Torch
The Subject of Mental IllnessPsychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia
This chapter studies the relationship between the subjective experience of psychotic illness and political subjectivity, and the madness of the psychotic and that of violent crowds in modern Indonesia. It reveals deep fractures in the symbolic ordering of sufferers' relation to families and the world of commodity capitalism and the medicoscientific order of reality. The chapter also shows how the experiences of acute psychoses are mixed up with I…
The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical EmbraceSubjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients
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Sociology (21 works) · Political science (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)