Deborah Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jackson Laboratory |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Are Anthropologists Reading, Watching, and Listening To This Summer
Constance R. Sutton
Living with Oil and Gas and Practicing Community Conducted Science
Deborah Thomas is an activist, citizen scientist and Wyoming resident. In this paper she describes experiences gleaned from local efforts to effect positive change and resistance to shale gas development in her own community. Meeting the challenges of development requires collaboration among community members, including farmers, rural residents, city dwellers, non-profits, doctors, scientists, and academics. Creation of and access to scientific i…
Materializing Exposure
How can STS researchers collaborate with communities to design environmental monitoring devices that more effectively express their experiences and address gaps in regulation? This paper describes and shows the results of a novel method of visualizing environmental emissions of corrosive gases such as hydrogen sulfide (H2S) exposure using photographic paper. H2S is a neurotoxic and flammable gas that smells like rotten eggs and is frequently asso…
Closing the health and nutrition gap in Odisha, India
Health equity is high on the international agenda. This study provides evidence of how health systems can be strengthened to improve health equity in a low-income state. The paper presents a case study of how the Government of Odisha in eastern India is transforming the health system for more equitable health and nutrition outcomes. Odisha has a population of over 42 million, high levels of poverty, and poor maternal and child health concentrated…
Social Vulnerability to Disasters
The 2010 Haiti and Chili earthquakes, the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in Japan are but a few examples of recent catastrophic events that continue to reveal how social structure and roles produce extensive human suffering and differential impacts on individuals and communities. These events
Social Vulnerability to Disasters
In recent years, the world has watched in horror as tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes have wrought havoc across countries and continents. While these events have different circumstances, they share a common factor: the overwhelming majority of victims are women, children, elderly, disadvantaged, or disabled. Evidence gathered from these events
Environmental Characteristics Associated With Pedestrian–Motor Vehicle Collisions in Denver, Colorado
Objectives. We examined patterns of pedestrian–motor vehicle collisions and associated environmental characteristics in Denver, Colorado. Methods. We integrated publicly available data on motor vehicle collisions, liquor licenses, land use, and sociodemographic characteristics to analyze spatial patterns and other characteristics of collisions involving pedestrians. We developed both linear and spatially weighted regression models of these collis…
Anthropology in a Time of Economic Crisis
Introducing the Executive Program Committee
Caribbean Studies, Anthropology, and U.S. Academic Realignments∗
Framed around a set of questions, this article traces the scholarly, institutional, and geopolitical trajectories shaping the shifting locations of Caribbean Studies within U.S. cultural anthropology over time. Drawing in part on ideas developed through their collaborative project on Caribbeanist anthropologies, the authors argue that: (1) Caribbean Studies often has held a peripheral and liminal position within U.S. academic institutions, constr…
Managing development in the hillsides of Trinidad and Tobago using geoinformatics
An increase in the unmanaged development of hillsides is causing environmental, social and economic problems in Trinidad and Tobago. Improved environmental awareness and deepening environmental concerns in recent years have focused attention on the need to move towards a more sustainable pattern of development. Scientific criteria for managing hillside development do not seem to exist and attempts in this regard are seriously compromised amongst …
Improving Emergency Obstetric Care in a Context of Very High Maternal Mortality
The Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (1997–2004) was one of the first large-scale projects to focus on access to emergency obstetric care, covering 15% of Nepal. Six factors for success in reducing maternal mortality are applied to assess the project. There was an average annual increase of 1.3% per year in met need for emergency obstetric care, reaching 14% in public sector facilities in project districts in 2004. Infrastructure and equipment to a…
Magic moments
Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation Andrew Klevan, (2005) London: Wallflower Press, 144 pp., ISBN 190476424X (pbk), 19.50
Politics Beyond Boundaries
Association for Africanist Anthropology
Qualitative Methodologies and Community Participation in Examining Reproductive Experiences
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Treatment of Sexual Abuse
Journal Article Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Treatment of Sexual Abuse Get access Sylvia B. Patten, Sylvia B. Patten Sylvia B. Patten, MSW, is Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, 4567 St. John's Bluff Road, South, Tallahassee, FL 32216. Yvonne K. Gatz, MSW, is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. B…
Capitalist Democracy in Britain
Price
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Treatment of Sexual Abuse
Journal Article Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Treatment of Sexual Abuse Get access Sylvia B. Patten, Sylvia B. Patten Sylvia B. Patten, MSW, is Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, 4567 St. John's Bluff Road, South, Tallahassee, FL 32216. Yvonne K. Gatz, MSW, is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. B…
Improving Emergency Obstetric Care in a Context of Very High Maternal Mortality
The Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (1997–2004) was one of the first large-scale projects to focus on access to emergency obstetric care, covering 15% of Nepal. Six factors for success in reducing maternal mortality are applied to assess the project. There was an average annual increase of 1.3% per year in met need for emergency obstetric care, reaching 14% in public sector facilities in project districts in 2004. Infrastructure and equipment to a…
Managing development in the hillsides of Trinidad and Tobago using geoinformatics
An increase in the unmanaged development of hillsides is causing environmental, social and economic problems in Trinidad and Tobago. Improved environmental awareness and deepening environmental concerns in recent years have focused attention on the need to move towards a more sustainable pattern of development. Scientific criteria for managing hillside development do not seem to exist and attempts in this regard are seriously compromised amongst …
Environmental Characteristics Associated With Pedestrian–Motor Vehicle Collisions in Denver, Colorado
Objectives. We examined patterns of pedestrian–motor vehicle collisions and associated environmental characteristics in Denver, Colorado. Methods. We integrated publicly available data on motor vehicle collisions, liquor licenses, land use, and sociodemographic characteristics to analyze spatial patterns and other characteristics of collisions involving pedestrians. We developed both linear and spatially weighted regression models of these collis…
Capitalist Democracy in Britain
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Treatment of Sexual Abuse
Journal Article Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Treatment of Sexual Abuse Get access Sylvia B. Patten, Sylvia B. Patten Sylvia B. Patten, MSW, is Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, 4567 St. John's Bluff Road, South, Tallahassee, FL 32216. Yvonne K. Gatz, MSW, is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. B…
Qualitative Methodologies and Community Participation in Examining Reproductive Experiences
Association for Africanist Anthropology
Politics Beyond Boundaries
Magic moments
Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation Andrew Klevan, (2005) London: Wallflower Press, 144 pp., ISBN 190476424X (pbk), 19.50
Managing development in the hillsides of Trinidad and Tobago using geoinformatics
An increase in the unmanaged development of hillsides is causing environmental, social and economic problems in Trinidad and Tobago. Improved environmental awareness and deepening environmental concerns in recent years have focused attention on the need to move towards a more sustainable pattern of development. Scientific criteria for managing hillside development do not seem to exist and attempts in this regard are seriously compromised amongst …
Improving Emergency Obstetric Care in a Context of Very High Maternal Mortality
The Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (1997–2004) was one of the first large-scale projects to focus on access to emergency obstetric care, covering 15% of Nepal. Six factors for success in reducing maternal mortality are applied to assess the project. There was an average annual increase of 1.3% per year in met need for emergency obstetric care, reaching 14% in public sector facilities in project districts in 2004. Infrastructure and equipment to a…
Caribbean Studies, Anthropology, and U.S. Academic Realignments∗
Framed around a set of questions, this article traces the scholarly, institutional, and geopolitical trajectories shaping the shifting locations of Caribbean Studies within U.S. cultural anthropology over time. Drawing in part on ideas developed through their collaborative project on Caribbeanist anthropologies, the authors argue that: (1) Caribbean Studies often has held a peripheral and liminal position within U.S. academic institutions, constr…
Social Vulnerability to Disasters
In recent years, the world has watched in horror as tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes have wrought havoc across countries and continents. While these events have different circumstances, they share a common factor: the overwhelming majority of victims are women, children, elderly, disadvantaged, or disabled. Evidence gathered from these events
Environmental Characteristics Associated With Pedestrian–Motor Vehicle Collisions in Denver, Colorado
Objectives. We examined patterns of pedestrian–motor vehicle collisions and associated environmental characteristics in Denver, Colorado. Methods. We integrated publicly available data on motor vehicle collisions, liquor licenses, land use, and sociodemographic characteristics to analyze spatial patterns and other characteristics of collisions involving pedestrians. We developed both linear and spatially weighted regression models of these collis…
Anthropology in a Time of Economic Crisis
Introducing the Executive Program Committee
Social Vulnerability to Disasters
The 2010 Haiti and Chili earthquakes, the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in Japan are but a few examples of recent catastrophic events that continue to reveal how social structure and roles produce extensive human suffering and differential impacts on individuals and communities. These events
Closing the health and nutrition gap in Odisha, India
Health equity is high on the international agenda. This study provides evidence of how health systems can be strengthened to improve health equity in a low-income state. The paper presents a case study of how the Government of Odisha in eastern India is transforming the health system for more equitable health and nutrition outcomes. Odisha has a population of over 42 million, high levels of poverty, and poor maternal and child health concentrated…
Living with Oil and Gas and Practicing Community Conducted Science
Deborah Thomas is an activist, citizen scientist and Wyoming resident. In this paper she describes experiences gleaned from local efforts to effect positive change and resistance to shale gas development in her own community. Meeting the challenges of development requires collaboration among community members, including farmers, rural residents, city dwellers, non-profits, doctors, scientists, and academics. Creation of and access to scientific i…
Materializing Exposure
How can STS researchers collaborate with communities to design environmental monitoring devices that more effectively express their experiences and address gaps in regulation? This paper describes and shows the results of a novel method of visualizing environmental emissions of corrosive gases such as hydrogen sulfide (H2S) exposure using photographic paper. H2S is a neurotoxic and flammable gas that smells like rotten eggs and is frequently asso…
Constance R. Sutton
What Are Anthropologists Reading, Watching, and Listening To This Summer
Price
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