Crystal Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Crystal Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Crystal |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4982-5500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Biomedical Empire
Countervailing powers in the labor room
Toward an institutional perspective on social capital health interventions
This article argues that social capital health research should move beyond a mere focus on social cohesion and network perspectives to integrate an institutional approach into the development of social capital health interventions. An institutional perspective, which is unique in its emphasis on linking social capital in addition to the bonding and bridging forms, contextualises social capital, allowing researchers to confront the complexity of s…
Lifestyles are risky, too
In this article, we examine the portrayal of non-drug related health risks and patient empowerment messages in prescription drug advertising. Little is known about the social construction of non-drug related risks in direct-to-consumer advertisements. In addition, research has failed to investigate to what extent, and how, prescription drug ads use risk messages to construct understandings of empowered medicated patients. To fill these gaps in re…
Healthworlds, Cultural Health Toolkits, and Choice
How do minorities differ from Whites in their interactions with the broader consumeristic health culture in the United States? We explore this question by investigating the role that acculturation plays in minority and White patients' views of prescription drugs and the direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs. Drawing on data from six race-based focus groups, we find that patients' views of prescription drugs affect their resp…
Beyond unequal access
Trends toward pharmaceuticalization in Western countries have led to increased research and theorizing about the roles macro-level institutions, structures, and collective actors play in contributing to patients' reliance on prescription drugs. Relatively less work has focused on the degree to which patients resist pharmaceuticalization pressures, and even less research has explored the factors contributing to patients' resistance to pharmaceutic…
Diet, exercise… and drugs
Much research has examined the social constructions of overweightness and obesity in the broader society. This paper aims to contribute to this literature by examining the popular constructions of lifestyle behavior in direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) geared toward overweight and obese individuals. We are centrally interested in how pharmaceutical advertisements frame healthy behaviors as a solution to the experience of overweightness and in…
Alternative prenatal care interventions to alleviate Black–White maternal/infant health disparities
This paper attempts to forward the maternal health literature that critiques standard prenatal care in the United States by drawing on intersectionality, medicalization, and fundamental causation theories. We argue that these theories deepen our understanding of the maternal health experiences of Black women and can help explain why alternative prenatal care interventions have value for Black pregnant women. Alternative models of prenatal care, w…
U.S. Health-Care Organizations
The focus of this review is macro-level organizational change in U.S. health-care organizations, with a special emphasis on turbulent changes in the environments of health-care organizations. We examine several contemporary theories used to study health-care organizations (institutional theory, complexity theory, and multilevel approaches). These and other theories may be helpful in framing investigations that emphasize key environmental changes …
Disentangling the Exposure Experience
This article examines participants' responses to receiving their results in a study of household exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds and other pollutants. The authors study how the 'exposure experience'-the embodied, personal experience and understanding of chronic exposure to environmental pollutants-is shaped by community context and the report-back process itself. In addition, the authors investigate an activist, collective form of expo…
Disentangling the Exposure Experience
This article examines participants' responses to receiving their results in a study of household exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds and other pollutants. The authors study how the 'exposure experience'-the embodied, personal experience and understanding of chronic exposure to environmental pollutants-is shaped by community context and the report-back process itself. In addition, the authors investigate an activist, collective form of expo…
Countervailing powers in the labor room
Alternative prenatal care interventions to alleviate Black–White maternal/infant health disparities
This paper attempts to forward the maternal health literature that critiques standard prenatal care in the United States by drawing on intersectionality, medicalization, and fundamental causation theories. We argue that these theories deepen our understanding of the maternal health experiences of Black women and can help explain why alternative prenatal care interventions have value for Black pregnant women. Alternative models of prenatal care, w…
Toward an institutional perspective on social capital health interventions
This article argues that social capital health research should move beyond a mere focus on social cohesion and network perspectives to integrate an institutional approach into the development of social capital health interventions. An institutional perspective, which is unique in its emphasis on linking social capital in addition to the bonding and bridging forms, contextualises social capital, allowing researchers to confront the complexity of s…
The Biomedical Empire
U.S. Health-Care Organizations
The focus of this review is macro-level organizational change in U.S. health-care organizations, with a special emphasis on turbulent changes in the environments of health-care organizations. We examine several contemporary theories used to study health-care organizations (institutional theory, complexity theory, and multilevel approaches). These and other theories may be helpful in framing investigations that emphasize key environmental changes …
U.S. Health-Care Organizations
The focus of this review is macro-level organizational change in U.S. health-care organizations, with a special emphasis on turbulent changes in the environments of health-care organizations. We examine several contemporary theories used to study health-care organizations (institutional theory, complexity theory, and multilevel approaches). These and other theories may be helpful in framing investigations that emphasize key environmental changes …
Disentangling the Exposure Experience
This article examines participants' responses to receiving their results in a study of household exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds and other pollutants. The authors study how the 'exposure experience'-the embodied, personal experience and understanding of chronic exposure to environmental pollutants-is shaped by community context and the report-back process itself. In addition, the authors investigate an activist, collective form of expo…
Diet, exercise… and drugs
Much research has examined the social constructions of overweightness and obesity in the broader society. This paper aims to contribute to this literature by examining the popular constructions of lifestyle behavior in direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) geared toward overweight and obese individuals. We are centrally interested in how pharmaceutical advertisements frame healthy behaviors as a solution to the experience of overweightness and in…
Alternative prenatal care interventions to alleviate Black–White maternal/infant health disparities
This paper attempts to forward the maternal health literature that critiques standard prenatal care in the United States by drawing on intersectionality, medicalization, and fundamental causation theories. We argue that these theories deepen our understanding of the maternal health experiences of Black women and can help explain why alternative prenatal care interventions have value for Black pregnant women. Alternative models of prenatal care, w…
Beyond unequal access
Trends toward pharmaceuticalization in Western countries have led to increased research and theorizing about the roles macro-level institutions, structures, and collective actors play in contributing to patients' reliance on prescription drugs. Relatively less work has focused on the degree to which patients resist pharmaceuticalization pressures, and even less research has explored the factors contributing to patients' resistance to pharmaceutic…
Lifestyles are risky, too
In this article, we examine the portrayal of non-drug related health risks and patient empowerment messages in prescription drug advertising. Little is known about the social construction of non-drug related risks in direct-to-consumer advertisements. In addition, research has failed to investigate to what extent, and how, prescription drug ads use risk messages to construct understandings of empowered medicated patients. To fill these gaps in re…
Healthworlds, Cultural Health Toolkits, and Choice
How do minorities differ from Whites in their interactions with the broader consumeristic health culture in the United States? We explore this question by investigating the role that acculturation plays in minority and White patients' views of prescription drugs and the direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs. Drawing on data from six race-based focus groups, we find that patients' views of prescription drugs affect their resp…
Toward an institutional perspective on social capital health interventions
This article argues that social capital health research should move beyond a mere focus on social cohesion and network perspectives to integrate an institutional approach into the development of social capital health interventions. An institutional perspective, which is unique in its emphasis on linking social capital in addition to the bonding and bridging forms, contextualises social capital, allowing researchers to confront the complexity of s…
Countervailing powers in the labor room
The Biomedical Empire
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (4 works) · Medical prescription (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare (4 works) · Prescription drug (4 works) · Advertising (3 works)