Samuel Taylor-Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Taylor-Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor-Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR-ALEXANDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anthropology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Normal/Modern: Reconstructive Surgery in a Mexican Public Hospital
A growing corpus of anthropological scholarship demonstrates how science and medicine in Mexico are imbued by national concerns with modernization. Drawing on ethnographic research in a public hospital located in the south of Mexico City, I unpack one manifestation of this dynamic, which is the conjugation of the normal and the modern in Mexican reconstructive surgery. The aspiration toward normality underlies everyday clinic practices and relati…
Unmaking Responsibility: Patient Death and Face Transplantation
Responsibility is now a key topic in the social sciences and humanities. Authors have investigated the increasing devolution of responsibility from state to citizens (responsibilization) and the competing responsibilities that exist in everyday life. Building on this literature, I show that, just as responsibility is shifted from state to citizen, it is also made and unmade. I examine such unmaking in the context of face transplantation, a form o…
Adjacent temporalities: Making Medico-Scientific Futures and the Present
No Abstract
Liminality, possibility, and imperative
This piece seeks to expand the notion of liminality within medical anthropology by shifting attention to how in-between states are actively produced and performed by medical experts. While medical anthropologists have successfully engaged with the notion of liminality to make sense of patient experience, I suggest that it holds broader potential and can be used to examine the production of medico-political imperatives by clinical elites. To do th…
Bioprophecy and the politics of the present: Notes on the establishment of Mexico's national genomics institute (Inmegen)
In 1999, a small group of genomic entrepreneurs and local politicians started mobilizing the idea of founding a national genomics institute in Mexico. Approximately four years later, and after 18 months of congressional debate, the Mexican National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) was established by presidential decree. As scholars, we are interested in how the call for a high-tech, high-cost genomics institute was able to gain political t…
Bioethics in the Making: “Ideal Patients” and the Beginnings of Face Transplant Surgery in Mexico
Medical teams around the world are increasingly gaining ethical clearance to utilise face transplant surgery as a reconstructive surgical procedure. Analysis of the beginnings of the operation in Mexico vis-à-vis the early uptake of the procedure in France reveals that this controversial experimental medical field has become loaded with national significance. The primary issue of dispute has been the dependence on life-threatening immunosuppressa…
Bioethics in the Making: “Ideal Patients” and the Beginnings of Face Transplant Surgery in Mexico
Medical teams around the world are increasingly gaining ethical clearance to utilise face transplant surgery as a reconstructive surgical procedure. Analysis of the beginnings of the operation in Mexico vis-à-vis the early uptake of the procedure in France reveals that this controversial experimental medical field has become loaded with national significance. The primary issue of dispute has been the dependence on life-threatening immunosuppressa…
Unmaking Responsibility: Patient Death and Face Transplantation
Responsibility is now a key topic in the social sciences and humanities. Authors have investigated the increasing devolution of responsibility from state to citizens (responsibilization) and the competing responsibilities that exist in everyday life. Building on this literature, I show that, just as responsibility is shifted from state to citizen, it is also made and unmade. I examine such unmaking in the context of face transplantation, a form o…
Liminality, possibility, and imperative
This piece seeks to expand the notion of liminality within medical anthropology by shifting attention to how in-between states are actively produced and performed by medical experts. While medical anthropologists have successfully engaged with the notion of liminality to make sense of patient experience, I suggest that it holds broader potential and can be used to examine the production of medico-political imperatives by clinical elites. To do th…
Bioprophecy and the politics of the present: Notes on the establishment of Mexico's national genomics institute (Inmegen)
In 1999, a small group of genomic entrepreneurs and local politicians started mobilizing the idea of founding a national genomics institute in Mexico. Approximately four years later, and after 18 months of congressional debate, the Mexican National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) was established by presidential decree. As scholars, we are interested in how the call for a high-tech, high-cost genomics institute was able to gain political t…
Bioethics in the Making: “Ideal Patients” and the Beginnings of Face Transplant Surgery in Mexico
Medical teams around the world are increasingly gaining ethical clearance to utilise face transplant surgery as a reconstructive surgical procedure. Analysis of the beginnings of the operation in Mexico vis-à-vis the early uptake of the procedure in France reveals that this controversial experimental medical field has become loaded with national significance. The primary issue of dispute has been the dependence on life-threatening immunosuppressa…
Adjacent temporalities: Making Medico-Scientific Futures and the Present
No Abstract
Liminality, possibility, and imperative
This piece seeks to expand the notion of liminality within medical anthropology by shifting attention to how in-between states are actively produced and performed by medical experts. While medical anthropologists have successfully engaged with the notion of liminality to make sense of patient experience, I suggest that it holds broader potential and can be used to examine the production of medico-political imperatives by clinical elites. To do th…
Unmaking Responsibility: Patient Death and Face Transplantation
Responsibility is now a key topic in the social sciences and humanities. Authors have investigated the increasing devolution of responsibility from state to citizens (responsibilization) and the competing responsibilities that exist in everyday life. Building on this literature, I show that, just as responsibility is shifted from state to citizen, it is also made and unmade. I examine such unmaking in the context of face transplantation, a form o…
Normal/Modern: Reconstructive Surgery in a Mexican Public Hospital
A growing corpus of anthropological scholarship demonstrates how science and medicine in Mexico are imbued by national concerns with modernization. Drawing on ethnographic research in a public hospital located in the south of Mexico City, I unpack one manifestation of this dynamic, which is the conjugation of the normal and the modern in Mexican reconstructive surgery. The aspiration toward normality underlies everyday clinic practices and relati…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)