J Mcmullin
Biographic Data
| ID | 43787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Mcmullin |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmullin |
| SIGNATURE | MCMULLIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6756-3439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pain Points
This article is a meditation on ongoing efforts to redesign clinical education through the framework of abolition medicine. Although the turn toward cultural humility and structural competencies in medical education acknowledges the gaps and limitations of clinical education, it does not go far enough in dismantling systemic inequities and reimagining better care. Abolition medicine is characterized by the imagination and invention of new modes a…
Introduction
Funding agencies and institutions are increasingly requiring researchers to involve communities and make their work more broadly accessible. The problem is that researchers new to health equity research, and sometimes even people who have engaged in this work for a while, may not sufficiently appreciate the challenges and systemic institutional transformations that must occur to achieve equity. To make pretty words meaningful requires a return to…
Decolonization
Much has been written about decolonizing practices in the academy. This essay engages the conversation by focusing on the analysis phase of research to consider how research continues to be a process of colonization and epistemicide. Advances in community-engaged research (CEnR) ameliorate some issues of inclusion. Yet, institutional procedures and claims to methods that entrench a scientifically enlightened way of knowing continue to systematica…
Making the Invisible and Private, Seen and Public
This roundtable, recorded at the 2024 Graphic Medicine Conference in Ireland, explores “Graphic History as Pedagogy.” The participants Matthew Noe (Boston, USA), Ian Williams (Brighton, UK), Juliet McMullin (Irvine, USA), Soha Bayoumi (Baltimore, USA), and Eugenia Garcia Amor (Badalona, Spain) discussed the role of comics in Graphic Medicine. Inspired by the rising inclusion of graphic works in classrooms, the conversation highlights the potentia…
Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Historical Wisdom
Using anti-oppressive methodologies, the Chihuum Piiuywmk Inach/Gathering of Good Minds (CPI/GoGM) project reimagined inclusive pathways for data analysis in health equity Community Engaged Research (CER). Transformations in CER methodologies that decenter colonial and institutional systems of oppression and center Indigenous epistemologies are on the rise. There is, however, a paucity of guidance on data analysis in CER. The CPI/GoGM’s historica…
Continuum of Trauma
Historical, cultural, and social trauma, along with social determinants of health (SDOH), shape health outcomes, attitudes toward medicine, government, and health behaviors among communities of color in the United States (U.S.). This study explores how trauma and fear influence COVID-19 testing and vaccination among Black/African American, Latinx/Indigenous Latin American, and Native American/Indigenous communities. Leveraging community-based par…
High Rates
High Rates E. T. Russian (bio), Juliet McMullin (bio), and Delight Satter (bio) [End Page 13] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 14] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 15] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 16] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 17] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 18] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 19] Click for larg…
Reanimating the Body
Community Engagement Practices at Research Centers in U.S. Minority Institutions
This paper details U.S. Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Community Engagement Cores (CECs): (1) unique and cross-cutting components, focus areas, specific aims, and target populations; and (2) approaches utilized to build or sustain trust towards community participation in research. A mixed-method data collection approach was employed for this cross-sectional study of current or previously funded RCMIs. A total of 18 of the 25 ins…
Medical Students’ Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation
Introduction. This study examines differences in students’ perceived value of three artmaking modalities (poetry, comics, masks) and whether the resulting creative projects offer similar or different insights into medical students’ professional identity formation. Methods. Mixed-methods design using a student survey, student narrative comments and qualitative analysis of students’ original work. Results. Poetry and comics stimulated insight, but …
Unintentional Injury, Supervision, and Discourses on Childproofing Devices
Unintentional injury prevention research focuses on parental supervision as critical to reducing toddler injury. We examine how the promotion of childproofing-as a mode of supervision-sells mothers "peace of mind" while also increasing "intensive mothering" and the "privatization of risk." Drawing on the childproofing literature and meaning centered interviews with mothers of toddlers and childproofing business owners, we argue that the connectio…
From Particularities to Context
This paper examines how illness narratives are used in medical education and their implications for clinicians' thinking and care of patients. Ideally, collecting and reading illness narratives can enhance clinicians' sensitivity and contextual thinking. And yet these narratives have become part of institutionalizing cultural competency requirements in ways that tend to favor standardization. Stereotyping and reductionistic thinking can result fr…
Cancer
Previous work in the anthropology of cancer often examined causes, risks, and medical, familial, and embodied relationships created by the disease. Recent writing has expanded that focus, attending to cancer as a "total social fact" ( Jain 2013 ) and dissecting the landscape of "carcinogenic relationships" ( Livingston 2012 ). Cancer-driven relationships become subjectively real through individual suffering, stigma, and inequality. This article t…
Cancer and the Comics
Cancer graphic narratives, I argue, are part of a medical imaginary that includes representations of difference and biomedical technology that engage Fassin's (2009) concept of biolegitimacy. Framed in three parts, the argument first draws on discourses about cancer graphic narratives from graphic medicine scholars and authors to demonstrate a construction of universal suffering. Second, I examine tropes of hope and difference as a biotechnical e…
Watching as an ordinary affect
Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namib
Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge
Influence of beliefs about cervical cancer etiology on pap smear use among Latina immigrants
The results suggest that culturally related beliefs about the etiology of cervical cancer play a role in the decision to obtain Pap smears for Latina immigrants. The findings may help to explain why researchers have found Latino ethnicity to be an independent predictor of Pap smear use. They also suggest that programs designed to improve cervical cancer screening, particularly among Latina immigrants, should stress the nature of HPV transmission,…
The call to life
Beliefs Matter
In this article we examine the influence of cultural beliefs on behavior or, more specifically, beliefs about cervical cancer risk factors and the use of Pap exams. Individual Latinas' (Hispanic women) holding of beliefs similar to Latinas' generally (cultural consonance) did not significantly influence their use of Pap exams. Rather, structural factors such as medical insurance, age, marital status, education, and language acculturation explaine…
Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors
This article reports on a study of perceptions of breast and cervical cancer risk factors among 27 U.S.-born Chicanas, 39 Mexican and 28 Sal-vadoran immigrants, 27 Anglo women, and 30 physicians in northern Orange County, California. In open-ended responses explaining why women might be at risk for both cancers, Latinas expressed two general themes: physical stress and trauma to the body, and behavior and lifestyle choices. Interviewees ranked th…
Knowledge, power and experience
Recent theory in anthropology has increasingly been concerned with issues of power. Anthropology also has a long history of interest in variation in cultural knowledge, which, we argue, benefits from attention to power relations. To show this, we examine perceptions of breast cancer risk factors among physicians. Although physicians share a general cultural model of breast cancer risk factors, variation exists, especially between university-based…
Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors
This article reports on a study of perceptions of breast and cervical cancer risk factors among 27 U.S.-born Chicanas, 39 Mexican and 28 Sal-vadoran immigrants, 27 Anglo women, and 30 physicians in northern Orange County, California. In open-ended responses explaining why women might be at risk for both cancers, Latinas expressed two general themes: physical stress and trauma to the body, and behavior and lifestyle choices. Interviewees ranked th…
Beliefs Matter
In this article we examine the influence of cultural beliefs on behavior or, more specifically, beliefs about cervical cancer risk factors and the use of Pap exams. Individual Latinas' (Hispanic women) holding of beliefs similar to Latinas' generally (cultural consonance) did not significantly influence their use of Pap exams. Rather, structural factors such as medical insurance, age, marital status, education, and language acculturation explaine…
Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namib
The call to life
Cancer
Previous work in the anthropology of cancer often examined causes, risks, and medical, familial, and embodied relationships created by the disease. Recent writing has expanded that focus, attending to cancer as a "total social fact" ( Jain 2013 ) and dissecting the landscape of "carcinogenic relationships" ( Livingston 2012 ). Cancer-driven relationships become subjectively real through individual suffering, stigma, and inequality. This article t…
Cancer and the Comics
Cancer graphic narratives, I argue, are part of a medical imaginary that includes representations of difference and biomedical technology that engage Fassin's (2009) concept of biolegitimacy. Framed in three parts, the argument first draws on discourses about cancer graphic narratives from graphic medicine scholars and authors to demonstrate a construction of universal suffering. Second, I examine tropes of hope and difference as a biotechnical e…
Influence of beliefs about cervical cancer etiology on pap smear use among Latina immigrants
The results suggest that culturally related beliefs about the etiology of cervical cancer play a role in the decision to obtain Pap smears for Latina immigrants. The findings may help to explain why researchers have found Latino ethnicity to be an independent predictor of Pap smear use. They also suggest that programs designed to improve cervical cancer screening, particularly among Latina immigrants, should stress the nature of HPV transmission,…
Knowledge, power and experience
Recent theory in anthropology has increasingly been concerned with issues of power. Anthropology also has a long history of interest in variation in cultural knowledge, which, we argue, benefits from attention to power relations. To show this, we examine perceptions of breast cancer risk factors among physicians. Although physicians share a general cultural model of breast cancer risk factors, variation exists, especially between university-based…
Introduction
Funding agencies and institutions are increasingly requiring researchers to involve communities and make their work more broadly accessible. The problem is that researchers new to health equity research, and sometimes even people who have engaged in this work for a while, may not sufficiently appreciate the challenges and systemic institutional transformations that must occur to achieve equity. To make pretty words meaningful requires a return to…
Decolonization
Much has been written about decolonizing practices in the academy. This essay engages the conversation by focusing on the analysis phase of research to consider how research continues to be a process of colonization and epistemicide. Advances in community-engaged research (CEnR) ameliorate some issues of inclusion. Yet, institutional procedures and claims to methods that entrench a scientifically enlightened way of knowing continue to systematica…
Knowledge, power and experience
Recent theory in anthropology has increasingly been concerned with issues of power. Anthropology also has a long history of interest in variation in cultural knowledge, which, we argue, benefits from attention to power relations. To show this, we examine perceptions of breast cancer risk factors among physicians. Although physicians share a general cultural model of breast cancer risk factors, variation exists, especially between university-based…
Structure and Meaning in Models of Breast and Cervical Cancer Risk Factors
This article reports on a study of perceptions of breast and cervical cancer risk factors among 27 U.S.-born Chicanas, 39 Mexican and 28 Sal-vadoran immigrants, 27 Anglo women, and 30 physicians in northern Orange County, California. In open-ended responses explaining why women might be at risk for both cancers, Latinas expressed two general themes: physical stress and trauma to the body, and behavior and lifestyle choices. Interviewees ranked th…
Beliefs Matter
In this article we examine the influence of cultural beliefs on behavior or, more specifically, beliefs about cervical cancer risk factors and the use of Pap exams. Individual Latinas' (Hispanic women) holding of beliefs similar to Latinas' generally (cultural consonance) did not significantly influence their use of Pap exams. Rather, structural factors such as medical insurance, age, marital status, education, and language acculturation explaine…
Influence of beliefs about cervical cancer etiology on pap smear use among Latina immigrants
The results suggest that culturally related beliefs about the etiology of cervical cancer play a role in the decision to obtain Pap smears for Latina immigrants. The findings may help to explain why researchers have found Latino ethnicity to be an independent predictor of Pap smear use. They also suggest that programs designed to improve cervical cancer screening, particularly among Latina immigrants, should stress the nature of HPV transmission,…
The call to life
Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge
Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namib
Watching as an ordinary affect
Cancer
Previous work in the anthropology of cancer often examined causes, risks, and medical, familial, and embodied relationships created by the disease. Recent writing has expanded that focus, attending to cancer as a "total social fact" ( Jain 2013 ) and dissecting the landscape of "carcinogenic relationships" ( Livingston 2012 ). Cancer-driven relationships become subjectively real through individual suffering, stigma, and inequality. This article t…
Cancer and the Comics
Cancer graphic narratives, I argue, are part of a medical imaginary that includes representations of difference and biomedical technology that engage Fassin's (2009) concept of biolegitimacy. Framed in three parts, the argument first draws on discourses about cancer graphic narratives from graphic medicine scholars and authors to demonstrate a construction of universal suffering. Second, I examine tropes of hope and difference as a biotechnical e…
From Particularities to Context
This paper examines how illness narratives are used in medical education and their implications for clinicians' thinking and care of patients. Ideally, collecting and reading illness narratives can enhance clinicians' sensitivity and contextual thinking. And yet these narratives have become part of institutionalizing cultural competency requirements in ways that tend to favor standardization. Stereotyping and reductionistic thinking can result fr…
Unintentional Injury, Supervision, and Discourses on Childproofing Devices
Unintentional injury prevention research focuses on parental supervision as critical to reducing toddler injury. We examine how the promotion of childproofing-as a mode of supervision-sells mothers "peace of mind" while also increasing "intensive mothering" and the "privatization of risk." Drawing on the childproofing literature and meaning centered interviews with mothers of toddlers and childproofing business owners, we argue that the connectio…
Reanimating the Body
Community Engagement Practices at Research Centers in U.S. Minority Institutions
This paper details U.S. Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Community Engagement Cores (CECs): (1) unique and cross-cutting components, focus areas, specific aims, and target populations; and (2) approaches utilized to build or sustain trust towards community participation in research. A mixed-method data collection approach was employed for this cross-sectional study of current or previously funded RCMIs. A total of 18 of the 25 ins…
Medical Students’ Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation
Introduction. This study examines differences in students’ perceived value of three artmaking modalities (poetry, comics, masks) and whether the resulting creative projects offer similar or different insights into medical students’ professional identity formation. Methods. Mixed-methods design using a student survey, student narrative comments and qualitative analysis of students’ original work. Results. Poetry and comics stimulated insight, but …
Historical Wisdom
Using anti-oppressive methodologies, the Chihuum Piiuywmk Inach/Gathering of Good Minds (CPI/GoGM) project reimagined inclusive pathways for data analysis in health equity Community Engaged Research (CER). Transformations in CER methodologies that decenter colonial and institutional systems of oppression and center Indigenous epistemologies are on the rise. There is, however, a paucity of guidance on data analysis in CER. The CPI/GoGM’s historica…
Continuum of Trauma
Historical, cultural, and social trauma, along with social determinants of health (SDOH), shape health outcomes, attitudes toward medicine, government, and health behaviors among communities of color in the United States (U.S.). This study explores how trauma and fear influence COVID-19 testing and vaccination among Black/African American, Latinx/Indigenous Latin American, and Native American/Indigenous communities. Leveraging community-based par…
High Rates
High Rates E. T. Russian (bio), Juliet McMullin (bio), and Delight Satter (bio) [End Page 13] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 14] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 15] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 16] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 17] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 18] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 19] Click for larg…
Making the Invisible and Private, Seen and Public
This roundtable, recorded at the 2024 Graphic Medicine Conference in Ireland, explores “Graphic History as Pedagogy.” The participants Matthew Noe (Boston, USA), Ian Williams (Brighton, UK), Juliet McMullin (Irvine, USA), Soha Bayoumi (Baltimore, USA), and Eugenia Garcia Amor (Badalona, Spain) discussed the role of comics in Graphic Medicine. Inspired by the rising inclusion of graphic works in classrooms, the conversation highlights the potentia…
Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Introduction
Funding agencies and institutions are increasingly requiring researchers to involve communities and make their work more broadly accessible. The problem is that researchers new to health equity research, and sometimes even people who have engaged in this work for a while, may not sufficiently appreciate the challenges and systemic institutional transformations that must occur to achieve equity. To make pretty words meaningful requires a return to…
Decolonization
Much has been written about decolonizing practices in the academy. This essay engages the conversation by focusing on the analysis phase of research to consider how research continues to be a process of colonization and epistemicide. Advances in community-engaged research (CEnR) ameliorate some issues of inclusion. Yet, institutional procedures and claims to methods that entrench a scientifically enlightened way of knowing continue to systematica…
Pain Points
This article is a meditation on ongoing efforts to redesign clinical education through the framework of abolition medicine. Although the turn toward cultural humility and structural competencies in medical education acknowledges the gaps and limitations of clinical education, it does not go far enough in dismantling systemic inequities and reimagining better care. Abolition medicine is characterized by the imagination and invention of new modes a…
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