Scott Stonington
Biographic Data
| ID | 630691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Stonington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Stonington |
| SIGNATURE | STONINGTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0472-3885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in Covid’s Epistemic Instability
Stigmatizing and discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/Aids (PLWHA) among general adult population: The results from the 6 th Thai National Health Examination Survey (NHES VI)
Background: Thailand has an ongoing action plan to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) discrimination and stigma. We aimed to monitor the level of stigmatizing and discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) among the general adult population and to investigate its related factors. Methods: Thai National Health Examination Survey, a large-scale country-wide survey in 2019-2020. We used a multistage sampling technique…
PrEP stigma among current and non-current PrEP users in Thailand: A comparison between hospital and key population-led health service settings
Background: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has demonstrated effectiveness in high-risk populations. PrEP service in Thailand became free of charge under the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in 2021. The National Health Security Office launched a pilot project in 2020 to ensure sustainable service delivery, and the national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework was adopted to evaluate early phase implementation. We carried out a cross-sectiona…
Ontological Collateral: The Entanglement of "Cancer Pain" and "Chronic Non-Cancer Pain" in Thailand
Social scientists have long argued that medical objects (categories, bodily processes, and experiences) emerge in historically contingent ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, I describe a special case of this: ontological collateral, the emergence of one medical object due to its entanglement with another. "Cancer pain" recently became a widely accepted category in Thailand to permit the administration of opioid pain medications for…
Acute-on-chronic: Emergency Affect and the One-way Staircase of Pharmaceutical Escalation
The opioid epidemic in the United States is often portrayed as leading to a "pendulum swing" from indiscriminate prescribing toward appropriate use. This portrayal imagines rational-ethical physicians trying to resist irrational-manipulative patients and pharmaceutical companies. Drawing on an ethnography of pain management in U.S. hospital and clinic settings, I suggest instead that chronic pain generates a constantly renewed "emergency affect,"…
Data‐in‐terror: Ad hoc local epistemologies and social life in crisis
Peer Reviewed
"Making Moves" in a Cardiac ICU: An Epistemology of Rhythm, Data Richness, and Process Certainty
Ethnographers of clinical rationality often assume that the goal of biomedical practice is to eliminate uncertainty to produce definitive diagnoses. In this ethnography of an academic cardiac intensive care unit (CCU) in the United States, bodies are conceived instead as ever-changing constellations of problems that make diagnostic certainty irrelevant and require clinicians to construct and reconstruct temporary models to facilitate action. They…
Karma Masters: The Ethical Wound, Hauntological Choreography, and Complex Personhood in Thailand
In contexts of severe illness in Northern Thailand, many conceive of themselves as combinations of beings assembled through the binding ethical force of karma. Scholars working in many world areas have built frameworks for understanding "complex" (distributed, partible, fluid, transient) personhood. In this article, I bring these frameworks into conversation with ethical theory to ask how one can make sense of ethical action when one is always al…
Locating global health in social medicine
Global health's goal to address health issues across great sociocultural and socioeconomic gradients worldwide requires a sophisticated approach to the social root causes of disease and the social context of interventions. This is especially true today as the focus of global health work is actively broadened from acute to chronic and from infectious to non-communicable diseases. To respond to these complex biosocial problems, we propose the recen…
On ethical locations: The good death in Thailand, where ethics sit in places
Clinical Subjectivation: Anthropologies of Contemporary Biomedical Training
Facing Death, Gazing Inward: End-of-Life and the Transformation of Clinical Subjectivity in Thailand
On ethical locations: The good death in Thailand, where ethics sit in places
"Making Moves" in a Cardiac ICU: An Epistemology of Rhythm, Data Richness, and Process Certainty
Ethnographers of clinical rationality often assume that the goal of biomedical practice is to eliminate uncertainty to produce definitive diagnoses. In this ethnography of an academic cardiac intensive care unit (CCU) in the United States, bodies are conceived instead as ever-changing constellations of problems that make diagnostic certainty irrelevant and require clinicians to construct and reconstruct temporary models to facilitate action. They…
Karma Masters: The Ethical Wound, Hauntological Choreography, and Complex Personhood in Thailand
In contexts of severe illness in Northern Thailand, many conceive of themselves as combinations of beings assembled through the binding ethical force of karma. Scholars working in many world areas have built frameworks for understanding "complex" (distributed, partible, fluid, transient) personhood. In this article, I bring these frameworks into conversation with ethical theory to ask how one can make sense of ethical action when one is always al…
Acute-on-chronic: Emergency Affect and the One-way Staircase of Pharmaceutical Escalation
The opioid epidemic in the United States is often portrayed as leading to a "pendulum swing" from indiscriminate prescribing toward appropriate use. This portrayal imagines rational-ethical physicians trying to resist irrational-manipulative patients and pharmaceutical companies. Drawing on an ethnography of pain management in U.S. hospital and clinic settings, I suggest instead that chronic pain generates a constantly renewed "emergency affect,"…
Ontological Collateral: The Entanglement of "Cancer Pain" and "Chronic Non-Cancer Pain" in Thailand
Social scientists have long argued that medical objects (categories, bodily processes, and experiences) emerge in historically contingent ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, I describe a special case of this: ontological collateral, the emergence of one medical object due to its entanglement with another. "Cancer pain" recently became a widely accepted category in Thailand to permit the administration of opioid pain medications for…
Clinical Subjectivation: Anthropologies of Contemporary Biomedical Training
Facing Death, Gazing Inward: End-of-Life and the Transformation of Clinical Subjectivity in Thailand
On ethical locations: The good death in Thailand, where ethics sit in places
Locating global health in social medicine
Global health's goal to address health issues across great sociocultural and socioeconomic gradients worldwide requires a sophisticated approach to the social root causes of disease and the social context of interventions. This is especially true today as the focus of global health work is actively broadened from acute to chronic and from infectious to non-communicable diseases. To respond to these complex biosocial problems, we propose the recen…
Data‐in‐terror: Ad hoc local epistemologies and social life in crisis
Peer Reviewed
"Making Moves" in a Cardiac ICU: An Epistemology of Rhythm, Data Richness, and Process Certainty
Ethnographers of clinical rationality often assume that the goal of biomedical practice is to eliminate uncertainty to produce definitive diagnoses. In this ethnography of an academic cardiac intensive care unit (CCU) in the United States, bodies are conceived instead as ever-changing constellations of problems that make diagnostic certainty irrelevant and require clinicians to construct and reconstruct temporary models to facilitate action. They…
Karma Masters: The Ethical Wound, Hauntological Choreography, and Complex Personhood in Thailand
In contexts of severe illness in Northern Thailand, many conceive of themselves as combinations of beings assembled through the binding ethical force of karma. Scholars working in many world areas have built frameworks for understanding "complex" (distributed, partible, fluid, transient) personhood. In this article, I bring these frameworks into conversation with ethical theory to ask how one can make sense of ethical action when one is always al…
Acute-on-chronic: Emergency Affect and the One-way Staircase of Pharmaceutical Escalation
The opioid epidemic in the United States is often portrayed as leading to a "pendulum swing" from indiscriminate prescribing toward appropriate use. This portrayal imagines rational-ethical physicians trying to resist irrational-manipulative patients and pharmaceutical companies. Drawing on an ethnography of pain management in U.S. hospital and clinic settings, I suggest instead that chronic pain generates a constantly renewed "emergency affect,"…
PrEP stigma among current and non-current PrEP users in Thailand: A comparison between hospital and key population-led health service settings
Background: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has demonstrated effectiveness in high-risk populations. PrEP service in Thailand became free of charge under the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in 2021. The National Health Security Office launched a pilot project in 2020 to ensure sustainable service delivery, and the national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework was adopted to evaluate early phase implementation. We carried out a cross-sectiona…
Ontological Collateral: The Entanglement of "Cancer Pain" and "Chronic Non-Cancer Pain" in Thailand
Social scientists have long argued that medical objects (categories, bodily processes, and experiences) emerge in historically contingent ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, I describe a special case of this: ontological collateral, the emergence of one medical object due to its entanglement with another. "Cancer pain" recently became a widely accepted category in Thailand to permit the administration of opioid pain medications for…
Stigmatizing and discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/Aids (PLWHA) among general adult population: The results from the 6 th Thai National Health Examination Survey (NHES VI)
Background: Thailand has an ongoing action plan to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) discrimination and stigma. We aimed to monitor the level of stigmatizing and discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) among the general adult population and to investigate its related factors. Methods: Thai National Health Examination Survey, a large-scale country-wide survey in 2019-2020. We used a multistage sampling technique…
‘Hallucination’: Hospital Ecologies in Covid’s Epistemic Instability
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