Linda M Whiteford
Biographic Data
| ID | 76743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda M Whiteford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda M |
| FAMILY NAME | Whiteford |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEFORD L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Room with a View: Observations from Two Pandemics
From my balcony, I see Tampa Bay’s calm water, the Salvadore Dali museum’s distinctive architecture, the Mahaffey Theater’s empty parking lot, the balconies and porches of St. Petersburg, Florida
New Approaches to Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Dimensions
Wastewater technopolitics on the southern coast of Belize
After a massive hurricane devastated Belize's south coast in 2001, "sustainable tourism" was the national government's answer to spurring economic redevelopment. Since then, the communities of the Placencia Peninsula, in particular, have engaged in rapid tourism development as an economic strategy for securing local livelihoods, culminating in the arrival of mass cruise tourism in 2016. In a region where environmental resources and services shape…
Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
This book is a glimpse into an analysis of complex story construction. It is driven by competing needs and desires, not the least of which are to co-produce a provocative and compelling story. That story is about “stupid deaths,” in this case from rabies, governmental prejudice and structural violence, indigenous families’ and health practitioners’ rational and good-faith attempts to heal their dying children, and the need for protecting those no…
Comparative Health Systems
Water, Health and Social Inequality
Critical aspects of social networks in a resettlement setting
Each year, more than 30 million people worldwide are displaced by disaster, development, and conflict. The sheer magnitude of displacement points to a need for wider application of social science theories and methodologies to the special problems posed by these crises. We are convinced that social network analysis of the structure and development of social relations can help to identify variables and patterns essential to maintaining or fostering…
The Disease Detectives
Postdisaster reciprocity and the development of inequality in personal networks
Within the context of major changes in economics, population distribution, and lifestyles around the world, people continue to rely on personal relationships for support. People also often create or find themselves in relationships that are alternatively asymmetrical or balanced. In this study, we are interested in how people face acute or chronic hazards and how asymmetrical or balanced exchange relationships are associated with different types …
Gendered Access to Formal and Informal Resources in Postdisaster Development in the Ecuadorian Andes
The devastating eruptions of Mount Tungurahua in the Ecuadorian highlands in 1999 and 2006 left many communities struggling to rebuild their homes and others permanently displaced to settlements built by state and nongovernmental organizations. For several years afterward, households diversified their economic strategies to compensate for losses, communities organized to promote local development, and the state and nongovernmental organizations s…
Ethics and Practicing Anthropology – Pragmatic, Practical, and Principled
This chapter presents a conversation between the authors about how one practicing anthropologist encountered and resolved a situation in her professional experience, and their shared analysis of that experience. It presents a brief case study from the authors′ professional experience, and then a conversation between them about how to apply what they think is a simple and useful ethical problem-solving guide, the RICE Guide. The RICE Guide was app…
Cross-Cultural and Site-Based Influences on Demographic, Well-being, and Social Network Predictors of Risk Perception in Hazard and Disaster Settings in Ecuador and Mexico: Predictors of Risk Percepti…
Building Community Engagement and Public Scholarship Into the University
This article, as all of the articles included in this volume, focuses on how "community engagement" and "public scholarship" are being used by public universities to reshape their relations with the students attending the university, and with the communities and other partners with whom the university is engaged. Changing the rules of engagement is provocative and potentially problematic for each of the parties involved. For community partners it…
Anthropology and the Engaged University: New Vision for the Discipline Within Higher Educationintroduction
Water: Towards a culture of responsibility
Reproductive Rights in No-Woman’s-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance
Effects of breakfast consumption on satiety and energy intake in 8–10-year-old children
Chronic Disasters and Social Networks: Exposure, Evacuation and Resettlement
Keywords: natural hazard,social network,evacuation,resettlement,disaster,ecology and environment
A Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico, by Anne‐Emanuelle Birn. The Value of Health: A History of the Pan American Health Organization, by Marcos Cueto
Primary Health Care in Cuba: The Other Revolution
Chapter 1 The Cuban Health Care Revolution Chapter 2 An Overview of the Cuban Primary Health Care Model Between 1959 - 2000 Chapter 3 Alma Ata and the Concept of 'Primary Health Care' Chapter 4 The Cuban Primary Health Care Model for Child/Maternal Care Chapter 5 The Cuban Experience with Controlling Infectious and Communicable Diseases Through Primary Health Care Chapter 6 Chronic Diseases in Cuba Chapter 7 Recasting the 'Public' in Public Healt…
Maternal Recognition and Health Care-seeking Behavior for Acute Respiratory Infection in Children in a Rural Ecuadorian County
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to Aids and From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and the Public Power in Costa Rica 1800-1940:Disease in the Histor…
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS. Diego Armus, ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 326 pp. From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and the Public Power in Costa Rica 1800-1940. Steven Palmer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 329 pp
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
Clouds in the Crystal Ball: Imagining the Future While Reimagining the Past—A President’s Reflections
Being able to imagine the future requires a selective memory of the past as conceptualized from the present. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, W. H. R. Rivers, and others are used to exemplify the continuity between past and future in applied medical anthropology as seen from the contextual history of the Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Medical Anthropology: Domains of Application in the 21st Century
Stigma: The hidden burden of infertility
Community Resilience and Volcano Hazard: The Eruption of Tungurahua and Evacuation of the Faldas in Ecuador
Official response to explosive volcano hazards usually involves evacuation of local inhabitants to safe shelters. Enforcement is often difficult and problems can be exacerbated when major eruptions do not ensue. Families are deprived of livelihoods and pressure to return to hazardous areas builds. Concomitantly, prevailing socioeconomic and political conditions limit activities and can influence vulnerability. This paper addresses these issues, e…
The Ethnoecology of Dengue Fever
This article employs an ethnoecological analysis to link indigenous, ethnomedical, and Western biomedical ideas of infectious disease causation/ prevention. The ethnoecological analysis is expanded to include the cultural and historical context of political will and community participation in dengue fever control activities in an urban neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. Findings indicate that a key source of dengue fever transmission has bee…
Cross-Cultural and Site-Based Influences on Demographic, Well-being, and Social Network Predictors of Risk Perception in Hazard and Disaster Settings in Ecuador and Mexico: Predictors of Risk Percepti…
Caribbean transformations
A question of adequacy: Primary health care in the Dominican Republic
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
Child and maternal health and international economic policies
Wastewater technopolitics on the southern coast of Belize
After a massive hurricane devastated Belize's south coast in 2001, "sustainable tourism" was the national government's answer to spurring economic redevelopment. Since then, the communities of the Placencia Peninsula, in particular, have engaged in rapid tourism development as an economic strategy for securing local livelihoods, culminating in the arrival of mass cruise tourism in 2016. In a region where environmental resources and services shape…
Pregnancy and addiction: Translating research into practice
Contemporary health care and the colonial and neo-colonial experience: The case of the Dominican Republic
Postdisaster reciprocity and the development of inequality in personal networks
Within the context of major changes in economics, population distribution, and lifestyles around the world, people continue to rely on personal relationships for support. People also often create or find themselves in relationships that are alternatively asymmetrical or balanced. In this study, we are interested in how people face acute or chronic hazards and how asymmetrical or balanced exchange relationships are associated with different types …
Anthropology and the Engaged University: New Vision for the Discipline Within Higher Educationintroduction
A Room with a View: Observations from Two Pandemics
From my balcony, I see Tampa Bay’s calm water, the Salvadore Dali museum’s distinctive architecture, the Mahaffey Theater’s empty parking lot, the balconies and porches of St. Petersburg, Florida
Critical aspects of social networks in a resettlement setting
Each year, more than 30 million people worldwide are displaced by disaster, development, and conflict. The sheer magnitude of displacement points to a need for wider application of social science theories and methodologies to the special problems posed by these crises. We are convinced that social network analysis of the structure and development of social relations can help to identify variables and patterns essential to maintaining or fostering…
Building Community Engagement and Public Scholarship Into the University
This article, as all of the articles included in this volume, focuses on how "community engagement" and "public scholarship" are being used by public universities to reshape their relations with the students attending the university, and with the communities and other partners with whom the university is engaged. Changing the rules of engagement is provocative and potentially problematic for each of the parties involved. For community partners it…
Volcanic hazard or economic destitution: Hard choices in Banños, Ecuador
In 1999, the entire population of tourism-dependent Baños, Ecuador, some 16,000 people, was evacuated in anticipation of a violent eruption of Mount Tungurahua. Subsequently, many areas in the risk zone experienced heavy ash falls, lahars, and landslides, although no cataclysmic events occurred. Many small rural communities were also evacuated. While these communities became impacted by the hazard, Baños avoided most direct effects. Conditions fo…
Chronic Disasters and Social Networks: Exposure, Evacuation and Resettlement
Keywords: natural hazard,social network,evacuation,resettlement,disaster,ecology and environment
Perspectives on Postdoctoral Public Health Training for Medical Anthropologists
Staying Out of the Bottom Drawer
Horror stories abound: findings or carefully designed and executed research projects ignored; good programs lost because decision makers failed to see their relevance; problems not solved because key people lacked access to information; crucial data not collected or not presented in usable form. There are many circumstances in which research results were never used because criteria of utility were ignored. Each of us knows of research reports tha…
New Approaches to Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Dimensions
This book consists of 13 studies by various authors on the ethical and social issues surrounding the new reproductive technology and particularly the implications of the transfer of much of the control of pregnancy and childbirth from women and nature to medical procedures and technicians. The studies are divided into three main subject areas: the ethics of quality access and care during pregnancy; ethical decisions in the treatment of newborns; …
The Crossroads of Class and Gender
The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting and Household Dynamics in Mexico City. Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldan Women In Culture and Society Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. xll. 204 pp. $42.00 (cloth) ISBN 0‐226‐04231‐6; $15.95 (paper) ISBN 0‐226‐04232‐4
The Crossroads of Class and Gender: The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting and Household
A question of adequacy: Primary health care in the Dominican Republic
Caribbean transformations
Contemporary health care and the colonial and neo-colonial experience: The case of the Dominican Republic
Healing the Infertile Family: Strengthening Your Relationship in the Search for Parenthood. Gay Becker
Child and maternal health and international economic policies
Behavior in Water Supply and Sanitation
Health planners often conceptualize improved public health infrastructures, such as the provision of sanitary facilities, as keys to improved public health results. These improvements alone, however, rarely result in the anticipated health improvements. Changes in hygiene behavior, that is, in the way in which people utilize their existing resources along with improved infrastructure. are critical to achieving sustained improvements in public hea…
An untapped resource: Community based epidemiologists for environmental health
The following article promotes active community participation whereby peri-urban neighbourhood residents monitor environmental health conditions. An effective and sustainable community based environmental assessment and management programme relies on such participation. The authors suggest a combination of methodologies to incorporate community members in the definition of their environment, the diagnosis of local health problems, the determinati…
An untapped resource: Community based epidemiologists for environmental health
The following article promotes active community participation whereby peri-urban neighbourhood residents monitor environmental health conditions. An effective and sustainable community based environmental assessment and management programme relies on such participation. The authors suggest a combination of methodologies to incorporate community members in the definition of their environment, the diagnosis of local health problems, the determinati…
Stigma: The hidden burden of infertility
Pregnancy and addiction: Translating research into practice
The Ethnoecology of Dengue Fever
This article employs an ethnoecological analysis to link indigenous, ethnomedical, and Western biomedical ideas of infectious disease causation/ prevention. The ethnoecological analysis is expanded to include the cultural and historical context of political will and community participation in dengue fever control activities in an urban neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. Findings indicate that a key source of dengue fever transmission has bee…
Comparative Health Systems: Emerging Convergences and Globalization
Community Resilience and Volcano Hazard: The Eruption of Tungurahua and Evacuation of the Faldas in Ecuador
Official response to explosive volcano hazards usually involves evacuation of local inhabitants to safe shelters. Enforcement is often difficult and problems can be exacerbated when major eruptions do not ensue. Families are deprived of livelihoods and pressure to return to hazardous areas builds. Concomitantly, prevailing socioeconomic and political conditions limit activities and can influence vulnerability. This paper addresses these issues, e…
Volcanic hazard or economic destitution: Hard choices in Banños, Ecuador
In 1999, the entire population of tourism-dependent Baños, Ecuador, some 16,000 people, was evacuated in anticipation of a violent eruption of Mount Tungurahua. Subsequently, many areas in the risk zone experienced heavy ash falls, lahars, and landslides, although no cataclysmic events occurred. Many small rural communities were also evacuated. While these communities became impacted by the hazard, Baños avoided most direct effects. Conditions fo…
Society for Medical Anthropology: Applied Medical Anthropology Taught at the Universidad de La Habana
Clouds in the Crystal Ball: Imagining the Future While Reimagining the Past—A President’s Reflections
Being able to imagine the future requires a selective memory of the past as conceptualized from the present. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, W. H. R. Rivers, and others are used to exemplify the continuity between past and future in applied medical anthropology as seen from the contextual history of the Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Medical Anthropology: Domains of Application in the 21st Century
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to Aids and From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and the Public Power in Costa Rica 1800-1940:Disease in the Histor…
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS. Diego Armus, ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 326 pp. From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and the Public Power in Costa Rica 1800-1940. Steven Palmer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 329 pp
Primary Health Care in Cuba: The Other Revolution
Chapter 1 The Cuban Health Care Revolution Chapter 2 An Overview of the Cuban Primary Health Care Model Between 1959 - 2000 Chapter 3 Alma Ata and the Concept of 'Primary Health Care' Chapter 4 The Cuban Primary Health Care Model for Child/Maternal Care Chapter 5 The Cuban Experience with Controlling Infectious and Communicable Diseases Through Primary Health Care Chapter 6 Chronic Diseases in Cuba Chapter 7 Recasting the 'Public' in Public Healt…
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (22 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Geography (13 works) · Public health (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works)