Ian Whitmarsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 76888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Whitmarsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitmarsh |
| SIGNATURE | WHITMARSH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Protestant Techniques of Care: "The Hindu, the Pentecost, and the "Secular
Modern techniques of caring for the self through staying healthy rely on an ethic of choice, often evoking critiques of the (neo)liberal subject. This sense of choice has carried frequently overlooked Protestant commitments from Luther to Kant and Locke to 19th-century American health reformers, premised on a refusal of ritual, mysticism, and the priest as the source of truth. This article explores how these implicit commitments shape the relatio…
What's Mine Isn't (and Neither is What's Yours): Desire as Debt, the Lacanian Lack, and the Boonian Gift
This very brief essay is structured by the claim that James Boon's work suggests the radical idea that Lacanian desire is Mauss's debt. Boon makes any ethics, discourse, or materiality always between, only existing in the paradoxical turning of a distinction toward its absence elsewhere (and vice versa). I juxtapose texts by Boon, Lacan, and Freud to hear how each emphasizes a paradox that is latent or absent in the other—I listen for each other'…
The Dilemmas of Appreciation
The Dilemmas of Appreciation Ian Whitmarsh and Alexander S. Dent "Proper" histories of disciplines tend to imply that issues and -isms develop unilineally and from within. An alternative notion of movements and receptions highlights "charmed circles"—constellations of expatriates, émigrés, amateurs and professionals ("Native" and "Stranger" alike) engaged in dislocated writings and performances. —James A. Boon, "About a Footnote" (1999:x) James A…
Nonsecular Medical Anthropology
A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles in this special issue 'untuck' religiosity from with…
The No/Name of the Institution
Anthropologists have lately sought a subject not containable within the institutions that we analyze. This article suggests we should do the same for institutionality. I define "institutions" as things with the authority of the no/name-to confer the taboo-which includes discourses, rituals, and bureaucracies. The article calls for extending to the institution what we usually ascribe to the subject-violence, but also whatever we oppose to that, su…
Slow Research: Thoughts for a Movement in Global Health
Slow research, like slow food, is good for health.The impetus for this article arises from a shared desire for rethinking our approach to Global Health. The field of Global Health, arising from the
"Troubling "Environments: Postgenomics, Bajan Wheezing, and Lévi-Strauss
Postgenomics is intended to move beyond the search for genes to explore disease as a result of genes interacting with their environment, revealing how they have relevance for health. This addition of environment confers genomic research with new cultural life, making it relevant to public health discourse, government interventions, and health disparities. Drawing on ethnographic research following an American genetics of asthma study conducted in…
American Genomics in Barbados: Race, Illness, and Pleasure in the Science of Personalized Medicine
Barbados is a center of international genetic research premised on race. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork following Johns Hopkins studies carried out in Barbados, this article explores this travel for research. This biomedical science relies on a conflicting significance of Barbados: as a site of suffering, due to the disparities of disease, and, conversely, a site of ease, playing on desires and pleasures of escaping too much asceticism in biom…
Promising Genomics: Iceland and the deCode Genetics in a World of Speculation by Michael Fortun
Hyperdiagnostics: Postcolonial Utopics of Race-Based Biomedicine
The expansion of biomedical research into countries outside the United States and Western Europe is positing new biological links between populations based on race. This expansion includes six international projects occurring in Barbados, premised on the idea that the population is genetically representative of other black people. Based on ethnographic research tracking one such study, a genetics of asthma project, this article explores the ways …
Medical Schismogenics: Compliance and "Culture" in Caribbean Biomedicine
As biomedicine turns increasingly toward chronic diseases, compliance or adherence with pharmaceutical regimens has become a major focus. This article explores the specters created by the diagnostics of non-compliance, focusing on asthma in the eastern Caribbean country of Barbados. I argue that the rubric of compliance in biomedicine today medicalizes "culture" as a gendered irrational use of medications; and such a focus has created a counterdi…
Biomedical ambivalence: Asthma diagnosis, the pharmaceutical, and other contradictions in Barbados
In recent years in Barbados, the interaction of multinational pharmaceutical companies, the Ministry of Health (MOH), and international biomedical research has resulted in a focus on pharmaceuticals in public health intervention and the production of an expansive category of asthma. This article explores the views and uses of this process based on fieldwork conducted with doctors, nurses, pharmacists, MOH officials, and patient families involved …
A place for genetic uncertainty: Parents valuing an unknown in the meaning of disease
Slow Research: Thoughts for a Movement in Global Health
Slow research, like slow food, is good for health.The impetus for this article arises from a shared desire for rethinking our approach to Global Health. The field of Global Health, arising from the
A place for genetic uncertainty: Parents valuing an unknown in the meaning of disease
Nonsecular Medical Anthropology
A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles in this special issue 'untuck' religiosity from with…
Biomedical ambivalence: Asthma diagnosis, the pharmaceutical, and other contradictions in Barbados
In recent years in Barbados, the interaction of multinational pharmaceutical companies, the Ministry of Health (MOH), and international biomedical research has resulted in a focus on pharmaceuticals in public health intervention and the production of an expansive category of asthma. This article explores the views and uses of this process based on fieldwork conducted with doctors, nurses, pharmacists, MOH officials, and patient families involved …
Medical Schismogenics: Compliance and "Culture" in Caribbean Biomedicine
As biomedicine turns increasingly toward chronic diseases, compliance or adherence with pharmaceutical regimens has become a major focus. This article explores the specters created by the diagnostics of non-compliance, focusing on asthma in the eastern Caribbean country of Barbados. I argue that the rubric of compliance in biomedicine today medicalizes "culture" as a gendered irrational use of medications; and such a focus has created a counterdi…
The No/Name of the Institution
Anthropologists have lately sought a subject not containable within the institutions that we analyze. This article suggests we should do the same for institutionality. I define "institutions" as things with the authority of the no/name-to confer the taboo-which includes discourses, rituals, and bureaucracies. The article calls for extending to the institution what we usually ascribe to the subject-violence, but also whatever we oppose to that, su…
"Troubling "Environments: Postgenomics, Bajan Wheezing, and Lévi-Strauss
Postgenomics is intended to move beyond the search for genes to explore disease as a result of genes interacting with their environment, revealing how they have relevance for health. This addition of environment confers genomic research with new cultural life, making it relevant to public health discourse, government interventions, and health disparities. Drawing on ethnographic research following an American genetics of asthma study conducted in…
Protestant Techniques of Care: "The Hindu, the Pentecost, and the "Secular
Modern techniques of caring for the self through staying healthy rely on an ethic of choice, often evoking critiques of the (neo)liberal subject. This sense of choice has carried frequently overlooked Protestant commitments from Luther to Kant and Locke to 19th-century American health reformers, premised on a refusal of ritual, mysticism, and the priest as the source of truth. This article explores how these implicit commitments shape the relatio…
Hyperdiagnostics: Postcolonial Utopics of Race-Based Biomedicine
The expansion of biomedical research into countries outside the United States and Western Europe is positing new biological links between populations based on race. This expansion includes six international projects occurring in Barbados, premised on the idea that the population is genetically representative of other black people. Based on ethnographic research tracking one such study, a genetics of asthma project, this article explores the ways …
American Genomics in Barbados: Race, Illness, and Pleasure in the Science of Personalized Medicine
Barbados is a center of international genetic research premised on race. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork following Johns Hopkins studies carried out in Barbados, this article explores this travel for research. This biomedical science relies on a conflicting significance of Barbados: as a site of suffering, due to the disparities of disease, and, conversely, a site of ease, playing on desires and pleasures of escaping too much asceticism in biom…
A place for genetic uncertainty: Parents valuing an unknown in the meaning of disease
Biomedical ambivalence: Asthma diagnosis, the pharmaceutical, and other contradictions in Barbados
In recent years in Barbados, the interaction of multinational pharmaceutical companies, the Ministry of Health (MOH), and international biomedical research has resulted in a focus on pharmaceuticals in public health intervention and the production of an expansive category of asthma. This article explores the views and uses of this process based on fieldwork conducted with doctors, nurses, pharmacists, MOH officials, and patient families involved …
Hyperdiagnostics: Postcolonial Utopics of Race-Based Biomedicine
The expansion of biomedical research into countries outside the United States and Western Europe is positing new biological links between populations based on race. This expansion includes six international projects occurring in Barbados, premised on the idea that the population is genetically representative of other black people. Based on ethnographic research tracking one such study, a genetics of asthma project, this article explores the ways …
Medical Schismogenics: Compliance and "Culture" in Caribbean Biomedicine
As biomedicine turns increasingly toward chronic diseases, compliance or adherence with pharmaceutical regimens has become a major focus. This article explores the specters created by the diagnostics of non-compliance, focusing on asthma in the eastern Caribbean country of Barbados. I argue that the rubric of compliance in biomedicine today medicalizes "culture" as a gendered irrational use of medications; and such a focus has created a counterdi…
American Genomics in Barbados: Race, Illness, and Pleasure in the Science of Personalized Medicine
Barbados is a center of international genetic research premised on race. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork following Johns Hopkins studies carried out in Barbados, this article explores this travel for research. This biomedical science relies on a conflicting significance of Barbados: as a site of suffering, due to the disparities of disease, and, conversely, a site of ease, playing on desires and pleasures of escaping too much asceticism in biom…
Promising Genomics: Iceland and the deCode Genetics in a World of Speculation by Michael Fortun
"Troubling "Environments: Postgenomics, Bajan Wheezing, and Lévi-Strauss
Postgenomics is intended to move beyond the search for genes to explore disease as a result of genes interacting with their environment, revealing how they have relevance for health. This addition of environment confers genomic research with new cultural life, making it relevant to public health discourse, government interventions, and health disparities. Drawing on ethnographic research following an American genetics of asthma study conducted in…
The No/Name of the Institution
Anthropologists have lately sought a subject not containable within the institutions that we analyze. This article suggests we should do the same for institutionality. I define "institutions" as things with the authority of the no/name-to confer the taboo-which includes discourses, rituals, and bureaucracies. The article calls for extending to the institution what we usually ascribe to the subject-violence, but also whatever we oppose to that, su…
Slow Research: Thoughts for a Movement in Global Health
Slow research, like slow food, is good for health.The impetus for this article arises from a shared desire for rethinking our approach to Global Health. The field of Global Health, arising from the
Nonsecular Medical Anthropology
A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles in this special issue 'untuck' religiosity from with…
What's Mine Isn't (and Neither is What's Yours): Desire as Debt, the Lacanian Lack, and the Boonian Gift
This very brief essay is structured by the claim that James Boon's work suggests the radical idea that Lacanian desire is Mauss's debt. Boon makes any ethics, discourse, or materiality always between, only existing in the paradoxical turning of a distinction toward its absence elsewhere (and vice versa). I juxtapose texts by Boon, Lacan, and Freud to hear how each emphasizes a paradox that is latent or absent in the other—I listen for each other'…
The Dilemmas of Appreciation
The Dilemmas of Appreciation Ian Whitmarsh and Alexander S. Dent "Proper" histories of disciplines tend to imply that issues and -isms develop unilineally and from within. An alternative notion of movements and receptions highlights "charmed circles"—constellations of expatriates, émigrés, amateurs and professionals ("Native" and "Stranger" alike) engaged in dislocated writings and performances. —James A. Boon, "About a Footnote" (1999:x) James A…
Protestant Techniques of Care: "The Hindu, the Pentecost, and the "Secular
Modern techniques of caring for the self through staying healthy rely on an ethic of choice, often evoking critiques of the (neo)liberal subject. This sense of choice has carried frequently overlooked Protestant commitments from Luther to Kant and Locke to 19th-century American health reformers, premised on a refusal of ritual, mysticism, and the priest as the source of truth. This article explores how these implicit commitments shape the relatio…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)