Larry Au
Biographic Data
| ID | 77701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Au |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Au |
| SIGNATURE | AU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0642-9134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Clinical Trials to Real‐World Impact
Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health
Contested illnesses such as long COVID or post-COVID syndrome create heightened uncertainty for patients as they navigate diagnosis and treatment. To lessen this uncertainty, patients in the United States and Europe have relied on patient activism and patient-led research to seek recognition from medical, scientific and political institutions. However, patients in other countries rely on different sets of strategies. Drawing on a survey (n = 144)…
A Research Agenda for Covid-19 and Society
Long Covid requires a global response centred on equity and dialogue
Long Covid, or Post-Covid Conditions, is a global health problem. Yet we know strikingly little about the different experiences of Long Covid patients cross-nationally. To address this shortcoming, we conducted an online survey of Long Covid patients active on social media in the U.S. (n = 334, October to December 2021) and Brazil (n = 144, January to April 2022). Our analysis of short answer responses indicates patient dissatisfaction with medic…
Ethical choreography in China’s Human Gene Editing controversy
He Jiankui announced to the world in November 2018 that his team had genetically edited twin human embryos that were then brought to term. Recruiting participants through an HIV outreach group and using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, He targeted the CCR5 genes claiming this would make the children immune to HIV. One way to understand He’s case is through Charis Thompson’s concept of ethical choreography, which shows how scientists ‘invent around’ potent…
Expertise, translation, and pandemics
Sociologists have much to learn from recent anthropological accounts of expertise in global health. This review surveys three recent ethnographies from Fearnley (2020), Keck (2020), and Porter (2019) to examine how global pushes for biosecurity and zoonotic disease surveillance are unfolding in the global periphery. Collectively, these accounts of global health programs in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam show how global …
On Expertise
Long covid and medical gaslighting
While we know a lot more about Long Covid today, patients who were infected with Covid-19 early on in the pandemic and developed Long Covid had to contend with medical professionals who lacked awareness of the potential for extended complications from Covid-19. Long Covid patients have responded by labeling their contentious interactions with medical professionals, organizations, and the broader medical system as "gaslighting." We argue that the …
Testing the talented child
One controversial area of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in China is “genetic talent testing” for children. In this study, I show that while experts criticize genetic talent testing as unscientific, the persistence of genetic talent testing is not merely a product of parents’ scientific illiteracy. Instead, genetic talent testing reflects parents’ pragmatic use of technology in response to the parenting pressures in contemporary China. Parent…
The Blind Spots of Sociotechnical Imaginaries
During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, experts and policymakers mobilised various slogans to compel the public to help defeat COVID-19. By comparing Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States, this study shows how dominant sociotechnical imaginaries tied to the slogans were mobilised. We argue that the blind spots of these dominant sociotechnical imaginaries contributed to subversive sociotechnical imaginaries and made r…
Imagining the public
It's (Not) Like the Flu”
We trace the crafting of expert narratives during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States. By expert narratives, we refer to how experts drew different lessons from past disease experiences to guide policymakers and the public amidst uncertainty. These expert narratives were mobilized in different sociopolitical contexts, resulting in varying configurations of expertise networks and allies t…
Whose Advice is Credible? Claiming Lay Expertise in a Covid-19 Online Community
Mass vaccination
The Board Game Pandemic
Many stores in the United States reported that the board game Pandemic saw renewed interest at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, with reports of increased sales due to lockdowns and stay-at-home
Globalizing the Scientific Bandwagon
Precision medicine (PM) is emerging as a scientific bandwagon within the contemporary biomedical sciences in the United States. PM brings together concepts and tools from genomics and bioinformatics to develop better diagnostics and therapies based on individualized information. Developing countries like China and Brazil have also begun pursuing PM projects, motivated by a desire to claim genomic sovereignty over its population. In spite of commo…
Recent scientific/intellectual movements in biomedicine
Whose Advice is Credible? Claiming Lay Expertise in a Covid-19 Online Community
Recent scientific/intellectual movements in biomedicine
A Research Agenda for Covid-19 and Society
It's (Not) Like the Flu”
We trace the crafting of expert narratives during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States. By expert narratives, we refer to how experts drew different lessons from past disease experiences to guide policymakers and the public amidst uncertainty. These expert narratives were mobilized in different sociopolitical contexts, resulting in varying configurations of expertise networks and allies t…
Globalizing the Scientific Bandwagon
Precision medicine (PM) is emerging as a scientific bandwagon within the contemporary biomedical sciences in the United States. PM brings together concepts and tools from genomics and bioinformatics to develop better diagnostics and therapies based on individualized information. Developing countries like China and Brazil have also begun pursuing PM projects, motivated by a desire to claim genomic sovereignty over its population. In spite of commo…
Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health
Contested illnesses such as long COVID or post-COVID syndrome create heightened uncertainty for patients as they navigate diagnosis and treatment. To lessen this uncertainty, patients in the United States and Europe have relied on patient activism and patient-led research to seek recognition from medical, scientific and political institutions. However, patients in other countries rely on different sets of strategies. Drawing on a survey (n = 144)…
The Board Game Pandemic
Many stores in the United States reported that the board game Pandemic saw renewed interest at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, with reports of increased sales due to lockdowns and stay-at-home
Globalizing the Scientific Bandwagon
Precision medicine (PM) is emerging as a scientific bandwagon within the contemporary biomedical sciences in the United States. PM brings together concepts and tools from genomics and bioinformatics to develop better diagnostics and therapies based on individualized information. Developing countries like China and Brazil have also begun pursuing PM projects, motivated by a desire to claim genomic sovereignty over its population. In spite of commo…
Recent scientific/intellectual movements in biomedicine
Long covid and medical gaslighting
While we know a lot more about Long Covid today, patients who were infected with Covid-19 early on in the pandemic and developed Long Covid had to contend with medical professionals who lacked awareness of the potential for extended complications from Covid-19. Long Covid patients have responded by labeling their contentious interactions with medical professionals, organizations, and the broader medical system as "gaslighting." We argue that the …
Testing the talented child
One controversial area of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in China is “genetic talent testing” for children. In this study, I show that while experts criticize genetic talent testing as unscientific, the persistence of genetic talent testing is not merely a product of parents’ scientific illiteracy. Instead, genetic talent testing reflects parents’ pragmatic use of technology in response to the parenting pressures in contemporary China. Parent…
The Blind Spots of Sociotechnical Imaginaries
During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, experts and policymakers mobilised various slogans to compel the public to help defeat COVID-19. By comparing Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States, this study shows how dominant sociotechnical imaginaries tied to the slogans were mobilised. We argue that the blind spots of these dominant sociotechnical imaginaries contributed to subversive sociotechnical imaginaries and made r…
Imagining the public
It's (Not) Like the Flu”
We trace the crafting of expert narratives during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States. By expert narratives, we refer to how experts drew different lessons from past disease experiences to guide policymakers and the public amidst uncertainty. These expert narratives were mobilized in different sociopolitical contexts, resulting in varying configurations of expertise networks and allies t…
Whose Advice is Credible? Claiming Lay Expertise in a Covid-19 Online Community
Mass vaccination
Long Covid requires a global response centred on equity and dialogue
Long Covid, or Post-Covid Conditions, is a global health problem. Yet we know strikingly little about the different experiences of Long Covid patients cross-nationally. To address this shortcoming, we conducted an online survey of Long Covid patients active on social media in the U.S. (n = 334, October to December 2021) and Brazil (n = 144, January to April 2022). Our analysis of short answer responses indicates patient dissatisfaction with medic…
Ethical choreography in China’s Human Gene Editing controversy
He Jiankui announced to the world in November 2018 that his team had genetically edited twin human embryos that were then brought to term. Recruiting participants through an HIV outreach group and using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, He targeted the CCR5 genes claiming this would make the children immune to HIV. One way to understand He’s case is through Charis Thompson’s concept of ethical choreography, which shows how scientists ‘invent around’ potent…
Expertise, translation, and pandemics
Sociologists have much to learn from recent anthropological accounts of expertise in global health. This review surveys three recent ethnographies from Fearnley (2020), Keck (2020), and Porter (2019) to examine how global pushes for biosecurity and zoonotic disease surveillance are unfolding in the global periphery. Collectively, these accounts of global health programs in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam show how global …
On Expertise
A Research Agenda for Covid-19 and Society
Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health
Contested illnesses such as long COVID or post-COVID syndrome create heightened uncertainty for patients as they navigate diagnosis and treatment. To lessen this uncertainty, patients in the United States and Europe have relied on patient activism and patient-led research to seek recognition from medical, scientific and political institutions. However, patients in other countries rely on different sets of strategies. Drawing on a survey (n = 144)…
From Clinical Trials to Real‐World Impact
Political science (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Pandemic (7 works) · China (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)