Maria Josefa Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 853699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Josefa Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Josefa |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4804-1843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Home Birth in Portugal—A Comprehensive Analysis Based on Official Statistical Data
To date, there are no comprehensive analyses of the official data on home births in Portugal that consider other determinants beyond place of birth, such as the conditions in which births occur or the mothers’ social profiles. The aims of this article were: (1) to describe the characteristics of childbirth in Portugal according to the place of birth, and (2) to analyse the association between home birth assistance and perinatal, neonatal, and inf…
(De)Bonding with embryos: The emotional choreographies of Portuguese IVF patients
In this article we develop the new concept of emotional choreography to describe how patients bond, debond and/or rebond with their embryos created in vitro using assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Using this concept, we explore how the patients' management of their own emotions intertwines with political, scientific, and religious factors. Our analysis relies on and further advances Thompson's concepts of ethical and ontological "choreogr…
Understanding Cervical Cancer Screening Barriers among Migrant Women: A Qualitative Study with Healthcare and Community Workers in Portugal
Cervical cancer screening (CCS) has been proven to reducing mortality of cervical cancer; yet migrant women show a lower participation in screening compared to non-migrants. This study explores the perspectives of healthcare workers and community workers on the factors influencing the CCS participation of migrant women living in Portugal. A qualitative study with online focus groups was conducted. Healthcare workers experienced in CCS and communi…
A Manifest against the Homogenisation of Childbirth Experiences: Preserving Subjectiveness in a Large Dataset of the «Babies Born Better» Survey
The Babies Born Better international project aimed at surveying women's experience in childbirth, privileging the qualitative description of this experience. It was translated into several languages and, in each country, there were different strategies for data analysis. However, analysing a qualitative dataset of this dimension, without completely transforming qualitative into quantitative data, poses practical challenges to researchers. Thus, i…
In-vitro metaphors: ART beneficiaries' meaning-making about human embryos in the context of IVF in Portugal
Covid-19 y vulnerabilidad socioeconómica: Un Estudio Convergente
La pandemia de Covid-19 ha movido a distintos grupos de académicos a unir fuerzas para dar respuesta desde diferentes frentes a la crisis de salud. En este contexto, se integró un equipo de investigadores con el propósito de indagar sobre la vulnerabilidad socioeconómica de las familias en México frente a una de las estrategias de mitigación, la cuarentena. Para ello, realizaron un sondeo en línea que fue respondido por cerca de 53 000 personas a…
Invisible Vulnerabilities: Ethical, Practical and Methodological Dilemmas in Conducting Qualitative Research on the Interaction with IVF Embryos
The burden of deciding the fate of the supernumerary human embryo created in vitro in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies rests on the beneficiary couples or individuals who conceived the parental project. The beneficiaries must also take on the responsibility of choosing whether to donate surplus embryos either to others or to scientific research, or to request their destruction. Vulnerable beings, weakened from the point of view o…
Essentialism as a form of resistance: An Ethnography of Gender Dynamics in Contemporary Home Births
Feminist scholars have criticised the essentialist construction of femininity associated with ‘natural’ childbirth movements. Along these debates, planned midwife-attended home births stand as the typical representation of this counterculture. In this article, we present data from a multi-sited ethnography on Portuguese home births where we analyse how gender ideologies are reproduced and operationalised by families and home birth professionals. …
An Innovative Simulation-based Community-engaged Intervention for Training Research Assistants in Culturally Appropriate Informed Consent
This pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of SCRIIPTT, with preliminary evidence of effectiveness and acceptability. SCRIIPTT offers an innovative approach for community engagement in research training and advancing the skills of RAs in culturally appropriate informed consent
An Innovative Simulation-based Community-engaged Intervention for Training Research Assistants in Culturally Appropriate Informed Consent
An Innovative Simulation-based Community-engaged Intervention for Training Research Assistants in Culturally Appropriate Informed Consent Chioma Nnaji, MPH, Med, Marie Boone, MHS, Michele P. Pugnaire, MD, Tawara Goode, MA, Scott Wellman, MD, Ashton R. Gunn, Med, Brenda Jenkins, Joyce McNickles, EdD, Med, Bill Gardiner, Michael Jerry, Mario Santos, Lauren Powell, Sharina Person, PhD, and Jeroan Allison, MD What Is the Purpose of this Study/Review?…
Se estava tudo bem, porque é que eu havia de ir a uma obstetra: Identidade, risco e consumo de tecnologia médica no parto domiciliar em Portugal
Contemporary home births are rare and quite invisible phenomena, and quite unexplored as an empirical field. From interviewing women and couples who experienced a planned home birth, this article aims to give an initial sociological portrait of this phenomenon in Portugal. It is shown to be not a return of the traditional or a search for a mystical experience, but rather a physical and concrete happening, strongly shaped by scientific and medical…
Moving beyond disrespect and abuse: Addressing the Structural Dimensions of Obstetric Violence
During recent decades, a growing and preoccupying excess of medical interventions during childbirth, even in physiological and uncomplicated births, together with a concerning spread of abusive and disrespectful practices towards women during childbirth across the world, have been reported. Despite research and policy-making to address these problems, changing childbirth practices has proved to be difficult. We argue that the excessive rates of m…
Perspectivas y desafios de la educacion, la ciencia y la technologia
Cien mil llamadas por el ojo de una aguja: Un análisis antropológico de la apertura de las telecomunicaciones en México
Developing Tools for New Technology Studies: An Anthropological Perspective
Anthropology seeks the meanings of standard or repeated behaviors, social processes, or human creations. This is why anthropologists have explored alien and/or distant social settings. What happens when we try to answer the same questions in our own contexts? In other words, how can we use anthropological theories and tools to discover the meaning of the development and adoption of technological artifacts and processes within our own cultural gro…
El papel del Centro Nacional de Supervisión de Larga Distancia en la constitución del proyecto Telmex
Even though the opening up of the Mexican telecommunications market was the first obvious sign of the existence of a technological development project in Temex, the firm's strategy for constructing a technological pathway is much older This strategy has involved several actors and institutions, the most obvious of which are the two firms the CARSO group associated with to purchase Telmex (France Telecom and South Western Bell). However, the techn…
Moving beyond disrespect and abuse: Addressing the Structural Dimensions of Obstetric Violence
During recent decades, a growing and preoccupying excess of medical interventions during childbirth, even in physiological and uncomplicated births, together with a concerning spread of abusive and disrespectful practices towards women during childbirth across the world, have been reported. Despite research and policy-making to address these problems, changing childbirth practices has proved to be difficult. We argue that the excessive rates of m…
In-vitro metaphors: ART beneficiaries' meaning-making about human embryos in the context of IVF in Portugal
Se estava tudo bem, porque é que eu havia de ir a uma obstetra: Identidade, risco e consumo de tecnologia médica no parto domiciliar em Portugal
Contemporary home births are rare and quite invisible phenomena, and quite unexplored as an empirical field. From interviewing women and couples who experienced a planned home birth, this article aims to give an initial sociological portrait of this phenomenon in Portugal. It is shown to be not a return of the traditional or a search for a mystical experience, but rather a physical and concrete happening, strongly shaped by scientific and medical…
A Manifest against the Homogenisation of Childbirth Experiences: Preserving Subjectiveness in a Large Dataset of the «Babies Born Better» Survey
The Babies Born Better international project aimed at surveying women's experience in childbirth, privileging the qualitative description of this experience. It was translated into several languages and, in each country, there were different strategies for data analysis. However, analysing a qualitative dataset of this dimension, without completely transforming qualitative into quantitative data, poses practical challenges to researchers. Thus, i…
(De)Bonding with embryos: The emotional choreographies of Portuguese IVF patients
In this article we develop the new concept of emotional choreography to describe how patients bond, debond and/or rebond with their embryos created in vitro using assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Using this concept, we explore how the patients' management of their own emotions intertwines with political, scientific, and religious factors. Our analysis relies on and further advances Thompson's concepts of ethical and ontological "choreogr…
Invisible Vulnerabilities: Ethical, Practical and Methodological Dilemmas in Conducting Qualitative Research on the Interaction with IVF Embryos
The burden of deciding the fate of the supernumerary human embryo created in vitro in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies rests on the beneficiary couples or individuals who conceived the parental project. The beneficiaries must also take on the responsibility of choosing whether to donate surplus embryos either to others or to scientific research, or to request their destruction. Vulnerable beings, weakened from the point of view o…
El papel del Centro Nacional de Supervisión de Larga Distancia en la constitución del proyecto Telmex
Even though the opening up of the Mexican telecommunications market was the first obvious sign of the existence of a technological development project in Temex, the firm's strategy for constructing a technological pathway is much older This strategy has involved several actors and institutions, the most obvious of which are the two firms the CARSO group associated with to purchase Telmex (France Telecom and South Western Bell). However, the techn…
Developing Tools for New Technology Studies: An Anthropological Perspective
Anthropology seeks the meanings of standard or repeated behaviors, social processes, or human creations. This is why anthropologists have explored alien and/or distant social settings. What happens when we try to answer the same questions in our own contexts? In other words, how can we use anthropological theories and tools to discover the meaning of the development and adoption of technological artifacts and processes within our own cultural gro…
Cien mil llamadas por el ojo de una aguja: Un análisis antropológico de la apertura de las telecomunicaciones en México
Perspectivas y desafios de la educacion, la ciencia y la technologia
Se estava tudo bem, porque é que eu havia de ir a uma obstetra: Identidade, risco e consumo de tecnologia médica no parto domiciliar em Portugal
Contemporary home births are rare and quite invisible phenomena, and quite unexplored as an empirical field. From interviewing women and couples who experienced a planned home birth, this article aims to give an initial sociological portrait of this phenomenon in Portugal. It is shown to be not a return of the traditional or a search for a mystical experience, but rather a physical and concrete happening, strongly shaped by scientific and medical…
Moving beyond disrespect and abuse: Addressing the Structural Dimensions of Obstetric Violence
During recent decades, a growing and preoccupying excess of medical interventions during childbirth, even in physiological and uncomplicated births, together with a concerning spread of abusive and disrespectful practices towards women during childbirth across the world, have been reported. Despite research and policy-making to address these problems, changing childbirth practices has proved to be difficult. We argue that the excessive rates of m…
An Innovative Simulation-based Community-engaged Intervention for Training Research Assistants in Culturally Appropriate Informed Consent
This pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of SCRIIPTT, with preliminary evidence of effectiveness and acceptability. SCRIIPTT offers an innovative approach for community engagement in research training and advancing the skills of RAs in culturally appropriate informed consent
An Innovative Simulation-based Community-engaged Intervention for Training Research Assistants in Culturally Appropriate Informed Consent
An Innovative Simulation-based Community-engaged Intervention for Training Research Assistants in Culturally Appropriate Informed Consent Chioma Nnaji, MPH, Med, Marie Boone, MHS, Michele P. Pugnaire, MD, Tawara Goode, MA, Scott Wellman, MD, Ashton R. Gunn, Med, Brenda Jenkins, Joyce McNickles, EdD, Med, Bill Gardiner, Michael Jerry, Mario Santos, Lauren Powell, Sharina Person, PhD, and Jeroan Allison, MD What Is the Purpose of this Study/Review?…
Invisible Vulnerabilities: Ethical, Practical and Methodological Dilemmas in Conducting Qualitative Research on the Interaction with IVF Embryos
The burden of deciding the fate of the supernumerary human embryo created in vitro in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies rests on the beneficiary couples or individuals who conceived the parental project. The beneficiaries must also take on the responsibility of choosing whether to donate surplus embryos either to others or to scientific research, or to request their destruction. Vulnerable beings, weakened from the point of view o…
Essentialism as a form of resistance: An Ethnography of Gender Dynamics in Contemporary Home Births
Feminist scholars have criticised the essentialist construction of femininity associated with ‘natural’ childbirth movements. Along these debates, planned midwife-attended home births stand as the typical representation of this counterculture. In this article, we present data from a multi-sited ethnography on Portuguese home births where we analyse how gender ideologies are reproduced and operationalised by families and home birth professionals. …
Understanding Cervical Cancer Screening Barriers among Migrant Women: A Qualitative Study with Healthcare and Community Workers in Portugal
Cervical cancer screening (CCS) has been proven to reducing mortality of cervical cancer; yet migrant women show a lower participation in screening compared to non-migrants. This study explores the perspectives of healthcare workers and community workers on the factors influencing the CCS participation of migrant women living in Portugal. A qualitative study with online focus groups was conducted. Healthcare workers experienced in CCS and communi…
A Manifest against the Homogenisation of Childbirth Experiences: Preserving Subjectiveness in a Large Dataset of the «Babies Born Better» Survey
The Babies Born Better international project aimed at surveying women's experience in childbirth, privileging the qualitative description of this experience. It was translated into several languages and, in each country, there were different strategies for data analysis. However, analysing a qualitative dataset of this dimension, without completely transforming qualitative into quantitative data, poses practical challenges to researchers. Thus, i…
In-vitro metaphors: ART beneficiaries' meaning-making about human embryos in the context of IVF in Portugal
Covid-19 y vulnerabilidad socioeconómica: Un Estudio Convergente
La pandemia de Covid-19 ha movido a distintos grupos de académicos a unir fuerzas para dar respuesta desde diferentes frentes a la crisis de salud. En este contexto, se integró un equipo de investigadores con el propósito de indagar sobre la vulnerabilidad socioeconómica de las familias en México frente a una de las estrategias de mitigación, la cuarentena. Para ello, realizaron un sondeo en línea que fue respondido por cerca de 53 000 personas a…
Home Birth in Portugal—A Comprehensive Analysis Based on Official Statistical Data
To date, there are no comprehensive analyses of the official data on home births in Portugal that consider other determinants beyond place of birth, such as the conditions in which births occur or the mothers’ social profiles. The aims of this article were: (1) to describe the characteristics of childbirth in Portugal according to the place of birth, and (2) to analyse the association between home birth assistance and perinatal, neonatal, and inf…
(De)Bonding with embryos: The emotional choreographies of Portuguese IVF patients
In this article we develop the new concept of emotional choreography to describe how patients bond, debond and/or rebond with their embryos created in vitro using assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Using this concept, we explore how the patients' management of their own emotions intertwines with political, scientific, and religious factors. Our analysis relies on and further advances Thompson's concepts of ethical and ontological "choreogr…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works)