Catherine D Tan
Biographic Data
| ID | 86232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine D Tan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine D |
| FAMILY NAME | Tan |
| SIGNATURE | TAN C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0027-7742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ficto‐Primitive Capital: What Wellness Seekers Gain From Practicing Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions
Behind its worldly and socially conscious aesthetic, the wellness industry serves the health and fitness interests of North American and European consumers by commercializing non-Western and Indigenous healing traditions, including shamanistic practices. Explored in this paper, "American shamans" seek to heal a range of maladies by collecting traditions found outside of their own cultural heritage, from ceremonies of the Q'ero people in the Andes…
Structural racism and the experience of “tightness” during the Covid-19 pandemic
Research has established the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of colour. Drawing on three waves of in-depth interviews with 36 college students (for a total of 94 interviews), we extend the conceptual metaphor of "tightness" (derived from the sociology of punishment) to understand the experiential dimensions of structural racism in America, especially during periods of crisis. We argue that tightness intensified for Black and La…
White as milk: Biocentric bias in the framing of lactose intolerance and lactase persistence
The majority of the world population is lactose intolerant, as 65%-70% of people lose the enzymes to digest lactose after infancy. Yet, in the United States, where lactose intolerance is predicted to affect only 36% of people, this phenomenon is often framed as a deficiency as opposed to the norm. This is because the United States has a higher prevalence of people who are lactase persistent. Lactase persistence is a genetic trait most common amon…
Defending ‘snake oil’: The preservation of contentious knowledge and practices
How does belief in controversial ideas persist? I study a community of parents and practitioners who contend that autism spectrum disorder is caused by harmful environmental exposures - notably, early childhood vaccinations - and that there are worthwhile alternative or experimental treatments. Despite objections from dominant experts, these actors maintain their disputed ideas. This study identifies a set of strategies that help maintain interna…
Dad, Wash Your Hands: Gender, Care Work, and Attitudes toward Risk during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Recent analyses of responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have posited that men's dismissive attitudes toward the risks of the virus reflect their attempts to conform to masculine norms that valorize bravery and strength. In this article, the authors develop an alternative account of the gender differences in attitudes toward COVID-19. Drawing on three waves of in-depth interviews with college students and members of their households ( …
Navigating the evidentiary turn in public health: Sensemaking strategies to integrate genomics into state-level chronic disease prevention programs
I'm a normal autistic person, not an abnormal neurotypical: Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis as biographical illumination
Two Opposite Ends of the World: The Management of Uncertainty in an Autism-Only School
How do individuals maintain a sense of efficacy and purpose in the face of high levels of ambiguity and uncertainty? In research on medical uncertainty, sociologists often discuss the strategies health practitioners employ to control uncertainties relating to diagnosis and treatment. Over six months of ethnographic field work at an autism-only therapy school, we observed seventy-five students and forty-seven instructors and formally interviewed t…
Dad, Wash Your Hands: Gender, Care Work, and Attitudes toward Risk during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Recent analyses of responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have posited that men's dismissive attitudes toward the risks of the virus reflect their attempts to conform to masculine norms that valorize bravery and strength. In this article, the authors develop an alternative account of the gender differences in attitudes toward COVID-19. Drawing on three waves of in-depth interviews with college students and members of their households ( …
I'm a normal autistic person, not an abnormal neurotypical: Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis as biographical illumination
Defending ‘snake oil’: The preservation of contentious knowledge and practices
How does belief in controversial ideas persist? I study a community of parents and practitioners who contend that autism spectrum disorder is caused by harmful environmental exposures - notably, early childhood vaccinations - and that there are worthwhile alternative or experimental treatments. Despite objections from dominant experts, these actors maintain their disputed ideas. This study identifies a set of strategies that help maintain interna…
Two Opposite Ends of the World: The Management of Uncertainty in an Autism-Only School
How do individuals maintain a sense of efficacy and purpose in the face of high levels of ambiguity and uncertainty? In research on medical uncertainty, sociologists often discuss the strategies health practitioners employ to control uncertainties relating to diagnosis and treatment. Over six months of ethnographic field work at an autism-only therapy school, we observed seventy-five students and forty-seven instructors and formally interviewed t…
Two Opposite Ends of the World: The Management of Uncertainty in an Autism-Only School
How do individuals maintain a sense of efficacy and purpose in the face of high levels of ambiguity and uncertainty? In research on medical uncertainty, sociologists often discuss the strategies health practitioners employ to control uncertainties relating to diagnosis and treatment. Over six months of ethnographic field work at an autism-only therapy school, we observed seventy-five students and forty-seven instructors and formally interviewed t…
Navigating the evidentiary turn in public health: Sensemaking strategies to integrate genomics into state-level chronic disease prevention programs
I'm a normal autistic person, not an abnormal neurotypical: Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis as biographical illumination
Dad, Wash Your Hands: Gender, Care Work, and Attitudes toward Risk during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Recent analyses of responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have posited that men's dismissive attitudes toward the risks of the virus reflect their attempts to conform to masculine norms that valorize bravery and strength. In this article, the authors develop an alternative account of the gender differences in attitudes toward COVID-19. Drawing on three waves of in-depth interviews with college students and members of their households ( …
Defending ‘snake oil’: The preservation of contentious knowledge and practices
How does belief in controversial ideas persist? I study a community of parents and practitioners who contend that autism spectrum disorder is caused by harmful environmental exposures - notably, early childhood vaccinations - and that there are worthwhile alternative or experimental treatments. Despite objections from dominant experts, these actors maintain their disputed ideas. This study identifies a set of strategies that help maintain interna…
Structural racism and the experience of “tightness” during the Covid-19 pandemic
Research has established the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of colour. Drawing on three waves of in-depth interviews with 36 college students (for a total of 94 interviews), we extend the conceptual metaphor of "tightness" (derived from the sociology of punishment) to understand the experiential dimensions of structural racism in America, especially during periods of crisis. We argue that tightness intensified for Black and La…
White as milk: Biocentric bias in the framing of lactose intolerance and lactase persistence
The majority of the world population is lactose intolerant, as 65%-70% of people lose the enzymes to digest lactose after infancy. Yet, in the United States, where lactose intolerance is predicted to affect only 36% of people, this phenomenon is often framed as a deficiency as opposed to the norm. This is because the United States has a higher prevalence of people who are lactase persistent. Lactase persistence is a genetic trait most common amon…
Ficto‐Primitive Capital: What Wellness Seekers Gain From Practicing Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions
Behind its worldly and socially conscious aesthetic, the wellness industry serves the health and fitness interests of North American and European consumers by commercializing non-Western and Indigenous healing traditions, including shamanistic practices. Explored in this paper, "American shamans" seek to heal a range of maladies by collecting traditions found outside of their own cultural heritage, from ceremonies of the Q'ero people in the Andes…
Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (2 works)