M Cameron Hay
Biographic Data
| ID | 89211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Cameron Hay |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Cameron |
| FAMILY NAME | Hay |
| SIGNATURE | HAY M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7419-0009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Exploring Trajectories of Youth Suicide and Prevention Strategies Within Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India
Suicide is a major public health challenge globally, and although universal public health frameworks exist, suicide prevention efforts need to be tailored for specific cultural communities. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, one of the union territories of India with particularly high rates of suicide-related deaths, provide a unique socio-historic, economic, political, and healthcare context to understand suicidality. In this qualitative study, we exp…
Mixed Methods in Psychological Anthropology
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
The Struggle for Ethical Compassion in Robert Burns's “To a Mouse”
As a farmer from Ayrshire, Robert Burns's subsistence depended on successful interactions with farmed animals. This close contact with nonhumans conditions his poetry on animals. Even the free-living beings he documents are mediated by his agrarian experience. If his background as a farmer allows Burns to study animals on a daily basis, his poet persona permits him to document their activities with fidelity. The ethical dilemma, though, this dual…
How Do Adolescents and Others Around Them Conceptualize Depression? Toward a Contextually Grounded Understanding of Depression During Adolescence in India
For decades, research has examined etiology and presentation of depressive symptoms among adolescents, with the bulk of this work based on samples from North America and Europe. Little is known about the explanatory models and clinical presentations of depression around the world. Focusing on India, a country with the world’s largest adolescent population, our aim was to explore explanatory models and phenomenology of depressive symptoms during a…
Training in Cultural Competence for Mental Health Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of Students, Faculty, and Practitioners from India and USA
Although the need to train clinicians to provide effective mental health care to individuals from diverse backgrounds has been recognized worldwide, a bulk of what we know about training in cultural competence (CC) is based on research conducted in the United States. Research on CC in mental health training from different world populations is needed due to the context-dependent nature of CC. Focusing on India and USA, two diverse countries that p…
Chronic Pain and the Arcs of Suffering and Well-Being: A Systems Model of/for Living with Psoriatic Arthritis
Chronic pain is a phenomenon in which the biological sensations of pain interact synergistically with an individual's cultural world. Considerable anthropological work has been done on the senses and on the anthropology of chronic pain. Less attention has been given to the sensations of chronic pain, how they can escalate to suffering, and how they may be managed in daily life to enable well-being. To develop an integrated understanding of chroni…
Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice. Isabell Herrmans, New York: Berghahn, 2014, 304pp
Methods That Matter: Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research
Practice to research: Integrating evidence-based practices with culture and context
There are ways to integrate culturally competent services (CCS) and evidence-based practices (EBP) which can improve the experiences of patients and their families and communities when faced with health problems, as well as the effectiveness and positive experiences of practitioners. CCS and EBP evidence should be jointly deployed for helping patients and clinicians. Partnership research models are useful for achieving the integration of CCS and …
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, Fourth Edition. Geri‐AnnGalanti. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2008; 298 pp
Suffering in a productive world: Chronic illness, visibility, and the space beyond agency
Is coping with illness really a matter of agency? Drawing on ethnographic research among people with rheumatological and neurological chronic diseases in the United States, I argue that patients' coping strategies were informed by a cultural expectation of productivity that I call the "John Wayne Model," indexing disease as something to be worked through and controlled. People able to adopt a John Wayne-like approach experienced social approval. …
Anxiety, Remembering, and Agency: Biocultural Insights for Understanding Sasaks' Responses to Illness
Jampi are potent, rotely memorized formulae that are central to medical practice among the Sasak of Indonesia. When someone is ill, people respond by seeking jampi. The more anxiety surrounds the illness, the more fervently jampi are sought. This article offers a biocultural analysis of jampi, tacking between (1) ethnographic descriptions of how jampi are transmitted, recalled, and used and (2) neuropsychological evidence regarding memory, anxiet…
Working the Waiting Room: Managing Fear, Hope, and Rage at the Clinic Gate
In this article, we outline the contrasting perspectives of patients and receptionists and the different ways they experience waiting rooms in three U.S. medical clinics. We are doing this to show that a consideration of waiting rooms and the receptionists who work there is an important step in understanding the patient care-seeking experience. We describe the kinds of conflicts that emerge around patient waiting and the emotional labor that rece…
“I’m Paying Your Salary Here!”: Social Inequality, Consumerism, and the Politics of Space in Medical Clinics
Receptionists mediate patient access to physicians. One would anticipate that patients would treat receptionists respectfully, but while many do some are condescending or even aggressive. This paper explores this conundrum in data from ethnographic research in three clinics in Los Angeles. We argue that consumer ideology helps patients construct staff as working for them, an attitude that is reinforced by the occupational segregation within the c…
Reading Sensations: Understanding the Process of Distinguishing `Fine' from `Sick
Sensations form the bases of our recognition that we are well, or, alternatively, that something is wrong. What is the process which transforms a sensation into a symptom? In this article, I draw on fieldwork from Lombok, Indonesia to propose a model of the processes through which sensations become symptoms. Perceptional and interpretive decisions regarding what sensations need to be attended to as potential symptoms may be the result of personal…
Same Hair, Different Hearts: Semai Identity in a Malay Context; An Analysis of Ideas and Practices concerning Health and Illness. Gerco Kroes
Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City
Healing the Modern in. Central Javanese City. Steve Ferzacca. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. vii. 280 pp., illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index
Dying mothers: Maternal mortality in rural Indonesia
The Safe Motherhood Initiative was adopted by the World Health Organization to decrease the high rates of maternal mortality in developing countries. Towards this goal, various studies identified a short list of causes of maternal mortalities and recommended corrective programs. Indonesia put a number of such programs into effect, yet the maternal mortality rates have actually risen rather than fallen. This paper suggests that the causes of mater…
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Suffering in a productive world: Chronic illness, visibility, and the space beyond agency
Is coping with illness really a matter of agency? Drawing on ethnographic research among people with rheumatological and neurological chronic diseases in the United States, I argue that patients' coping strategies were informed by a cultural expectation of productivity that I call the "John Wayne Model," indexing disease as something to be worked through and controlled. People able to adopt a John Wayne-like approach experienced social approval. …
Reading Sensations: Understanding the Process of Distinguishing `Fine' from `Sick
Sensations form the bases of our recognition that we are well, or, alternatively, that something is wrong. What is the process which transforms a sensation into a symptom? In this article, I draw on fieldwork from Lombok, Indonesia to propose a model of the processes through which sensations become symptoms. Perceptional and interpretive decisions regarding what sensations need to be attended to as potential symptoms may be the result of personal…
Working the Waiting Room: Managing Fear, Hope, and Rage at the Clinic Gate
In this article, we outline the contrasting perspectives of patients and receptionists and the different ways they experience waiting rooms in three U.S. medical clinics. We are doing this to show that a consideration of waiting rooms and the receptionists who work there is an important step in understanding the patient care-seeking experience. We describe the kinds of conflicts that emerge around patient waiting and the emotional labor that rece…
Dying mothers: Maternal mortality in rural Indonesia
The Safe Motherhood Initiative was adopted by the World Health Organization to decrease the high rates of maternal mortality in developing countries. Towards this goal, various studies identified a short list of causes of maternal mortalities and recommended corrective programs. Indonesia put a number of such programs into effect, yet the maternal mortality rates have actually risen rather than fallen. This paper suggests that the causes of mater…
Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City
Healing the Modern in. Central Javanese City. Steve Ferzacca. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. vii. 280 pp., illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index
Anxiety, Remembering, and Agency: Biocultural Insights for Understanding Sasaks' Responses to Illness
Jampi are potent, rotely memorized formulae that are central to medical practice among the Sasak of Indonesia. When someone is ill, people respond by seeking jampi. The more anxiety surrounds the illness, the more fervently jampi are sought. This article offers a biocultural analysis of jampi, tacking between (1) ethnographic descriptions of how jampi are transmitted, recalled, and used and (2) neuropsychological evidence regarding memory, anxiet…
Chronic Pain and the Arcs of Suffering and Well-Being: A Systems Model of/for Living with Psoriatic Arthritis
Chronic pain is a phenomenon in which the biological sensations of pain interact synergistically with an individual's cultural world. Considerable anthropological work has been done on the senses and on the anthropology of chronic pain. Less attention has been given to the sensations of chronic pain, how they can escalate to suffering, and how they may be managed in daily life to enable well-being. To develop an integrated understanding of chroni…
Practice to research: Integrating evidence-based practices with culture and context
There are ways to integrate culturally competent services (CCS) and evidence-based practices (EBP) which can improve the experiences of patients and their families and communities when faced with health problems, as well as the effectiveness and positive experiences of practitioners. CCS and EBP evidence should be jointly deployed for helping patients and clinicians. Partnership research models are useful for achieving the integration of CCS and …
Dying mothers: Maternal mortality in rural Indonesia
The Safe Motherhood Initiative was adopted by the World Health Organization to decrease the high rates of maternal mortality in developing countries. Towards this goal, various studies identified a short list of causes of maternal mortalities and recommended corrective programs. Indonesia put a number of such programs into effect, yet the maternal mortality rates have actually risen rather than fallen. This paper suggests that the causes of mater…
Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City
Healing the Modern in. Central Javanese City. Steve Ferzacca. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. vii. 280 pp., illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index
Same Hair, Different Hearts: Semai Identity in a Malay Context; An Analysis of Ideas and Practices concerning Health and Illness. Gerco Kroes
“I’m Paying Your Salary Here!”: Social Inequality, Consumerism, and the Politics of Space in Medical Clinics
Receptionists mediate patient access to physicians. One would anticipate that patients would treat receptionists respectfully, but while many do some are condescending or even aggressive. This paper explores this conundrum in data from ethnographic research in three clinics in Los Angeles. We argue that consumer ideology helps patients construct staff as working for them, an attitude that is reinforced by the occupational segregation within the c…
Reading Sensations: Understanding the Process of Distinguishing `Fine' from `Sick
Sensations form the bases of our recognition that we are well, or, alternatively, that something is wrong. What is the process which transforms a sensation into a symptom? In this article, I draw on fieldwork from Lombok, Indonesia to propose a model of the processes through which sensations become symptoms. Perceptional and interpretive decisions regarding what sensations need to be attended to as potential symptoms may be the result of personal…
Anxiety, Remembering, and Agency: Biocultural Insights for Understanding Sasaks' Responses to Illness
Jampi are potent, rotely memorized formulae that are central to medical practice among the Sasak of Indonesia. When someone is ill, people respond by seeking jampi. The more anxiety surrounds the illness, the more fervently jampi are sought. This article offers a biocultural analysis of jampi, tacking between (1) ethnographic descriptions of how jampi are transmitted, recalled, and used and (2) neuropsychological evidence regarding memory, anxiet…
Working the Waiting Room: Managing Fear, Hope, and Rage at the Clinic Gate
In this article, we outline the contrasting perspectives of patients and receptionists and the different ways they experience waiting rooms in three U.S. medical clinics. We are doing this to show that a consideration of waiting rooms and the receptionists who work there is an important step in understanding the patient care-seeking experience. We describe the kinds of conflicts that emerge around patient waiting and the emotional labor that rece…
Suffering in a productive world: Chronic illness, visibility, and the space beyond agency
Is coping with illness really a matter of agency? Drawing on ethnographic research among people with rheumatological and neurological chronic diseases in the United States, I argue that patients' coping strategies were informed by a cultural expectation of productivity that I call the "John Wayne Model," indexing disease as something to be worked through and controlled. People able to adopt a John Wayne-like approach experienced social approval. …
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, Fourth Edition. Geri‐AnnGalanti. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2008; 298 pp
Methods That Matter: Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research
Practice to research: Integrating evidence-based practices with culture and context
There are ways to integrate culturally competent services (CCS) and evidence-based practices (EBP) which can improve the experiences of patients and their families and communities when faced with health problems, as well as the effectiveness and positive experiences of practitioners. CCS and EBP evidence should be jointly deployed for helping patients and clinicians. Partnership research models are useful for achieving the integration of CCS and …
Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice. Isabell Herrmans, New York: Berghahn, 2014, 304pp
Chronic Pain and the Arcs of Suffering and Well-Being: A Systems Model of/for Living with Psoriatic Arthritis
Chronic pain is a phenomenon in which the biological sensations of pain interact synergistically with an individual's cultural world. Considerable anthropological work has been done on the senses and on the anthropology of chronic pain. Less attention has been given to the sensations of chronic pain, how they can escalate to suffering, and how they may be managed in daily life to enable well-being. To develop an integrated understanding of chroni…
Training in Cultural Competence for Mental Health Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of Students, Faculty, and Practitioners from India and USA
Although the need to train clinicians to provide effective mental health care to individuals from diverse backgrounds has been recognized worldwide, a bulk of what we know about training in cultural competence (CC) is based on research conducted in the United States. Research on CC in mental health training from different world populations is needed due to the context-dependent nature of CC. Focusing on India and USA, two diverse countries that p…
Mixed Methods in Psychological Anthropology
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
The Struggle for Ethical Compassion in Robert Burns's “To a Mouse”
As a farmer from Ayrshire, Robert Burns's subsistence depended on successful interactions with farmed animals. This close contact with nonhumans conditions his poetry on animals. Even the free-living beings he documents are mediated by his agrarian experience. If his background as a farmer allows Burns to study animals on a daily basis, his poet persona permits him to document their activities with fidelity. The ethical dilemma, though, this dual…
How Do Adolescents and Others Around Them Conceptualize Depression? Toward a Contextually Grounded Understanding of Depression During Adolescence in India
For decades, research has examined etiology and presentation of depressive symptoms among adolescents, with the bulk of this work based on samples from North America and Europe. Little is known about the explanatory models and clinical presentations of depression around the world. Focusing on India, a country with the world’s largest adolescent population, our aim was to explore explanatory models and phenomenology of depressive symptoms during a…
Exploring Trajectories of Youth Suicide and Prevention Strategies Within Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India
Suicide is a major public health challenge globally, and although universal public health frameworks exist, suicide prevention efforts need to be tailored for specific cultural communities. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, one of the union territories of India with particularly high rates of suicide-related deaths, provide a unique socio-historic, economic, political, and healthcare context to understand suicidality. In this qualitative study, we exp…
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