Ian Harper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 89432 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ian Harper |
| NOMBRES | Ian |
| APELLIDO | Harper |
| FIRMA | HARPER I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3019-5123 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1952 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Rethinking fussiness in commercial food contexts
So-called ‘fussy’ or ‘picky’ eating has been construed as a problem of parenting feeding practices and children’s defiant eating behaviours. However, this ‘fussiness’ about food unfolds in a food environment rife with misleading marketing messages, conflicting information, and the widespread availability of ultra-processed food (UPF). Where fussiness leads to dietary patterns high in UPF, it can have significant implications for a child’s life-lo…
Digital Intensity, Information, and Intimacy for Young Adults Living with Chronic Illness
Online platforms play an important role in how people understand their experiences of chronic illness, learn about their condition(s), and connect with others. This paper draws on 33 semi-structured interviews with young adults (aged 19–29) living with chronic illness in Australia to examine the varied impacts of online platforms on young people's understandings and experiences of illness. Focusing on participants’ experiences of the intensificat…
Interest, Usury and the Common Good
This article examines longstanding moral and practical debates surrounding the charging of interest and the concept of usury. Tracing the evolution of attitudes from ancient prohibitions to modern acceptance, the authors distinguish between reasonable interest and usurious rates, focusing on the moral implications of exploiting borrowers through excessive charges. The paper defends the legitimacy of charging interest in commercial transactions an…
Unpacking the Assumptions, Oversights and Consequences that Surround Young People’s Difficulties in Accessing Chronic Illness Diagnosis and Care
Young people living with chronic illness navigate a series of age-specific difficulties that emerge from the way in which both youth and chronic illness are constructed in social and healthcare imaginaries. In this article we draw on 33 interviews with young adults (aged 19–29 years) living in Australia to examine the ways in which age is a factor that shapes the barriers and biases young people face when seeking therapeutic interventions for ill…
Precarious living in the age of precision medicine
Owing in large part to the rise of precision medicine, cancers that were once considered ‘terminal’ now often entail long-term treatability alongside ongoing incurability. The resulting chronic malignancy is fundamentally reconfiguring the meaning and experience of living with cancer and – we argue – illustrates some of the key features of precarious living, more generally. Drawing on 132 in-depth interviews and building from Lauren Berlant’s ide…
Growing up, ill
Chronic Concealment and Awareness in the Affective Worlds of Young People Living With Chronic Illness
From the onset of chronic illness, a variety of challenges emerge-challenges that both persist and evolve as life progresses. For young adults living with chronic illness, the age-specific difficulties of becoming ill while young form a foundation that shapes their experience of illness in enduring ways. This paper draws on a series of in-depth qualitative interviews with 33 young adults (aged 19-29 years old) living with a range of chronic illne…
A vision for reinvigorating global mental health
Across individuals, communities, and ecosystems, unequal ways of living mean different experiences and expressions of wellbeing and distress. What would it mean for Global Mental Health (GMH) to start with these disparities in lived-experience, radically, rather than take them as stumbling blocks to unite under a broad GMH umbrella? This question builds on a tradition of critically appraising the GMH field (see e.g. [1]), seeking a re-shaping of …
Navigating the Limits of Diagnosis
Young adults living with chronic illness often experience considerable uncertainty across the emotional, cultural and medical spheres of their everyday lives. The process of seeking, receiving and reckoning with a diagnosis has frequently been an in‐road for qualitative examinations of these experiences. As a result, the biomedical diagnosis has often taken centre stage in research concerning how uncertainty is managed and/or more stability is fo…
The winding roads that lead to Coimbra
This text introduces the section of MATLIT 8.1 dedicated to Inanimate Alice. It briefly summarizes the history of this serial digital fictional work and how it came to be translated into several languages and adopted by many schools and teachers in various countries
Accountability and Generating Evidence for Global Health
Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in Nepal. Compounded by the remote terrain, endemic poverty, and a lack of access to health facilities, the use of misoprostol has advantages over the standard use of oxytocin for PPH management. Drawing on our qualitative study of a pilot intervention managed by the Nepal Family Health Programme, we map the institutional relationships involved in the design, implem…
Understanding Health Research Ethics in Nepal
Unlike other countries in South Asia, in Nepal research in the health sector has a relatively recent history. Most health research activities in the country are sponsored by international collaborative assemblages of aid agencies and universities. Data from Nepal Health Research Council shows that, officially, 1,212 health research activities have been carried out between 1991 and 2014. These range from addressing immediate health problems at the…
Electronic Payments Systems
An electronic payments system is one in which financial transactions are conducted via computer and electronic communications devices, without the need to transfer any physical token.
Aid conditionalities, international Good Manufacturing Practice standards and local production rights
BACKGROUND: Local pharmaceutical production has been endorsed by the WHO as a means of addressing health priorities of developing countries. However, local producers of essential medicines must comply with international pharmaceutical standards in order to be eligible to compete in donor tenders. These standards determine production rights for on-patent and off-patent medicines, and guide international procurement of medicines. We reviewed the li…
Usury
Usury has a long and varied history. Originally the term referred to the charging of interest per se—that is, requiring a borrower to repay more than the principal sum borrowed from a lender. Over time borrowing and lending evolved to become an integral part of commercial life, and usury came to refer to the charging of excessive or unconscionable rates of interest on loans. The Christian church no longer opposes the charging of interest, althoug…
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Infectious Disease Control
Walking from the courtyard, out of the monsoon rains, into the cool offices of a large and prosperous nongovernmental organization (NGO) in one of Nepal’s sprawling urban cities was a relief. It wa
The Politics and Anti-Politics of the Global Fund Experiment
After a decade of operations, the Global Fund is an institutional form in flux. Forced to cancel its eleventh round of funding due to a shortfall in donor pledges, the Fund is currently in firefighting mode, overhauling its leadership, governance structures, and operations. Drawing on a case study of Uganda, we look at how the original Global Fund vision to be a simple financial instrument has played out at the country level. Even prior to the ca…
Global health
Trust and the regulation of pharmaceuticals
BACKGROUND: Building appropriate levels of trust in pharmaceuticals is a painstaking and challenging task, involving participants from different spheres of life, including producers, distributors, retailers, prescribers, patients and the mass media. Increasingly, however, trust is not just a national matter, but involves cross-border flows of knowledge, threats and promises. METHODS: Data for this paper comes from the project 'Tracing Pharmaceuti…
Extreme condition, extreme measures? Compliance, drug resistance, and the control of tuberculosis
This paper explores the issue of compliance by focusing on the control of tuberculosis. In the last ten years, patient compliance in tuberculosis control has discursively shifted from 'direct observation' of therapy to more patient-centred focus and support drawing on rights-based approaches in dealing with health care provision. At the same time, there has been an increased international concern with the rise of drug resistant forms of tuberculo…
Debates on Ethical Practice
Christian Theology and Market Economics
This unique work has a historical time-span reaching from Aristotle to the modern day, thus appealing to those interested in the history of ideas and economic thought as well as the links between theological and economic thought.
Less than Human? Diaspora, Disease and the Question of Citizenship
The aim of this special edition of International Migration is to bring about discussion between those conducting research in Diaspora Studies and the Anthropology of Public Health and Medicine. Historically, international migration has been associated with the transport of disease. Regardless of the evidence, metaphors of plague, and infection have circulated and been used to marginalise and keep out diaspora communities in host countries in an e…
Navigating Diagnoses
Culture and Well-being
Navigating Diagnoses
Relationships, complicity and representation
The Politics and Anti-Politics of the Global Fund Experiment
After a decade of operations, the Global Fund is an institutional form in flux. Forced to cancel its eleventh round of funding due to a shortfall in donor pledges, the Fund is currently in firefighting mode, overhauling its leadership, governance structures, and operations. Drawing on a case study of Uganda, we look at how the original Global Fund vision to be a simple financial instrument has played out at the country level. Even prior to the ca…
Extreme condition, extreme measures? Compliance, drug resistance, and the control of tuberculosis
This paper explores the issue of compliance by focusing on the control of tuberculosis. In the last ten years, patient compliance in tuberculosis control has discursively shifted from 'direct observation' of therapy to more patient-centred focus and support drawing on rights-based approaches in dealing with health care provision. At the same time, there has been an increased international concern with the rise of drug resistant forms of tuberculo…
Less than Human? Diaspora, Disease and the Question of Citizenship
The aim of this special edition of International Migration is to bring about discussion between those conducting research in Diaspora Studies and the Anthropology of Public Health and Medicine. Historically, international migration has been associated with the transport of disease. Regardless of the evidence, metaphors of plague, and infection have circulated and been used to marginalise and keep out diaspora communities in host countries in an e…
Towards interactive professional ethics
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Infectious Disease Control
Walking from the courtyard, out of the monsoon rains, into the cool offices of a large and prosperous nongovernmental organization (NGO) in one of Nepal’s sprawling urban cities was a relief. It wa
Translating ethics
The Role of the "Fringer" in a State Prison for Women
Journal Article The Role of the “Fringer” in a State Prison for Women Get access Ida Harper Ida Harper University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 31, Issue 1, October 1952, Pages 53–60, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572574 Published: 01 October 1952
The Role of the "Fringer" in a State Prison for Women
Journal Article The Role of the “Fringer” in a State Prison for Women Get access Ida Harper Ida Harper University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 31, Issue 1, October 1952, Pages 53–60, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572574 Published: 01 October 1952
The politics of publishing
In 1994-95 Nepali historian Pratyoush Onta put together a team of four scholars to start a journal about Nepal. They gave it the name Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS) and arranged for it to be published by a new commercial publisher based in Kathmandu, Nepal. First published in 1996, SINHAS is now entering its second decade of publication. The experience of editing SINHAS, doing research on the state of South Asian Studies in India …
Surveillance and techniques of disciplinary selfhood
In the last two years, during which time I was simultaneously writing up my thesis, I have taught at three different universities. Having not worked as a Teaching Assistant, I launched immediately into being responsible for both the development of course content, lecturing and the running of seminars. During the development of the paper, it was suggested that I might wish to share some of the experiences – before they get lost – of this move to t…
The body in medical anthropology
The politics of publishing in anthropology
Publishing ethnographic material is at the heart of the anthropological enterprise, and forms the basis of establishing academic careers.Yet we rarely consider the politics of our discipline from this perspective.What might the world of anthropology look like diffracted through this lens?In this edition of Anthropology Matters we reflect on our discipline from the position of the production and circulation of the products of ethnography-our finis…
Nepali Maoists
Declining Anthropology
A response to Mars, AT20(1
Relationships, complicity and representation
Towards interactive professional ethics
The Anthropology of Public Health
The Journal of Biosocial Science regularly publishes papers addressing the social and cultural aspects of disease, sickness and well-being. Most of these papers attempt to understand the prevalence and distribution of disease and sickness within and between populations as well as local responses to biomedical interventions and public health policy more generally. They fall broadly within the remit of human ecology; and they embrace a ‘factorial’ …
Anthropology, Dots and Understanding Tuberculosis Control in Nepal
This paper argues for the inclusion of ethnography as a research methodology for understanding the effects of public health policy. To do this, the implementation of DOTS (Directly Observed Therapy, Short-course) – the World Health Organization (WHO) prescribed policy for the control of the infectious disease tuberculosis – is explored in the context of Nepal. A brief history of DOTS and its implementation in Nepal is outlined, and the way it has…
Translating ethics
Christian Theology and Market Economics
This unique work has a historical time-span reaching from Aristotle to the modern day, thus appealing to those interested in the history of ideas and economic thought as well as the links between theological and economic thought.
Less than Human? Diaspora, Disease and the Question of Citizenship
The aim of this special edition of International Migration is to bring about discussion between those conducting research in Diaspora Studies and the Anthropology of Public Health and Medicine. Historically, international migration has been associated with the transport of disease. Regardless of the evidence, metaphors of plague, and infection have circulated and been used to marginalise and keep out diaspora communities in host countries in an e…
Navigating Diagnoses
Debates on Ethical Practice
Extreme condition, extreme measures? Compliance, drug resistance, and the control of tuberculosis
This paper explores the issue of compliance by focusing on the control of tuberculosis. In the last ten years, patient compliance in tuberculosis control has discursively shifted from 'direct observation' of therapy to more patient-centred focus and support drawing on rights-based approaches in dealing with health care provision. At the same time, there has been an increased international concern with the rise of drug resistant forms of tuberculo…
Global health
Trust and the regulation of pharmaceuticals
BACKGROUND: Building appropriate levels of trust in pharmaceuticals is a painstaking and challenging task, involving participants from different spheres of life, including producers, distributors, retailers, prescribers, patients and the mass media. Increasingly, however, trust is not just a national matter, but involves cross-border flows of knowledge, threats and promises. METHODS: Data for this paper comes from the project 'Tracing Pharmaceuti…
Usury
Usury has a long and varied history. Originally the term referred to the charging of interest per se—that is, requiring a borrower to repay more than the principal sum borrowed from a lender. Over time borrowing and lending evolved to become an integral part of commercial life, and usury came to refer to the charging of excessive or unconscionable rates of interest on loans. The Christian church no longer opposes the charging of interest, althoug…
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Infectious Disease Control
Walking from the courtyard, out of the monsoon rains, into the cool offices of a large and prosperous nongovernmental organization (NGO) in one of Nepal’s sprawling urban cities was a relief. It wa
The Politics and Anti-Politics of the Global Fund Experiment
After a decade of operations, the Global Fund is an institutional form in flux. Forced to cancel its eleventh round of funding due to a shortfall in donor pledges, the Fund is currently in firefighting mode, overhauling its leadership, governance structures, and operations. Drawing on a case study of Uganda, we look at how the original Global Fund vision to be a simple financial instrument has played out at the country level. Even prior to the ca…
Electronic Payments Systems
An electronic payments system is one in which financial transactions are conducted via computer and electronic communications devices, without the need to transfer any physical token.
Aid conditionalities, international Good Manufacturing Practice standards and local production rights
BACKGROUND: Local pharmaceutical production has been endorsed by the WHO as a means of addressing health priorities of developing countries. However, local producers of essential medicines must comply with international pharmaceutical standards in order to be eligible to compete in donor tenders. These standards determine production rights for on-patent and off-patent medicines, and guide international procurement of medicines. We reviewed the li…
Understanding Health Research Ethics in Nepal
Unlike other countries in South Asia, in Nepal research in the health sector has a relatively recent history. Most health research activities in the country are sponsored by international collaborative assemblages of aid agencies and universities. Data from Nepal Health Research Council shows that, officially, 1,212 health research activities have been carried out between 1991 and 2014. These range from addressing immediate health problems at the…
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