E F S Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 9479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E F S Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | E F S |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS E F S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1025-1236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 381 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rapid Agrichemical Inventory via Video Documentation and Large Language Model Identification
This rapid identification method builds upon behavioral methods of exposure assessment, facilitating initial data collection in contexts where researcher access to hazardous materials may be time limited and would benefit from the efficiency and cross-validation offered by this method. Further refinement of this LLM-assisted approach could optimize accuracy in the identification of agrichemical products and expand its application to complement ex…
Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City
In Mexico City, residents of colonias populares grapple with lead’s power for damage and for engendering pleasurable congregation through shared meals eaten from lead-glazed ceramic dishes. Residents of these neighborhoods live within the Great Swirl, a dynamic combination of substances, smells, sounds, and relationships. Grappling acknowledges both the hazards of and the pleasurable connective dependencies with complicated presences (substances,…
Injection preparation filtration and health concerns among indigenous people who inject methamphetamine
Introduction: Injecting methamphetamine poses significant health risks, but little is known about how methamphetamine injectors filter their injection preparations and experience related health concerns. Methods: = 30) was recruited and semistructured interviews were conducted to collect information on filtration practices and health concerns. Results: Filtration of the injection preparation was described by 53% of injectors. Elevated levels of c…
Commentary
Peer Reviewed
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration
In this article, I describe my ongoing bioethnographic collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of exposure scientists in environmental engineering and health. First, I explain how and why integrating ethnography and number-based disciplines is such a complex, time-consuming, and worthwhile process, when ethnography produces a kind of excessive "big data" that is not easily enumerated. Then I describe three of our current bioethnographic proje…
Trust/distrust in Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
In this paper we theorize trust as emerging in different material/infrastructural and epistemic realities as part of our multidisciplinary collaboration about water, called Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-Bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City (NESTSMX)”. This collaboration, led by feminist anthropologists, brings together anthropology, environmental-public health, and environmental engineering researchers t…
Exploring dietary patterns in a Mexican adolescent population
Social and Chemical Life in Mexico City
Existência Assistida
No Equador, a reprodução assistida, seja de Deus, da família extensa ou das tecnologias reprodutivas, é enfatizada como desejável num mundo precário e desigual, com uma rede mínima de segurança social e insegurança econômica crônica. Assistência é a própria base do existir. Em realidades com mais recursos, como parte dos Estados Unidos, as tecnologias de reprodução assistida podem modificar a autonomia individual, biológica e social de casais het…
What Gets Inside
Entanglement is a key concept in contemporary anthropology and science and technology studies. By tracing the contingent and uncertain relations that endow objects with seemingly stable boundaries, entanglement allows us to see how such boundaries restrict our ability to know the world better. This article examines the concept of entanglement in the context of contemporary life in a working-class Mexico City neighborhood, Colonia Periférico, and …
Resources and race
Gods, Germs, and Petri Dishes
This commentary calls on medical anthropology to become programmatically non-secular. Despite recent anthropological critiques of secularity, within and outside of anthropology, most contemporary medical anthropologists continue to leave deities and religiosity out of their examinations of healing practices, especially in their accounts of biomedicine. Through a critical, relational constructionist lens, which traces how all entities are both con…
Nonsecular Medical Anthropology
A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles in this special issue 'untuck' religiosity from with…
Reproduction and Cultural Anthropology
Food is love
El embrión extra
En este trabajo examino el desarrollo de dos formas distintas de entender lo humano expresadas en el uso de la tecnologa de cryopreservacin de embriones en las clnicas de fertilizacin in-vitro (FIV) en Ecuador. La gente que desea cryopreservar los embriones participa en lo que llamo "tica de vida" y, segn lo que dicta la Iglesia catlica, percibe al embrin como vida sagrada que no se debe destruir. La gente que prefiere destruir los embriones no u…
Assisted existence
In Ecuador, reproductive assistance, whether from God, extended family, or medical technologies, is emphasized and desirable in a precarious and unequal world with a minimal social safety net and chronic economic insecurity. Assistance is the very grounds of being. In better-resourced realities like parts of the United States, assisted reproductive technologies can trouble the biological and social autonomy of individual heterosexual couples. Jux…
Scars of Nation
En Ecuador, las mujeres de clase media, y cada vez más las de clase obrera, pagan gustosamente por tener una cicatriz. Las cesáreas que se hacen en las clínicas privadas les deja una cicatriz que es la marca de aquellas mujeres que no están sujetas al uso indigno de los devaluados servicios de salud pública. No es afirmar la ciudadanía per se lo que estas mujeres buscan con estas cicatrices, ya que en Ecuador la ciudadanía es particularmente deni…
Reproductive governance in Latin America
This paper develops the concept of reproductive governance as an analytic tool for tracing the shifting political rationalities of population and reproduction. As advanced here, the concept of reproductive governance refers to the mechanisms through which different historical configurations of actors - such as state, religious, and international financial institutions, NGOs, and social movements - use legislative controls, economic inducements, m…
Introduction
This special issue of Body & Society brings together articles that describe contemporary forms of bio-medical travel. The conjuncture of mobility and bodily states occurs at a particular epistemic moment: the first decades of the 21st century, when medical travels and travelers are participating in border crossings as self-consciously biological beings, and when biological life, health and sickness, survival and death, are central to subject form…
Abandonment and Accumulation
When frozen embryos are publically debated in the United States, they are most often positioned as having two possible future trajectories: (1) as individual humans and (2) as contributors to stem cell research. Long-term embryo accumulation threatens both of these futures. An accumulated embryo is stuck in a clinic, held back from having an individual future or from contributing to science. There are other kinds of futures, though. For some pati…
Rights and Reproduction in Latin America
American death
Sharon Kaufman, And a time to die: How American hospitals shape the end of life. New York: Scribner, 2004, 416 pp., ISBN 0-743-26476-2.Lesley A. A. Sharp, Strange harvest: Organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 322 pp., ISBN 0-520-24786-8
Extra embryos
Through ethnographic comparison with Ecuador, I localize North American and European ethical debates about embryos. In Ecuador, some in vitro fertilization (IVF) practitioners and patients do whatever they can to preserve the life of embryos through donation or cryopreservation. For this group, embryos are embroiled in debates about life, as they commonly are in North America. However, other Ecuadorians do not view embryos through debates about l…
God’S Laboratory
Reproductive governance in Latin America
This paper develops the concept of reproductive governance as an analytic tool for tracing the shifting political rationalities of population and reproduction. As advanced here, the concept of reproductive governance refers to the mechanisms through which different historical configurations of actors - such as state, religious, and international financial institutions, NGOs, and social movements - use legislative controls, economic inducements, m…
What Gets Inside
Entanglement is a key concept in contemporary anthropology and science and technology studies. By tracing the contingent and uncertain relations that endow objects with seemingly stable boundaries, entanglement allows us to see how such boundaries restrict our ability to know the world better. This article examines the concept of entanglement in the context of contemporary life in a working-class Mexico City neighborhood, Colonia Periférico, and …
Extra embryos
Through ethnographic comparison with Ecuador, I localize North American and European ethical debates about embryos. In Ecuador, some in vitro fertilization (IVF) practitioners and patients do whatever they can to preserve the life of embryos through donation or cryopreservation. For this group, embryos are embroiled in debates about life, as they commonly are in North America. However, other Ecuadorians do not view embryos through debates about l…
Introduction
This special issue of Body & Society brings together articles that describe contemporary forms of bio-medical travel. The conjuncture of mobility and bodily states occurs at a particular epistemic moment: the first decades of the 21st century, when medical travels and travelers are participating in border crossings as self-consciously biological beings, and when biological life, health and sickness, survival and death, are central to subject form…
Nonsecular Medical Anthropology
A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles in this special issue 'untuck' religiosity from with…
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration
In this article, I describe my ongoing bioethnographic collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of exposure scientists in environmental engineering and health. First, I explain how and why integrating ethnography and number-based disciplines is such a complex, time-consuming, and worthwhile process, when ethnography produces a kind of excessive "big data" that is not easily enumerated. Then I describe three of our current bioethnographic proje…
Scars of Nation
En Ecuador, las mujeres de clase media, y cada vez más las de clase obrera, pagan gustosamente por tener una cicatriz. Las cesáreas que se hacen en las clínicas privadas les deja una cicatriz que es la marca de aquellas mujeres que no están sujetas al uso indigno de los devaluados servicios de salud pública. No es afirmar la ciudadanía per se lo que estas mujeres buscan con estas cicatrices, ya que en Ecuador la ciudadanía es particularmente deni…
Assisted existence
In Ecuador, reproductive assistance, whether from God, extended family, or medical technologies, is emphasized and desirable in a precarious and unequal world with a minimal social safety net and chronic economic insecurity. Assistance is the very grounds of being. In better-resourced realities like parts of the United States, assisted reproductive technologies can trouble the biological and social autonomy of individual heterosexual couples. Jux…
Gods, Germs, and Petri Dishes
This commentary calls on medical anthropology to become programmatically non-secular. Despite recent anthropological critiques of secularity, within and outside of anthropology, most contemporary medical anthropologists continue to leave deities and religiosity out of their examinations of healing practices, especially in their accounts of biomedicine. Through a critical, relational constructionist lens, which traces how all entities are both con…
Abandonment and Accumulation
When frozen embryos are publically debated in the United States, they are most often positioned as having two possible future trajectories: (1) as individual humans and (2) as contributors to stem cell research. Long-term embryo accumulation threatens both of these futures. An accumulated embryo is stuck in a clinic, held back from having an individual future or from contributing to science. There are other kinds of futures, though. For some pati…
Commentary
Peer Reviewed
Resources and race
Rights and Reproduction in Latin America
Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City
In Mexico City, residents of colonias populares grapple with lead’s power for damage and for engendering pleasurable congregation through shared meals eaten from lead-glazed ceramic dishes. Residents of these neighborhoods live within the Great Swirl, a dynamic combination of substances, smells, sounds, and relationships. Grappling acknowledges both the hazards of and the pleasurable connective dependencies with complicated presences (substances,…
Exploring dietary patterns in a Mexican adolescent population
Social and Chemical Life in Mexico City
American death
Sharon Kaufman, And a time to die: How American hospitals shape the end of life. New York: Scribner, 2004, 416 pp., ISBN 0-743-26476-2.Lesley A. A. Sharp, Strange harvest: Organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 322 pp., ISBN 0-520-24786-8
Artifice and Ironic Perspective in Rimbaud's "Villes" II
God’S Laboratory
Extra embryos
Through ethnographic comparison with Ecuador, I localize North American and European ethical debates about embryos. In Ecuador, some in vitro fertilization (IVF) practitioners and patients do whatever they can to preserve the life of embryos through donation or cryopreservation. For this group, embryos are embroiled in debates about life, as they commonly are in North America. However, other Ecuadorians do not view embryos through debates about l…
Rights and Reproduction in Latin America
American death
Sharon Kaufman, And a time to die: How American hospitals shape the end of life. New York: Scribner, 2004, 416 pp., ISBN 0-743-26476-2.Lesley A. A. Sharp, Strange harvest: Organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 322 pp., ISBN 0-520-24786-8
Introduction
This special issue of Body & Society brings together articles that describe contemporary forms of bio-medical travel. The conjuncture of mobility and bodily states occurs at a particular epistemic moment: the first decades of the 21st century, when medical travels and travelers are participating in border crossings as self-consciously biological beings, and when biological life, health and sickness, survival and death, are central to subject form…
Abandonment and Accumulation
When frozen embryos are publically debated in the United States, they are most often positioned as having two possible future trajectories: (1) as individual humans and (2) as contributors to stem cell research. Long-term embryo accumulation threatens both of these futures. An accumulated embryo is stuck in a clinic, held back from having an individual future or from contributing to science. There are other kinds of futures, though. For some pati…
Scars of Nation
En Ecuador, las mujeres de clase media, y cada vez más las de clase obrera, pagan gustosamente por tener una cicatriz. Las cesáreas que se hacen en las clínicas privadas les deja una cicatriz que es la marca de aquellas mujeres que no están sujetas al uso indigno de los devaluados servicios de salud pública. No es afirmar la ciudadanía per se lo que estas mujeres buscan con estas cicatrices, ya que en Ecuador la ciudadanía es particularmente deni…
Reproductive governance in Latin America
This paper develops the concept of reproductive governance as an analytic tool for tracing the shifting political rationalities of population and reproduction. As advanced here, the concept of reproductive governance refers to the mechanisms through which different historical configurations of actors - such as state, religious, and international financial institutions, NGOs, and social movements - use legislative controls, economic inducements, m…
El embrión extra
En este trabajo examino el desarrollo de dos formas distintas de entender lo humano expresadas en el uso de la tecnologa de cryopreservacin de embriones en las clnicas de fertilizacin in-vitro (FIV) en Ecuador. La gente que desea cryopreservar los embriones participa en lo que llamo "tica de vida" y, segn lo que dicta la Iglesia catlica, percibe al embrin como vida sagrada que no se debe destruir. La gente que prefiere destruir los embriones no u…
Assisted existence
In Ecuador, reproductive assistance, whether from God, extended family, or medical technologies, is emphasized and desirable in a precarious and unequal world with a minimal social safety net and chronic economic insecurity. Assistance is the very grounds of being. In better-resourced realities like parts of the United States, assisted reproductive technologies can trouble the biological and social autonomy of individual heterosexual couples. Jux…
Reproduction and Cultural Anthropology
Food is love
Resources and race
Gods, Germs, and Petri Dishes
This commentary calls on medical anthropology to become programmatically non-secular. Despite recent anthropological critiques of secularity, within and outside of anthropology, most contemporary medical anthropologists continue to leave deities and religiosity out of their examinations of healing practices, especially in their accounts of biomedicine. Through a critical, relational constructionist lens, which traces how all entities are both con…
Nonsecular Medical Anthropology
A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles in this special issue 'untuck' religiosity from with…
What Gets Inside
Entanglement is a key concept in contemporary anthropology and science and technology studies. By tracing the contingent and uncertain relations that endow objects with seemingly stable boundaries, entanglement allows us to see how such boundaries restrict our ability to know the world better. This article examines the concept of entanglement in the context of contemporary life in a working-class Mexico City neighborhood, Colonia Periférico, and …
Social and Chemical Life in Mexico City
Existência Assistida
No Equador, a reprodução assistida, seja de Deus, da família extensa ou das tecnologias reprodutivas, é enfatizada como desejável num mundo precário e desigual, com uma rede mínima de segurança social e insegurança econômica crônica. Assistência é a própria base do existir. Em realidades com mais recursos, como parte dos Estados Unidos, as tecnologias de reprodução assistida podem modificar a autonomia individual, biológica e social de casais het…
Trust/distrust in Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
In this paper we theorize trust as emerging in different material/infrastructural and epistemic realities as part of our multidisciplinary collaboration about water, called Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-Bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City (NESTSMX)”. This collaboration, led by feminist anthropologists, brings together anthropology, environmental-public health, and environmental engineering researchers t…
Exploring dietary patterns in a Mexican adolescent population
Commentary
Peer Reviewed
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration
In this article, I describe my ongoing bioethnographic collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of exposure scientists in environmental engineering and health. First, I explain how and why integrating ethnography and number-based disciplines is such a complex, time-consuming, and worthwhile process, when ethnography produces a kind of excessive "big data" that is not easily enumerated. Then I describe three of our current bioethnographic proje…
Injection preparation filtration and health concerns among indigenous people who inject methamphetamine
Introduction: Injecting methamphetamine poses significant health risks, but little is known about how methamphetamine injectors filter their injection preparations and experience related health concerns. Methods: = 30) was recruited and semistructured interviews were conducted to collect information on filtration practices and health concerns. Results: Filtration of the injection preparation was described by 53% of injectors. Elevated levels of c…
Rapid Agrichemical Inventory via Video Documentation and Large Language Model Identification
This rapid identification method builds upon behavioral methods of exposure assessment, facilitating initial data collection in contexts where researcher access to hazardous materials may be time limited and would benefit from the efficiency and cross-validation offered by this method. Further refinement of this LLM-assisted approach could optimize accuracy in the identification of agrichemical products and expand its application to complement ex…
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