Angela M Filipe
Biographic Data
| ID | 95703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela M Filipe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela M |
| FAMILY NAME | Filipe |
| SIGNATURE | FILIPE A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7899-7336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping the social studies of ADHD
The past 30 years have seen significant changes in how Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is understood, with public discourse and prevalence rates reaching an all-time high. While its evolution in the U.S. is well documented, recent global and digital shifts prompt a reexamination of ADHD research. The significance of this article is that it maps and analyzes, for the first time, an extensive and heterogeneous body of scholarship, s…
How and why to use ‘vulnerability’
In recent years, ‘vulnerability’ has been getting more traction in theoretical, professional and popular spaces as an alternative or complement to the concept of risk. As a group of science and technology studies scholars with different disciplinary orientations yet a shared concern with biomedicine, self and society, we investigate how vulnerability has become a salient and even dominant idiom for discussing disease and disease risk. We argue th…
Pandemic Life-lines
As a crosscutting concept in biology, anthropology, and philosophy, immunity has been a critical 'site' of debate on the relations between self and other, organism and environment, risk and responsibility, the corporeal and the political. In this Research Article, I trace how these relations and everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic relied on a web of coordinated-and sometimes unexpected-lines of communication, restriction, and solidarity. U…
The other face of medical globalization? Pharmaceutical data, prescribing trends, and the social localization of psychostimulants
The last two decades have seen an exponential growth in the consumption and prescription of psychostimulants for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) worldwide. While much has been said in the literature about the medicalization and globalization of ADHD, comparatively less is known about how these processes play out on the ground and outside English-speaking countries, where psychostimulants have become the first-line…
Mapping of Financial Support Programs for Children With Neurodisabilities Across Canada
A cross-jurisdictional pan-Canadian environmental scan was conducted to identify provincial, territorial, and federal financial supports available to families with children living with neurodisabilities. In partnership with the organization Childhood Disability LINK, flowchart-styled pathway documents were developed for each financial support identified, mapping out the processes required to access each support. A critical analysis was completed …
Troubling Neurobiological Vulnerability
In post-genomic science, the development of etiological models of neurobiological vulnerability to psychiatric risk has expanded exponentially in recent decades, particularly since the neuromolecular and biosocial turns in basic research. Among this research is that of McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS) whose work centers on the identification of major risk factors and epigenetic traits that help to identify a specific profile of vulnerabili…
Situar a hiperatividade e déficit de atenção em Portugal
A perturbação de hiperatividade e déficit de atenção (PHDA) é considerada um dos problemas de comportamento e neurodesenvolvimento mais frequentes nas crianças e adolescentes em idade escolar, tanto em Portugal como a nível mundial. Além disso, a categorização diagnóstica da PHDA e a prescrição de psicoestimulantes como tratamento de primeira linha têm sido não só objeto de pesquisa científica e validação clínica, mas também alvo de polêmica e cr…
The co-production of what? Knowledge, values, and social relations in health care
"Co-production" is becoming an increasingly popular term in policymaking, governance, and research. While the shift from engagement and involvement to co-production in health care holds the promise of revolutionising health services and research, it is not always evident what counts as co-production: what is being produced, under what circumstances, and with what implications for participants. We discuss these questions and propose that co-produc…
Situated Interventions in Health Care? Refiguring the Normative Place and Experimental Practice of Social Science
In recent years, there have been numerous calls for new modes of knowledge production and research that engage with the public more meaningfully and that play a more active role in addressing ‘real
Making ADHD Evident
Drawing on medical anthropology and science and technology studies, I present a case study of the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Portugal. In a country where ADHD is a relatively recent medical category, still undergoing validation, the diagnosis is not primarily bound to an evidence-making role, and its epidemiology remains largely unknown. Notwithstanding, the diagnosis has been carried out by child psychiatrist…
From ‘politics of numbers’ to ‘politics of singularisation’
The Rise of Child Psychiatry in Portugal
In recent decades, the study of the history of medicine and psychiatry has grown and interest has been developed in the particular social and institutional configuration of fields such as child psychiatry. That historical literature has, however, accounted mainly for the Anglo-American world and a research gap persists with regard to other national contexts. Drawing on a historiography of medical archives in Portugal, this paper aims to analyse t…
Entre bios e polis? Debates contemporâneos sobre saúde, biomedicina e biocidadania
Os actuais debates sobre saúde, biomedicina e cidadania surgem no seio de um conjunto de reflexões marcado, por um lado, pelas transformações operadas no campo da biomedicina e do (bio)poder, e por outro, pelas reconfigurações introduzidas por diversos actores colectivos. Numa análise, sobretudo teórica e conceptual, evidenciam-se os debates contemporâneos na fronteira entre biologia e política. Esse texto põe, ainda, a hipótese de que algumas da…
Ciência, tecnologia e participação
As sociedades contemporâneas e o seu imaginário são permeáveis às questões de Ciência e Tecnologia. Através do desenvolvimento de tecnologias emergentes como as nanociências e as nanotecnologias, assistimos à proliferação de cenários que vão desde utopias de prazer até distopias de controlo e manipulação. Apesar de actualmente estas nanotecnologias já estarem presentes em alguns produtos de consumo, a dimensão exploratória continua a ser a domina…
As organizações de pacientes como atores emergentes no espaço da saúde
As organizações de pacientes como atores emergentes no espaço da saúde
As associações e organizações de pacientes emergiram em diferentes partes do mundo como atores centrais na abertura de novos espaços de participação e deliberação no campo da saúde, desenvolvendo formas de intervenção inovadoras, atuando como mediadoras entre participantes heterogêneos no campo da saúde, promovendo e organizando plataformas e coalizões à escala nacional e transnacional e envolvendo-se ativamente em áreas antes reservadas a especi…
Patient organizations as emerging actors in the health arena
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Making ADHD Evident
Drawing on medical anthropology and science and technology studies, I present a case study of the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Portugal. In a country where ADHD is a relatively recent medical category, still undergoing validation, the diagnosis is not primarily bound to an evidence-making role, and its epidemiology remains largely unknown. Notwithstanding, the diagnosis has been carried out by child psychiatrist…
Entre bios e polis? Debates contemporâneos sobre saúde, biomedicina e biocidadania
Os actuais debates sobre saúde, biomedicina e cidadania surgem no seio de um conjunto de reflexões marcado, por um lado, pelas transformações operadas no campo da biomedicina e do (bio)poder, e por outro, pelas reconfigurações introduzidas por diversos actores colectivos. Numa análise, sobretudo teórica e conceptual, evidenciam-se os debates contemporâneos na fronteira entre biologia e política. Esse texto põe, ainda, a hipótese de que algumas da…
Pandemic Life-lines
As a crosscutting concept in biology, anthropology, and philosophy, immunity has been a critical 'site' of debate on the relations between self and other, organism and environment, risk and responsibility, the corporeal and the political. In this Research Article, I trace how these relations and everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic relied on a web of coordinated-and sometimes unexpected-lines of communication, restriction, and solidarity. U…
The Rise of Child Psychiatry in Portugal
In recent decades, the study of the history of medicine and psychiatry has grown and interest has been developed in the particular social and institutional configuration of fields such as child psychiatry. That historical literature has, however, accounted mainly for the Anglo-American world and a research gap persists with regard to other national contexts. Drawing on a historiography of medical archives in Portugal, this paper aims to analyse t…
Situated Interventions in Health Care? Refiguring the Normative Place and Experimental Practice of Social Science
In recent years, there have been numerous calls for new modes of knowledge production and research that engage with the public more meaningfully and that play a more active role in addressing ‘real
As organizações de pacientes como atores emergentes no espaço da saúde
As organizações de pacientes como atores emergentes no espaço da saúde
As associações e organizações de pacientes emergiram em diferentes partes do mundo como atores centrais na abertura de novos espaços de participação e deliberação no campo da saúde, desenvolvendo formas de intervenção inovadoras, atuando como mediadoras entre participantes heterogêneos no campo da saúde, promovendo e organizando plataformas e coalizões à escala nacional e transnacional e envolvendo-se ativamente em áreas antes reservadas a especi…
Patient organizations as emerging actors in the health arena
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Ciência, tecnologia e participação
As sociedades contemporâneas e o seu imaginário são permeáveis às questões de Ciência e Tecnologia. Através do desenvolvimento de tecnologias emergentes como as nanociências e as nanotecnologias, assistimos à proliferação de cenários que vão desde utopias de prazer até distopias de controlo e manipulação. Apesar de actualmente estas nanotecnologias já estarem presentes em alguns produtos de consumo, a dimensão exploratória continua a ser a domina…
Entre bios e polis? Debates contemporâneos sobre saúde, biomedicina e biocidadania
Os actuais debates sobre saúde, biomedicina e cidadania surgem no seio de um conjunto de reflexões marcado, por um lado, pelas transformações operadas no campo da biomedicina e do (bio)poder, e por outro, pelas reconfigurações introduzidas por diversos actores colectivos. Numa análise, sobretudo teórica e conceptual, evidenciam-se os debates contemporâneos na fronteira entre biologia e política. Esse texto põe, ainda, a hipótese de que algumas da…
From ‘politics of numbers’ to ‘politics of singularisation’
The Rise of Child Psychiatry in Portugal
In recent decades, the study of the history of medicine and psychiatry has grown and interest has been developed in the particular social and institutional configuration of fields such as child psychiatry. That historical literature has, however, accounted mainly for the Anglo-American world and a research gap persists with regard to other national contexts. Drawing on a historiography of medical archives in Portugal, this paper aims to analyse t…
Making ADHD Evident
Drawing on medical anthropology and science and technology studies, I present a case study of the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Portugal. In a country where ADHD is a relatively recent medical category, still undergoing validation, the diagnosis is not primarily bound to an evidence-making role, and its epidemiology remains largely unknown. Notwithstanding, the diagnosis has been carried out by child psychiatrist…
The co-production of what? Knowledge, values, and social relations in health care
"Co-production" is becoming an increasingly popular term in policymaking, governance, and research. While the shift from engagement and involvement to co-production in health care holds the promise of revolutionising health services and research, it is not always evident what counts as co-production: what is being produced, under what circumstances, and with what implications for participants. We discuss these questions and propose that co-produc…
Situated Interventions in Health Care? Refiguring the Normative Place and Experimental Practice of Social Science
In recent years, there have been numerous calls for new modes of knowledge production and research that engage with the public more meaningfully and that play a more active role in addressing ‘real
Situar a hiperatividade e déficit de atenção em Portugal
A perturbação de hiperatividade e déficit de atenção (PHDA) é considerada um dos problemas de comportamento e neurodesenvolvimento mais frequentes nas crianças e adolescentes em idade escolar, tanto em Portugal como a nível mundial. Além disso, a categorização diagnóstica da PHDA e a prescrição de psicoestimulantes como tratamento de primeira linha têm sido não só objeto de pesquisa científica e validação clínica, mas também alvo de polêmica e cr…
Troubling Neurobiological Vulnerability
In post-genomic science, the development of etiological models of neurobiological vulnerability to psychiatric risk has expanded exponentially in recent decades, particularly since the neuromolecular and biosocial turns in basic research. Among this research is that of McGill Group for Suicide Studies (MGSS) whose work centers on the identification of major risk factors and epigenetic traits that help to identify a specific profile of vulnerabili…
Mapping of Financial Support Programs for Children With Neurodisabilities Across Canada
A cross-jurisdictional pan-Canadian environmental scan was conducted to identify provincial, territorial, and federal financial supports available to families with children living with neurodisabilities. In partnership with the organization Childhood Disability LINK, flowchart-styled pathway documents were developed for each financial support identified, mapping out the processes required to access each support. A critical analysis was completed …
The other face of medical globalization? Pharmaceutical data, prescribing trends, and the social localization of psychostimulants
The last two decades have seen an exponential growth in the consumption and prescription of psychostimulants for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) worldwide. While much has been said in the literature about the medicalization and globalization of ADHD, comparatively less is known about how these processes play out on the ground and outside English-speaking countries, where psychostimulants have become the first-line…
How and why to use ‘vulnerability’
In recent years, ‘vulnerability’ has been getting more traction in theoretical, professional and popular spaces as an alternative or complement to the concept of risk. As a group of science and technology studies scholars with different disciplinary orientations yet a shared concern with biomedicine, self and society, we investigate how vulnerability has become a salient and even dominant idiom for discussing disease and disease risk. We argue th…
Pandemic Life-lines
As a crosscutting concept in biology, anthropology, and philosophy, immunity has been a critical 'site' of debate on the relations between self and other, organism and environment, risk and responsibility, the corporeal and the political. In this Research Article, I trace how these relations and everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic relied on a web of coordinated-and sometimes unexpected-lines of communication, restriction, and solidarity. U…
Mapping the social studies of ADHD
The past 30 years have seen significant changes in how Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is understood, with public discourse and prevalence rates reaching an all-time high. While its evolution in the U.S. is well documented, recent global and digital shifts prompt a reexamination of ADHD research. The significance of this article is that it maps and analyzes, for the first time, an extensive and heterogeneous body of scholarship, s…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)