E Wentzell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 19522 |
|---|---|
| NOME | E Wentzell |
| PRENOMES | E |
| SOBRENOME | Wentzell |
| ASSINATURA | WENTZELL E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0492-8442 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Transitions and Transformations
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Participation
We analyze interviews with participants in a COVID-19 vaccine trial to show how Americans navigate conflicting discourses of individual rights and collective responsibility by using individual health behavior to care for others. We argue that interviewees drew on ideologies of "collective biology" - understanding themselves as parts of bio-socially interrelated groups affected by any member's behavior - to hope their participation would aid colle…
Time and Collective Biology
People may seek to embody cultural ideals of the life course through their use or rejection of medical interventions, including but not limited to anti-aging treatments. Here, I analyze this phenomenon via interviews with men engaging with two different forms of sexual health medicine in urban Mexico: erectile-dysfunction treatment and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). I argue that, in contrast to the biomedical understanding of…
Aging Well as Activism
In contrast to discourses of 'successful aging' which pathologize and individualize change in later life, this case study of a retired Mexican couple highlights the pleasurable, political, and collective aspects of aging. Here, I analyze the narratives of a couple who found aging 'well' fulfilling in part because it served as an intervention into societal-level problems. I argue that their activist form of aging was enabled by local cultural unde…
Treating 'collective biologies' through men's HPV research in Mexico
Medical testing assesses individual bodies, yet its effects reach beyond their boundaries. Building on insights from medical anthropology and STS regarding the co-construction of medical technologies and bodies, I investigate how heterosexual Mexican couples used men's HPV testing to understand and assert membership in collective 'couple's biologies'. I analyze interviews undertaken during men's participation in a longitudinal, observational HPV …
Accounting for physicians’ gender expectations improves men's health medicine
The field of men's health seeks to improve men's health outcomes by accounting for the specific ways that gender influences male health behaviors. To meet this goal, physicians must also account for the ways that their own cultural assumptions about masculinity influence their clinical practice. Gender is not solely biological. It is a way of acting out masculinity or femininity that varies across individual and cultural contexts. Thus, doctors a…
How Did Erectile Dysfunction Become “Natural”? A Review of the Critical Social Scientific Literature on Medical Treatment for Male Sexual Dysfunction
This article reviews the multidisciplinary social science literature assessing the social consequences of medical treatment for male sexual dysfunction. This literature applies medicalization theory and social constructionist approaches to gender to assert that Euro-American cultural ideals of masculinity and sexuality, as well as ageism and ableism, determine which sexual changes and experiences get defined as "dysfunction" and shape the marketi…
"Medical Research Participation as "Ethical Intercorporeality
While medical research ethics guidelines frame participants as individual and autonomous, anthropologists emphasize the relational nature of health research participation. I analyze interviews with Mexican male HPV study participants and their wives to examine how research participants themselves focus on relationships when imagining research-related benefits. I argue that couples incorporated the local trope of the Mexican citizenry as a biologi…
Performing piety in sexual health research
Recent research suggests that health surveillance experiences like clinical trial participation might have unanticipated social consequences. I investigate how evangelical Christians participating in longitudinal, observational sexual health research incorporate that long-term medical surveillance into their religious practice. This exploratory research focuses on Mexican Cristianos' participation in the Cuernavaca arm of the multinational 'Human…
Factors Influencing Mexican Women's Decisions to Vaccinate Daughters Against HPV in the United States and Mexico
Mexican and Mexican-American women bear high cervical cancer burdens, yet relationships between mothers' experiences of vaccinating daughters against cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) on both sides of the border are unknown. We surveyed 400 Mexican-born women in Oxnard, California, United States and Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, about their beliefs and practices regarding daughters' HPV vaccination, conducting in-depth interviews …
Medical Research Participation as Citizenship
In this article, I discuss people's use of medical research participation to perform and model modernity amid societal insecurity. I analyze data from interviews with heterosexual Mexican couples undertaken throughout men's multiyear participation in a human papillomavirus (HPV) study. I argue that through activities like willingly undergoing genital examination and involving wives in husbands' clinical visits, spouses used the study as a forum f…
‘I help her, she helps me
Prior research shows that people assert diverse, context-dependent identities through ‘transactional sex’. Focusing on an urban Mexican setting where both companionate partnering and virility are valued, I examine how older, working-class men experiencing erectile difficulty performed masculinity through exchange-mediated liaisons they viewed as friendships dependent on charitable giving rather than prostitution. Contextualizing their experiences…
Reconceiving masculinity and ‘men as partners’ for ICPD Beyond 2014
Men are poorly integrated into sexual and reproductive health programmes, despite long-standing calls for their inclusion. From the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) to the Policy Recommendations for the ICPD Beyond 2014, calls for 'rights for all' conflict with implicit, homogenising framing of men as patriarchal roadblocks to women's empowerment. This framing generates ambivalence about providing men's ser…
Masculinity and emotion in Mexican men's understandings of erectile dysfunction aetiology and treatment
This paper investigates the role that emotions related to local gender norms play in urban Mexican men's understandings of erectile dysfunction (ED) aetiology and drug treatment by analysing semi-structured interviews with 28 male urology patients. Analysing narrative data from our interviews, the paper examines how these men drew differently from locally intelligible ways of understanding health and masculinity to develop context-specific unders…
Aging Respectably by Rejecting Medicalization
As lifestyle drug production and medical interest in geriatrics increase, the medicalization of aging and sexuality have become intertwined. Drugs like Viagra naturalize lifelong performance of phallocentric sex as a marker of healthy aging. Yet despite the ubiquity of medical aids for having "youthful" sex in older age, this article argues that having no or less sex can be a conscious strategy for embodying respectable aging. Based on ethnograph…
Change and the Construction of Gendered Selfhood among Mexican Men Experiencing Erectile Difficulty
Cultural anthropologists disagree about how to define "the self," debating whether it is an integrated or fragmented entity, and how people experience singular "selves" despite lived change. I argue that, rather than disrupting self-making, experiences of social or embodied disjunction may become key elements of shifting but cohesive-feeling selves, especially in cultural contexts in which change over time is expected. To do so, I examine the cha…
Chronic conditions, fluid states
Chronic conditions, fluid states: Chronicity and the anthropology of illness, edited by Lenore Manderson and Carolyn Smith-Morris, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2010, 320 pp., US$29
Marketing Silence, Public Health Stigma and the Discourse of Risky Gay Viagra Use in the US
This article analyzes the rise and fall of a public health 'fact' in the US: the assertion that gay men's Viagra use is inherently recreational and increases STD risk. Extending the science studies argument that drug development and marketing entail the construction of new publics, this article shows how strategic drug marketing silences can also constitute new populations of users. It shows how Viagra marketing's silence about gay users, which f…
Generational Differences in Mexican Men's Ideas of Age-Appropriate Sex and Viagra Use
Mexican men of different generations, exposed to different cultural ideas about sex, manliness and marriage, often hold divergent ideas about how men's sexuality should change over the life course. Based on 250 interviews with male urology patients at an urban Mexican hospital, this article reveals differences in self-identified older and younger men's ideas of age-appropriate sexuality and pursuit of sexual health interventions. Older men freque…
Embodying emergent masculinities
We employ Raymond Williams's concept of "emergence" to capture new forms of embodied masculinities in the Middle East and Mexico, two sites marked by powerful local stereotypes of manliness. Men there are enacting "emergent masculinities"-living out new ways of being men in attempts to counter forms of manhood that they see as harmfully hegemonic. They do this partly through engagements with emergent health technologies, including assisted reprod…
Getting a Piece
"You'll "Get Viagraed
Bad Bedfellows
The disability rights movement grounds material critiques of the treatment of people with disabilities in a social constructionist perspective, locating disability in the social rather than physical realm, and demedicalizing the concept of disability. However, this conceptualization is threatened by the medicalization of nonnormative erections as the biomedical pathology erectile dysfunction (ED). Although use of medical treatments for ED can hav…
Embodying emergent masculinities
We employ Raymond Williams's concept of "emergence" to capture new forms of embodied masculinities in the Middle East and Mexico, two sites marked by powerful local stereotypes of manliness. Men there are enacting "emergent masculinities"-living out new ways of being men in attempts to counter forms of manhood that they see as harmfully hegemonic. They do this partly through engagements with emergent health technologies, including assisted reprod…
Aging Respectably by Rejecting Medicalization
As lifestyle drug production and medical interest in geriatrics increase, the medicalization of aging and sexuality have become intertwined. Drugs like Viagra naturalize lifelong performance of phallocentric sex as a marker of healthy aging. Yet despite the ubiquity of medical aids for having "youthful" sex in older age, this article argues that having no or less sex can be a conscious strategy for embodying respectable aging. Based on ethnograph…
Medical Research Participation as Citizenship
In this article, I discuss people's use of medical research participation to perform and model modernity amid societal insecurity. I analyze data from interviews with heterosexual Mexican couples undertaken throughout men's multiyear participation in a human papillomavirus (HPV) study. I argue that through activities like willingly undergoing genital examination and involving wives in husbands' clinical visits, spouses used the study as a forum f…
"You'll "Get Viagraed
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Participation
We analyze interviews with participants in a COVID-19 vaccine trial to show how Americans navigate conflicting discourses of individual rights and collective responsibility by using individual health behavior to care for others. We argue that interviewees drew on ideologies of "collective biology" - understanding themselves as parts of bio-socially interrelated groups affected by any member's behavior - to hope their participation would aid colle…
Treating 'collective biologies' through men's HPV research in Mexico
Medical testing assesses individual bodies, yet its effects reach beyond their boundaries. Building on insights from medical anthropology and STS regarding the co-construction of medical technologies and bodies, I investigate how heterosexual Mexican couples used men's HPV testing to understand and assert membership in collective 'couple's biologies'. I analyze interviews undertaken during men's participation in a longitudinal, observational HPV …
Change and the Construction of Gendered Selfhood among Mexican Men Experiencing Erectile Difficulty
Cultural anthropologists disagree about how to define "the self," debating whether it is an integrated or fragmented entity, and how people experience singular "selves" despite lived change. I argue that, rather than disrupting self-making, experiences of social or embodied disjunction may become key elements of shifting but cohesive-feeling selves, especially in cultural contexts in which change over time is expected. To do so, I examine the cha…
Marketing Silence, Public Health Stigma and the Discourse of Risky Gay Viagra Use in the US
This article analyzes the rise and fall of a public health 'fact' in the US: the assertion that gay men's Viagra use is inherently recreational and increases STD risk. Extending the science studies argument that drug development and marketing entail the construction of new publics, this article shows how strategic drug marketing silences can also constitute new populations of users. It shows how Viagra marketing's silence about gay users, which f…
"Medical Research Participation as "Ethical Intercorporeality
While medical research ethics guidelines frame participants as individual and autonomous, anthropologists emphasize the relational nature of health research participation. I analyze interviews with Mexican male HPV study participants and their wives to examine how research participants themselves focus on relationships when imagining research-related benefits. I argue that couples incorporated the local trope of the Mexican citizenry as a biologi…
Generational Differences in Mexican Men's Ideas of Age-Appropriate Sex and Viagra Use
Mexican men of different generations, exposed to different cultural ideas about sex, manliness and marriage, often hold divergent ideas about how men's sexuality should change over the life course. Based on 250 interviews with male urology patients at an urban Mexican hospital, this article reveals differences in self-identified older and younger men's ideas of age-appropriate sexuality and pursuit of sexual health interventions. Older men freque…
Aging Well as Activism
In contrast to discourses of 'successful aging' which pathologize and individualize change in later life, this case study of a retired Mexican couple highlights the pleasurable, political, and collective aspects of aging. Here, I analyze the narratives of a couple who found aging 'well' fulfilling in part because it served as an intervention into societal-level problems. I argue that their activist form of aging was enabled by local cultural unde…
Performing piety in sexual health research
Recent research suggests that health surveillance experiences like clinical trial participation might have unanticipated social consequences. I investigate how evangelical Christians participating in longitudinal, observational sexual health research incorporate that long-term medical surveillance into their religious practice. This exploratory research focuses on Mexican Cristianos' participation in the Cuernavaca arm of the multinational 'Human…
Bad Bedfellows
The disability rights movement grounds material critiques of the treatment of people with disabilities in a social constructionist perspective, locating disability in the social rather than physical realm, and demedicalizing the concept of disability. However, this conceptualization is threatened by the medicalization of nonnormative erections as the biomedical pathology erectile dysfunction (ED). Although use of medical treatments for ED can hav…
"You'll "Get Viagraed
Getting a Piece
Marketing Silence, Public Health Stigma and the Discourse of Risky Gay Viagra Use in the US
This article analyzes the rise and fall of a public health 'fact' in the US: the assertion that gay men's Viagra use is inherently recreational and increases STD risk. Extending the science studies argument that drug development and marketing entail the construction of new publics, this article shows how strategic drug marketing silences can also constitute new populations of users. It shows how Viagra marketing's silence about gay users, which f…
Generational Differences in Mexican Men's Ideas of Age-Appropriate Sex and Viagra Use
Mexican men of different generations, exposed to different cultural ideas about sex, manliness and marriage, often hold divergent ideas about how men's sexuality should change over the life course. Based on 250 interviews with male urology patients at an urban Mexican hospital, this article reveals differences in self-identified older and younger men's ideas of age-appropriate sexuality and pursuit of sexual health interventions. Older men freque…
Embodying emergent masculinities
We employ Raymond Williams's concept of "emergence" to capture new forms of embodied masculinities in the Middle East and Mexico, two sites marked by powerful local stereotypes of manliness. Men there are enacting "emergent masculinities"-living out new ways of being men in attempts to counter forms of manhood that they see as harmfully hegemonic. They do this partly through engagements with emergent health technologies, including assisted reprod…
Chronic conditions, fluid states
Chronic conditions, fluid states: Chronicity and the anthropology of illness, edited by Lenore Manderson and Carolyn Smith-Morris, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2010, 320 pp., US$29
Aging Respectably by Rejecting Medicalization
As lifestyle drug production and medical interest in geriatrics increase, the medicalization of aging and sexuality have become intertwined. Drugs like Viagra naturalize lifelong performance of phallocentric sex as a marker of healthy aging. Yet despite the ubiquity of medical aids for having "youthful" sex in older age, this article argues that having no or less sex can be a conscious strategy for embodying respectable aging. Based on ethnograph…
Change and the Construction of Gendered Selfhood among Mexican Men Experiencing Erectile Difficulty
Cultural anthropologists disagree about how to define "the self," debating whether it is an integrated or fragmented entity, and how people experience singular "selves" despite lived change. I argue that, rather than disrupting self-making, experiences of social or embodied disjunction may become key elements of shifting but cohesive-feeling selves, especially in cultural contexts in which change over time is expected. To do so, I examine the cha…
‘I help her, she helps me
Prior research shows that people assert diverse, context-dependent identities through ‘transactional sex’. Focusing on an urban Mexican setting where both companionate partnering and virility are valued, I examine how older, working-class men experiencing erectile difficulty performed masculinity through exchange-mediated liaisons they viewed as friendships dependent on charitable giving rather than prostitution. Contextualizing their experiences…
Reconceiving masculinity and ‘men as partners’ for ICPD Beyond 2014
Men are poorly integrated into sexual and reproductive health programmes, despite long-standing calls for their inclusion. From the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) to the Policy Recommendations for the ICPD Beyond 2014, calls for 'rights for all' conflict with implicit, homogenising framing of men as patriarchal roadblocks to women's empowerment. This framing generates ambivalence about providing men's ser…
Masculinity and emotion in Mexican men's understandings of erectile dysfunction aetiology and treatment
This paper investigates the role that emotions related to local gender norms play in urban Mexican men's understandings of erectile dysfunction (ED) aetiology and drug treatment by analysing semi-structured interviews with 28 male urology patients. Analysing narrative data from our interviews, the paper examines how these men drew differently from locally intelligible ways of understanding health and masculinity to develop context-specific unders…
Medical Research Participation as Citizenship
In this article, I discuss people's use of medical research participation to perform and model modernity amid societal insecurity. I analyze data from interviews with heterosexual Mexican couples undertaken throughout men's multiyear participation in a human papillomavirus (HPV) study. I argue that through activities like willingly undergoing genital examination and involving wives in husbands' clinical visits, spouses used the study as a forum f…
Factors Influencing Mexican Women's Decisions to Vaccinate Daughters Against HPV in the United States and Mexico
Mexican and Mexican-American women bear high cervical cancer burdens, yet relationships between mothers' experiences of vaccinating daughters against cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) on both sides of the border are unknown. We surveyed 400 Mexican-born women in Oxnard, California, United States and Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, about their beliefs and practices regarding daughters' HPV vaccination, conducting in-depth interviews …
How Did Erectile Dysfunction Become “Natural”? A Review of the Critical Social Scientific Literature on Medical Treatment for Male Sexual Dysfunction
This article reviews the multidisciplinary social science literature assessing the social consequences of medical treatment for male sexual dysfunction. This literature applies medicalization theory and social constructionist approaches to gender to assert that Euro-American cultural ideals of masculinity and sexuality, as well as ageism and ableism, determine which sexual changes and experiences get defined as "dysfunction" and shape the marketi…
"Medical Research Participation as "Ethical Intercorporeality
While medical research ethics guidelines frame participants as individual and autonomous, anthropologists emphasize the relational nature of health research participation. I analyze interviews with Mexican male HPV study participants and their wives to examine how research participants themselves focus on relationships when imagining research-related benefits. I argue that couples incorporated the local trope of the Mexican citizenry as a biologi…
Performing piety in sexual health research
Recent research suggests that health surveillance experiences like clinical trial participation might have unanticipated social consequences. I investigate how evangelical Christians participating in longitudinal, observational sexual health research incorporate that long-term medical surveillance into their religious practice. This exploratory research focuses on Mexican Cristianos' participation in the Cuernavaca arm of the multinational 'Human…
Accounting for physicians’ gender expectations improves men's health medicine
The field of men's health seeks to improve men's health outcomes by accounting for the specific ways that gender influences male health behaviors. To meet this goal, physicians must also account for the ways that their own cultural assumptions about masculinity influence their clinical practice. Gender is not solely biological. It is a way of acting out masculinity or femininity that varies across individual and cultural contexts. Thus, doctors a…
Treating 'collective biologies' through men's HPV research in Mexico
Medical testing assesses individual bodies, yet its effects reach beyond their boundaries. Building on insights from medical anthropology and STS regarding the co-construction of medical technologies and bodies, I investigate how heterosexual Mexican couples used men's HPV testing to understand and assert membership in collective 'couple's biologies'. I analyze interviews undertaken during men's participation in a longitudinal, observational HPV …
Aging Well as Activism
In contrast to discourses of 'successful aging' which pathologize and individualize change in later life, this case study of a retired Mexican couple highlights the pleasurable, political, and collective aspects of aging. Here, I analyze the narratives of a couple who found aging 'well' fulfilling in part because it served as an intervention into societal-level problems. I argue that their activist form of aging was enabled by local cultural unde…
Time and Collective Biology
People may seek to embody cultural ideals of the life course through their use or rejection of medical interventions, including but not limited to anti-aging treatments. Here, I analyze this phenomenon via interviews with men engaging with two different forms of sexual health medicine in urban Mexico: erectile-dysfunction treatment and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). I argue that, in contrast to the biomedical understanding of…
Transitions and Transformations
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Collective Care Amid US Individualism Through Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Participation
We analyze interviews with participants in a COVID-19 vaccine trial to show how Americans navigate conflicting discourses of individual rights and collective responsibility by using individual health behavior to care for others. We argue that interviewees drew on ideologies of "collective biology" - understanding themselves as parts of bio-socially interrelated groups affected by any member's behavior - to hope their participation would aid colle…
Sociology (20 obras) · Gender Studies (18 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Masculinity (8 obras) · Psychiatry (8 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (7 obras)