Claire L Wendland
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 637735 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Claire L Wendland |
| PRENOMES | Claire L |
| SOBRENOME | Wendland |
| ASSINATURA | WENDLAND C L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6323-2082 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Doctors and the State
Anthropologists studying biomedicine have often analyzed the profession as a disciplinary arm of the state. This approach risks misrecognizing the complexity of state-physician-society relations, and the political agency of doctors. In this commentary, I analyze contributions of the articles in this special issue on East Asia in the context of other work on medicine and state power
Artificial Intelligence Meets Holistic Review
Holistic review has been widely adopted in medical education as a means of promoting equity in the application process and diversity in the medical workforce. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly emerging technology already having an impact on the medical school and residency application process as students and faculty alike increasingly turn to AI tools to automate some steps in the preparation and evaluation of application materials. While…
Debunking misinformation about abortion-related maternal mortality in Africa
An emerging body of literature misinterprets and misrepresents the scholarship on African maternal mortality to advance the political agenda of anti-abortion advocates. The African region accounts for 70% of global maternal deaths, a figure that has justified a regional, evidence-based movement to loosen restrictive abortion laws. Anti-abortion activists have reacted by working to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that accessible legal abort…
The changing dynamics of community care and support in rural Malawi
Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision
This statement summarizes key findings from anthropological and related scholarship on the harmful consequences of inadequate abortion access, leading the Society for Medical Anthropology to register profound concern about the recent Supreme Court decision inDobbs v. Jackson. After circulation to SMA members for input, a finalized version passed a membership vote by an overwhelming margin. This statement complements one produced by the Council fo…
Women's work at end of life
Gender inequality in the form of gender-based violence manifests throughout the course of women's lives but has a particularly unique impact at end of life. We sampled 26 patients and 14 caregivers for this qualitative critical ethnographic study. The study purpose was to describe the lived experience of female palliative care patients in rural Malawi and their caregivers. The specific aims were to (i) analyse physical, spiritual and mental healt…
Physician Anthropologists
Physician anthropologists have contributed extensively to the anthropology of biomedicine, as well as to other aspects of medical anthropology. Their use of detailed clinical case narratives allows elucidation of what is at stake for individuals and communities in the course of any given illness. Biomedically informed observations of bodies illustrate the connections between microscopic harm and macrosocial arrangements, while observations of cli…
Who Counts? What Counts? Place and the Limits of Perinatal Mortality Measures
Maternal and neonatal mortality statistics foreground some possible causes of death at the expense of others. Political place (nation, state) and place of birth (hospital, home) are integral to these statistics; respect for women as persons is not. Using case examples from Malawi and the United States, I argue that the focus on place embedded in these indicators can legitimate coercive approaches to childbirth. Qualitative assessments in both cas…
Estimating Death
Opening up the black box
Some versions of capacity building construe the goal of North‒South partnerships as rendering African laboratories, doctors, scientists, and universities indistinguishable from their counterparts in wealthier nations. The specificities, histories, peculiarities, or inner workings of African institutions and individuals are black-boxed ‒ no one needs to know about them. This article draws on research at Malawi’s College of Medicine and the work of…
Up the Africanist
The original call to 'study up' asked anthropologists to study the powerful within their own societies, presumed to be American or European. In this special issue on power in 21st-century Africa, we reflect on methodological and theoretical issues inherent in the project of studying up anywhere. Contributors show that a careful understanding of emic perspectives on upward mobility and maintenance of the upper hand is critical to analysis: authors…
Marriage as a risk factor for HIV
The gender inequalities that characterise intimate partner relationships in Malawi, a country with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world, arguably place marriage as an important risk factor for HIV infection among women, yet few studies detail the complex interactions of marriage and risk. In order to develop HIV-prevention interventions that have lasting impacts in such communities, we need a deeper understanding of the intricacie…
Modernizing medicine in Zimbabwe
Moral Maps and Medical Imaginaries
At an understaffed and underresourced urban African training hospital, Malawian medical students learn to be doctors while foreign medical students, visiting Malawi as clinical tourists on short-term electives, learn about "global health." Scientific ideas circulate fast there; clinical tourists circulate readily from outside to Malawi but not the reverse; medical technologies circulate slowly, erratically, and sometimes not at all. Medicine's un…
Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order
The experiences of African students learning to be doctors in an underfunded Malawi hospital challenge the equation of biomedicine with values of reductionism, individualism, and detachment. Research on medical training in the North typically demonstrates that students become depoliticized, emotionally detached, cynical, and focused on the individual body and on opportunities for technological intervention. These changes often intensify as studen…
Death in a Church of Life
A Heart for the Work
Health Electives in Africa and the Duty to Care in the Age of HIV/Aids
The duty to care has specific definitions and implications for students planning global health electives. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Research, Therapy, and Bioethical Hegemony
Research on zidovudine (AZT) for pregnant women in Africa sparked worldwide debate in the late 1990s. The debate ultimately led to the rewriting of international ethics guidelines, in at least one case specifically to prohibit use of a placebo group (the most controversial aspect of the research) when known effective treatment is available. I draw upon clinical experience in Malawi and theoretical perspectives from anthropology to reframe the con…
The Vanishing Mother
The philosophy of "evidence-based medicine"-basing medical decisions on evidence from randomized controlled trials and other forms of aggregate data rather than on clinical experience or expert opinion-has swept U.S. medical practice in recent years. Obstetricians justify recent increases in the use of cesarean section, and dramatic decreases in vaginal birth following previous cesarean, as evidence-based obstetrical practice. Analysis of pivotal…
Borders and Healers
Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 223 pp
The Vanishing Mother
The philosophy of "evidence-based medicine"-basing medical decisions on evidence from randomized controlled trials and other forms of aggregate data rather than on clinical experience or expert opinion-has swept U.S. medical practice in recent years. Obstetricians justify recent increases in the use of cesarean section, and dramatic decreases in vaginal birth following previous cesarean, as evidence-based obstetrical practice. Analysis of pivotal…
Moral Maps and Medical Imaginaries
At an understaffed and underresourced urban African training hospital, Malawian medical students learn to be doctors while foreign medical students, visiting Malawi as clinical tourists on short-term electives, learn about "global health." Scientific ideas circulate fast there; clinical tourists circulate readily from outside to Malawi but not the reverse; medical technologies circulate slowly, erratically, and sometimes not at all. Medicine's un…
Borders and Healers
Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 223 pp
Research, Therapy, and Bioethical Hegemony
Research on zidovudine (AZT) for pregnant women in Africa sparked worldwide debate in the late 1990s. The debate ultimately led to the rewriting of international ethics guidelines, in at least one case specifically to prohibit use of a placebo group (the most controversial aspect of the research) when known effective treatment is available. I draw upon clinical experience in Malawi and theoretical perspectives from anthropology to reframe the con…
Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order
The experiences of African students learning to be doctors in an underfunded Malawi hospital challenge the equation of biomedicine with values of reductionism, individualism, and detachment. Research on medical training in the North typically demonstrates that students become depoliticized, emotionally detached, cynical, and focused on the individual body and on opportunities for technological intervention. These changes often intensify as studen…
Physician Anthropologists
Physician anthropologists have contributed extensively to the anthropology of biomedicine, as well as to other aspects of medical anthropology. Their use of detailed clinical case narratives allows elucidation of what is at stake for individuals and communities in the course of any given illness. Biomedically informed observations of bodies illustrate the connections between microscopic harm and macrosocial arrangements, while observations of cli…
Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision
This statement summarizes key findings from anthropological and related scholarship on the harmful consequences of inadequate abortion access, leading the Society for Medical Anthropology to register profound concern about the recent Supreme Court decision inDobbs v. Jackson. After circulation to SMA members for input, a finalized version passed a membership vote by an overwhelming margin. This statement complements one produced by the Council fo…
Up the Africanist
The original call to 'study up' asked anthropologists to study the powerful within their own societies, presumed to be American or European. In this special issue on power in 21st-century Africa, we reflect on methodological and theoretical issues inherent in the project of studying up anywhere. Contributors show that a careful understanding of emic perspectives on upward mobility and maintenance of the upper hand is critical to analysis: authors…
The Vanishing Mother
The philosophy of "evidence-based medicine"-basing medical decisions on evidence from randomized controlled trials and other forms of aggregate data rather than on clinical experience or expert opinion-has swept U.S. medical practice in recent years. Obstetricians justify recent increases in the use of cesarean section, and dramatic decreases in vaginal birth following previous cesarean, as evidence-based obstetrical practice. Analysis of pivotal…
Borders and Healers
Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 223 pp
Research, Therapy, and Bioethical Hegemony
Research on zidovudine (AZT) for pregnant women in Africa sparked worldwide debate in the late 1990s. The debate ultimately led to the rewriting of international ethics guidelines, in at least one case specifically to prohibit use of a placebo group (the most controversial aspect of the research) when known effective treatment is available. I draw upon clinical experience in Malawi and theoretical perspectives from anthropology to reframe the con…
A Heart for the Work
Health Electives in Africa and the Duty to Care in the Age of HIV/Aids
The duty to care has specific definitions and implications for students planning global health electives. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Death in a Church of Life
Modernizing medicine in Zimbabwe
Moral Maps and Medical Imaginaries
At an understaffed and underresourced urban African training hospital, Malawian medical students learn to be doctors while foreign medical students, visiting Malawi as clinical tourists on short-term electives, learn about "global health." Scientific ideas circulate fast there; clinical tourists circulate readily from outside to Malawi but not the reverse; medical technologies circulate slowly, erratically, and sometimes not at all. Medicine's un…
Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order
The experiences of African students learning to be doctors in an underfunded Malawi hospital challenge the equation of biomedicine with values of reductionism, individualism, and detachment. Research on medical training in the North typically demonstrates that students become depoliticized, emotionally detached, cynical, and focused on the individual body and on opportunities for technological intervention. These changes often intensify as studen…
Marriage as a risk factor for HIV
The gender inequalities that characterise intimate partner relationships in Malawi, a country with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world, arguably place marriage as an important risk factor for HIV infection among women, yet few studies detail the complex interactions of marriage and risk. In order to develop HIV-prevention interventions that have lasting impacts in such communities, we need a deeper understanding of the intricacie…
Estimating Death
Opening up the black box
Some versions of capacity building construe the goal of North‒South partnerships as rendering African laboratories, doctors, scientists, and universities indistinguishable from their counterparts in wealthier nations. The specificities, histories, peculiarities, or inner workings of African institutions and individuals are black-boxed ‒ no one needs to know about them. This article draws on research at Malawi’s College of Medicine and the work of…
Up the Africanist
The original call to 'study up' asked anthropologists to study the powerful within their own societies, presumed to be American or European. In this special issue on power in 21st-century Africa, we reflect on methodological and theoretical issues inherent in the project of studying up anywhere. Contributors show that a careful understanding of emic perspectives on upward mobility and maintenance of the upper hand is critical to analysis: authors…
Who Counts? What Counts? Place and the Limits of Perinatal Mortality Measures
Maternal and neonatal mortality statistics foreground some possible causes of death at the expense of others. Political place (nation, state) and place of birth (hospital, home) are integral to these statistics; respect for women as persons is not. Using case examples from Malawi and the United States, I argue that the focus on place embedded in these indicators can legitimate coercive approaches to childbirth. Qualitative assessments in both cas…
Physician Anthropologists
Physician anthropologists have contributed extensively to the anthropology of biomedicine, as well as to other aspects of medical anthropology. Their use of detailed clinical case narratives allows elucidation of what is at stake for individuals and communities in the course of any given illness. Biomedically informed observations of bodies illustrate the connections between microscopic harm and macrosocial arrangements, while observations of cli…
Women's work at end of life
Gender inequality in the form of gender-based violence manifests throughout the course of women's lives but has a particularly unique impact at end of life. We sampled 26 patients and 14 caregivers for this qualitative critical ethnographic study. The study purpose was to describe the lived experience of female palliative care patients in rural Malawi and their caregivers. The specific aims were to (i) analyse physical, spiritual and mental healt…
The changing dynamics of community care and support in rural Malawi
Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision
This statement summarizes key findings from anthropological and related scholarship on the harmful consequences of inadequate abortion access, leading the Society for Medical Anthropology to register profound concern about the recent Supreme Court decision inDobbs v. Jackson. After circulation to SMA members for input, a finalized version passed a membership vote by an overwhelming margin. This statement complements one produced by the Council fo…
Artificial Intelligence Meets Holistic Review
Holistic review has been widely adopted in medical education as a means of promoting equity in the application process and diversity in the medical workforce. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly emerging technology already having an impact on the medical school and residency application process as students and faculty alike increasingly turn to AI tools to automate some steps in the preparation and evaluation of application materials. While…
Debunking misinformation about abortion-related maternal mortality in Africa
An emerging body of literature misinterprets and misrepresents the scholarship on African maternal mortality to advance the political agenda of anti-abortion advocates. The African region accounts for 70% of global maternal deaths, a figure that has justified a regional, evidence-based movement to loosen restrictive abortion laws. Anti-abortion activists have reacted by working to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that accessible legal abort…
Doctors and the State
Anthropologists studying biomedicine have often analyzed the profession as a disciplinary arm of the state. This approach risks misrecognizing the complexity of state-physician-society relations, and the political agency of doctors. In this commentary, I analyze contributions of the articles in this special issue on East Asia in the context of other work on medicine and state power
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