Ari Samsky

Dados Biográficos

ID81312
NOMEAri Samsky
PRENOMESAri
SOBRENOMESamsky
ASSINATURASAMSKY A
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Iowa
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES12
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2011
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ÍNDICE H2

  • Evidence‐Based Medicine

    Open AccessAri SamskyOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    This entry defines evidence‐based medicine (EBM) in the context of anthropology. Evidence‐based medicine is a quantitative medical research method that emphasizes patient outcome and accountability. It uses analysis of large statistical samples (and often meta‐analysis of multiple independent studies) to persuade physicians that a particular clinical practice is superior to all others—for instance, that it is more cost effective or that it produc…

  • Biopolitics

    Open AccessAri SamskyOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    This entry defines Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics. Biopolitics refers to state‐governing practices aimed at monitoring, counting, and controlling human populations. It represents an important historical shift away from classical European modes of governance, which focused on territory and sovereign right. The idea of biopolitics has profound historical and philosophical significance, and has been taken up by scholars from many disciplin…

  • The Drug Company Next Door

    Open AccessAri Samsky, Ari Martin SamskyARTICLEPoLAR Political and Legal…2018

  • Scientific Sovereignty

    Open AccessAri SamskyARTICLECultural Anthropology2012Citada por: 8Referências: 21

    This essay sketches two international, pharmaceutical company-sponsored drug donation programs and assesses this novel integration of corporations into global health. Based on ethnographic interviews with retired and current pharmaceutical executives and scientists, international humanitarian workers, and volunteers and drug recipients in the Morogoro region of Tanzania, this essay develops a concept of "scientific sovereignty," a process through…

  • Medical Research for Hire

    Open AccessAri Samsky, Ari Martin SamskyARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2011Citada por: 1

  • Since We Are Taking the Drugs

    Ari SamskyARTICLEJournal of Cultural Economy2011Citada por: 3Referências: 29

    This paper examines and compares conceptions of the place of labor, commodity, value, and gift in two pharmaceutical company-sponsored international drug donation programs. Drawing on ethnographic research done between 2006 and 2008, the paper tracks how medical-scientific architects of these donation programs (NGO and pharmaceutical executives, tropical medicine experts, Ministries of Health) understand the labor of the drug recipients, how they…