Lynn M Morgan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 82211 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lynn M Morgan |
| PRENOMES | Lynn M |
| SOBRENOME | Morgan |
| ASSINATURA | MORGAN L M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7681-9739 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 546 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
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…
Global Reproductive Governance after Dobbs
The 2022 US Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturned the constitutional right to abortion, raising questions about the international implications of the ruling. The Dobbs decision reveals a growing rift in global reproductive governance between countries that rely on international human rights standards and those that do not. The global momentum is currently with the human rights contingent, but the Dobbs ruling reflects …
The Anthropology of the Beginnings and Ends of Life
This essay reviews recent anthropological attention to the “beginnings” and “endings” of life. A large literature since the 1990s highlights the analytic trends and innovations that characterize anthropological attention to the cultural production of persons, the naturalization of life, and the emergence of new life forms. Part I of this essay outlines the coming-into-being, completion and attenuation of personhood and how life and death are attr…
Anti‐abortion strategizing and the afterlife of the Geneva Consensus Declaration
The Geneva Consensus Declaration, introduced by the Trump‐Pence administration in 2020 and signed by thirty‐two countries, claims that there is no international right to abortion. Although the Declaration was subsequently repudiated by the Biden administration, it did not die. This paper traces the afterlife of the Geneva Consensus Declaration as part of an ongoing antiabortion strategy to form a global coalition. Its supporters hope to mobilize …
Miss Mexico's Dress
Cuando surgió una controversia sobre el diseño del vestido de Miss México en 2007, no quedó claro de inmediato cómo la disputa estaba relacionada con la política del aborto. Este artículo analiza el vestido -un himno a la rebelión Cristera que tuvo lugar en el centro-occidente de México desde 1926-29- como parte de un esfuerzo concertado de parte de activistas católicos en Jalisco para revivir los recuerdos de la rebelión Cristera y enmarcar la l…
Reproductive Governance, Redux
The latter half of 2018 produced some startling headlines. Forty years after imposing the one-child policy, the Chinese government encouraged citizens to have more babies by promising tax incentive
Human Life is Inviolable
The Costa Rican Constitutional Court banned in vitro fertilization in 2000, citing the inviolability of life. Conservatives hoped the ban would initiate a hemispheric movement to protect the unborn. But in 2012 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that reproductive rights are human rights and that women's rights take precedence over embryo rights. The episode precipitated a national identity crisis: how could a country that supports uni…
The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central America
This essay reviews the 2013 Human Life International (HLI) propaganda video, Central America and Mexico: Fighting for Life, Faith, and Family, which, we argue, illustrates the well-orchestrated counteroffensive against reproductive and sexual rights movements occurring in the region. First we summarize the film's key themes, including the assertion that Catholicism is fundamental to Mexican and Central American identities and that the internation…
Reproductive Rights or Reproductive Justice? Lessons from Argentina
Argentine sexual and reproductive rights activists insist on using the language and framework of "human rights," even when many reproductive rights activists in the US and elsewhere now prefer the framework of "reproductive justice." Reflecting on conversations with Argentine feminist anthropologists, social scientists, and reproductive rights activists, this paper analyzes why the Argentine movement to legalize abortion relies on the contested c…
The Exhilarating, Ephemeral Conditions of Anthropological Knowledge Production
Claiming Rosa Parks
When the Rosa Parks Prize was awarded to a conservative Argentine senator in 2009 for her outspoken opposition to contraception, sterilisation and abortion, it was clear that something odd was happening. This paper documents the appropriation of 'human rights' discourses by conservative Catholics in Latin America, where the recent success of reproductive and sexual rights social movements has generated a significant backlash. It specifically trac…
Honrar a Rosa Parks? Intentos de los sectores católicos conservadores a favor de los "derechos" en la América Latina contemporánea
Cuando en el año 2009 se otorgó en Argentina el Premio Rosa Parks a una senadora conservadora por su oposición abierta al uso de anticonceptivos, a la esterilización y al aborto, era evidente que algo extraño ocurría. En este artículo se documenta la apropiación de los discursos de "derechos humanos" por parte de los sectores católicos conservadores en América Latina, donde el éxito reciente de los movimientos sociales a favor de los derechos sex…
God's Laboratory
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
Implementing Feminist Practice
The Potentiality Principle from Aristotle to Abortion
Anthropological theorizing about "potentiality" should include an understanding of the contemporary legacy of Aristotle's potentiality principle. This paper approaches potentiality as an object of anthropological scrutiny to show how it is evoked, presented, debated, and circulated among people interacting in a social realm. The potentiality principle, I argue, has been kept alive by Catholic moral philosophers who argue that embryos should not b…
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…
Fixing Men
Fixing Sex
Icons of Life
This book tells the story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. The book blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, it illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting…
Icons of Life
Rights and Reproduction in Latin America
Luis A. Vivanco
The Embryography of Alice B. Toklas
When Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a medical student at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, she spent the autumn of 1901 constructing an anatomical model of a young human brain. Most accounts call it an 'embryo' brain, although as we shall see it likely belonged to a fetus or infant. The assignment was her final opportunity to obtain the medical degree after failing four classes in the spring of her senior year. Her anatomy professor, Franklin Paine Mal…
Strange Anatomy
Today's personable, sanitized images of human embryos and fetuses require an audience that is literally and metaphorically distanced from dead specimens. Yet scientists must handle dead specimens to produce embryological knowledge, which only then can be transformed into beautiful photographs and talking fetuses. I begin with an account of Gertrude Stein's experience making a model of a fetal brain. Her tactile encounter is contrasted to the avan…
Birth in the Age of Aids
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…
Babies, Bodies, and the Production of Personhood in North America and a Native Amazonian Society
Romancing the Transgender Native
Research Article| October 01 2002 ROMANCING THE TRANSGENDER NATIVE: Rethinking the Use of the" Third Gender" Concept Evan B. Towle; Evan B. Towle Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lynn M. Morgan Lynn M. Morgan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (4): 469-497. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-4-469 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site …
Dependency Theory in the Political Economy of Health
The political economy of health is a multifaceted label that subsumes at least three separate theoretical perspectives: orthodox Marxist approaches, cultural critiques of medicine, and dependency theories. Anthropologists who advocate greater attention to the political economy of health have tended to overemphasize dependency theories, which have in fact been widely assailed in the sociological literature. In this article I examine some basic pre…
Fetal Relationality in Feminist Philosophy
This essay critiques feminist treatments of maternal-fetal “relationality” that unwittingly replicate features of Western individualism (for example, the Cartesian division between the asocial body and the social-cognitive person, or the conflation of social and biological birth). I argue for a more reflexive perspective on relationality that would acknowledge how we produce persons through our actions and rhetoric. Personhood and relationality c…
The medicalization of anthropology
Reproductive Governance, Redux
The latter half of 2018 produced some startling headlines. Forty years after imposing the one-child policy, the Chinese government encouraged citizens to have more babies by promising tax incentive
Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes
"Political Will" and Community Participation in Costa Rican Primary Health Care
This article criticizes the concept of "political will" by analyzing Costa Rica's experience with community participation in health between 1973 and 1985. Despite a long-standing state commitment to social welfare programs, Costa Rica has been unable to achieve active, sustained participation in the government's rural health programs, partly because of partisan conflicts over implementation. It is unlikely that "political will" can succeed in cou…
Properly Disposed of
This paper explores recent controversies concerning the disposal of embryonic and fetal remains in order to ask how such remains came to be classified as "medical waste." Based on archival research into the social history of human embryo collecting in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early 20th century, I argue that the classification of embryos and fetal remains as medical waste can be traced to a pragmatic alliance between embryologists and state fu…
International politics and primary health care in Costa Rica
The Potentiality Principle from Aristotle to Abortion
Anthropological theorizing about "potentiality" should include an understanding of the contemporary legacy of Aristotle's potentiality principle. This paper approaches potentiality as an object of anthropological scrutiny to show how it is evoked, presented, debated, and circulated among people interacting in a social realm. The potentiality principle, I argue, has been kept alive by Catholic moral philosophers who argue that embryos should not b…
Reproductive Rights or Reproductive Justice? Lessons from Argentina
Argentine sexual and reproductive rights activists insist on using the language and framework of "human rights," even when many reproductive rights activists in the US and elsewhere now prefer the framework of "reproductive justice." Reflecting on conversations with Argentine feminist anthropologists, social scientists, and reproductive rights activists, this paper analyzes why the Argentine movement to legalize abortion relies on the contested c…
Life Begins When They Steal Your Bicycle
A friend once told me I was wasting my time writing about cross-cultural perspectives on the beginnings of life. "Your work is interesting for its curiosity value," he said, "but fundamentally worthless. What happens in other cultures is totally irrelevant to what is happening here." Those were discouraging words, but as I followed the American debates about the beginnings and ends of life, it seemed he was right. Anthropologists have written a g…
The Reproductive Rights Counteroffensive in Mexico and Central America
This essay reviews the 2013 Human Life International (HLI) propaganda video, Central America and Mexico: Fighting for Life, Faith, and Family, which, we argue, illustrates the well-orchestrated counteroffensive against reproductive and sexual rights movements occurring in the region. First we summarize the film's key themes, including the assertion that Catholicism is fundamental to Mexican and Central American identities and that the internation…
Constructing Fetal Citizens
The Importance of the State in Primary Health Care Initiatives
Honrar a Rosa Parks? Intentos de los sectores católicos conservadores a favor de los "derechos" en la América Latina contemporánea
Cuando en el año 2009 se otorgó en Argentina el Premio Rosa Parks a una senadora conservadora por su oposición abierta al uso de anticonceptivos, a la esterilización y al aborto, era evidente que algo extraño ocurría. En este artículo se documenta la apropiación de los discursos de "derechos humanos" por parte de los sectores católicos conservadores en América Latina, donde el éxito reciente de los movimientos sociales a favor de los derechos sex…
Implementing Feminist Practice
Rights and Reproduction in Latin America
Community Participation in Health
Human Life is Inviolable
The Costa Rican Constitutional Court banned in vitro fertilization in 2000, citing the inviolability of life. Conservatives hoped the ban would initiate a hemispheric movement to protect the unborn. But in 2012 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that reproductive rights are human rights and that women's rights take precedence over embryo rights. The episode precipitated a national identity crisis: how could a country that supports uni…
The Exhilarating, Ephemeral Conditions of Anthropological Knowledge Production
Dependency Theory in the Political Economy of Health
The political economy of health is a multifaceted label that subsumes at least three separate theoretical perspectives: orthodox Marxist approaches, cultural critiques of medicine, and dependency theories. Anthropologists who advocate greater attention to the political economy of health have tended to overemphasize dependency theories, which have in fact been widely assailed in the sociological literature. In this article I examine some basic pre…
Crisis, Health, and Medicine
"Political Will" and Community Participation in Costa Rican Primary Health Care
This article criticizes the concept of "political will" by analyzing Costa Rica's experience with community participation in health between 1973 and 1985. Despite a long-standing state commitment to social welfare programs, Costa Rica has been unable to achieve active, sustained participation in the government's rural health programs, partly because of partisan conflicts over implementation. It is unlikely that "political will" can succeed in cou…
The Importance of the State in Primary Health Care Initiatives
The medicalization of anthropology
International politics and primary health care in Costa Rica
Type A behavior and reminiscence in college undergraduates
Central America
Central America: The Future of Economic Integration. GEORGE IRVIN and STUART HOLLAND, editors. Series in Political Economy and Economic Development in Latin America. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. 200 pp. $29.50 (paper). ISBN 0‐8133‐7687‐4
Central America
From the Fat of Our Souls
Comments on Wiley's “Adaptation and the Biocultural Paradigm in Medical Anthropology
Community Participation in Health
Community Participation in Health
Comments on Singer's “Beyond the Ivory Tower
Community Participation in Health
Medicine, Rationality, and Experience
Preface 1. Medical anthropology and the problem of belief 2. Illness representations in medical anthropology: a reading of the field 3. How medicine constructs its objects 4. Semiotics and the study of medical reality 5. The body, illness experience, and the lifeworld: a phenomenological account of chronic pain 6. The narrative representation of illness 7. Aesthetics, rationality and medical anthropology
Fetal Relationality in Feminist Philosophy
This essay critiques feminist treatments of maternal-fetal “relationality” that unwittingly replicate features of Western individualism (for example, the Cartesian division between the asocial body and the social-cognitive person, or the conflation of social and biological birth). I argue for a more reflexive perspective on relationality that would acknowledge how we produce persons through our actions and rhetoric. Personhood and relationality c…
Fetal Relationality in Feminist Philosophy
This essay critiques feminist treatments of maternal-fetal “relationality” that unwittingly replicate features of Western individualism (for example, the Cartesian division between the asocial body and the social-cognitive person, or the conflation of social and biological birth). I argue for a more reflexive perspective on relationality that would acknowledge how we produce persons through our actions and rhetoric. Personhood and relationality c…
Babies, Bodies, and the Production of Personhood in North America and a Native Amazonian Society
Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes
Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions
Since Roe v. Wade, there has been increasing public interest in fetuses, in part as a result of effective antiabortion propaganda and in part as a result of developments in medicine and technology. While feminists have begun to take note of the proliferation of fetal images in various media, such as medical journals, magazines, and motion pictures, few have openly addressed the problems that the emergence of the fetal subject poses for feminism.F…
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Rayna Rapp. New York: Routledge, 1999. xiv+361pp
Community participation in health
The concept of community participation continues to capture the attention of international health policymakers and analysts nearly a quarter of a century after it was formally introduced at the Alma Ata Conference. This paper reviews trends in the participation literature of the 1990s, drawing examples primarily from Latin America. The following topics are discussed: sustainability, new methods for operationalizing and evaluating participation, t…
She's Second Nature to Me Now
Romancing the Transgender Native
Research Article| October 01 2002 ROMANCING THE TRANSGENDER NATIVE: Rethinking the Use of the" Third Gender" Concept Evan B. Towle; Evan B. Towle Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lynn M. Morgan Lynn M. Morgan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (4): 469-497. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-4-469 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site …
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