Janelle S. Taylor

Affiliate Professor

Contact Information

janelle.taylor@utoronto.ca

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Biography

I AM NO LONGER AT UW. In 2019 I left to join the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Research

Selected Research

Taylor, Janelle. 2019. Word Shell. Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2019/03/word-shell.html (accessed March 12, 2019). Download PDF
O'Hare AM, C Richards, J Szarka, LV McFarland, W Showalter, EK Vig, R Sudore, ST Crowley, R Trivedi, and JS Taylor. 2018. "Emotional Impact of Illness and Care on Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 13(xx):xxx-xxx. doi: https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.14261217 Download PDF
Taylor, Janelle S. 2018. “What the Word ‘Partnership’ Conjoins, and What It Does.” Medicine Anthropology Theory, 5(2):1-6. Special issue on “Humanistic Perspectives on Global Health Partnerships,” ed. Johanna Crane, Nora Kenworthy, and Lynn Thomas. Download PDF
O’Hare, AM, J Szarka, LV McFarland, EK Vig, RL Sudore, S Crowley, LF Reinke, R Trivedi, JS Taylor. 2017. "‘Maybe They Don’t Even Know That I Exist’: Challenges Faced by Family Members, Friends, and Others Close to Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease." Clinical Journal of the American Society for Nephrology 12:930-938.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2017. "Engaging with Dementia: Moral Experiments in Art and Friendship." Culture Medicine & Psychiatry 41:284-303
Taylor, Janelle S. 2017. "Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Friendship in the Face of Dementia” In S. Lamb, ed., Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 126-138.
Wendland, Claire, Janelle S. Taylor, and Frederic W. Hafferty. 2017. “Medical Work as Cultural Practice,” Forthcoming in Shari R.Waldstein, Matthew F. Muldoon, Jason M. Satterfield, Dennis H. Novack, and Steven Cole, ed. Behavioral and Social Science in Medicine: Principles and Practice of Biopsychosocial Care. New York: Springer Publishing.
Wong, Susan P.Y., Elizabeth K. Vig, Janelle S. Taylor, Nilka S. Burrows, Chuan-Fen Liu, Desmond E. Williams, Paul L. Hebert, and Ann M. O’Hare. 2016. “Timing of Initiation of Maintenance Dialysis: A Qualitative Analysis of the Electronic Medical Records of Patients from the Department of Veterans Affairs.” JAMA Internal Medicine 176(2):228-235
O’Hare, Ann M., Jackie Szarka, Lynne V. McFarland, Janelle S. Taylor, Elizabeth K. Vig, Whitney Showalter, Ranak B. Trivedi, Rebecca Sudore, and Lynn F. Reinke. 2016. “Provider Perspectives on Advance Care Planning for Patients with Kidney Disease: Whose Job is it Anyway?” Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 11(5):855-866.
Martimianakis, Maria Athina (Tina), Barret Michalec, Justin Lam, Carrie Cartmill, Janelle S. Taylor, Frederic W. Hafferty. “Humanism, the Hidden Curriculum, and Educational Reform: A Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis.” 2015. Academic Medicine 90(11):S5-S13, “Research in Medical Education” (RIME) supplement.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2014. "Medical and Illness Narratives.” In William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella Quah, ed. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2014. “The Demise of the Bumbler and the Crock: From Experience to Accountability in Medical Education and Ethnography.” American Anthropologist 116(3):523-534.
Taylor, Janelle S. and Claire Wendland. 2014. “The Hidden Curriculum in Medicine’s ‘Culture of No Culture’,” In Frederic W. Hafferty and Joseph O’Donnell, ed. The Hidden Curriculum in Health Professional Education. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press.
Yu, Joon-Ho, Janelle S. Taylor, Karen L. Edwards, and S. Malia Fullerton. 2012. “What Are Our AIMs? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Use of Ancestry Estimation in Disease Research.” American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) Primary Research 3(4):87-97.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2011. "The Moral Aesthetics of Simulated Suffering in Standardized Patient Performances.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 35(2): 134-162. Special Issue on "Ethnographies of Clinical Training,” ed. Seth M. Holmes, Scott Stonington and Angela Jenks.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2011. “Beyond Words: Traces of Meaning in an Abandoned Kitchen.” Anthropology Now 3(2):62-64
Vig, Elizabeth K., Helene S. Starks, Janelle S. Taylor, Elizabeth M. Hopley, and Kelly Fryer-Edwards. 2010. “Why Don’t Patients Enroll in Hospice? Can We Do Anything About It?” Journal of General Internal Medicine 25(10):1009-19
Taylor, Janelle S. 2010. “On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia,” in Annemarie Mol, Jeanette Pols and Ingunn Moser, ed. Care In Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes, and Farms. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. (Reprinted from Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2008).
Taylor, Janelle S. 2008. The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Gershon, Ilana, and Janelle S. Taylor. 2008. “Introduction to In Focus: Culture in the Spaces of No Culture,” American Anthropologist, 110(4): 417-421.
Taylor, Janelle S., Linda L. Layne and Danielle F. Wozniak, eds. 2004. Consuming Motherhood. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2003. “The Story Catches You and You Fall Down: Tragedy, Ethnography, and ‘Cultural Competence’,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17(2):159-181.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2003. “Confronting ‘Culture’ in Medicine’s ‘Culture of No Culture’.” Academic Medicine, 78(3):555-559.

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