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Baishakhi Basu
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Current Issues in Medical Anthropology and Global Health Seminar Series
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Sep 25, 2019
Immigrant and refugee communities in Southeast Seattle
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Feb 22, 2019
In the Press
Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
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Oct 27, 2017
Research
Publications
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Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters
LaGrone, L.N., Isquith-Dicker, L.N., Huaman Egoavil, E., Rodriguez Castro, M.J.A., Allagual, A. Revoredo,F., and C.N. Mock. (2016). Surgeon and Trauma Care Providers' Perception of the Impact of the Globalization of Medical Education on Quality of Care Provided in Lima, Peru.
JAMA Surgery
. Doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2016.4073
LaGrone, L.N., Fuhs, A.K., Herrera-Matta, J.J, Isquith-Dicker, L.N., Rodriguez Castro, M.J.A., Valderrama, R., Huaman Egoavil, E. and C.N. Mock. Mixed-Methods Assessment of Trauma and Acute Care Surgical Quality Improvement Programs in Peru.
World Journal of Surgery
. Doi: 10.1007/s00268-016-3832-3.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2003. “Confronting ‘Culture’ in Medicine’s ‘Culture of No Culture’.”
Academic Medicine
, 78(3):555-559.
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. 2008. “On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia.”
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
22(4): 313-335
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
Citrin, D. The Anatomy of Ephemeral Health Care: “Health Camps” and Medical Voluntourism in Remote Nepal. 2010.
Studies in Nepali History and Society
5(1): 27-72.
Grant, Jenna. 2016. Fixing things, moving stories.
Somatosphere
. http://somatosphere.net/2016/07/fixing-things-moving-image-stories-into-case-stories.html (accessed September 7, 2016).
Liu, M. (2016). A Good Death: Towards Alternative Dementia Personhoods. The Neuroethics Blog. Retrieved on November 14, 2016, from http://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/2016/10/a-good-death-towards-alternative.html
Articles, Chapters, Reviews
Citrin, D and P Thapa, I Nirola, S Pandey, LB Kunwar, J Tenpa, B Acharya, et al. 2018. Developing and deploying a community healthcare worker-driven, digitally-enabled integrated care system for municipalities in rural Nepal.
Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery
Science and Innovation
Citrin, D, A Mahat, H Bista. NGOs, Partnerships, and Public-Private Discontent in Nepal’s Health Care Sector. 2018.
Medicine Anthropology Theory
5(2).
Emma Kowal, Todd Meyers, Eugene Raikhel, Peter Redfield, Sharon Abramowitz, Barbara Andersen, Eileen Moyer, Emily Yates-Doerr, and Jenna Grant. 2015. The open question: Medical anthropology and open access.
Medicine Anthropology Theory
2.1: 75-94. doi.org/10.17157/mat.2.1.216
Grant, Jenna, 2017. 'Not all suffering is illness; some suffering is political': The ambit of radical care.
Anthropology Now
9(2): 126-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2017.1338078
Janelle S. Taylor, Shaune M. DeMers, Elizabeth K. Vig and Soo Borson. 2012. “The Disappearing Subject: Exclusion of People with Cognitive Impairment and Dementia from Geriatrics Research,”
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
60:413-419
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.
Noninvasive detection of tuberculosis by oral swab analysis. Luabeya AK, Wood RC, Shenje J, Filander E, Ontong C, Mabwe S, Africa H, Nguyen FK, Olson A, Weigel KM, Jones-Engel L,Hatherill M, Cangelosi GA. 2019. J Clin Microbiol 57:e01847-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01847-18.
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
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.
O’Hare, Ann M., Jackie Szarka, Lynne V. McFarland, Elizabeth K. Vig, Rebecca L. Sudore, Susan Crowley, Lynn F. Reinke, Ranak Trivedi, and Janelle S. 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 of Nephrology.
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.
Raut, Anant, Poshan Thapa, David Citrin, Ryan Schwarz, Bikash Gauchan, Deepak Bista, Bibhu Tamrakar, Scott Halliday, Duncan Maru, and Dan Schwarz. 2015. Design and Implementation of a Patient Navigation System in Rural Nepal: Improving Patient Experience in Resource-constrained Settings.
Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation
3(4): 251-57.
Taylor, Janelle S. 2011. “Beyond Words: Traces of Meaning in an Abandoned Kitchen.”
Anthropology Now
3(2):62-64
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. 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.
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.
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.
Taylor, Janelle. 2019. Word Shell. Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2019/03/word-shell.html (accessed March 12, 2019).
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. 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.
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
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.
Publications
,
Books
Taylor, Janelle S. 2008.
The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Taylor, Janelle S., Linda L. Layne and Danielle F. Wozniak, eds. 2004.
Consuming Motherhood
. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Neglected Diseases in Monkeys - From the Monkey-Human Interface to One Health. (coming 2020). Eds. Knauf, S, and Jones-Engel, L. Springer Nature.
Projects
2017-2019 Principal Investigator. Royalty Research Fund, UW Office of Research. “Birthing Diversity in Seattle: Modelling Innovative Perinatal Care at the Intersection of Risks, Resources and Resilience to Improve Maternal/Infant Outcomes in Underserved Urban Communities.”
UW Population Health Initiative (PHI). “
Mama Amaan
(Safe, Peaceful Mother) Project: African Mother to Mother Antenatal Assistance Network (AMMAAN).
”
Pilot community-based doula intervention to improve antenatal care attendance in the East African community in Seattle. Somali Health Board, Health Alliance International, Parent Trust, UW Global Health, Anthropology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Social Work, CSDE.
Graduate
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Predissertation Pilot Awards
Esveldt, Michael. Ethnographic research in the Refill Clinic at Highland in Oakland, California. Pilot Research. 2017
Graduate
,
Posters
Baya Walls.Erasure of Diversity– Corrective Treatments And Resistance of Non-normative Bodies. PowerPoint, Anthropology of the Body Final Presentation. 2014
Publications
Book review “Loneliness and its Opposite,” by Don Kulick and Jens Rydström.
Medicine, Anthropology and Theory
3(2):325-327. 2016
Financial Stories of 'Boring' Medical Codes. Second Spear Medical Anthropology Quarterly online.
Ideologies of Self, Suffering and Gender Nonconformity at Work at a US Transgender Care Clinic.
Medical Anthropology
33(6):497-512. 2014
Insuring Care: Paperwork, Insurance Rules, and Clinical Labor at a U.S. Transgender Clinic. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 2017. DOI:10.1007/s11013-017-9529-8
The Anthropology of 'Boring' Things. Special series. Second Spear Medical Anthropology Quarterly online
“Transgenderzorg als zorgpraktijk: Medische aannames, instituties, en financiën in de Verenigde Staten.” [Transgender care as care practice: Medical ideologies, institutions, and finance in the United States]
Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies
[Journal of Women’s Studies] 17(1):47-64. 2014
Graduate
,
Dissertations
Brunson, Emily K. The Point of the Needle: An Anthropological Study of Childhood Vaccination in the United States. Diss. U of Washington, 2010.
Inguane, Celso. Community Health Workers: Lives, Labor, and Hopes for an AIDS-Free Generation in Maputo, Mozambique. Diss. U of Washington. 2018.
Johnston, Susan Marie. Nursing in a Time of AIDS: A Process of Identity Formation in the Borderlands. Diss. U of Washington, 2010.
Methaphat, Chingchai. Silent Risk: Chemical Pesticide Use among Fruit Farmers in an Eastern Thai Community. Diss. U of Washington, 2009.
VanHoy, Sarah. Authenticity, depth and healing at the end of the world: an auto-ethnography of Chinese medical practices. Diss. U of Washington, 2010.
Woods, Teresa. Magic, Morality and Medicine: Madness and Medical Pluralism in Java. Diss. U of Washington, 2007.
Zogas, Anna. Signature injury : an ethnographic study of mild traumatic brain injury in the post-9/11 VA health care system. Diss. U of Washington. 2018.
Undergraduate
,
Honors Theses
Walls, Baya.
Leidensdruck: Gender Reassignment Surgery, Sociocultural Factors, Economic Issues, and Life Quality of Transgender Individuals in the United States and Germany.
2013. Senior Anthropology Honors Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle WA
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