Vincanne Adams, PhD
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Title(s) | Professor, Anthro, History, Social Med |
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School | School of Medicine |
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Address | 3333 California Street San Francisco CA 94118
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Phone | 415-502-6483 |
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Biography Brown University, Providence RI | BA | 1/82 | biology/medical anthropology | University of California , Berkeley and San Francisco | PhD | 6/87 | Medical Anthropology | university of California , San Francisco, CA | | 2021 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training |
UCSF | 2017 | | Distinction in Teaching | Society for Medical Anthropology | 2015 | | Honorable Mention Millennium Book Prize | Society for the Study of Social Problems | 2014 | | Finalist, C Wright Mills Prize | International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicines | 2009 | | Basham Medal | Society for Medical Anthropology | 2006 | | Polgar Prize |
Overview In my capacity as Professor in the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology (with UC Berkeley), I am committed to making a contribution to knowledge and insight about the interface between health and a flourishing life. My books include the following:
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas (Princeton University Press, 1996) Doctors for Democracy: The Role of Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution (Cambridge University Press 1998) Sex In Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective (with Pigg, Duke University Press 2005) Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds (with Craig, Schrempf, Berghahn Press 2010) Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (Duke University Press 2014) Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Duke University Press, 2017) What's Making Our Children Sick? (with Perro, Chelsea Green Publishers, 2018) Speculative Live, Chemical Harm: A GE Food Story (under review Duke University Press) Preoccupied: Life Under Surveillance in Tibet (in progress)
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It Takes More Than a Village: Building a Network of Safety in Nepal’s Mountain Communities. . 2021 Mar 23; 233-248.
Vincanne Adams, Sienna R. Craig, Arlene Samen, Surya Bhatta. .
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Governing through Blood: Biology, Donation, and Exchange in Urban China. . 2020 Dec 31; 167-189.
Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, Phouc V. Le. .
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13 Neoliberal Futures. . 2020 Dec 31; 288-306.
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Medical Anthropology in the Time of COVID-19. Med Anthropol Q. 2020 Dec 01.
Adams V, Nading A. PMID: 33289159.
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Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex: Tantrism Faces Fertility Control in Lhasa, Tibet (China. . 2020 Nov 19; 207-240.
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Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health?. . 2020 Sep 25; 225-230.
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1. METRICS OF THE GLOBAL SOVEREIGN. Numbers and Stories in Global Health. . 2020 Sep 25; 19-54.
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Introduction. . 2020 Sep 25; 1-18.
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34. “Tibet on Fire”: Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global “N of 1”. . 2019 Dec 31; 599-620.
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Re-imagining global health through social medicine. Glob Public Health. 2019 10; 14(10):1383-1400.
Adams V, Behague D, Caduff C, Löwy I, Ortega F. PMID: 30887910.
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Neoliberal Futures:. . 2019 Jan 1; 288-306.
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It Takes More than a Village: Building a Network of Safety in Nepal's Mountain Communities. Matern Child Health J. 2016 12; 20(12):2424-2430.
Adams V, Craig S, Samen A, Bhatta S. PMID: 27048434.
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The work of evidence in critical global health. Medicine Anthropology Theory | An open-access journal in the anthropology of health illness and medicine. 2016 Sep 13; 3(2):123.
Joao Biehl, Vincanne Adams. .
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What is critical global health?. Medicine Anthropology Theory | An open-access journal in the anthropology of health illness and medicine. 2016 Sep 13; 3(2):186.
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Introduction: Ethnomedicine and medical anthropology today, in the case of Tibet. Medicine Anthropology Theory | An open-access journal in the anthropology of health illness and medicine. 2016 Sep 13; 3(2):11.
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Metrics of the Global Sovereign. . 2016 Mar 5; 19-54.
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Alternative accounting in maternal and infant global health. Glob Public Health. 2016 Mar; 11(3):276-294.
Adams V, Craig SR, Samen A. PMID: 25782602.
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Slow research: thoughts for a movement in global health. Med Anthropol. 2014; 33(3):179-97.
Adams V, Burke NJ, Whitmarsh I. PMID: 24761973.
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2. Evidence-Based Global Public Health. . 2013 Dec 31; 54-90.
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A History of International Health Encounters: Diplomacy in Transition. . 2013 Aug 1; 3:41-63.
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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. P. Wenzel Geissler and Catherine Molyneux, eds. New York: Berghahn Books 2011; 498 pp. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 2013 Jun 1; 27(2):b50-b52.
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Charity, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Affect Economy. . 2013 Jan 1; 153-175.
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The Making of a Disaster. . 2013 Jan 1; 22-54.
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Le « geste glorieux » du don de sang en unité de travail et les désirs postsocialistes en Chine urbaine. Les enjeux du don de sang dans le monde. 2012 Jan 1; 171.
Kathleen Erwin, Vincanne Adams, Phuoc Le. .
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The Other Road to Serfdom: Recovery by the Market and the Affect Economy in New Orleans. Public Culture. 2012 Jan 1; 24(1 (66)):185-216.
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Ethnography and the making of modern health professionals. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2011 Jun; 35(2):313-20.
Adams V, Kaufman SR. PMID: 21541822.
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Aging disaster: mortality, vulnerability, and long-term recovery among Katrina survivors. Med Anthropol. 2011 May; 30(3):247-70.
Adams V, Kaufman SR, van Hattum T, Moody S. PMID: 21590581.
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"There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons": A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian immigrants in the United States. Soc Sci Med. 2011 Apr; 72(7):1169-76.
Puri S, Adams V, Ivey S, Nachtigall RD. PMID: 21377778.
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Encounters with Efficacy. Asian Medicine. 2010 Jan 1; 6(1):1-21.
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Governing through Blood. . 2010 Jan 1; 167-189.
Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, Phouc V. Le. .
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Chronic disaster syndrome: Displacement, disaster capitalism, and the eviction of the poor from New Orleans. Am Ethnol. 2009 Nov 01; 36(4):615-636.
Adams V, VAN Hattum T, English D. PMID: 20161644.
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Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality. Subjectivity. 2009 Sep 1; 28(1):246-265.
Vincanne Adams, Michelle Murphy, Adele E Clarke. .
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Glorious Deeds: Work Unit Blood Donation and Postsocialist Desires in Urban China. Body & Society. 2009 Jun 1; 15(2):51-70.
Kathleen Erwin, Vincanne Adams, Phuoc Le. .
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Public health works: blood donation in urban China. Soc Sci Med. 2009 Feb; 68(3):410-8.
Adams V, Erwin K, Le PV. PMID: 19058887.
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Global health diplomacy. Med Anthropol. 2008 Oct-Dec; 27(4):315-23.
Adams V, Novotny TE, Leslie H. PMID: 18958783.
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Global Pharma in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Medicines, SARS, and Identity Politics Across Nations. Asian Medicine. 2008 Jan 1; 4(1):1-28.
Vincanne Adams, Sienna Craig. .
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Informed Consent in cross-cultural perspective: clinical research in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2007 Dec; 31(4):445-72.
Adams V, Miller S, Craig S, Le PV, Varner M. PMID: 17968637.
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How to make consent informed: possible lessons from Tibet. IRB. 2007 Nov-Dec; 29(6):7-14.
Miller S, Le PV, Craig S, Adams V, Tudor C, Tshomo M, Varner M. PMID: 18237079.
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The Tibetans
. Matthew T. Kapstein. The China Journal. 2007 Jul 1; 58:153-155.
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Integrating Abstraction: Modernising Medicine At Lhasa's Mentsikhang. . 2007 Jan 1; 29-44.
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Having a "safe delivery": conflicting views from Tibet. Health Care Women Int. 2005 Oct; 26(9):821-51.
Adams V, Miller S, Chertow J, Craig S, Samen A, Varner M. PMID: 16214796.
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The challenge of cross-cultural clinical trials research: case report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. Med Anthropol Q. 2005 Sep; 19(3):267-89.
Adams V, Miller S, Craig S, Samen A, Varner M. PMID: 16222962.
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Contestations of Liberal Humanism Forged in Sexual Identity Politics. . 2005 Apr 12; 241-243.
Vincanne Adams, Michele Rivkin-Fish. .
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The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project. . 2005 Apr 12; 159-161.
Vincanne Adams, Michele Rivkin-Fish. .
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The Production of New Subjectivities. . 2005 Apr 12; 67-69.
Vincanne Adams, Michele Rivkin-Fish. .
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Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex. . 2005 Jan 1; 207-239.
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Introduction. . 2005 Jan 1; 1-38.
Stacy Leigh Pigg, Vincanne Adams. .
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Saving Tibet? An inquiry into modernity, lies, truths, and beliefs. Med Anthropol. 2005 Jan-Mar; 24(1):71-110.
Adams V. PMID: 15823898.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology. Anthropology News. 2003 Feb 1; 44(2):49-49.
Bonnie Urciuoli, Vincanne Adams. .
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Society for Medical Anthropology. Anthropology News. 2003 Jan 1; 44(1):52-53.
Nancy Vuckovic, Janelle Taylor, Vincanne Adams. .
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Randomized Controlled Crime. Social Studies of Science. 2002 Dec 1; 32(5-6):659-690.
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Randomized Controlled Crime: Postcolonial Sciences in Alternative Medicine Research. Social Studies of Science. 2002 Dec 1; 32(5):659-690.
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Ultrasonographic diagnosis of pelvic echinococcosis: case report and review of the literature. J Ultrasound Med. 2002 Feb; 21(2):207-10.
Ranzini AC, Hale DC, Phentok L, Adams V. PMID: 11833877.
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Establishing proof. . 2002 Jan 1; 200-220.
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Social Suffering. American Anthropologist. 1998 Dec 1; 100(4):1063-1064.
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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1997 Jun 1; 3(2):403.
David Holmberg, Vincanne Adams. .
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Dreams of a Final Sherpa. American Anthropologist. 1997 Mar 1; 99(1):85-98.
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Karaoke as Modern Lhasa, Tibet: Western Encounters with Cultural Politics. Cultural Anthropology. 1996 Nov 1; 11(4):510-546.
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Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self. By Steven M. Parish. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xii, 342 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). - The Rulings of the Night: Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. By Gregory G. Maskarinec. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xi, 276 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). - The Householder's World: Purity, Power, and Dominance in a Nepali Village. By John N. Gray. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xv, 302 pp. Rs 450 (cloth). The Journal of Asian Studies. 1996 May 1; 55(2):510-512.
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Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence, and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya. STANLEY F. STEVENS. American Ethnologist. 1996 Feb 1; 23(1):196-197.
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Tourism and Sherpas, Nepal Reconstruction of reciprocity. Annals of Tourism Research. 1992 Jan 1; 19(3):534-554.
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BOOK: Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters Princeton University Press, 1996.
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BOOK: Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution Cambridge University Press (Series in Medical Anthropology), 1998.
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BOOK: Sex and Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective Durham: Duke University Press 2005.
Vincanne Adams and Stacy L. Pigg. .
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BOOK: Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Ground London: Berghahn Publishers 2010.
Vincanne Adams, Sienna Craig and Mona Schrempf.
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BOOK: Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina Duke University Press 2013.
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BOOK: Metrics: What Counts in Global Health Duke University Press 2016.
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BOOK: What's Making Our Children Sick? How Industrial Food is causing an epidemic of chronic illness and what parents (and their doctors) can do about it. Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishers, 2018.
Michelle Perro and Vincanne Adams. .
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BOOK: (In Progress) Soft Tissue and the Arts of Speculation in the Era of GE Foods.
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BOOK: (in Progress) Preoccupied: Life Under Surveillance in Tibet.
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1992 | 1 | 1996 | 3 | 1997 | 2 | 1998 | 1 | 2002 | 4 | 2003 | 2 | 2005 | 8 | 2007 | 4 | 2008 | 3 | 2009 | 3 | 2010 | 2 | 2011 | 3 | 2012 | 2 | 2013 | 5 | 2014 | 1 | 2015 | 1 | 2016 | 5 | 2019 | 3 | 2020 | 7 | 2021 | 1 |
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