Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study explores how trauma and fear influence COVID-19 testing and vaccination among Black/African American, Latinx/Indigenous Latin American, and Native American/Indigenous communities. Leveraging community-based participatory research methods, we conducted 11 virtual focus groups from January to March of 2021 with Black/African American (n = 4), Latinx/Indigenous Latin American (n = 4), and Native American/Indigenous (n = 3) identifying community members in Inland Southern California. Our team employed rapid analytic approaches (e.g., template and matrix analysis) to summarize data and identify themes across focus gr...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Evelyn V ázquez Preeti Juturu Michelle Burroughs Juliet McMullin Ann M Cheney Source Type: research
'Hallucination': Hospital Ecologies in COVID's Epistemic Instability
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 28. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09834-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHistorians and ethnographers have described biomedicine as a modernist project that imagines accumulating ever-more stable knowledge over time. This project broke down in heavily hit hospitals at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., when bureaucratic, physical and knowledge structures collapsed. A combination of terror, a partially characterized disease entity and clinicians' inability to operate without disease models drove them to draw on rapidly changing and contradictory information via social media, changing med...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Scott Stonington Roi Livne Zoe Boudart Source Type: research
"You would think she would hug me": Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19
We examined the role that relational dynamics between first-gens and their parents played in how they weathered the first 2 years of the Covid pandemic together. We draw upon journals submitted by self-identified first-gens and parents of first-gens to the Pandemic Journaling Project between October 2021 and May 2022 as part of a pilot study of first-gen family experiences of Covid-19, along with a series of interviews conducted with three student-parent dyads. We argue that what we term the micropractices of care-the "little things," like a kind word, small gift, or car ride, that were regularly exchanged between parents ...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Andrea Flores Katherine A Mason Source Type: research
'Hallucination': Hospital Ecologies in COVID's Epistemic Instability
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 28. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09834-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHistorians and ethnographers have described biomedicine as a modernist project that imagines accumulating ever-more stable knowledge over time. This project broke down in heavily hit hospitals at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., when bureaucratic, physical and knowledge structures collapsed. A combination of terror, a partially characterized disease entity and clinicians' inability to operate without disease models drove them to draw on rapidly changing and contradictory information via social media, changing med...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Scott Stonington Roi Livne Zoe Boudart Source Type: research
"You would think she would hug me": Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19
We examined the role that relational dynamics between first-gens and their parents played in how they weathered the first 2 years of the Covid pandemic together. We draw upon journals submitted by self-identified first-gens and parents of first-gens to the Pandemic Journaling Project between October 2021 and May 2022 as part of a pilot study of first-gen family experiences of Covid-19, along with a series of interviews conducted with three student-parent dyads. We argue that what we term the micropractices of care-the "little things," like a kind word, small gift, or car ride, that were regularly exchanged between parents ...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Andrea Flores Katherine A Mason Source Type: research
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09832-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEthnographic journaling can provide students with powerful opportunities to recognize and value their individual and collective perspectives as both observers and analysts of the world around them, especially in times of crisis. In this Perspectives essay, we share our experiences of using the Pandemic Journaling Project platform as a teaching resource in the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We consider various aspects of online ethnographic journaling, including creative teaching strategies, journaling's therap...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sarah S Willen Kristina Baines Michael C Ennis-McMillan Source Type: research
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09832-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEthnographic journaling can provide students with powerful opportunities to recognize and value their individual and collective perspectives as both observers and analysts of the world around them, especially in times of crisis. In this Perspectives essay, we share our experiences of using the Pandemic Journaling Project platform as a teaching resource in the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We consider various aspects of online ethnographic journaling, including creative teaching strategies, journaling's therap...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sarah S Willen Kristina Baines Michael C Ennis-McMillan Source Type: research
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09832-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEthnographic journaling can provide students with powerful opportunities to recognize and value their individual and collective perspectives as both observers and analysts of the world around them, especially in times of crisis. In this Perspectives essay, we share our experiences of using the Pandemic Journaling Project platform as a teaching resource in the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We consider various aspects of online ethnographic journaling, including creative teaching strategies, journaling's therap...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sarah S Willen Kristina Baines Michael C Ennis-McMillan Source Type: research
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09832-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEthnographic journaling can provide students with powerful opportunities to recognize and value their individual and collective perspectives as both observers and analysts of the world around them, especially in times of crisis. In this Perspectives essay, we share our experiences of using the Pandemic Journaling Project platform as a teaching resource in the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We consider various aspects of online ethnographic journaling, including creative teaching strategies, journaling's therap...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sarah S Willen Kristina Baines Michael C Ennis-McMillan Source Type: research
Cultivating Voice and Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Online Journaling as a Pedagogical Tool
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 23. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09832-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEthnographic journaling can provide students with powerful opportunities to recognize and value their individual and collective perspectives as both observers and analysts of the world around them, especially in times of crisis. In this Perspectives essay, we share our experiences of using the Pandemic Journaling Project platform as a teaching resource in the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We consider various aspects of online ethnographic journaling, including creative teaching strategies, journaling's therap...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sarah S Willen Kristina Baines Michael C Ennis-McMillan Source Type: research
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians' Experiences
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 22. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09838-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEmerging evidence suggests that transgender individuals are more likely than cisgender peers to receive a diagnosis with a primary mental disorder. Attributions of madness, though, may serve the social function of dismissing and discrediting transgender individual's self-perceptions. The narratives of individuals who stop or reverse an initial gender transition who also identify as living with mental health conditions can sometimes amplify these socio-political discourses about transgender people. Through a critical mental heal...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wren Ariel Gould Kinnon R MacKinnon June Sing Hong Lam Gabriel Enxuga Alex Abramovich Lori E Ross Source Type: research
Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians' Experiences
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 22. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09838-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEmerging evidence suggests that transgender individuals are more likely than cisgender peers to receive a diagnosis with a primary mental disorder. Attributions of madness, though, may serve the social function of dismissing and discrediting transgender individual's self-perceptions. The narratives of individuals who stop or reverse an initial gender transition who also identify as living with mental health conditions can sometimes amplify these socio-political discourses about transgender people. Through a critical mental heal...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wren Ariel Gould Kinnon R MacKinnon June Sing Hong Lam Gabriel Enxuga Alex Abramovich Lori E Ross Source Type: research
Learning Language, Un/Learning Empathy in Medical School
This article considers the ways in which empathy for patients and related solidarity with communities may be trained out of medical students during medical school. The article focuses especially on the pre-clinical years of medical school, those that begin with orientation and initiation events such as the White Coat Ceremony. The ethnographic data for the article come from field notes and recordings from my own medical training as well as hundreds of hours of observant participation and interviews with medical students over the past several years. Exploring the framework of language socialization, I argue that learning th...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Seth M Holmes Source Type: research
Learning Language, Un/Learning Empathy in Medical School
This article considers the ways in which empathy for patients and related solidarity with communities may be trained out of medical students during medical school. The article focuses especially on the pre-clinical years of medical school, those that begin with orientation and initiation events such as the White Coat Ceremony. The ethnographic data for the article come from field notes and recordings from my own medical training as well as hundreds of hours of observant participation and interviews with medical students over the past several years. Exploring the framework of language socialization, I argue that learning th...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Seth M Holmes Source Type: research
Learning Language, Un/Learning Empathy in Medical School
This article considers the ways in which empathy for patients and related solidarity with communities may be trained out of medical students during medical school. The article focuses especially on the pre-clinical years of medical school, those that begin with orientation and initiation events such as the White Coat Ceremony. The ethnographic data for the article come from field notes and recordings from my own medical training as well as hundreds of hours of observant participation and interviews with medical students over the past several years. Exploring the framework of language socialization, I argue that learning th...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - September 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Seth M Holmes Source Type: research
